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Future and Past Events
Future Events
Next event TBA
Past Events
Josh Caplin Masterclass, September 2026
Musical Directer, Drummer, Playback Engineer & former long time student of Pat's came to Brighton to do a special Masterclass with The Brighton Drum School for students & the local drumming community. Josh has worked with Central Cee, Charlotte Plank, Arthur Hill, Lola Young, Charlie XCX & Lily Allen amongst numerous others & is the drummer with James Marriott. Josh played a bit, discussed his journey from college, into Uni & through to pro, we delved into his role as as a drummer, musical director & playback engineer & how he's establish himself at the high level he's working.
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L - R: Pat Garvey & Ben Thomas who run The Brighton Drum School, with Josh Caplin (centre)
Pat chatting with Josh about playback & the role of a playback enginneer
L - R: Pat, Josh & Ben with the masterclass participants after the Q&A session, with fantastic questions from the group!
The Freddie Gee Drum Academy 2026
The 2026 Freddie Gee Drum Academy took at the beginning of August at Sparsholt College, Winchester. The residential drumming holiday was in it's 26th year & Pat was invited to teach for the week along side Steve White & Craig Blundell, as well as guests including Paul Dinage, Eddie Thrower, Andy Gangadeen & Vince Dunn. The week was sold out, with drummers coming from all over the UK & Europe to attend.
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L - R: Andy Gangadeen, Craig Blundell,
Pat Garvey, Steve White, Spike Smith
George 'Freddie Gee' Frederick
After Pat's masterclass on the Monday evening.
Pat discussing vintage drums with his 1937 Gene Krupa Model Slingerland Radio King
End of week group shot, all the participants with front row L-R: Vince Dunn, Pat Garvey, Craig Blundell, George Frederick, Steve White & Paul Dinnage.
Pat Garvey's UK 2026 Small Group Hands-on Masterclass & 1:1 sessions:
Pat's small group hands-on masterclasses in Bournemouth, Edinburgh (including a day of 1:1 lessons), Sunderland, Rotherham & Brighton were all sold out. He worked through various pad exercises with participants for developing motion & control during the first half, then demonstrated lots of ideas, concepts & real life playing work on the two kits he brought with him throughout the 2nd half
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Masterclass and In Conversation with Steve White
Steve is one of the worlds most respected drummers, add to that the fact that his work in education has seen him recognised as one of the very best educators around & it makes for something very special. The event was completely sold out & Steve discussed the history of drums & drumming, went through some of his warm ups with everyone, doscussed various concepts and approaches & played through some great material, including material from his Steve White Trio album. We also held an in-conversation section, discussing the beginnings of his journey, what led to his first gigs before he was even 18, & how he landed the The Style Council gig as well as much more, including the tools required to work as a professional in the current climate.
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The Freddie Gee Drum Academy, 25th Anniversary
2025 year saw the 25th Anniversary of the world-renowned Freddie Gee Drum Academy taking place from the 4th - 8th August at Sparsholt College, Winchester. Pat was invited to teach for the week along side Steve White, Gregg Bissonette & Craig Blundell as well as guests including Paul Dinage, Eddie Thrower, Neal Wilkinson, Andy Gangadeen, Ray Hearne, & Vince Dunn. The week was sold out, with drummers coming from all over the UK & Europe to attend.
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Front row L - R:
Gregg Bissonette, Andy Gangadeen, Pat Garvey, founder & industry legend George Frederick, Craig Blundell, Steve White, Paul Dinnage
Small Group Hands-on Masterclass with Gabor Dornyei
Our event earlier this year in April was with the great Gabor Dornyei, which we held at The Brunswick in Hove on the 27th April 2025. The session was completely sold out & with a waiting list for places. Gabor went through some of the fundamentals of good technique, drumming & music history, some great exercises for musical & technical development, then took the roof off with the performance & Q&A section.
