Jeff Queen

Jeff Queen! Jeff Queen is the worlds best snare drum player, with his ultimate playing, the amazing speed and technique, and most of all, he plays things that you can just imagine. Jeff started drumming when he was 10 year old, and at the of 15 he began his drum corps career with the local Marching Bands as Canton Bluecoast, Velvet Knights and The University Of North. He won many Snare Champions with his amazing play, for instance the Drum Corps International Individual and Ensemble Snare Drum Champion in 1994 and 1995 and later the Percussive Arts Society Individual Snare Drum Champion in 1994 and 1995. Through the years Jeff was trained by many famous drummers and percussions as Scott Johnson, a very famous snare drum player and one of the best known. He have been in to many marching camp where he learn the most important elements of playing the snare drums and performing with the marching band, this was the time when he realize that drumming is very important for him, so he began to take really seriously. Due to his father job in the army, Jeff traveled around the world as a kid, and saw many interesting thing in the world. So as time went by Jeff learn more and more, so he turn out to be the best in the field. He enter many competition and he won and won, in 1994 and 1995 he won more then 5 competitions where he was considered to be the best of all times. In 2000 he started touring around America and keep clinics where he talked about playing the best way on the snare drum, and to play as fast as it is possible without playing hard. Jeff also publish a DVD with a book, "Playing with sticks" in which he introduces the Moeller and the Velocity tehniques.


Some links:
Jeff Queen Official Website
Jeff Queen at Drummer World