Shawn Tyler Stein is a professional drummer born and raised from San Francisco serving the Bay Area music scene as a regular and an on-call member for Bay Area based touring artists, various local bands, playing a wide variety of musical styles, with groups locally in the Bay Area and across Northern California.

Shawn has built a reputation as a reliable live-show performing musician for club dates locally around the Bay Area or out of town corporate or tour dates beyond, consistently bringing a high quality of musicality to his playing. Over many years of playing for different artists, Shawn has developed into a versatile drummer across genres such as R&B, Soul & Neo-Soul, Jazz, Hip Hop, Funk, Rock, Blues, Pop/Top 40 and various world music styles.

Shawn has worked with or currently performs with artists such as Lightning Rose (Rachel Rose of Jefferson Starship), Stymie & The Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra, Elena, Roem Baur, Shamilah Ivory, Tory Teasley, Speakease, Oakadelic, The Jro Project, Eric Silverman, Hydrophonic, David Davis, Big Blue Soul Review, and with many others artists. He is a regular house band member at many of the Bay Area funk and R&B jams.

Shawn has performed opening sets before Grammy award winning artists on a couple occasions, including Mike McCready’s (Pearl Jam) Flight to Mars at The Independent and for Fantastic Negrito at The Chapel and has performed before for well-known acts such as Marcy Playground.

Additionally Shawn received a degree in music through the San Francisco State University Jazz program, where he studied Afro-Cuban and Jazz music while studying independently under renown drummers such as Atma Anur, John Mader, Akira Tana, John Calloway, while crafting his own sound on drums.

Shawn is endorsed by Snareweight drum dampeners (2023)

Contact Shawn for live shows / tours, remote or in-studio recordings, and drum lessons.

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