Patrick Metzger
born November 14, 1979
Drum instructor
1986 - 2000 School and Training
1996 - 2000 Professional drum lesson at the KMS Kaiserslautern
2000 - 2004 Training as certified drum instructor for rock/pop/jazz at the BfsM Dinkelsbühl / Mittelfranken.
2004 - 2005 Guest studies at the Maastricht Academy of Music (Netherlands).
2005 - 2008 Studies at the Pop Academy Mannheim in the field of "pop music design".
Bachelor's degree graduation in 2008.
Drum and Percussion Lessons with:
# Uli Gessner - KMS Kaiserslautern
# Joachim Sponsel - Dozent BfsM Dinkelsbühl
# Prof. Udo Dahmen - Lecturer BfsM Dinkelsbühl & Pop Academy Mannheim
# Claus Heßler Lecturer - BfsM Dinkelsbühl
# Prof. emerutus Michael Küttner - Lecturer Music College for Jazz in Collogne and Mannheim
# Jim Chapin - (A living "Moeller" Legend)
# Dom Famularo
# Ron van Stratum - Lecturer Maastricht Academy of Music
# Arnoud Gerritse - Lecturer Maastricht Academy of Music
# Lui Ludwig - Lecturer at the Pop Academy Mannheim
# Benny Greb - Lecturer at the Pop Academy Mannheim
# Jost Nickel - Lecturer at the Pop Academy Mannheim
Workshops and Master Classes With:
Joachim Sponsel, Prof. Udo Dahmen, Claus Heßler, Wolfgang Haffner, Jojo Mayer, Marco Minnemann, Thomas Lang, Ralf Gustke, Johnny Rabb, Michael Küttner, Andy Gillmann, Benny Greb, Phil Maturano, Dom Famularo, Steve Smith, Simon Phillips,...
Current Band Activities as Drummer with...
| Brass Machine | "Partyband aus Kaiserslautern" |
| Me and the Heat | "Partyband aus dem süddeutschen Raum" |
| Rapsoul | "Raptrio aus Frankfurt" |
| laFUSO | "Popakademie Band" |
| The Wright Thing | "Band von Starkeyboarder Jason Wright" |
| Staatstheater Wiesbaden | "Musicalband des Theaters" |
| From da Soul | "Party Rock, Pop, Soul Formation aus MA und KL" |
| Die Dicken Kinder | "fette Partyband aus Landau" |
| The RocknRoll Flamingos | "Rock n`Roll & Rock a billy Show" |
| Livin Music Family | "Top 40 Party & Soulband" |
| Streetlive | "Galaband Nr.1 um Sänger Joe Whitney" |
| Papas Finest | "Soul Classics von früher und heute" |
| Soul Sista | "Party & Soulband" |
| This is how WE do it | "Sessionband des NCO Club Schwäbisch Hall" |
| Fresh & Cool | "Funk & Soul Band aus Stuttgart" |
| Acoustcial Jam | "Acoustic Rock, Folk & Blues" |
| Uptown Shufflers | "Blues Combo aus KL" |
| Prestigious Band | "Galaband mit Tina Turner Show" |
| ReLounge | "Gala & Dinner Formation" |
| ... und viele mehr.... |
LIVE PERFORMANCE & CREDITS:
# Alfred Kritzer (keyboard for Herbert Grönemeyer)
# Dominik Krämer (bass at the TV Total Band)
# David Hanselmann (backing vocals for Pur)
# Frank Rohles (guitarist for the Queen musical "We will rock you")
# Jürgen Wüst (keyboards & studio work for Edo Zanki)
# Wallis Bird & European Band (Sziget Festival Budapest/Hungary)
# Jason Wright "THE WRIGHT THING"
# Joe Whitney "StreetLIVE"
# Robbee Mariano (bass for Xavier Naidoo & Söhne Mannheims)
# Alex Auer (guitar for Xavier Naidoo)
# Stephan Ullmann (producer & guitarist u. a. Jule Neigel, Rolf Stahlhofen, etc...)
# Kate Russell (U.S. country star)
# Rapsoul (rap trio from Frankfurt)
# ......and many other regionally renowned musicians
Ex-Band Projekte & Formationen:
# 2007 - 2008 Derbys Orchestra
# 2005 - 2007 The New "Pop & Classic" Generation
# 2005 - 2007 Acoustical Jam
# 2004 - 2007 JB Roject - Brass meets Vocals
# 2004 - 2005 Latin Combo of Ron van Stratum
# 2003 - 2004 Lunatic
# 2002 - 2003 JoWoPaMa
# 2001 - 2008 Habachtaler
# 2001 - 2002 Proof
# 2002 - 2004 Golden P.Nizz
# 1998 - 2002 IRONIC – rock project
# 1995 - 1998 Sälawie
# 1991 - 1996 School band PHÖNIX
DISKOGRAPHIE:
| 2008 | Patrick Metzger | Solo CD | "Drumsformers" |
| 2008 | Trailersong für Mercedes | Single | "Folg deinem Stern" |
| 2008 | RocknRoll Flamingos | Live CD | "Rockabilly Radio Show" |
| 2007 | Patrick Metzger | Promo DVD | "The Left Hand Feature" |
| 2007 | Jürgen Wüst | CD | "Erste Wahl" |
| 2006 | laFUSO | CD | "Demo" |
| 2006 | Habachtaler | Live CD | "5 Jahre Habis" |
| 2006 | RocknRoll Flamingos | Maxi | "First Flamingo" |
| 2005 | Acoustical Jam | Live DVD | "Live am Gleis 3" |
| 2005 | Wallis Bird & European Band | Maxi | "Blossoms in the street" |
| 2005 | Acoustical Jam | Live CD | "12 Karat" |
| 2003 | Gospelchor: Spiritn Voices | Live CD | "Live 2003" |
| 2003 | JoWoPaMa | Maxi | "Take me by the word" |
| 2003 | BfsM Dinkelsbühl | Maxi | "RPZ Projekt" |
| 2003 | Habachtaler | Maxi | "do legst di nieder...!!!" |
| 2002 | IRONIC - Rockproject | Demo EP | "Showbizz" |
| 1999 | IRONIC - Rockproject | Maxi | "Please" |
