Find drum studios, rehearsal rooms, and music spaces offering drummers a place to practice drums.
About this guide
The guide contains details of drum practice rooms and rehearsal studios in London, with access to offers for drummers taking lessons with Elephant Drums.
We are expanding the studio guide all the time, and we provide a full version to Drum Pass Members which contains details of many additional private drum practice spaces available for people having drum lessons.
This online version of the guide contains a limited number of studios who wanted to list their details publicly for all to see. For access to details about the additional drum practice rooms who don't advertise solo drummer sessions publicly, you'll need to be a current learner with a Drum Pass.
None of the studios have paid to feature in the guide, we do not endorse any of the studios, the guide is for information purposes only, the studios are responsible for the accuracy of their listing.
Note to studio owners - If you would like to feature your studio in the guide, you can submit your studio deals for inclusion in our list using the form below.
Equipment Categories A-E
We've asked each studio to specify what equipment is included in their drum studio rental price, and what is excluded. This is so you know whether the fee includes hiring breakables, or if those need to be hired separately.
A) Full kit (including breakables) available at no extra cost.
B) Basic kit available at no extra cost (drummer must bring own breakables).
C) Basic kit included in the price and breakables are available for hire at additional cost.
D) There is no drum kit at the studio (drummer must bring everything).
E) Drum kit and breakables available for hire at additional cost.
Definitions
"Breakables" - at drum practice studios this normally means cymbals. In some cases it can mean cymbals, snare drum and kick drum pedal.
"PA" - a PA System can be used to play music through speakers. Most practice rooms have a PA system with a cable for connecting your phone / device to play your music.
"Peak / Off-Peak" - Some studios charge a different rate for Peak times (usually after 6pm Mon-Fri and at weekends) than at Off-Peak times. See the listings for details.
Notes for drummers:
USING DRUM PRACTICE STUDIOS
Normally rehearsal studios are booked by bands (i.e. 4 or 5+ people) and it usually costs upwards of £50 per rehearsal. All rehearsal studios usually have a minimum booking duration for each session (e.g. 3 or 4 hours minimum) and they don’t normally publish an “hourly rate” as such. Split between 4 or more people having a 4 hour band practice it works out affordably, but for a single drummer it’s not.
SOLO DRUMMER RATES
Most of the studios that have agreed to participate in the solo drummer scheme have said that solo drummers can book by the hour, rather than the usual 3 or 4 hour minimum. If you are submitting a studio for inclusion on our website please make a note if there is a minimum duration condition attached to the solo drummer rate.
Prices can change in future, so you'll receive a link to amend the listing details. We'll include a note to all visitors that studios reserve the right to change their solo drummer rate in future.
If rehearsing with a full band, the normal full studio rehearsal prices will apply.
WHY IS IT SO MUCH CHEAPER THAN REHEARSALS WITH A BAND?
For a start, solo drummers would be looking at an hourly rate whereas most of prices quoted for band rehearsals are for 3+ hours minimum duration. But the main reason it’s cheaper is because as a solo musician you are likely to be a lot more flexible than 4 or 5 people could ever be – maybe you’ll fill in an hour or two of studio ‘downtime’ fitting in between the studio’s band bookings.
Most studios have a range of different sized rooms for which they normally charge a range of different prices (larger rooms for larger bands). However, as a solo drummer it doesn’t matter if they put you in the smallest room or the largest – so it means that sometimes you might end up in a studio’s most expensive band room but on the solo drummer rate. From the studio’s perspective it’s obviously better they have someone in and using the space rather than no one in at all.
Submit a studio to our database of drum practice rooms, drum studios and rehearsal rooms.
Our previous feature on "Rehearsal studios in London for drum practice" (written a few years ago) is one of the most popular pages of our website. It gets hundreds of hits every month from drummers searching for drum practice spaces to hire.
We have decided to update the studio listings with a brand new searchable database of drum studios in London. If you own or manage a rehearsal studio or drum practice space and want to tell hundreds of drummers about it, then please complete the form below.
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About This Guide
We provide a comprehensive list of participating studios exclusively to Drum Pass Members taking lessons with us.
If you're a studio owner, you can still submit your studio deals for inclusion in our list using the form above.
Access to the Full List
To view the full list of studios and gain access to detailed information, you'll need to be a Drum Pass Member. Drum Pass membership also includes access to discounted lessons, workshops, and other benefits. Please click the links on the web site to find out about taking drum lessons.
Studio Owners:
If you have a drum practice space and you’d like us to share the details, please submit your details here.
