Drum Lessons Hawai’i music studio is run by international drummer Luke D'addario, and is based on the island of O’ahu. He offers drum lessons, professional drum tracks, live drumming services, and an online merch store of drum-related designs.

He’s played for top Hawai’i artists in reggae, pop, world, R&B, rock, and metal, including Kolohe Kai, the Opihi Pickers, Rebel Souljahz, Ka'imi Hanano'eau, Corrupt Absolute, and many more.

He has over 30 years of experience as a drummer, including writing drum parts, recording drum tracks, performing live, and teaching drums. His love of drumming, and inspiring people, propelling him forward.

He has toured around the world with multiple bands in diverse genres, playing all venue types, from festivals and arenas, to clubs and private parties (Hawai‘i and mainland US, US Territories, Asia, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and more). His bands have both headlined, and played with some of the biggest names in the music industry. He’s played drums for as many as 7 different artists from around the world at a single festival show in one night.

You can’t listen to Hawai’i radio in without hearing an artist Luke has worked with, and he’s been featured playing on local TV. His bands have made it to billboard charts (Kolohe Kai), and he’s won prizes in numerous drumming contests online hosted by Sick Drummer Magazine, Modern Drummer, and others.

He’s taught formally at a local music school in Hawai‘i for 2 years, following and adapting established curriculum, and his own private lessons have included a wide variety of students, ranging from kids to adults, both male and female, and from beginning to advanced.

He has a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and he likes to apply his studies in psychology to his own drumming and performance, as well as in his lessons with students, aiding in their learning.

He is left-handed, but plays right-handed, leading with his offhand. This, in combination with some nerve damage on his left hand from an injury as a teenager, means he's had to work hard to learn to play drums, and because of it, he has unique insight into useful methods to learn, and teach, drum set drumming.