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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.

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‍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.

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Transform the heartbeat of your music

Generate, layer and produce engaging, thunderous drum arrangements

18 Lessons, Zero Fluff

Bite sized and only 15-20 minutes required. Too busy? You have lifetime access so take it at your own pace.

Create, Arrange, Produce

A one of a kind course designed to help you write, layer, and produce cinematic percussion in your DAW.

Elevate Your Storytelling

Learn to use rhythm with purpose and intention, shaping the energy and journey of your tracks.

Master Layering & Details

From smart layering to ghost notes and sybcopations, learn how to get a big sound without muddying your mix.

From Simple To Complex

From basic grooves to polyrhythms and odd meters, build confidence with any rhythmic challenge.

A Thriving Student Community

Join likeminded composers on the journey. Ask questions, share your work, and get feedback.

This course is for people who:

Want to stop feeling overwhelmed and mystified by percussion writing

Want to break out of their comfort zone and create more unique, complex & engaging rhythms

Want to consistently find the right samples, rhythms & processing for any track or style

Want to get a solid understanding of rhythm, percussion and how it impacts our music

Want to create powerful drums inspired by Junkie XL, Hans Zimmer & Two Steps From Hell

Want to get a balanced, richly layered drum sound without messing up the mix

The course layout

Module 1

Percussion Fundamentals

In this module we cover the fundamentals of rhythm writing along with syncopation, ghost notes, polyrhythms, and odd meters. By the end, you'll understand why certain grooves work and how to build them from scratch.

Module 2

Building & Developing Rhythms

In the second module we'll look at how to craft and shape powerful arrangements and track structures, using percussion as the core tool to shape the energy of our composition. We'll also cover, realism, editing etc.

Module 3

Advanced Principles & Techniques

In the third module we'll dive deeper into practical demonstrations and principles, including adding drums to existing tracks, creating rhythms in different time signatures, and exporting presets and grooves.

18 Bite Sized Lectures

For Effortless Progress

Lecture 1

Building An Efficient Template

Lecture 2

Template Processing

Lecture 3

Quantization & Jamming

Lecture 4

Percussion & Rhythm Fundamentals

Lecture 5

Syncopation & Ghost Notes

Lecture 6

Building Strong Grooves

Lecture 7

Polyrhythms & Complex Layers

Lecture 8

Developing Captivating Arrangements

Lecture 9

Using Different Types Of Drums

Lecture 10

A Compass For Making Rhythmic Decisions

Lecture 11

Getting A Massive Sound by Layering

Lecture 12

Idea Creation & Development

Lecture 13

Track Structure & Composition

Lecture 14

Details, Realism & Edits

Lecture 15

Exporting Presets & Loops

Lecture 16

Percussion Track Analysis & Tips

Lecture 17

Writing In Different Time Signatures

Lecture 18

Enhancing An Existing Track

Course Overview

The goal of this course is to give you a comprehensive introduction to the world of writing for percussion, selecting the right instruments and sounds for a given track, and writing idiomatic grooves and layers that enhance the musical idea - not getting in the way of it.

A Step By Step Guide To Epic Cinematic Drums

Go through the course at your own pace, and see your skills improve every single lecture. Ask questions, get feedback - and if you're not happy, get a full refund. You're either stoked, or you don't pay.

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Self Study Program

Bite sized videos & exercises to get you progressing as fast as possible.

Lifetime Access

Keep your access to the course and go through it as many times as you like.

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Cinematic Drums & Percussion

Drums That Belong On The Big Screen

18 Bitze-Sized Lectures & 4.5 Hours Of Content

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Your Course Instructor
Arn Andersson

Arn is a music producer, composer and musician based in LA. His work has amassed over 100M streams, and has found its way into advertising campaigns for companies like Disney, Universal, Warner Bros, Paramount +, and Netflix. He's also collaborated alongside talents like 2x Grammy-winning Metropole Orkest and Hardwell, worked on feature films & video games, created custom sound design for Hollywood trailers, and loves to share the lessons learned as a creative as the co-founder of Evenant.

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Who is this for?

This is a course for composers that want to write engaging, realistic and powerful drum and percussion arrangements - but feel overwhelmed where to begin, or how to get the results they are looking for. We will go through everything from the basics of rhythm, to layering and arranging, and composing entire cues starting with a rhythmic motif. We will also cover how to add drums and percussion to any existing track, and find just the right sounds, sources and samples to get a large and cohesive sound.  

Who is this not for?

This is not a course for those looking for classical orchestral percussion, or percussion in the vein of John Williams or the classic Hollywood sound. Although the same principles will apply - we are focusing on a modern cinematic sound inspired by the drums from Hans Zimmer, Junkie XL, Two Steps From Hell, Audiomachine, etc. Mixing orchestral percussion with world drums, and larger than life sound effects, trailer hits and whooshes.

Can I enroll now and take it at my own pace?

These are self-paced, study-at-your-own-pace lessons. You will have lifetime access to the course, and can at any time go back and go through the lessons at your own pace. Life gets in the way sometimes, but the course will always be there for you, as will the course community with students where you can ask questions and get advice.