What if you could sound like the drummer on your favorite record every time you sit down to play?

What if your drumming was so smooth & effortless that you didn't even have to think or try?

What if drumming could be easy for you?

The truth is, it can.

But you have to avoid the mistake keeping most beginners' playing from ever becoming smooth & effortless...

The problem I noticed in many of my students' playing...

Can you relate?

Most students in my courses & membership were figuring out what to practice, having fun learning songs, and making great progress… at first.

But then they’d hit a plateau they couldn’t break past after a few months or a year.

They were still feeling stiff & choppy, and they were having to think too hard while playing. Drumming didn’t feel easy yet.

Instead it felt tense, uncomfortable, and robotic - where everything still felt difficult.

As I looked back on my own playing & growth journey, I had a realization:

Knowing WHAT to practice will get you started, but knowing HOW to practice actually leads to mastery.

I mastered the drums not just because of what I was practicing, but because of how I was practicing it!

In other words, you don’t need more things to practice - just a better way of practicing them.

“The only thing standing between where I am now and playing at a professional level is what I’m thinking about and paying attention to while I play.”

HOW I am practicing!

So I began testing my how-to-practice strategies & methods with my one-on-one students, and I immediately began seeing extraordinary and very fast results…

This was crazy!

👍 When I taught one student HOW to practice a syncopated groove she’d been struggling with for weeks, she suddenly played it smoother than ever within 5 minutes.

👍 Another brand new beginner student was learning a busy 16th-based groove for the first time, and when I taught him a really cool “mental practice” strategy, he nailed the groove on his first try and couldn’t believe it!

👍 Another brand new beginner student was struggling with fills, and everything he played was sloppy and wimpy. But then I taught him a different way of approaching fills, and he was seriously sounding like a Nashville session drummer in minutes.

I’d love to teach you all these methods, concepts, and strategies that are helping my one-on-one students achieve effortless flow & creativity in their playing, which is why I created for you…

The Effortless Drumming Private Coaching Experience - Sound Like the Drummer on Your Favorite Record Every Time You Play

The step by step coaching program for action-taking, committed drummers who are tired of sloppiness & choppiness and want to play confidently, creatively, and effortlessly in the next 6 months - Without having to spend more time practicing more things!

Sound smooth & polished without even trying by learning how to practice, how to think, and how to create on the drumset like a high-level pro - So that drumming now feels easy & automatic for you.

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Imagine THIS happening in your playing...

What if you could go from?...

❌ Having to think too much and try too hard…
❌ Disjointedly and sloppily struggling through a song…
❌ Tense & stiff with everything feeling difficult…
❌ A choppy, amateur sound…
❌ Fear & lack of confidence…

To....

✅ So much comfort & confidence on the drums that you’re not having to think anymore while you play
✅ Effortless flow from groove to fill and back - and through different song sections
✅ Everything finally feeling EASY and automatic for you, because the drums feel like an extension of you
✅ The ability to naturally sound polished & professional without even trying
✅ A smooth, recordable, inviting groove that makes other musicians want to jam
✅ Everyone around you wanting you in their band because of how you actually make them sound better!

Confidently sounding smoother, more musical, and more polished than someone who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on four years of music school! 💰

Did you know?...

(Your fastest route to drumming success)

You could go to music school for 4 years, which will cost you anywhere between $50k to $100k per year. And you may not even come out of it having learned what you really need to learn. (Someone whose brother is a professor at Berkeley told me that most of the guitar majors graduate still not knowing how to solo!)

Music School = $50k-$70k per year (4 years = $250,000)

Or you could take the route of confidence & certainty… and learn from me instead (I spent 4 years in a private music school so you don’t have to!), and you could spend just $5k for six months of one-on-one coaching with me. And I promise you’ll learn way more and save so much time & effort (and money).

One-On-One Coaching with me = $5,000 for six months (a fraction the cost of music school!)

👍 Save Money

👍 Save Time

👍 Actually reach your goals (#certainty & confidence!!)

Imagine your drumming becoming truly effortless, easy, and fun. You can totally do this.

Here's how this all works...

Remember: Knowing WHAT to practice will get you started, but knowing HOW to practice actually leads to mastery.

So if you're armed with a simple, versatile, what to practice that adapts to any skill level... Plus you have a deep, powerful how to practice the what, you're unstoppable.

Here's how you do this:

The Rhythm Over Rudiments Method Book (your fun, simple WHAT-to-practice-method)

This powerful, coordination & creativity-building method adapts to your skill level, and is so simple, fun, and versatile that you can approach it from any drumming level. Whether you're a total beginner, intermediate player, or advanced drummer looking to brush up on your skills, this streamlined method will enable you to actually practice less things for less hours, but get extraordinary results. Download this digital method book, print it off, and keep it on hand for your entire drumming journey. It's yours to keep!

Step 1: Choose your practicing path based on your level (know what to practice!)
Step 2: Build extraordinary coordination & creativity - the fun way! (my students have been loving this)
Step 3: Learn how to practice the material with the “Effortless Drumming Curriculum” (so you make more progress in less time)

The Effortless Drumming Curriculum (your HOW for explosive growth in less time)

You have access to the “Effortless Drumming Curriculum,” my best teaching on how to learn, how to practice, how to think, and how to create on the drums (which I’ve been exclusively teaching to my private students).

While the "Rhythm Over Rudiments" method book is your what, this curriculum is your even more powerful how. You'll work through this week to week, so that you're deeply learning and absorbing the critical skills that take your drumming from tedious, stiff, and choppy - to comfortable, effortless, and confident.

Here's how this world-class curriculum takes you from choppy & sloppy, to smooth & effortless:

Every drummer has to go through the 4 steps toward effortless drumming. Work through these and master the skills, and drumming becomes so much easier and more fun for you.

Here's what will happen in your playing over the next few months...

You will...

👉 Learn & grow faster (use the repeatable 3-step practicing process)
👉 Play more smoothly & effortlessly (solve trouble spots in your playing)
👉 Feel completely comfortable (gain full control over each limb)
👉 Get more done in less time! (Practice more efficiently)
👉 Master material more deeply (so that you’re actually comfortable with it)
👉 Overcome any bad habit once & for all (solve technique problems)
👉 Remember the thing you practiced yesterday! (Easily retain & recall new material)
👉 Effortlessly apply smooth technique to anything you play on the full kit
👉 Feel relaxed and at-home (play with proper posture & ergonomics)
👉 Achieve a pro sound by mixing your kit well (learn volume-control)
👉 Play with ultra-smooth, in-the-pocket time (by practicing with & without a metronome)
👉 Sound recordable & studio-worthy (by fine-tuning your sound)
👉 Use everything you learn in any song you like (gain more versatility in your playing)
👉 Play faster grooves & fills (use the concept of “chunking” to tricky your brain into playing faster)
👉 Flow smoothly between grooves & fills (“think in rhythms” so that you create effortlessly)
👉 Creative & improvise naturally (build intention & impact in your drumming)

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Here's what we cover in the Effortless Drumming Curriculum:

INTRODUCTION

Introduction: Why you’re not yet sounding like the drummer on your favorite record

PHASE 1 | MENTAL: 🔥 Learn Faster!

LESSON 1: 3 steps to learning & growing faster ("What good practicing actually is")

Learn faster & grow faster with a repeatable 3-step practicing process

LESSON 2: First step to learning: When to count - And when NOT to count!

Play more smoothly & effortlessly than ever before - by NOT counting

LESSON 3: The critical learning step almost EVERY drummer skips

Feel way more comfortable playing by employing the skill of “mental practice”
Avoid the struggle of slowly & painfully learning new material - Do it the easy way instead

PHASE 2 | PHYSICAL: 🔥 Get More Done in Less Time

LESSON 1: Vertical Practicing | Master difficult parts with the "slice-by-slice" method

Master difficult parts more easily with the “slice-by-slice” method

LESSON 2: Horizontal Practicing | Gain mastery over each limb as you play

Feel like the drums are an extension of you by using “horizontal practicing”

LESSON 3: Tempo-Fluid Practicing (When using a metronome can be BAD...)

Stop wasting time in practicing - Use “tempo-fluid” practicing instead!

LESSON 4: How do you know you've practiced something enough?

Use “over-learning” to know when you’ve mastered something

LESSON 5: Overcome any bad habit with "Compare & Contrast"

Overcome any bad habit with the “Compare & Contrast" method

LESSON 6: How to not forget the new thing you just learned ("weaning method" + practice performing)

Retain new material and be able to easily recall it days later (the “weaning method”)

PHASE 3 | THINKING: 🔥 Sound Flawless & Polished

LESSON 1: Technique & Motion | Make sure your technique carries over into everything you play

Be able to apply smooth technique to anything you play

LESSON 2: Posture & Ergonomics | Don't let these bad habits pollute everything you play

Feel relaxed as you play, sitting with proper posture & ergonomics

LESSON 3: Dynamics | How "kit mixing" is the biggest secret to a polished, recordable sound

Avoid sounding like an amateur by mixing your kit well with proper volumes

LESSON 4: Time | Why practicing to a metronome may actually HURT you...

Build ultra-smooth time by practicing with & without a metronome!

LESSON 5: Sound | If you do everything right but miss this...

Bring your sound quality up to a pro level so that your grooves & fills sound recordable

PHASE 4 | IMPROVISING: 🔥 Confidently Create Endless Ideas

LESSON 1: Dynamics & Tempo | Why you've had a hard time USING everything you've learned in songs...

Be able to USE everything you practice in a wide variety of songs

LESSON 2: Fast-Playing | If you've struggled to play faster, this is why...

Play faster by utilizing the “chunking” method

LESSON 3: The Power of "Variability" | Play like other iconic drummers

Master the drums more deeply by incorporating “variability” into your playing

LESSON 4: Thinking in Rhythms | How to effortlessly flow between groove & fill

Flawlessly flow between fills & grooves by “thinking in rhythms”

LESSON 5: Playing With Intention | Boost your creativity with the "Layering Exercise"

Boost your creativity & intentionality with the “layering exercise”

Here's what you have access to as a 1-on-1 student of mine:

The “Rhythm Over Rudiments” method book, which teaches you how to build extraordinary coordination & creativity the fun way! (for any level drummer)
The “Effortless Drumming” curriculum, my absolute best content that I’ve been teaching to my private students, showing you how to practice better, saving tons of time & effort in the process (the “how” to practice)
Live coaching session every 2 weeks where you and I work together one-on-one via Zoom for 60-90 minutes
Priority access to myself, your coach! I am your guide, here to make sure you have absolute certainty & confidence as you grow.

Who's This For?

The Effortless Drumming Coaching Experience is FOR...

✅ Beginner to intermediate drummers who want to go from sloppy & choppy to polished & professional in the next 12 months
✅ Students who are ready to practice BETTER instead of practicing more things
✅ A committed drummer who is ready to take action and put in the work to get serious results
✅ Drummers who want to save a whole bunch of time & money, skipping music school and taking the route of certainty & confidence instead

The Effortless Drumming Coaching Experience is NOT for...

❌ Drummers who aren’t serious about their growth, and aren’t willing to put in the work
❌ Drummers who would rather practice a thousand things badly than 3 things excellently
❌ Drummers who would rather spend a fortune in time & money by going to music school

But if you’re a committed, action-taking drummer who’s tired of sloppiness & choppiness and want to play confidently, creatively, and effortlessly in the next 12 months - Without having to spend more time practicing more things…
THIS IS FOR YOU.

Where you'll be a year from now...

You could have...

🔥 So much comfort & confidence on the drums that you’re not having to think anymore while you play

🔥 Effortless flow from groove to fill and back - and through different song sections

🔥 Everything finally feeling EASY and automatic for you, because the drums feel like an extension of you

🔥 The ability to naturally sound polished & professional without even trying

🔥 An inviting groove that makes other musicians want to jam

🔥 Executing smooth, musical fills that fit the song every time

🔥 Feeling like you’re “inside the song” as it just “flows out of you” when playing with a band

🔥 Everyone around you wanting you in their band because of how you actually make them sound better!

Click here to apply

Click here to apply for Effortless Drumming One-On-One Coaching

One-on-One Student Success Stories

Here's what several of my private, one-on-one students have been saying...

"I actually believed I was at the end of my abilities... [But now] I am improving vastly from where I started."

- Jim H.

Jim H.

New Jersey

"My biggest hurdle was getting frustrated 😠…practicing over and over what I thought was right (Easy to do when you don't know!). So my progression was slow and tedious. After all, I have been playing drums since I was 9 years old. I know how to read music and have played in lots of bands, but I never was polished.

"My frustration caused me to feel like a failure and that mastering the drums was out of my reach. It's not working... I actually believed I was at the end of my abilities.

"But Stephen analyzed my grip...how my foot was working on the pedal...how was I holding my sticks. By carefully analyzing and directing he got me on a great path. I am improving vastly from where I started.

"Drum teachers in my past never looked at anything like that. Once they saw I could read drum music they jumped right into that. So my little self taught mistakes went unnoticed.

"It is such a wonderful state of play to be in! Once the issues were addressed, all of my other skills started to kick in. I am extremely happy and satisfied with our work together.

"Now I am totally renovating my practice time. The future looks great as my old friend the drums 🥁 🪘 continue to challenge and thrill me!"

"Highly recommended for all drummers who want to build those fundamental "non-glamorous" skills that enable you to play all the flashy fun stuff with speed, dynamics, and ease!"

- Tom Z.

Tom Z.

Los Angeles, CA

"Stephen is a great drum teacher. Through his patient, easy going instruction on the mechanics of drumming, I've been able to fix a lot of self taught bad habits and improve my technique. He also challenged me with coordination exercises that really improved and broadened my drumming tool kit, which will help me play an even wider variety of styles than the rock/punk/ska I grew up playing along to. Stephen is non-judgmental, focusing on where my playing abilities were and how to help me achieve my goals. He also helped with a variety of elements around ergonomics and overall setup, tailored to me and not following some "this is the only way to do it" arbitrary set of rules. I never thought Zoom drum lessons would work, but they did and Stephen has been a huge help. Highly recommended for all drummers who want to build those fundamental "non-glamorous" skills that enable you to play all the flashy fun stuff with speed, dynamics, and ease!"

"If you want to discover what's holding you back and see significant growth in your playing, I highly recommend Stephen's personal instruction."

- Jim W.

Jim W.

San Fransisco, CA

"As a self-taught drummer, I suspected I had lots of bad habits that were limiting my growth, and I watched countless YouTube videos to try to correct them. After limited success, I finally reached out to Stephen.

"He began by helping me change my grip, foot position and kit ergonomics. Those were big adjustments, but I felt immediate improvement, and within weeks, I finally felt like I was getting out of my own way, and I now see vastly more potential in my playing. I had no idea how much my bad habits were holding me back, and Stephen helped me correct them within the first couple of lessons. I've realized the smallest changes can make the biggest difference, but it's hard to determine what those are from videos alone.

"Stephen is patient, professional, and an exceptional listener. His 'non-glamorous', no-frills style is exactly what I was looking for. If you want to discover what's holding you back and see significant growth in your playing, I highly recommend Stephen's personal instruction."

"Once [relaxed grip] started to click my anxiety around my pain started to disappear and I was able to see a path towards a freedom in my playing that I’ve never felt before."

- Mike G.

Mike G.

Toronto, Ontario

"I came to Stephen Clark a broken drummer. I had struggled as a self-taught player for literally decades. I had a lot of anxiety surrounding my playing, so much so that I had given up playing the drums for a number of years. I saw some of Stephen’s YouTube videos and for the first time in a long time thought, “maybe this is something that I can get better at?” I reached out and started doing private lessons over Zoom.

"My hands needed to be 'unlocked' essentially. I had a lifetime of gripping the sticks too tight and it was causing stiffness and pain. Each stroke would send a jolt down my arm. Stephen took the time to watch multiple videos of me playing singles in slow motion, and he was able to pinpoint where my fingers needed to loosen up. At first it was a struggle - Again so much muscle memory. But slowly over the weeks and months I was able to loosen both the fulcrum point and my fingers to the point where I was feeling what Stephen calls the “free bounce.” Once that started to click my anxiety around my pain started to disappear and I was able to see a path towards a freedom in my playing that I’ve never felt before.

"Stephen has been patient with me while I stuck on the same couple of exercises for weeks on end until I could get the feeling in my hands that I was looking for. I’ve had other instructors over the years that I would try for small periods of time and they were insistent on following their method with very little room to move outside it. Again Stephen‘s patient and encouragement has made me feel more confident than I ever had on this instrument. I would recommend him to anybody struggling with any part of your playing. I cannot stress what a huge help this has been to me."

🛑 Stop struggling and barely surviving in sloppy-playing-world.

Instead, clean up and polish your drumming in less time than you thought possible.

It's time to sound like the drummer on your favorite record every time you play!

Join the step by step coaching program for serious drummers who are tired of sloppiness & choppiness and want to play confidently, creatively, and effortlessly in the next 12 months - Without having to spend more time practicing more things!

Sound smooth & polished without even trying by learning how to practice, how to think, and how to create on the drumset like a high-level pro - So that drumming now feels easy & automatic for you.

Where you could be a year from now...