Gálos Ádám Drum School

When I was 7, my older brother took me by the hand and signed me up for drum lessons at the music school in Sopron. It must have been around then that it was settled once and for all: music would be more than just a hobby for me. During primary and secondary school, alongside the music school, I built a solid foundation at the Hoffer Zenesuli, and I also had the chance to take private lessons from Borlai Gergő.

After graduating from high school, I studied at the Kőbányai Zenei Stúdió until 2010, where I earned an advanced professional music qualification and learned from such greats of the Hungarian music scene as Póka Egon, Babos Gyula, Tóth János Rudolf, Sramkó János, Solti János and many more...

Over the course of my musical career so far, I have played in productions including Kistehén, Padödö, Biorobot, Hiperkarma, Freddie...

The wider audience knows me as the drummer and one of the founding members of Intim Torna Illegál, formed in 2010.

In 2019 I received the Petőfi Díj in the "Percussionist of the Year" category.

From 2024 you can catch me on stage behind Puskás Peti at The Biebers concerts!

I am proud to teach alongside outstanding colleagues, and that together we have built the largest private drum school in Budapest.

Tempo, dynamics, coordination, limb independence, style exercises, technical exercises, rhythm exercises, sight-reading... These are the kinds of topics we work on in my lessons.

I look forward to seeing you — let's take your playing to the next level!

I must have been around 13 when I realised I wanted to play the drums — thanks to a childhood friend who played guitar, and to the MTV of that era, which aired a lot of great music. :)

During my high-school years I started learning the drums at the Vikár Sándor Zeneiskola in Nyíregyháza, then continued at the Rocksuli in Debrecen. My love for the instrument just kept growing, so I applied to the Kőbányai Zenei Stúdió and was accepted. There I had the chance to learn from outstanding musicians such as Sramkó János, Németh Gábor, Solti János, Babos Gyula and Fekete-Kovács Kornél. Later I became a private student of Szanyi János, to whom I also owe a great deal.

I love the funk and soul music of the '60s and '70s, as well as hip-hop and R&B. I believe that sometimes less is more.

A few great bands you can see me playing in: Flanger Kids, Noira, Perrin, Szabó Balázs Bandája, and the band of Szesztay Dávid.

Music grew very close to my heart when I was still a small child. Among my earliest memories is receiving a Tankcsapda compilation CD for my red CD player, which I listened to non-stop, shut away in my room.

Fortunately, I come from a remarkably musical family. At family gatherings, the guitar often came out — my father strummed it while my mother sang along. It was on that guitar that I made my own first attempts, and by my teens I was taking practice quite seriously.

At 14, my parents enrolled me in the Rocksuli in Debrecen, where I was immediately placed in a band environment and got to know drummers up close. I liked what they were doing so much that before long I picked up a pair of drumsticks myself and continued my studies on both instruments in parallel.

Later, I delved into the technical details of drumming at the Kőbányai Zenei Stúdió, where I had the chance to learn from people such as Solti János and Németh Gábor. During this time I played in several bands in various roles, and also took part in studio work.

Currently, alongside teaching, I am also studying bass guitar at the Kőbányai, and I work as part of the technical crew for the Dzsúdló and Punnany Massif productions.

Of all musical styles, rock is probably the closest to me, but I truly love all kinds of music, from the oldest to the most modern. My goal is for you to get into closer interaction with music, and to learn to listen to it with a musician's ears.

I welcome everyone who wants to make music, learn, play and grow!