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Drum Highway is amazingly thorough!

“I think it's not only great for beginners but for advanced players.” - Mark Walker

Lifetime Access to the Entire Drum Highway Library

One simple setup gives your school permanent access to every video, book, and resource—now and in the future.

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Drum Highway makes percussion education simple—for students and educators

✔️ Step-by-step courses that build real skills, fast

✔️ One source for reading, rudiments, grooves, and more

✔️ Works in class or at home—whenever you need it

✔️ Saves your time while keeping students progressing

✔️ Join a private community of directors for support & ideas

Any of This Hitting Home?

Drummers losing their place in the chart?

Wishing they were stronger music readers?

Watching all that progress disappear over summer?

Need an easy way for them to work on rudiments at home?

Searching for a good resource for jazz band audition grooves?

Wanting your incoming drummers to have a head start?

Meet Josh Quirk

Drummer • Author • Educator

With over 25 years of experience performing and teaching, I’ve discovered that successful drummers all share three essential skills.

One of these? You’ve got a good drummer.

Two? They’re probably leading the section.

All three? That’s a professional in the making.

That’s why I built Drum Highway around what I call the 3 Keys to Drumming—a method that makes learning fast, practical, and musical.

3 Keys To Drumming Mastery!

Key #1 – Technical Mastery Made Simple

Using my Breakdown Method, I teach drummers how to count, hear, and play any groove by breaking it into clear, playable parts. Students build speed and accuracy without the frustration.

Key #2 – Style Fluency

Great drummers recognize how styles connect. Whether it’s jazz, rock, funk, or world grooves, I help students spot patterns and shifts, so they can move between feels with confidence—and handle those tricky genre changes mid-chart.

Key #3 – Musical Awareness

Drummers aren't just timekeepers—they're musicians. My lessons train students to make smart musical choices: shaping dynamics in concert band, reacting to soloists in jazz band, and locking in feel for marching band. Real-world musicality is always part of the lesson.

When drummers have these three keys, they’re not just learning—they’re becoming musicians others want to play with.

And that’s the ultimate goal.

Listen To What Educators And Parents Had To Say About Josh And The Drum Highway Method…

Why Directors Love Drum Highway

Cuts down on lesson and book costs
Schools and students save big with one all-in-one resource.
Fits into tech or library budgets
Flexible funding options make it easy to get started
Like having a private teacher on call
Clear, step-by-step lessons—ready whenever your students need them.
No travel required
Students can learn and practice from home, even over summer break.
Frees up your time
While your drummers build skills, you get time to focus on the rest of the band

Drum Highway Has Been Honored To Show At Many Music Educator Conferences Including

The Midwest Clinic and TMEA!

Getting direct feedback from educators and students has been a big part of why Drum Highway works!

“…In my experience, what separates the best musicians from the impressive technicians is their ability to get inside the music they are playing, to understand the essence of it and express it through their instrument.

That’s why I am loving Drum Highway!”

— Steve Ferrone

Steve Ferrone of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and The Average White Band as well as dozens of other gold and platinum albums.

“Drum Highway is amazingly thorough! I think it's not only great for beginners but for advanced players.”

Grammy award winner and professor of percussion, Berklee College of Music

-Mark Walker

See How Drum Highway Builds Real Drumming Confidence

✅ Faster Groove Learning with the Breakdown Method

Students quickly grasp new grooves by breaking them into simple, playable steps.

✅ Style Connections That Stick

Drummers understand how jazz, funk, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, rock, and more are

linked—making it easier to switch styles with confidence.

✅ Smarter Musical Decisions on the Fly

Lessons teach how to listen, adjust, and react—so your drummers can handle real-world performance challenges.

✅ Solid Technique, Rudiments & Reading

Builds the fundamentals every percussionist needs to succeed in concert, marching, and jazz band.

✅ Explore World Beats & Apply Them Anywhere

Students learn how global rhythms work—and how to use them across genres.

✅ True Confidence Through Understanding

Your drummers will play with purpose, knowing how and why grooves work across styles.

Don't Just Take My Word For It.

Here's what some of my Most Succesful students And Top Educators have said...

"Josh is an amazing instructor. Our older daughter took lessons for almost 10 years and our younger son is currently a student. Even though they have different learning styles, Josh is a perfect fit for both."

— Doyle and Shannon Slifer

"Josh is an amazing drum teacher! He knows more about drumming than anyone I've ever met. When I first met Josh I knew next to nothing about drumming, but through his guidance I've gone through solo recitals, and performances with the Parkland College Orchestra. Now I'm transferring to the University of Illinois School of Music. Josh Quirk will teach you what you need to know about the art of percussion and music."

— Justin Franklin

(Parkland College student)

“Josh is an incredible instructor! I started taking drum lessons with him a year ago, with no previous music background. Now I am in a band and I just played my first gig!”

— Jennifer Corbin

“Drum Highway is focused toward drummers, but no matter what your instrument you'll learn something useful from Josh Quirk's light-hearted but no-nonsense approach. If you want to be a pro, you need to know a little about everything. Josh will show you what you need to know, why it's important, and even pro tricks to get yourself out of a jam. (I loved the $50 fill!).”

— Dr. Peter Roubal D.M.A.,

Music Program Director, Parkland College

“Video-based music websites and segments have existed on-line before, but Josh Quirk has extended the impact of proven instructional videos with a clear and energized set of materials for the drum student and music programs for children and adults. Drum Highway has been student tested by percussion students and private teachers to great success. It can motivate anyone to learn to apply basic skills to making creative, musical connections to performing.”

— Dr. G. David Peters,

Professor of Music, Indiana University- IUPUI, Head of Graduate Studies in Music Technology and Past President of Electronic Courseware Systems, Inc.

“Some drum books have clinical repetitive exercises based upon logical mathematical formulas. Josh Quirk’s Drum Highway is not one of those! It’s written by a real drummer and serious teacher. Josh’s book will improve your drumming while adding to your overall musicianship. It’s fun and it covers a lot of ground!

— Peter Magadini,

Author of Polyrhythms The Musicians Guide, Polyrhythms For The Drum Set, and

All-In-One: Learn to Play The Drum Set

Here's Everything You're Going To Get With Drum Highway Today:

10 Courses For Beginner & Intermediate Drummers

$470 Value

Courses covering everything from how to hold sticks to the basic grooves, get to you jamming with others fast!

The intermediate player can review the basics with the Drum Highway Method and go on to 200 level and world beat courses and quickly take their playing to new heights.

10 Courses For Beginner & Intermediate Drummers

Jazz, Rock, And World Beat Courses For All Skill Levels

$470 Value

These courses break down all the basic styles and offer coordination exercises for the beginning to advanced drummer.

Jazz Auditions Course

$197 Value

The Jazz Auditions Course is a band director's dream. Videos and PDFs for every groove your drummers would need for jazz band auditions. Jazz, Bossa, ¾, Afro-Cuban and more. Quick reference and full lessons all in one place.

Educator Resource

$197 Value

The Educator Resource contains the best lessons to assist the band director in solving common drummer and percussion issues.

Dynamics, roll studies, starting jazz time backwards and more.

The Keep it Simple jazz band webinar can also be found in the Educator Resource. It was created for band directors. It’s filled with ideas and solutions for the jazz band director and their drummers.

Jazz Charts Decoded Course

$147 Value

Jazz Charts Decoded is a 10 video series that shows exactly how to interpret and play any jazz band chart.

Understanding drum charts is long process. There is no other course like this with step-by-step instruction on everything from notation to song form to setting up figures.

The Drum Atlas

$147 Value

Every exercise created for the Drum Highway book series. All the videos on Drum Highway are based on this text. Reading, Rudiments, Straight Eighth Grooves, Triplets Grooves, World Beats, Fills and tons of other information you won’t find anywhere else!

Over 600 pages!

After the concepts are learned from a video, The Drum Atlas is an endless resource of information and variations to work on.

5 Beats To Play 5 Million Songs

$27 Value

An ebook and video package explaining the 5 most used beats, how to play them, and their connection to every style of music. A great resource for any musician!

Onscreen Notation

$97 Value

Most of the lessons have onscreen notation. Makes it easy if students are practicing at home.

Many schools use Drum Highway lessons for percussion and drum technique classes. Project the videos and students can follow along!

Stop the video at any point you like to practice while the notation is on screen.

Play-A-Long Course

$97 Value

Play-A-Longs for jazz and world beats are especially great for jazz band drummers wanting to lock in a groove before steering the full jazz band!

Lifetime Access To My Drummers Journal

$57 Value

Through the years of practicing and playing gigs, hundreds of helpful ideas and thoughts come to mind.

The blog allows me to share these with the hope of helping directors and saving drummers the time, energy, and real-life stories of how to get out of sticky situations on gigs and studio sessions that I had to figure out in real time!