Watching Jeremy Ellis demonstrate his legendary finger drumming techniques on Native Instruments’ amazing Maschine is like throwing gasoline on a fire... the result is very, very hot! Learn the secrets of drum pad performance in this exclusive course from the world’s foremost finger drumming virtuoso...

When we first saw Jeremy Ellis performing his finger drumming on YouTube, our jaws dropped to the floor. Never had we seen such skillful drum pad technique. So we contacted Jeremy and asked if he’d like to create an original Maschine course for us and, after six months of meticulous production, he delivered a masterpiece.

In this course you’ll learn every strategy a finger drummer’s got to know to excel at the craft. Jeremy shares his exclusive warm-up and fingering systems. You’ll see, first hand, his “No Way is Way” Bruce Lee-inspired philosophy on developing your own, personal finger drumming methodology.

Next, Jeremy dives into his Maschine programming tips. Here’s you’ll see how deploys both the Maschine MK2 and Maschine Mikro in his own, idiosyncratic “way”.

Get ready to practice because Jeremy divulges the dexterity exercises he invented and uses daily to keep him at the top of his game.

The more you watch this course, the more it becomes clear that it’s designed to be the finger drumming bible to be watched over and over again to guide you toward your own finger drumming way!

Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Welcome
3. Naming Stuff & Navigating
4. Load & Review Factory Kit
5. The Approach & Warm-ups
6. More Warm-ups
7. Warming Up Some More
8. Create Pattern, Note Names & Lengths
9. Create Pattern, Use Draw Tool
10. No Way is Way
11. Ways 1 & 2
12. Way 3
13. Way 4
14. Ways 5 & 6
15. Review: 1 through 6
16. Ways 7 & 8
17. Ways 9 & 10
18. Review: 1 through 10
19. Hand Stretch Break
20. Drag & Drop, New Systems
21. Locate & Load Break
22. Chopping Break into 16 Chunks
23. More 16-Chunk Ideas
24. The Jeremy System
25. Syncopation, Paradiddles and Fills
26. 2 into 4, Both Hands or One Hand
27. 2 into 4, eight-note steady Rhythm
28. Paradiddles Concepts
29. More Paradiddles Concepts
30. 2-finger Open Rolls
31. More 2-finger Rolls and Triplets
32. Fills, Pick-Ups and Ghost Notes
33. 16th-note Ideas Using Ways 3–6
34. Ways 7 & 8 using 16th Notes
35. Way 9 Using 16th Notes
36. Way 10 Using 16th Notes
37. Crash Cymbals
38. Final Exercise and Full Review (All Ways)
39. Thanks for Coming!