The lesson begins with a bang. No, you can’t headbang to indie pop, explains the teacher, headbanger coach Gerald Wolf. “The music has too little power, it looks strange.” I was afraid I would look weird anyway. That not necessarily my favorite music genres would be in focus, too. However, the following words calm me down a bit: “It doesn’t matter if you’re not heavy metal fans. It’s about the fun and the technique,” says Gerald Wolf to us students. In March of this year, the 49-year-old musician founded “Hair Force One” in the Lower Franconian city of Aschaffenburg, which he says is the world’s first headbanger school.
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