Best Music School Oakland Near Me

4worldlovers: Notes Music Academy is Oakland's premier music school featuring eleven (11) fully equipped teaching studios, instructors, instruments and educational tools designed to help students reach their highest and best potential as musicians.


We offer music lessons in, piano, guitar, violin, bass guitar, drums, saxophone, and more! Lessons are available for infants, K-12, and through adult based on individual levels of proficiency. NMA provides one-on-one training and follow-up from credentialed, university and college level instructors as well as working professional musicians and peers. NMA instructors are passionate about giving their students a well-rounded musical education. They focus on student needs from various backgrounds and educational learning styles. At NMA there is a heavy emphasis placed on music theory (sight reading, notation, chord construction, history, comprehension, improvisation and transcription) which gives our students the crucial foundation to be a successful musician.

Our mission is to bring out the musician in you! Everyone has a heartbeat and it's our heartbeat that is the center piece to all music. Music can bring out the confidence in a child and the child out of the more mature.

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4worldlovers: We could not be more pleased with our son's experience with Oakland Drum School and his excitement about learning something new. When the pandemic kept us all home in 2020, our son decided he wanted to learn how to play the drums for the first time. A friend told us about Oakland Drum School and we were hooked up with Mike McCulloch, who has been teaching our son for more than a year in an online format. As loud as it is in our house when he plays and practices, it is so rewarding to see him excited about his music. We highly recommend Oakland Drum School.

Eyal is a fantastic instructor. He is great at breaking down a song and helping you understand how to play it. He has a passion for drums and it definitely shows. His patience and knowledge will only make you a great drummer!


Michael is a truly skilled drum teacher. In every lesson he keeps me right at the edge of my comfort zone - always ensuring that I am attaining maximum progress but never pushing me into frustration or overwhelming me with inputs. He quite simply the reason I am enjoying drumming as much as I am today and is the most inspiring, supportive, and focused teacher I could ask for. If you are thinking about investing in your drum skills, you should be investing in lessons with him or another instructor from the Oakland Drum School.

Styles include: Rock, Pop, Indie, Funk, Punk, Jazz, Ska, Reggae, Metal, Latin, Hip-Hop and RnB, Gospel, Electronic, Drum n' Bass, Country, Blues and more.


Eyal Satat is the founder of Oakland Drum School. A drum teacher for over 12 years, based in Oakland, CA, Eyal is a lover of music and he shares that passion with his students of all ages, from beginner to advanced levels. Eyal's lessons are fun and motivational, encouraging students to perform the best they can while enjoying the learning process. He is patient, and a big believer in improvisation to improve creativity and confidence. Eyal expects students to practice the techniques they learn and come prepared for each lesson.

Michael Abrams was born and raised right in the heart of Music City - Nashville, TN. His roots run deep in music having learned drums under the instruction of Joe Hobbs, Bill Bachman, Chris Watson and other heavy hitters in the marching percussion world. His percussion career started in high school and consisted of several successful years competing in WGI Scholastic Open Class and World Class Championships in Dayton, OH as well as SCGC regional competitions throughout the southeast. In college, he marched with the University of Tennessee's Pride of the Southland Band, then taught at two high schools in the Knoxville, TN area that participated in WGI as well as CIPA regional competitions. Throughout the years of marching percussion, he picked up some other styles of drumming in the form of soul, funk, rock, blues, metal, punk, jazz, and some latin styles on drumset. Drum lessons with Michael are fun, accessible, encouraging, and challenging for drummers of all ages!

Gabe has been drumming for 30+ years and teaching for 15+ years. He has an alternative teaching style that caters to the individual needs of his students. He has a fun approach to teaching and focuses on techniques to bring out personal style. Gabe’s musical background is mostly in rock, punk, and avant-garde, and he incorporates elements from many genres to help students find their voice. Gabe enjoys drumming and loves to share that joy with others.


Shawn Myers, a California-native of the central coast, has been drumming since he was 8 years old. Studying under greats such as Billy Hart (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock) and Jamey Haddad (Paul Simon), Shawn has cultivated an approach honoring his mentors while adding knowledge of challenges he personally faced learning the craft.

Drumming is first and foremost a social instrument created with the intent of “moving” people in all senses of the word. Shawn breaks down the components of movement to help the student achieve musicality and technicality. Thus, creating a drummer that will listen to the music and be spontaneous while relating to aspects of their own lives to pull from. This will result in engaging, fulfilling music and drumming.

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COVA HIGH seeks to provide the extraordinary benefits of music education while providing a high-quality differentiated academic program. COVAH allows for concurrent enrollment in college during high school. This provides students the opportunity to earn up to two years of college credit, and even graduate high school with an AA or AS degree. COVAH strives to ensure every student becomes college ready, self-sufficient, and demonstrates leadership, self-awareness, and community advocacy.