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EFFORTLESS HANDS™ WORKSHOP
Play Faster & Cleaner Without Tension in Just 90 Minutes
So you can stop thinking about your hands and just play what you hear in your head.
LIVE ON ZOOM — MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
7 PM ET / 6 PM CT / 5 PM MT / 4 PM PT
90 Minutes | Bring Your Sticks + Practice Pad
$37
Registration closes September 28 at 6 PM Eastern.
YES - Save My SpotYour hands shouldn't have to fight for every note
You know the feeling.
You’re playing something comfortably… Then you push the tempo. Your grip gets tighter, your wrists stiffen, and your timing gets sloppy. So you concentrate harder, grip a little tighter, and force your hands to keep up. And the harder you push…
The harder it gets.
You know what you want to play. You can hear it in your head. But your hands keep getting in the way. This happens to drummers all the time. And another 47 exercises probably won’t solve it. Because if you keep practicing with the same tension and bad habits…
You keep teaching your hands to play that way.
Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes permanent.Â
If you squeeze the sticks…fight the rebound…tense up when the tempo climbs…or use way more effort than you need…every practice session can make those habits harder to break.
Darren described it like this:
“I practice, practice, and practice, but I don’t get any better.”
And that’s what we’re going to fix together.
What if great technique felt easy?
The whole point of great technique is to reach a place where you don’t have to think about it.
Imagine hearing a fill, groove or pattern in your head…and your hands simply play it. No death grip. No fighting for speed. No thinking about every stroke. Your hands just know what to do. That way you can think about what matters:
The music.
Roger has been playing drums for 60 years and has played 1,000 shows. When he finally honed his technique with me, he said:
“I’m finding performing is becoming more and more effortless. I don’t have to think about what I’m doing. It just rolls out and I’m able to be in the moment.”
That’s what we’re going after in Effortless Hands™. And you’ll start feeling the difference immediately.Â
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What if your hands could just... play?
Think about a pattern that gives you trouble. Maybe it’s a fill that makes you flustered. Those dubious doubles. Some pesky paradiddles. A sticking you’ve been trying to clean up. Or something you can play…
But only sloppily while concentrating like hell.
Bring that pattern to Effortless Hands™.
Because we’re going to fix exactly what you're struggling with.
The Tensionless Method
At the start of the workshop, we’ll measure your baseline.
How fast can you play cleanly?
How much tension do you feel?
Where does it start falling apart?
Then we’ll start fixing it.
Together we’ll make changes to your stick grip, hand technique, and mechanics so your hands stop hurting and stop wasting so much energy.
You’ll keep coming back to your pattern as we go.
By the end of the workshop, the goal is simple:
- Play it faster.
- Play it cleaner.
- Play it without tension.
Your pattern. Your hands. Your before and after.
You’ll leave knowing what effortless technique feels like.
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I'll show you how to make it stick
Feeling the difference once is great. But teaching your hands to keep doing it is where things get exciting. That’s where The Perfect Practice Cycle comes in. It’s the system I use to help drummers turn awkward, tense playing into movement that feels automatic.
Soon, something that took all your focus starts getting easier. Then you increase the tempo. It’s how you start moving from:
“I can play this sloppily if I really concentrate…”
to:
“My hands just do it."
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Here's what we'll cover:
➤ Find Out What’s REALLY Slowing Your Hands Down
You’ll measure your speed and tension before we make a single change, and discover how to eliminate that tension.Â
➤ The Tensionless Method
We’ll workshop your problem pattern over the course of 90 minutes, breaking down your technique until you can play it faster, cleaner and with 75% less tension by the end.
➤ The 15-Minute Grip Reset
You’ll change how you hold and move the sticks, so you can relax your grip, move more freely and get more from every stroke with less effort.
➤ Stop Fighting the Rebound
You’ll use less energy to play the same notes by letting the stick do the work. When I taught Marc this concept, he called it the “skeleton key to a lot of doors in my playing.”
➤ Find the Hidden Tension Before It Slows You Down
Learn to spot tension as it starts to creep in, so you can catch it before your playing gets stiff, sloppy or stuck.Â
➤ Make Faster Feel Easier
Feel what happens when speed comes from better movement instead of more force.
➤ Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect. Practice Makes Permanent.
Every practice session teaches your hands something… and practicing tense, sloppy movements can lock those bad habits in. So instead, we’ll teach your hands the technique you actually want.
➤ The Perfect Practice Cycle
You’ll learn exactly how to take the good habits you learn in class and make them stick, for good.
➤ Stop Thinking So Hard!
Bring everything together so you can spend less time thinking about your grip, wrists and strokes…and more time playing music. Â
Effortless Hands Workshop September 2026
Stop trying to muscle through speed. Practicing bad habits faster makes them permanent. The only way to get faster is zero tension. To get zero tension and unlock your hands, you have to fix your technique but… how do you do that? Join me at my online Effortless Hands workshop where I’ll show you how to relax, and give you the tools you need to double your speed.
$37.00 USD
What does "effortless" actually feel like?
Here’s how other drummers describe the difference:
Roger
“I’m finding performing is becoming more and more effortless. I don’t have to think about what I’m doing. It just rolls out and I’m able to be in the moment.”
Owen
“The results were immediate and much cleaner!”
Brian
“In just this short time I’m feeling sooooo much more relaxed.”
Mireya
“I used to have sore wrists frequently… I can’t even remember the last time I had sore wrists, which is amazing!”
From fighting his hands to playing on autopilot
When Darren came to me, he was practicing constantly. But when he pushed his speed, the tension was killing his hands. His playing got uneven. His left hand started falling apart.
He told me:
“I practice, practice, and practice, but I don’t get any better.”
So we backed things up, and totally rebuilt his grip. In just 30 days Darren took his singles from 50 BPM to 200 BPM. But speed wasn’t his biggest breakthrough. Here’s how he described his playing afterward:
“Now I’m so much more relaxed when I play. I play so much more effortlessly!”
When your technique stops demanding all your attention…You get to play drums again.
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You'll take home the Effortless Hands™ toolkit
In addition to the workshop, you’ll also get these tools to take what you learn back to the practice room.
âś” BONUS #1: The Effortless Grip Checklist
A quick way to check your grip and catch the little mistakes that can bring tension back.
Keep it near your practice pad and pull it out whenever your hands start feeling tight or hard to control.
âś” BONUS #2: The Perfect Practice Planner
Know what you’re working on before you start practicing. Spend less time jumping between random exercises and more time working on what matters.
âś” BONUS #3: The Practice Progress Tracker
See your progress instead of guessing. Track your patterns, tempos, tension and improvements over time.
I’ll even help you add a few things to track during the workshop.
âś” BONUS #4: The Perfect Practice Cycle
Take home the same process we’ll use during the workshop.
Use it to move from: “I can play this sloppily if I really concentrate…” to “My hands just do it.”
✔ BONUS #5: Lifetime Access To The Effortless Hands™ Recording
Rewatch the workshop whenever you want. Repeat the exercises. Give your hands a reset when old habits start creeping back in. Your recording doesn’t expire.
Meet your drum coach
Hey, I’m Dimitri Fantini.
For more than 20 years, I’ve been obsessed with what makes great drumming feel effortless… and how to teach that feeling to other drummers.
I’m a professional drummer and educator who has taught more than 20,000 drummers, developed drum education with Paiste Cymbals, and taught masterclasses alongside some of the world’s top players.Â
But my favorite drummers to work with aren’t professionals. They’re people who simply love playing drums. Some have been playing for a few years. Some for 10, 20 or 30. Some even longer. And I see the same thing all the time:
They can’t seem to play what they hear in their head.
It’s frustrating. And very often, a few small things in their technique are making everything harder than it needs to be.
That’s what Effortless Hands™ is about.
Because the point of great technique isn’t to sit behind the kit thinking about technique. It’s to play what you hear in your head. You hear something. And your hands play it.
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“But I've been playing for years...
Good.
This work can matter just as much after decades behind the kit. In fact, the longer you play, the easier it is for bad habits to become your normal way of playing.
Even though Roger had been drumming for 60 years and played around 1,000 shows, he completely overhauled his playing when we rebuilt his technique from the ground up.
“I’m finding performing is becoming more and more effortless.”
Owen had already been playing for 11 years when I made a few changes to his technique and he said:
“My doubles have improved tenfold.”
So the question isn’t how many years you’ve played. It’s this:
Are your hands doing what you want them to do?
If you tense up when you push the tempo…if your grip gets tighter when something gets hard…if you can hear things you still can’t play…
Come join us.
Register NowFAQ
DO I NEED TO BE AT A DRUMSET FOR THIS CLASS?
DO I NEED TO BE AN ADVANCED DRUMMER?
I’VE BEEN PLAYING FOR YEARS. WILL THIS BE TOO BASIC?
WHAT IF I ALREADY HAVE A DRUM TEACHER?
WHAT IF I CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE LIVE ZOOM?
IS THIS JUST ABOUT PLAYING FAST?
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