Cinematic Drums& Percussion

Craft thunderous drums and percussion that belong on the big screen, from simple pulses to complex polyrhythmic layers. From the initial brainstorm, to structuring full arrangements and production.

Turn any rhythmic idea into a finished percussion cue
Get a massive, layered sound without muddying the mix
Write with confidence in polyrhythms and odd meters

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Created by Arn AnderssonArn is a musician, composer and co-founder of Evenant. His work has amassed nearly 100M streams, placements with Disney, Universal, Warner Bros and Netflix, and collabs with artists like Metropole Orkest and Hardwell.

3Modules

18Lessons

4.5Hours

∞Lifetime access

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Make your drums impossible to ignore

If your drum patterns sound robotic, your layers turn to mud, or percussion feels like a frustrating checkbox at the end of your process, this course will change that.

From simple grooves to complex polyrhythms, you'll learn practical frameworks for crafting percussion that drives your cues forward, adds depth and punch, and actually becomes fun to write.

By the end you'll have a repeatable workflow to turn any rhythmic idea into a polished percussion cue, whether it's for trailers, films, games or scoring.

It's time to create drums that belong on the big screen.

Create, Arrange, Produce

Master Layering & Details

From Simple To Complex

Elevate Your Storytelling

This course is for people who want to:

Stop feeling overwhelmed and mystified by percussion writing
Break out of their comfort zone and write more unique, complex and engaging rhythms
Consistently find the right samples, rhythms and processing for any track or style
Get a solid understanding of rhythm, percussion, and how it shapes a piece of music
Create powerful drums inspired by Junkie XL, Hans Zimmer and Two Steps From Hell
Get a balanced, richly layered drum sound without messing up the mix

The course layout

Three modules, 18 lectures

Bite-sized lectures of 15 to 20 minutes, building from the fundamentals of rhythm through to full arrangements and production. Zero fluff, and lifetime access, so take it at whatever pace suits you.

Module One

Percussion Fundamentals

The fundamentals of rhythm writing, along with syncopation, ghost notes, polyrhythms and odd meters. We'll also set up an efficient template and processing chain so the ideas have somewhere to land. By the end you'll understand why certain grooves work, and how to build them from scratch.

Module Two

Building & Developing Rhythms

How to craft and shape powerful arrangements and track structures, using percussion as the core tool to shape the energy of a composition. Choosing between different types of drums, a compass for making rhythmic decisions, getting a massive sound through layering, and the details, realism and edits that separate a sketch from a finished cue.

Module Three

Advanced Principles & Techniques

Deeper practical demonstrations: adding drums to an existing track, writing in different time signatures, analysing percussion parts, and exporting your own presets and grooves so the work compounds.

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Bonuses

Resources & Downloads

Everything that comes alongside the lectures:

Inspiring sounds and tools to download, so you can start creating right away
Presets and grooves you build during the course, exported and reusable
A student community to ask questions, share your work and get feedback

Hear from our students

Thousands of students love these courses. We know you will too.

Why I made this course

Percussion is where a lot of composers quietly get stuck. It arrives last, it gets rushed, and the result is either a stiff programmed loop or a wall of layers that fights the rest of the mix.

The goal here is a comprehensive introduction to writing for percussion: selecting the right instruments and sounds for a given track, and writing idiomatic grooves and layers that enhance the musical idea rather than getting in the way of it.

We're not chasing classical orchestral percussion, or the classic Hollywood sound. This is the modern cinematic sound inspired by Hans Zimmer, Junkie XL, Two Steps From Hell and Audiomachine, mixing orchestral percussion with world drums, trailer hits and larger than life sound design.

Let's make some noise.

Your course instructor 👋

Arn Andersson

Composer & Co-founder of Evenant

Arn is a music producer, composer and musician. His work has amassed nearly 100,000,000 streams, and has found its way into advertising campaigns for companies like Disney, Universal, Warner Bros, Paramount+ and Netflix. He's worked on feature films and video games, created custom sound design for Hollywood trailers, and collabs with artists like Metropole Orkest and Hardwell.

Drums that belong on the big screen.

$49 right now.

18 bite-sized lectures and 4.5 hours of content
Resources, sounds and downloads
Access to the Evenant community
21-day money back guarantee

Go through the course at your own pace, and see your skills improve every single lecture. Ask questions, get feedback.

You're either stoked, or you don't pay. If we didn't meet your expectations, get in touch within 21 days of purchase and we'll give you every penny back, no questions asked.

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Composers who want to write engaging, realistic and powerful drum and percussion arrangements, but feel overwhelmed about where to begin or how to get the results they're after. We go through everything from the basics of rhythm, to layering and arranging, to composing entire cues starting from a rhythmic motif. We also cover adding drums and percussion to any existing track, and finding the right sounds and samples for a large, cohesive result.

Anyone looking for classical orchestral percussion, or percussion in the vein of John Williams and the classic Hollywood sound. The same principles apply, but we're focused on a modern cinematic sound: orchestral percussion mixed with world drums, larger than life sound effects, trailer hits and whooshes.

These are self-paced lessons, and you get lifetime access, so you can go back through them as many times as you like. Life gets in the way sometimes, but the course will always be there, as will the community where you can ask questions and get advice.

Whatever you already own. We cover how to choose the right sounds and get a big, cohesive result from the tools in front of you, rather than pointing you at a shopping list. There are sounds and tools included in the downloads to get you started.