Ryan Alexander Bloom is an instructional author, percussion teacher, and drum set artist based in New Mexico.

Ryan began playing drums in 1996, taking private lessons and participating in school bands. A military brat, he attended 7 schools and lived in 5 states before graduating from Crested Butte Community School in the mountains of Colorado. Ryan went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in percussion from the University of Colorado, under the supervision of Dr. Douglas Walter.  He is now pursuing a master’s degree in education from Fort Lewis College.

As a performer, Ryan has worked in the studio or on stage with Alma Llama, Errant, Niwot Timberline Symphony Orchestra, Mordheim, Amish Warfare, Amara Grace, Immortal Sÿnn, Bloodstrike, and Havok, and the Staff Bands of the School of Rock Aurora and the Los Alamos Jazz Project. While in Havok, the band signed with Candlelight Records and Ryan appeared on the 2009 album Burn. While in Bloodstrike, the band signed with Redefining Darkness Records and he played on the albums In Death We Rot (2015) and Execution of Violence (2017). Ryan has toured on numerous occasions with Bloodstrike, Havok, and Immortal Sÿnn.

Ryan has taught private drum and percussion lessons since 2010, with stints in Washington, Colorado, and New Mexico. He has worked with individual students and various ensembles at public schools, private schools, private music studios, retail music stores, and out of his own home studio. Since 2019, he has been the concert percussion and drum line instructor for Los Alamos Public Schools. His percussion sections have been a part of multiple state championship winning bands: Los Alamos Middle School was the NMAA concert band champion in 2022 and 2023 and Los Alamos High School won the NMAA state marching band contest in 2025.

Ryan has original instructional drum books published by Hudson Music, Mel Bay, and Ruffe Dragg Press, including The Complete Double Bass Drumming Explained (2016), Live Drum & Bass (2018), Encyclopedia Rudimentia (2019), Thrash Metal Drumming (2020), Subdivide and Conquer (2021), Rudimental Grand Tour (2023), and A Field Guide to 50 Drum Rudiments (2025). He has also transcribed 19th century drum books into modern notation, translated historical Swiss and French rudimental manuals into English, and re-released rare historical methods, including the first edition of The Moeller Book. His rudimental research has also been published in Percussive Notes and he was a featured percussion clinician at the Association of Concert Bands National Convention in 2022.

Ryan is an educational artist endorser of Vater Percussion products.

Please visit the Lessons page, the Recordings/Publications page, the Buy My Books page, or Ryan’s Wikipedia article for more information.