Library
The complete content database — 28 drummers, 280 path stages, 266 signature moves, 278 song studies and 49 exercises. Nothing is locked.
Drummers
Mike Portnoy
Dream Theater
Progressive-metal architect — coordination, orchestration, odd meters
10 stages · 9 moves · 11 songs
Neil Peart
Rush
Precision and orchestration — every fill composed, every part earning its place
10 stages · 9 moves · 11 songs
Danny Carey
Tool
Odd meters, polyrhythmic independence, and a hypnotic, orchestrated kit.
10 stages · 9 moves · 10 songs
Gavin Harrison
Porcupine Tree
Rhythmic illusion and groove displacement
10 stages · 9 moves · 10 songs
Terry Bozzio
Frank Zappa / solo
Ostinato architect — four-limb independence, melodic drums, odd meters
10 stages · 10 moves · 10 songs
Bill Bruford
Yes / King Crimson / Earthworks
The thinking drummer's drummer — crisp snare voice, odd meters, interlocking parts
10 stages · 10 moves · 9 songs
Thomas Lang
Solo / clinician
Independence taken to its limit — four-way control, ambidexterity, gospel chops
10 stages · 10 moves · 9 songs
Matt Cameron
Pearl Jam / Soundgarden
Heavy hitter with a jazz brain — power, odd phrasing and taste in equal parts.
10 stages · 9 moves · 10 songs
Sean Kinney
Alice in Chains
Dark, heavy pocket built from repetition, space and tension.
10 stages · 8 moves · 10 songs
Dave Grohl
Foo Fighters / Nirvana
The biggest backbeat in rock, played dead in the pocket.
10 stages · 9 moves · 11 songs
Chad Smith
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Deep funk pocket, big rock backbeat
10 stages · 9 moves · 11 songs
Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters
Melodic arena-rock fills over tight, powerful backbeats
10 stages · 10 moves · 10 songs
Stewart Copeland
The Police
Reggae-rock hi-hat intricacy, rimshots and restless syncopation
10 stages · 10 moves · 10 songs
John Bonham
Led Zeppelin
Behind-the-beat groove, triplet feel and a room-shaking single kick
10 stages · 10 moves · 10 songs
Phil Rudd
AC/DC
Immovable time, total minimalism and a pocket you can set a clock by
10 stages · 10 moves · 10 songs
Lars Ulrich
Metallica
Thrash precision, riff-locked arrangements, and relentless right-hand drive.
10 stages · 9 moves · 11 songs
Dave Lombardo
Slayer
The godfather of thrash — raw speed, tribal power, relentless aggression
10 stages · 10 moves · 10 songs
Gene Hoglan
Death / Testament / Strapping Young Lad
The Atomic Clock — inhuman precision, orchestrated double kick, unshakeable time
10 stages · 10 moves · 9 songs
George Kollias
Nile
Extreme-speed specialist — blast-beat endurance, ankle control, technical precision
10 stages · 10 moves · 9 songs
Joey Jordison
Slipknot
Machine-precise groove-metal speed with a relentless left foot
10 stages · 10 moves · 9 songs
Mario Duplantier
Gojira
Jazz-informed metal phrasing — dynamics, tom orchestration, polyrhythmic riff-locking
10 stages · 10 moves · 10 songs
Chris Turner
Oceans Ate Alaska
Hyper-technical progressive metalcore — gospel chops meet blast-beat brutality
10 stages · 10 moves · 10 songs
Anika Nilles
Solo
Odd-subdivision groove writer — quintuplets, septuplets and hybrid grooves that still feel like pop
10 stages · 10 moves · 9 songs
Benny Greb
Solo
Sound-of-groove philosopher — dynamics, hand technique and Moeller in service of feel
10 stages · 10 moves · 10 songs
Matt Garstka
Animals as Leaders
Polymetric layering and linear coordination over djent's shifting riffs
10 stages · 10 moves · 9 songs
Yussef Dayes
Solo / Yussef Kamaal
Jazz-broken-beat feel — fast fluid hands, hi-hat texture, loose-but-locked pocket
10 stages · 10 moves · 10 songs
Sólstafir
Sólstafir
Space, patience and tribal weight
10 stages · 8 moves · 10 songs
Sigur Rós
Sigur Rós
Mallets, brushes and orchestral patience
10 stages · 8 moves · 10 songs
Techniques, grooves, fills & challenges
Fundamentals
Universal skills that belong to no particular drummer: grip, strokes, timing, subdivisions, dynamics, basic grooves and basic fills.
12 exercises →
Techniques
Hand technique, independence, coordination, double kick, linear playing, polyrhythms, odd meters, metric modulation, displacement, dynamics and orchestration.
32 exercises →
Grooves
Grooves across styles and difficulty levels — rock, half-time, shuffle, tribal toms, linear and odd-meter feels.
12 exercises →
Fills
Basic fills, linear fills, tom fills, snare/tom combinations, cymbal fills, double-kick fills, odd-meter fills and signature drummer fills.
5 exercises →
Challenges
Advanced exercises that combine several techniques at once. Hard on purpose — still completely unlocked.
17 exercises →
Every exercise
The whole exercise database in one list.
49 exercises →