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Jason Gianni
Drummer/Author Jason Gianni is an instructor at the prestigious Drummers Collective in New York City and holds a Master of Music degree from Pennsylvania State University. A session drummer for countless television & radio commercials, he is most known for being the drummer for the theme song for the popular cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants. He is the co-author of the popular drum book entitled The Drummer’s Bible and is the featured drummer on the 2008 Hudson Music DVD called Set Up, Tune and Play Your Drums. Jason has recorded & performed with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, progressive icons Kansas, violinist Mark Wood, Neal Morse, Constantine Maroulis, Candlebox, Corey Glover, Robin Zander and has been an active drummer for the Broadway & touring hit musicals Rock of Ages, Kinky Boots, Americano, and Little Shop of Horrors. As a clinician, Jason has performed & taught classes throughout Italy, Switzerland, China, in Spain at the La Rioja Drum Festival, PASIC and NAMM.

Drummer’s Polymeteric Mastery

Drumset
ClinicLive

February 2026 will usher in the new Hudson Music/Hal Leonard book release of the Drummer's Polymetric Mastery by educator, author and performer, Jason Gianni. Over three years in the making, the book provides an in-depth study of independence aimed to uncover a pathway to successfully executing polymeters, over-the-bar phrases or cross-rhythms for the drumset. The clinic will outline, explain & present selected categories in the book, displaying a progressive & digestible pathway for drummers either just entering this adventurous journey up to drummers who may have already developed an appreciation of polymeters. Through the use of transcribed musical examples for the large screen, composed original audio play-alongs and various independence exercises, the listeners will walk away with a very clear systematic understanding of how to work on this material on their own. In addition, the performance will provide the attendee with the opportunity to come away with a much more controlled sense of numbers heard simultaneously existing with one another; a sense of “rhythmic ear training.”