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Jimmie Myers
Voice & Drums
Jimmie has been a musician his entire life. From being raised by and around musicians to graduating with a Masters in Arts in teaching music, Jimmie’s life is musical! He likes to play all kinds of instruments but his primary instruments are trumpet, voice, guitar, bass, and drums. Jimmie started music with singing in the church choir and piano lessons early in elementary school. In fourth grade, he chose to play the trumpet after watching his older brother learning to play before him. Trumpet set the tone for Jimmie’s musical career. Along with the scholastic trumpet experience, Jimmie began playing guitar, bass, and drums. He has played bass and guitar in worship bands at his home church in La Canada California while playing those instruments in heavy metal bands; an interesting dichotomy.
Trumpet
After high school, Jimmie received his Bachelor’s degree in trumpet performance at San Diego State University. While pursuing a life as a freelance trumpet player, Jimmie performed with the San Fernando Symphony and various churches around the southern California area. During his performance career, Jimmie was also teaching private lessons and at three public schools. That’s when he realized that his true calling was to teach music rather than continue to seek a performance lifestyle. Jimmie then enrolled in the Longy School of Music of Bard College. After graduating with his masters of arts in teaching, Jimmie has been a music director for the Crescenta Valley Adventist School and La Canada High School.
Trombone and French Horn
As a brass musician, much like Sean-David, Jimmie recognizes that brass instruments are in some sense all the same, simply with different mouthpiece sizes, more or less tubing, and therefore a different tonality and application. But the beauty of brass is, they all have so much in common, and they are all so fun in their own right! Jimmie works with trombone and French horn students and has a unique approach focused on beautiful sound and tone production, and of course, having fun!
Bass
Jimmie loves the bass and found it to be almost a kind of therapy for him. As a trumpet player of course, there’s not a lot of options for playing rock or heavy metal, but there certainly is for bass, and so bass became a great tool for Jimmie to engage in some of that music that excited him so much. He would love to work with you on bass as well so you can begin making and feeling that groove!
Drums
Much like the bass, Jimmie found the drums to be a great source of therapy and a healthy outlet, as well as another musical opportunity to engage in music that might not have many opportunities for brass players, and we love that at TIA! No limits! If you want to learn to play the drums, Jimmie brings a blend of formal music study and training along with just good old plain fun rock’n the drums!
Voice
As mentioned above, in addition to his expeerience in education and classical music, Jimmie spent many years making music in rock and metal bands as a drummer, bassist, and on vocals, and he brings lots of important experience to the table and to our voice students! Jimmie currently works with a handful of local professional vocalists and one local professional musician/educator/producer on voice. And they are all diggin it!
Outside of music, Jimmie loves spending time with his wife and two children and climbing mountains.
Jimmie, like most of our faculty, is very busy, but just opened up Wednesdays 10AM-3:15! his means we now have openings as late as 2:45 (and earlier) Wednesdays for private lessons in drums, trumpet, trombone, French horn, or voice with Jimmie!