Greg Vance is a full-time touring drummer, session player, educator & Producer based in Columbia, SC.
He began his career self taught, with a burning passion for music and percussion. He steadily worked to hone his craft through trial and error, DIY touring, as well as booking and promoting bands. While Greg stayed very busy musically in Springfield, he felt he needed to branch out and live in an area where musical opportunity didn't require the near impossible task of consistently piecing together new projects to start from scratch.
In 2013 Greg moved from his home-base in Springfield, MO to join Enfold Darkness in Nashville, TN. Greg knew moving to Music City, USA would grant him better opportunity to thrive, learn and grow as a musician. While living in Nashville, Greg toured regularly with Enfold Darkness, and took on another musical project as a full time member: Oubliette. While working with these two metal bands, Greg also sat in as a session player with various artists in the area and took on other national and international touring gigs with other bands.
He and an associate also owned and operated a music venue, recording studio and rehearsal space outside of Nashville for a while: Autograph Studios. While operating Autograph, Greg got back to private teaching and focused heavily on increasing his chops in multiple genres ranging from bluegrass to funk.
Greg wrote and recorded "Adversary Omnipotent" with Enfold Darkness and "The Passage" with Oubliette while living in Nashville.
After 11 years in Music City, Greg joined Syr, a Celtic Folk Rock band based out of Columbia, SC and was commuting regularly for touring. He and his wife decided to make the move to Columbia to focus on that project full time, where he also acquired a private drum mentoring position at Freeway Music, a well known locally owned music school with 6 locations in the area.
To this day, Greg consistently tours with Syr, teaches at Freeway Music and regularly works as a session player and hire on touring musician.
His newest venture has been a multi-media company and recording venture called Dreamscape Co-op and has taken on more session work as of 2025. His band Syr just released their new album “RUIN” and is currently filling up 2027 with international festival dates. Greg is also currently working on his series of method books, the first of the series is slated to release in the summer of 2027, alongside a string of clinic dates to follow.
Abilities for live sessions:
Read & Write Drum Notation
teach and learn with patience
create and Perform with click tracks
audio engineering experience
high quality video production
20+ years touring/recording experience
read and write charts
thrive in high pressure environments
live sound experience and equipment
reliable touring vehicle
no drug or alcohol issues
Abilities for STUDIO sessions:
Full drum kit studio recording in house
Ability to take direction, as well as create unique parts
comfortable with production, editing, and daw workflow
mainly using logic pro, but also familiar with cubase
comfortable playing pocket or extremely technical parts
can notate and create drum scores for parts
proficient playing and understanding odd meters
also willing to provide playthrough videos for marketing
fair pricing, fairly quick turnaround, and quality stems
Abilities for content creation:
fully mobile pro recording for live shows
ability to capture 4k multi-angle video
engineering and production on both audio and video
ability to mix multi track audio venues capture on their board (most modern venues will do this free)
ability to make content from videos you’ve captured
promotion through my company
2 week turnaround is typical, but will always communicate and never rush, because i take pride in every single project as if it were my own.