Multi-instrumentalist Toby Newcombe is the youngest of the KidzRock! instructors but has the experience and ear of someone twice his age. He started out on guitar and piano at the age of 9 and went through all the grades but soon realized that the electric bass was the groove machine he just had to master.

A devoted student of music and the bass guitar, Toby graduated in Popular Music and has since gone on to study bass with the masters at the legendary Bass Institute in London. Toby is still a fine piano and guitar player and if you heard him play all three instruments, you'd struggle to identify his 'first' instrument.

Toby has been a full time music teacher for seven years and is currently with the Herts Music Service and can be seen at a school near you teaching guitar, bass and leading weekend rockband sessions.

When he's not teaching he's likely to be gigging with one of his many bands whether it's a covers band in the local pub, a classy wedding functions ensemble or a cool hip hop combo playing to thousands of people at the Mean Fiddler in London. He likes to keep himself busy.

Toby is a self confessed 'groove junkie' and a totally natural and gifted musician. Playing by ear since day one, he is a super fast learner and doesn't need to bother with rehearsals - "the gig is the first rehearsal man!"

www.myspace.com/tobynewcombeband

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