Voice lessons Santa Barbara

Drums, live performance

RA Founder & Instructor
Bands: Dishwalla, The Penfifteen Club

Alastair Greene

Guitar, bass

RA Instructor

Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Alastair Greene has been a mainstay of the Southern California music scene for over two decades. He received a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied before returning to Southern California to begin playing with blues and rock bands in the early '90s. Alastair has fronted his own Blues-Rock band since 1997 and accepted an offer to be the full time guitarist in the Alan Parsons Live Project in January 2010.

Alastair performs an average of 100 live dates a year with his own band as well as with the Alan Parsons Live Project. His newest CD 'Through The Rain' was released in November 2011 on LeRoi Records. He has been a Rockshop Academy instructor since it was founded in 2009.

Rodney Cravens

RA Instructor

Rodney Cravens is a current member of Dishwalla and has done extensive soundtrack work and toured the world, bringing a real life rock and roll experience to his students.

Sloane Reali

Vocals

Sloane holds a Masters Degree in Education from UCSB and a California Teaching Credential. A Certified Vocal Coach of "The Six Point Vocal WAV Method" (TM), she specializes in teaching voice to beginning and intermediate level singers of all ages including singer-songwriters, thespians, Rock/Pop band singers, rappers and more. In addition, she has helped numerous public speakers, teachers, therapists, doctors and authors to prepare vocally in their professions.

Sloane was the weekly Voice Coach for Santa Barbara Idol contestants and helps prepare eligible students for events such as Santa Barbara Teen Star, a local event dedicated to providing local youth with the opportunity to compete for the best teen solo singing talent in Santa Barbara County. More advanced singers and performers have used Sloane's services to prepare for auditions including American Idol, Glee, and Disney, or going into the recording studio. Others have started their own bands, are writing and publishing their own songs — and some have had guest opportunities with music royalty such as David Foster, Lionel Richie and Stevie Wonder.

Sloane also performs regularly with her two bands: "Sweet Heat" an acoustic rock band and "The Smooth Tones" a four to eight piece dance band. Visit her website at vocalcoachingbysloane.com.

The tradition continues

Mike's Drum Shop is no longer in the retail business. All that means is we don't sell stuff, we teach lessons. Very much the way this place started in 1968 as Mike's Drum Academy, we are going back to our roots as an education based Academy. This is how Rockshop Academy got its name, since Mike's original intent was to have a place to teach.

Now that the Rockshop Academy has taken off and taken over the space we encourage you to shop for drum supplies with local merchants and there are many! Thank you all for 43 years of buying gear here, now we look forward to providing the best teaching facility we have ever had.