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A Personalized Deep-Dive into Your Drumming, Your Mindset, and Your Musical Path

This isn’t a typical drum lesson.
It’s a one-on-one mentorship experience designed to uncover what’s holding you back—and give you the tools, clarity, and direction to move forward with confidence.

Whether you're seeking technical refinement, coordination breakthroughs, deeper groove, or strategic career guidance, this session is tailored entirely to your unique goals and challenges.

What You’ll Get:

✅ A custom evaluation of your current strengths and areas for growth
✅ Targeted feedback on your technique, timing, phrasing, and coordination
✅ Real-time breakdowns and personalized practice strategies
✅ Insight into how to apply The DrumMantra Practice System to your specific goals
✅ Mindset shifts to help you break through plateaus and reignite your purpose
✅ Optional consultation on career direction, musical identity, or practice structure

Whether you’ve been drumming for 3 years or 30, a private session with Rich is an opportunity to:
🎯 Gain clarity.
🎯 Discover blind spots.
🎯 Experience a breakthrough.

🥁 Ready to go deeper?

This session will meet you where you are—and show you what’s possible when you take the next step with intention.

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Primary Series Book (PDF)

The Primary Series

Expand Your Rhythmic Horizons. Deepen Your Coordination. Master the Language of Polymeters.

The Primary Series is the second book in the DrumMantra Practice System, and it picks up where The Foundational Series leaves off—diving headfirst into the powerful world of polymetric coordination and rhythmic phrasing.

This book is for drummers who are ready to move beyond linear patterns and explore the interplay of layered rhythms, complex phrasing, and musical intelligence.

🎯 What You'll Learn:

The Primary Series is an in-depth exploration of polymetric relationships—including 3:4, 3:5, 4:5, and 3:4:5—in both their native (single-measure resolution) and non-native (multi-measure resolution) forms.

You’ll work through challenging yet musical exercises that develop:
✅ Advanced coordination between limbs across multiple time feels
✅ Rhythmic perception that enables you to hear and feel multiple pulses at once
✅ Musical phrasing rooted in logic, expression, and groove

📦 Inside the Book:

  • Polymetric Coordination Studies designed to build rhythmic fluidity and mental agility

  • Six Brand-New Rhythmic Melodies Sections that challenge your reading, deepen your phrasing, and elevate your musicality

  • Play-Along Audio Tracks that turn each exercise into a full musical experience

  • Clear explanations and practice strategies to help you internalize complex concepts and make them usable in your playing

🧠 Benefits of Practicing The Primary Series:

✔️ Stronger time and accuracy through layered rhythmic repetition
✔️ Enhanced musical creativity through phrasing and polymetric expression
✔️ Improved reading and comprehension of complex rhythmic notation
✔️ Expanded coordination and independence between hands and feet
✔️ Sharpened mental focus and concentration—essential tools for advanced players

🎵 For Intermediate to Advanced Drummers Ready to Push Beyond the Familiar

The Primary Series is ideal for drummers seeking to build a deeper rhythmic vocabulary, enhance their ability to hear and play multiple time perspectives, and develop a more expressive, intelligent approach to the kit.

🗣️ What Drummers Are Saying:

“It’s helped me big time with my time, groove, coordination, focus, form, and endurance! I was always searching for this kind of stuff when I was studying at the conservatory. Now it’s finally available!”
— Mark Eshuis, Professional Drummer & Educator, Holland

“A great journey... the backing tracks transform the exercises into music and show how to apply the concepts together. Highly recommended!”
— Max Logosha, Professional Drummer, Ukraine

“This system has immensely improved my ability to understand polymetric and polyrhythmic phrases and use them musically. I love the challenge!”
— Lukas Landis, Professional Drummer & Educator, Switzerland

“Part of my essential and favorite toolkit for staying in great musical and technical shape. They've really helped my evolution as a drummer.”
— Antoine Cirri, Professional Drummer, Belgium

🔥 The Primary Series is more than a book—it's a system for transformation.

If you’re ready to train your mind, body, and ears to work together at a higher level, this is your next step.

👉 Go deeper. Get more precise. Become the drummer you’re meant to be.

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