get direct feedback and customized exercises to help your groove

Are you tired of feeling like every time you play a groove you're on a razor edge, where if you try to open things up, or play a fill, you might fall off?

Or even when things feel ok in the moment, you listen back to the recording, and realize you were rushing or dragging the whole time? Or filled with "micro-hesitations" and inconsistencies?

Want to feel confident when you groove, so you can try more interesting ideas, lead a band better, or just have a better time when performing?

Or maybe you already feel mostly confident, but want to make your pocket WAY better, and even try some more challenging grooves.

Today I'm here to talk to you about a brand new course I'm creating with a few members of my list, which will give you the tools to solve all of that, so playing groove with a band or by yourself becomes something fun and amazing, instead of like a high wire act where you're constantly afraid of falling.

But we're going to do something different for this course. Instead of going away for 2 months and brainstorming all the exercises that might help, while you guys wait, then I open it up for enrollment and we're not even 100% sure if what I think are your issues are really your issues, or whether the exercises I think are going to work really work...

...I'm giving a small group of pilot students the opportunity to submit videos of their playing and requests for material to me...

...which I'll then use to create a set of PILOT exercises, to which you'll have early access within a week or 2...

...about which you'll then respond to me about how well they worked, and suggest improvements, and, if you want to, send me another video of you playing them.

Because this is going to require a bunch of my time watching your videos and reading your requests, I can only offer this to a small number of students.

That's why we're capping the early enrollment at 20 students, and this early enrollment is only open until this Friday, November 3.

Want a little slice of a real coaching experience with me for a fraction of the price? Want early access to the material in the Groove course so you can start feeling better about your groove within 1-2 weeks, instead of waiting months?

Here's exactly how this will go:

• When you click the register button, you'll have an opportunity to pre-order the Groove course at the early bird price.

• Once you've completed your order, you'll be taken to an onboarding survey that's only available to people who pre-order.

• As part of that survey, you'll have the opportunity to tell me more about your issues and goals with groove, and to submit 1-3 recent videos of yourself that you feel are representative of your ability level.

• Then, I'll take your answers and videos, and in 1-2 weeks, create a series of customized exercises for you.

• You'll have an opportunity to try these exercises, then send me feedback, and, if you want, another video of you playing the exercises.

• I'll use this feedback to scaffold the whole rest of the course, which you'll get included in the price of the pre-order.

This is an experience my group coaching students pay thousands for, but because you'll be helping me design a course that will hopefully live forever and help hundreds of drummers, you'll get it for the special pre-order price of only $147.

Pre-enrollment is closed, but you can enter your email below to get notified early when the course opens.

You might be wondering, "what will the finished course look like"?

The Groove Course will be a 4-5 module course in the same format as the Solo Course. It will all exist on a password-protected portal.

When you pre-register by clicking the button below and completing the survey, I'll take your answers, and create a customized set of exercises, to test your level, and see how well they work for you.

Those will be complete in 1-2 weeks after we close pre-registration, and I'll upload them to a new course template on your course portal, then share access with all the pilot students.

You'll be able to access them there, so you can try them out, and see if they help your groove.

I'll learn a lot more when I see your videos, but the types of exercise I anticipate are...

• metronome exercises to get you acquainted with putting the metronome in unfamiliar places

• coordination exercises to help you chunk more and more information so that when you're playing a groove it will start to become second nature

• a series of grooves, from beginner to advanced, which start you off with the basics of locking up with the metronome and help you develop solid habits of hearing your beat placement accurately, then build on top of what you already know to give you more and more advanced grooves

• and finally, a series of improvisation exercises, aimed at getting you to be able to improvise interesting variations within the groove, all while maintaining rock-solid pocket

Here's where you'll come in:

I want to know the specific grooves you have trouble with.

I want to know what you find challenging, because that may be different from what's difficult for me.

And once I create the initial exercises, I want to know how easy or hard you find them, so I know where to situate them in the curriculum. Maybe they're super easy for everybody. Great! Then I can make those the starting point, and build from there.

Or maybe they'll be medium hard. Great! Then I'll work backward to create prerequisites.

And you'll also be telling me how relevant and fun you find them, whether or not they need written music, and how I can make them even clearer.

This is the same methodology I used to build my group coaching material, and once I tried it, I knew it was a WAY BETTER way.

Think about it. I LOVE a lot of the teachers online, and courses they release on their areas of expertise.

But usually they're doing what I used to do. Book a day at the studio, make a guess about what will help students, then release it.

That completely misses the opportunity to work with the students to get super-specific about their issues and what will help them.

Finally, I want to address one potential objection:

But Nate, won't this take a TON of my time? I don't know if I can commit to this.

Short answer, NO.

While you should be willing to shoot a couple of short videos on your phone and answer a couple of surveys, that's all the extra you'll have to do, beyond practicing the exercises, which you'd do anyway if you were joining an online course.

That's maybe one hour total of extra stuff.

The majority of the work will, of course, be on MY end, where I'll be watching your videos and taking your feedback and architecting the course from it.

Ready to stop white-knuckling it through beats and start grooving with creativity and confidence every time you sit down?

Ready to have a microcosm of a coaching experience with me for which my full-time coaching students pay me Thousands for a fraction of the price, and a fraction of the time commitment on your part?

Just click the button below to pre-order the Groove Course and join the pilot group. Remember, I only have 20 slots, and either way I'm closing enrollment this Friday.

Hope to see you inside, and by that I mean REALLY see you inside.

pre-enrollment is closed, but you can enter your email below to get notified early when the course is complete.