About

Teaching Experience

Vance has been teaching private lessons for the last 35 years. He has taught private lessons at home, in public schools and through music stores such as The Melody Shop & School of Music and The Drum Exchange.

He currently teaches at his new studio located at StudioWorks in Ballard and at Off The Wall Music in Wallingford.

Playing Experience

Vance Nurkala has been a drummer/percussionist for 38 years and has performed in a wide variety of musical groups. Throughout High School and College he performed in marching bands, jazz bands, pep bands, concert bands and percussion ensembles. He also played with local variety and wedding bands such as Center Stage & Runaway. In 1993 Vance moved from his home state of Michigan to Seattle. He and has been drumming in the local music scene with the bands Crybaby, Simple Machine, Chill Factor, Stranger By The Minute, iCandi, Idol Eyez, ML3, City Eagles, Charlie Drown, and Hysteria-Def Leppard Tribute Band.

Vance has honed his experience with click tracks and playing along with sequences and is known for keeping a solid beat. He has pro gear, reliable transportation, and is dedicated to any project that he gets involved in. He is very punctual, organized, a fast learner, and he is very easy to get along with.