BRUCE BECKER

Los Angeles-based Bruce Becker is a jazz drummer, producer, and teacher. He has worked with artists like Suzanne Somers, Beach Boy Family and Friends, Andy Sheppard, Deborah Henson-Conant, David Becker, Joe DiOrio, Herb Ellis, Barbara Dennerlein, Suns of the Dead, and Frank Gambale.

Becker began his drumming studies in 1977 under the instruction of drummer Freddie Gruber, the same man who helped Neil Peart, Steve Smith, and Dave Weckl perfect their individual techniques and styles. Becker not only reaped the benefits of Gruber’s close personal instruction for eight years, but he was also watched Gruber teach other pupils. Gruber mastered evolving and changing his teaching style simultaneously with the evolution of music and constant innovations in drums. This adaptability served Becker well in his career and in 1982, Becker became a drum teacher himself.

From 1992 to 1997 Becker relocated to Europe. He spent a lengthy amount of time traveling and conducting a series of Clinics and Master Classes with Gruber in Belgium, Germany, and The Netherlands. Becker demonstrated techniques on the drums as Gruber lectured. Shortly after relocating to Europe, Drum Department at The American Institute of Music in Vienna, Austria, appointed Becker as their Head. Becker’s conceptual approach to music is best defined as Balance plus Motion equals Emotion.

In addition to his lengthy teaching career, Becker is also a founding member and drummer of The David Becker Tribune. They have recorded and co-produced seven critically acclaimed albums. The David Becker Tribune has performed throughout the world for more than two decades. Becker has also lent his drumming talents to German Hammond Organ sensation, Barbara Dennerlein and Belgian Blues legend, Luke Walters Jr. As a producer and drummer, Becker has worked with numerous Los Angeles based pop artists.