Top 10 Musicians Who Were Music Instructors / Teachers
This includes music Instructors, music teachers, coaches
Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956) is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students achieving fame, such as Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie ...read more. He was a guitar instructor. Some of his students:
Steve Vai - Solo, Whitesnake
Alex Skolnick - Testament
Kirk Hammett - Metallica
Larry LaLonde - Possessed, Primus
Phil Kettner - Lääz Rockit
Rick Hunolt - Exodus
Steven Haworth Miller is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, known as leader of the Steve Miller Band. He taught master classes at USC in music-related programs
(he is the leader of the Steve Miller Band.)
Mike Mangini is an American drummer. Since 2010, he has been a member of progressive metal band Dream Theater, following the departure of founding drummer Mike Portnoy. He was a full-time Assoc. Prof. at Berklee College of Music, Percussion Department, until 2010 when he joined Dream Theater.
Floor Jansen is a Dutch singer-songwriter and vocal coach. She is currently vocalist of Nightwish and leader of Revamp. She's a vocal coach
John Mellencamp's drummer was an Associate Professor and taught percussion at Indiana University's School of Music for several years.
He quit the classroom because his success as a session drummer changed his priorities.
She was a high-school music teacher
Randy Black is a Canadian-born metal drummer and recording artist best known for his stints as the drummer for Annihilator, Primal Fear, Duskmachine, and Bif Naked. He is an ambidextrous drummer. He is a drum instructor and released instruction materials, such as DVDs
Ralf Scheepers is the vocalist for German heavy metal band Primal Fear. He has a relatively high-pitched tenor-esque singing voice and sometimes uses a shriek reminiscent of Judas Priest's Rob Halford, although it is his baritone lows which give him a near four-octave range in the modal register. He's a vocal coach
Hannes Grossmann is a German drummer who plays for the US death metal band Hate Eternal, German progressive band Alkaloid, and for U.S. technical extreme metal supergroup Blotted Science. He was also the drummer during Necrophagist's Epitaph era and played with Obscura for their first two albums. He is a drum instructor as you can guess (bands - Necrophagist, Obscura, Blotted Science)
Apostolos 'Apollo' Papathanasio is a Swedish metal singer of Greek descent (Spiritual Beggars, ex-Firewind). He has also sang for Meduza, Evil Masquerade, Gardenian, and Richard Andersson's projects Majestic and Time Requiem. He is a music teacher at a Swedish school
Dianne van Giersbergen is a Dutch dramatic soprano singer, songwriter, and vocal coach who is well-known for being the frontwoman and founder of the progressive metal band Ex Libris and German symphonic metal band Xandria.He is a violin teacher at a private school (as of 2018 he still is)