How Purpose, Mindset, and Smart Recommendations Shape the Drumming Journey
If you have already explored the main drumming programs, tools, and mini-courses, this section is where everything starts to connect. This page exists for one reason – to make sure people do not move forward blindly.
Drumming progress fails most often not because of bad practice, but because people never define where they are going, what is blocking them, or what support they actually need. That is what the Other Programs and Your Next Best Step process is designed to fix.
Why These Programs Exist at All
Before recommending more drumming material, this page introduces five optional programs that sit underneath any successful drumming journey.
They are not technique-based. They are foundation-based.
In the video, you can pause and read each one on the page itself, because the explanations matter. The reasoning behind them matters even more.
Program One – The Better Life Experience
This is about purpose.
Not success in the usual sense, but clarity first. It reframes progress as a journey through success rather than racing toward it.
The core idea is authorizing your life – becoming the author instead of reacting to circumstances. In drumming terms, this helps users understand where they want to go before they start trying to get there.
Without that clarity, most drummers drift.
Program Two – Super Productive Power Funnels
This is about goals.
Specifically, layered goals. Not all goals are created equal, and not all systems work at the same time for the same person.
This system focuses on creating momentum and direction instead of vague motivation. It is used here because drummers often know they want to improve but have no usable structure for doing so.
If Program One is about knowing exactly what you want. Then this program is about how to get there.
Program Three – Creating Your Own Universe
This one is about mindset – more appropriately, it’s about environment.
Both internal and external. How you think, what you tolerate, and what environment you place yourself in.
Purpose tells you what you want. Goals tell you how to move towards what you want. Mindset determines whether you stay on the path when things get uncomfortable. And, who you are being on the way to where you want to be and who you are when you get there.
These first three programs work together as purpose, goals, and mindset.
We have divided them so users can focus explicitly on one area at a time. And to get them right on a deep level.
Program Four – Eliminating the Negatives
This section shifts from building to clearing. It’s sort of a prerequisite to the first three programs. And should ideally be run before and after the first three programs.
Not negative thinking – but negative influences, experiences, habits, environments, and people that quietly undermine your progress.
Until those are addressed, even the best drumming program will stall.
This step exists to reduce friction before asking people to commit to deeper work.
Program Five – Upgrade Your Happiness
This is not optional in reality, even if it is optional on the page.
Progress without enjoyment does not last. This program outlines a six-part process to becoming happier, not as a mood, but as a stable operating state.
Nobody benefits from becoming a better drummer while becoming more miserable in the process. Who wants to be around miserable people. Right?
Optional, Flexible, and Removable
These programs are here because they work, not because they are required within the partner program.
Partners can activate or deactivate the Other Programs links entirely if they do not wish to promote them or earn commissions through them. The system is designed to be flexible, not forced.
Your Next Best Step
From Answers to Action
This is where the system becomes personal.
Instead of guessing what someone should do next, the Your Next Best Step process asks a short sequence of focused questions.
These questions cover location, current ability, struggles, goals, and intent and so on. They are pulled from strategy sessions and coaching frameworks already in use.
Once completed, the system recommends a small number of programs that actually match the answers given.
No browsing. No overwhelm. No random choices.
What the Recommendations Do
Based on the answers, users are guided toward specific foundations such as timing, rock drumming, odd time development, stick control, or structured progression programs. or indeed, one of the Other Programs.
Each recommendation links to more detail, using affiliate links where appropriate.
The key point is that the user is not choosing blindly – the system is narrowing the path for them.
Coach Recommendation Logic
At the end of the process, a coach is recommended.
By default, that coach is the partner who owns the site. This keeps the relationship personal and direct.
However, users can also search for coaches in their nearest city. This opens access to the wider partner network and the Drummery social community as well as the Drum Coaches directory.
This is intentional.
Yes, it can move potential coaching away from an individual partner in some cases. But it also works in reverse, bringing new students back through the same shared system.
It is not giving business away – it is circulating opportunity.
Why This Matters Long Term
Every partner contributes to the same ecosystem. Through Drummery.
People you send into the system may find another coach. People sent by others may find you.
This is the same principle used in the social community and the coaching directory. Long-term visibility beats short-term control.
The system is already functional. It simply needs refinement and polish, not restructuring.
What’s Next
In the next video and post, the contact form and its full process will be covered, along with an additional feature introduced at that stage.
For now, this page represents one of the most important shifts in the platform – moving from static recommendations to adaptive direction.
