While recording drums is now an opportunity available to anyone, the experience of actually working in a recording studio with producers, songwriters and sound engineers has become pretty rare. To help fill this gap, I decided to synthesize and organize my expertise in a comprehensive course that covers all the knowledge, techniques, insights and exercises you need to become a great session drummer.

Working in the recording studio means being able to produce results in a short time. Part of being professional is having a solution ready for any issue. Print this list and use it to check nothing is missing before each session.

The drum set is actually a small orchestra. By moving notes and phrases on different surfaces we are able to create new versions of whatever we are playing and easily expand our vocabulary. In this lesson we discover 16 solutions, using shuffle and linear grooves to explore this essential parameter.

Rhythmic interpretation is the essence of being creative drummers, and is about transposing rhythmic figures all over the Drum Set, in a musical fashion. In this lesson we are going to check out a number of effective techniques and solutions that will help us do that.

Drummers who are really good at playing time, and can do that musically and with feel, are pretty rare, and obviously in great demand. Like for any other skill, if we want to master it we need to go deep.

What if instead of just two feels, straight and swung, we could experiment with endless shuffle variations? In this lesson we are going to develop control over 5 levels, which will set the foundation to start using this parameter as a powerful tool to sound modern and groovy.