Jorge Arturo Viruete Ruíz
Grown up in a highly rock influenced family. I’ve been in a musical journey since i was little , discovering several music genres on my own and through my parents.
I started practicing drums when i was 6 years old. Heavily influenced by Rock Band and Guitar Hero (The Video games), i decided to give drumming a try.
When my first music school got to a close , a self taught period came by.
I bounced from summer school to summer school for the next few years , til a professor of mine opened his own, so i enrolled with him. From 2015 up to 2022 i kept studying drums at “Instituto Fanes” . Being taught by Aquarian Drumheads’ artists, Ness de la O, and Luis Huerta.
My time there involved a rigorous schedule and time of practice so that i could evolve in my drumming the way i did. I studied several genres from cumbia, and salsa to mambo and ballads, all the way up to rock and prog rock. Throughout this time i built up my style of drumming into an all in one powerhouse , mainly influenced by rock and metal drummers such as Dave “Compact Dynamo” Mackintosh, Gavin Harrison and Mike Portnoy.
This journey led me to competing once at Shure´s Drum Mastery 2019 contest, getting an international finalist title , and twice at the Drum-Off Global, resulting in back to back Global Finalist (representing Mexico) and National Champion (MX) in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
I’m right now working as a session drummer, at Monterrey, NL, Mexico local music scene. I’m working with an up and coming local singer-songwriter, Sol Cuevas, as her drummer as well.
21" Extreme Mega Bell Ride
20" Extreme Crash
18" Extreme Crash
9" Extreme Splash
15" Extreme Hi Hats
19" Extreme China
16" Explosion Crash
15" FXO B6 Effect Crash