Railroad Media took everything they learned about producing DVD educational courses, and put it together to make the Drumming System their new flagship drum course. Of all the drum courses available on their store’s main website, The Drumming System is Railroad Media’s largest and most comprehensive drumming curriculum.

While the course works best with beginners, there’s still a lot of content here that will appeal to intermediates and even some advanced drummers. From the most basic drumming instruction to advanced genre playing, the Drumming System can challenge drummers of all skill levels.

The physical breakdown of this massive course is as follows: 20 training DVDs, 15 play-along CDs, and 5 detailed training workbooks. This amounts to over 30 hours of video instruction in total with all the tools you’ll need to gain mastery of the material presented. Note that this review pertains to the physical edition of the course, and not the online edition.

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For many learn-it-yourselfers, the Learn and Master Drums course represents one of the best ways to learn to play drums from the comfort of your own home. The program is primarily DVD-based so all you really need is either a DVD-player or a computer that can play DVDs… and a drum set of course.

The Learn and Master Drums curriculum gives you all the knowledge and tools you’ll need to play drums proficiently. The course was designed with both beginners and intermediates in mind. New drummers that haven’t had much training in music have a lot of questions so Learn and Master Drums does a great job of addressing the fundamentals before moving on to more advanced playing techniques and theory.

The Learn and Master Drums training package is published by Legacy Learning Systems, a company that specializes in developing educational products. They have created other learn-at-home courses for the guitar, piano, painting, ballroom dance, and more. The course is taught by Dann Sherrill, an experienced professional studio musician and performing drummer/percussionist based out of Nashville. He’s worked with many artists such as Michael English, Percy Sledge, Mose Allison, and Steve Winwood amongst others. He’s also involved in teaching the drums in workshops and clinics throughout the Midwest in addition to maintaining his own private tutoring practice.

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If you’ve tried and failed to learn the drums before, you may have found that by stand-alone textbooks and eBooks generally don’t make for very effective lessons. Without the interactive nature of seeing and hearing the lessons, it becomes much more difficult and time-consuming to learn the drums.

That’s why a course like the Complete Rock Drumming System gives drum students a huge advantage as it uses both DVD video lessons and supplementary printed workbooks to teach its students. If you’ve previously seen this course and you're wondering about its reputability, know that though it's largely sold online, it is actually sold at some Canadian Costcos, which says an awful lot regarding the quality of the learning package.

The Rock Drumming System was designed primarily by Jared Falk of Railroad Media. It was developed for over a year and released in 2006. Jared has been teaching drums privately for quite a while, and currently plays for 10 different bands.

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Visiting StickTechniqe.com can be a jolting experience. What do I mean by that? Simply put, the website is fantastically awful. Web visitors can look forward to having their senses assaulted with a rainbow of clashing colors, blinking graphics, annoying animations, and worst of all... over-the-top ad copy. It pretty much has it all.

Now, usually I recommend that people keep a safe distance from businesses that are represented by websites that look like they were designed by a kid using Microsoft Paint ®, but in this case I’ll make an exception. When reviewing this course we discovered that, despite the awful website, the actual course was well thought-out and well-presented.

The author of this eBook training package is Jim McCarthy, an Australian drummer, percussionist, and teacher with almost 20 years of drumming experience. He holds a degree in percussion, and has played in all sorts of bands and orchestras. Jim has also published a separate video drumming course that we've reviewed titled Begin Drumming.

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