learn to play the drums with Todd Bishop
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Bio

Todd Bishop has been performing and teaching professionally in Portland and Los Angeles since 1985. He has led jazz, avant-garde and indie rock groups and produced 5 CDs of his original music for Seattle's Origin Records and for independant release. He studied classical percussion with Charles Dowd at the University of Oregon and, under scholarship, jazz studies at the University of Southern California. From 1981-85 he marched with the Argonauts Drum & Bugle Corps (Salem, OR) and in 1986 he marched with the Santa Clara Vanguard, which finished second nationally that year. He is also an abstract painter and photographer, and has exhibited and sold work throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Listen to audio samples of Bishop's music.

Drum lessons by Todd Bishop
toddbishop@cruiseshipdrummer.com
(503)380-9259