School of Chops — Hero
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School of Chops — 2 Types of Drummers

I Work With 2 Types Of Drummers

Whichever one you are, I'll give you never-before-heard exercises and secret practice routines built to speed up your progress, no matter how long you've been at this.

1READY TO START LEARNING CHOPS
You Want To Solo, Be Creative, And Play What You Hear In Your Head

You can groove, but you want more. You want to be the drummer who can take solos, play the ideas you hear in your head, and actually be creative behind the kit. You've just never learned chops before, and you're ready to start.

You've never learned chops, so you have no fills, solos, or vocabulary yet
You can't play the ideas you hear in your head
You don't know where to start or what to practice
2YEARS IN, LITTLE GROWTH
You're Nowhere Near Where You Thought You'd Be By Now

You've been drumming for years and you've practiced chops on your own, but the growth never really came. You sound great grooving, yet your fills and solos are stuck right where they were, and you can't figure out how to finally get where you want to be.

Years of practicing chops alone, with little growth to show for it
You can't break past the plateau no matter how much you practice or how many hours you put in
You can't figure out what's actually holding you back
School of Chops — Sound Familiar?

Do Any Of These Sound Familiar?

These are the challenges that can keep drummers stuck for years and years.

1You Hear It In Your Head, But You Can't Seem To Play It

The idea is right there: the fill, the solo, the lick you want. But you don't have the technical skill, speed, or strength to pull it off in real time, so what comes out isn't what you heard.

2You Shy Away From Solos

When the spotlight opens up, you either freeze and play something safe and boring just to get through it, or you don't go for it at all because you're scared of how it'll come out. The moment comes, and it passes you by.

3You're Sick Of Playing The Same Recycled Fills

Every song, the same handful of go-to licks come out. You've recycled them a thousand times, and you can't seem to break out of the same few fills.

4You Practice, But You're Not Getting Better

You put in the time, but you don't see any improvement. You're not even sure what to work on to fix your playing, so you grind away on the same old stuff and stay stuck.

5You Can't Connect One Idea To The Next

You watch other drummers move from one idea to the next like it's nothing. But you hit a mental block, and the ideas in your head won't connect that way, so the flow and ease you want stays just out of reach.

6You Want A Sound That's Your Own

You don't have a voice of your own behind the kit. You want a sound that's unmistakably yours, but right now it feels like you don't have an identity on the drums at all.

School of Chops — Why Listen To Me
ZYCK · FOUNDER, SCHOOL OF CHOPS

Why Listen To Me?

Zyck
FOUNDER · SCHOOL OF CHOPS

Honestly, you probably shouldn't listen to me yet. I'm a complete stranger on the internet.

I could tell you about the full-ride scholarship I earned to Berklee, the #1 music school in the country. Or the 1,000-plus paid gigs I've played since going full-time in 2020, across 35 states. (I stopped counting somewhere along the way.)

Or the 100,000 drummers who follow along across my channels.

But none of that is what actually matters.

What matters is the drummers I work with: players who came to me stuck and plateaued, avoiding solos, who now play with confidence and sound like the pros.

I'm one of the best in the world at teaching chops, because I had to build them from scratch, so I know exactly what it takes to unlock growth at every level.

School of Chops — The 3-Part Framework

The 3-Part Framework Behind Every Student Breakthrough

Every drummer I work with gets a personalized plan built around these three systems.

01
The Solo System

We build the way you actually construct a solo: phrasing, dynamics, tension and release, and how to open, develop, and land an idea. Instead of freezing or playing random loud notes, you take solos that build and tell a story.

Construct Amazing Solos
02
The Creativity System

We help you build fills, licks, and rudiment-based ideas, plus the patterns to combine and reshape them into endless variations. You stop recycling the same fills and always have something fresh and intentional to reach for, in any style.

Expand Your Vocabulary Of Chops
03
The Facility System

We build the raw technique your hands and feet have been missing: stroke types, finger control, speed, endurance, and coordination. The gap between what you hear and what you can physically play closes, and you flow effortlessly and cleanly around the kit.

Flow Effortlessly

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