When the Groove Starts…
Why Does Yours Still
Feel Stiff?

I remember plenty of gigs where everything looked fine on paper — until the music started.

Nothing was technically wrong… but the groove didn’t settle.
My hands felt a little heavy.
The notes were there, but the feel wasn’t.

I wasn’t lost, I was tense.
And once that tension crept in, the pocket got shallow, the flow disappeared, and I started thinking instead of listening.

That moment is familiar to a lot of drummers.

Because the problem usually isn’t chops, speed, or knowing more patterns.

It’s the quiet stuff, the in-between notes, the touch, the dynamic control, the things that actually make a groove feel good.

If any of this hits close to home, pay attention:

• You keep solid time, but your grooves still feel stiff or flat
• You sound better in practice than you do on the bandstand
• You know what good feel sounds like — but can’t always access it
• You get tense when the music opens up or gets exposed
• You rely on safe patterns instead of really settling into the pocket
• You walk off gigs knowing you played “fine”… but not great

That’s the wall almost every drummer runs into.

And it’s not solved by learning more licks.
It’s solved by learning how to control the quiet notes,
the ghost notes that create depth, movement, and confidence in your playing.

If you want your grooves to finally breathe, settle, and feel natural, not forced, this is exactly what Ghost Note Mastery was built to fix.

This is Stanton Moore’s focused system for fixing the one thing that quietly holds most drummers back on gigs — feel.

Not more chops.
Not more patterns.

But the subtle control that makes grooves breathe, settle, and feel right the moment the music starts.

Inside, you’ll build:

• ✅ Deep Pocket & Natural Flow - Learn how ghost notes create movement and depth so your grooves stop feeling stiff and start feeling relaxed and alive.
• ✅ Dynamic Control at Any Volume - Develop touch and sensitivity that lets you sound musical in exposed situations — ballads, low-volume gigs, sessions, and brushes — without overplaying.
• ✅ The Language of the Funk Masters - Understand how players like Clyde, Jabo, Purdie, and Garibaldi used ghost notes to create confidence, swagger, and unmistakable feel.
• ✅ Confidence Without Forcing It - Stop thinking your way through grooves. When your hands respond naturally, confidence shows up automatically.
• ✅ Immediate Real-World Translation - These aren’t “practice-only” ideas — they’re the exact concepts Stanton uses onstage and in the studio to make grooves feel great in real time.

This 7-lesson system distills decades of Stanton’s playing, teaching, and gig experience into a clear, musical path you can feel immediately — not someday.
And to help you apply it right away, you also get Five Funk Beats You Need To Know as a bonus — iconic grooves that let you put your new feel, touch, and ghost note control to work in real music.

This isn’t about learning more.
It’s about finally sounding like yourself — relaxed, confident, and deep in the pocket.

When I talk to drummers who feel stuck, I hear the same story over and over.
They’re practicing.
They’re shedding rudiments.
They’re learning patterns and fills.

But the moment they play with other musicians…
something changes.

The groove tightens up.
The feel gets stiff.
The music stops breathing.

Nothing is “wrong”, but it doesn’t feel right.

And when the music gets exposed: a shuffle, a slow 12/8, a laid-back funk groove… the confidence drops fast. Not because you don’t care. Not because you didn’t practice.
Because your hands don’t know how to relax into the space between the notes.

I know that feeling well.
I lived there myself.

Most drummers aren’t underprepared.
They’re just practicing the loud, obvious stuff, while ignoring the quiet control that actually makes grooves feel good.

Without that control, everything stays mechanical.
You’re playing notes… not shaping music.

That’s why so many drummers stay stuck, even after years of effort:

• ❌ You practice plenty, but your grooves still feel stiff
• ❌ You sound better alone than you do with a band
• ❌ You tense up when the music opens up or slows down
• ❌ You rely on “safe” patterns instead of really settling into the pocket
• ❌ You’ve never been shown how to train feel, touch, and confidence together

The missing link isn’t more material.

It’s learning how to control the quiet notes — the ghost notes that create flow, depth, and natural confidence in real music.
And that’s exactly what Ghost Note Mastery in 7 Days was designed to fix.

When you join Ghost Note Mastery in 7 Days, you’re not just getting a lesson series.

You’re getting a feel-first training system designed to fix what actually breaks down on gigs — touch, pocket, and control — and then immediately prove it in real music.

Here’s exactly what you get

🥁 Ghost Note Mastery in 7 Days (Main Training)
This is the core system.

A focused, 7-lesson progression where Stanton shows you how to control the quiet notes that make grooves breathe — not in theory, but in real musical context.

You’ll learn how to:

• Develop soft-note control that feels natural, not forced
• Build depth and movement into simple grooves
• Create pocket and flow without overplaying
• Access your feel consistently, even when the music gets exposed

This is the missing link between knowing what good feel sounds like and actually being able to play it on demand.

🎁 BONUS: Five Funk Beats You Need To Know (FREE)
Price: $59 FREE

This is where everything locks in.

Most drummers understand ghost notes intellectually, but never trust them in real music. This bonus removes that gap by giving you five iconic grooves where feel actually gets tested.

Once you start controlling ghost notes and dynamics, you need real grooves to apply them to and these are some of the most called, most referenced funk beats of all time.

Inside this bonus course, Stanton breaks down five iconic grooves that every working drummer is expected to know:

• “Cold Sweat” – Clyde Stubblefield
• “Soul Power” – Jabo Starks
• “Funky Drummer” – Clyde Stubblefield
• “Chameleon” – Harvey Mason
• “Cissy Strut” – Zigaboo Modeliste

Why this bonus matters so much:

• These grooves show up constantly — on gigs, sessions, jams, and recordings
• They’re the perfect proving ground for ghost notes, feel, and pocket
• If you can play these convincingly, you can handle most funk situations

This bonus turns Ghost Note Mastery from “great information” into immediate, gig-ready application.

📱 Instant Access on Any Device
Watch on your phone, tablet, or computer.
Practice at home, backstage, or wherever inspiration hits.

🔁 Lifetime Access
Revisit the lessons anytime.
Refine your touch as your playing evolves.
This is material you’ll grow into — not out of.

✅ 7-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Try the system.
Feel the difference.

If your groove doesn’t start to feel more relaxed, confident, and alive within 7 days, you don’t pay.

No risk. No pressure.

Within the first lesson, you’ll develop the awareness and control that most drummers never train, the foundation that makes real feel possible.

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You’ve put in the hours.
You care about your playing.
But when the music gets exposed, something still doesn’t click.
You can keep time — but the groove doesn’t always settle.
You know what good feel sounds like — but can’t always access it on demand.
And when the music opens up, slows down, or gets subtle, tension creeps in.

If that sounds familiar, this was built for you.

• ✅ Your grooves feel stiff or cautious instead of relaxed and deep
• ✅ You sound better in practice than you do with a band
• ✅ You tense up when the feel matters more than the notes
• ✅ You rely on “safe” patterns instead of really sinking into the pocket
• ✅ You want your playing to feel musical, confident, and natural — not forced

This is for drummers who are done guessing.

Drummers who want to stop thinking their way through grooves and start feeling them again.
If you’re ready to develop the quiet control that makes your playing breathe — and walk into musical situations knowing your feel will hold up — Ghost Note Mastery in 7 Days is exactly where to start.

I see a lot of drummers work incredibly hard — and stay stuck anyway.

They practice rudiments.
They chase chops.
They watch lesson after lesson.

But when it’s time to play real music with real people, the same problems keep showing up.
The groove feels tight instead of relaxed.
The feel doesn’t settle.
And the moment things get exposed, they start thinking instead of listening.

Here’s what that usually looks like:

• ❌ Running random drills that never show up in real grooves
• ❌ Sounding fine alone, but uncomfortable with a band
• ❌ Overthinking fills instead of letting the groove breathe
• ❌ Chasing speed and complexity while feel stays flat
• ❌ Practicing a lot — but never training the quiet control that actually makes music feel good

Here’s the hard truth:

If you keep practicing that way, nothing really changes.

You’ll sound mostly the same next year — just as stiff, just as cautious, just as unsure when the feel matters most.

Because feel doesn’t improve by accident.

It improves when you train how softly you play, where notes sit, and how the groove moves between the cracks.

The moment you start practicing that way, everything shifts.

Your hands relax.
The pocket deepens.
Confidence shows up without forcing it.

That’s exactly what Ghost Note Mastery in 7 Days was built to do — give you a clear, musical system for training the control that makes grooves feel right in real music.

“Everything finally clicked. My grooves feel deeper, my hands are more relaxed, and I’m not fighting the music anymore. This completely changed how I think about feel.”
— Shilo S.

“I’ve taken a lot of drum lessons, but this was different. Stanton doesn’t just show patterns — he shows you how to make grooves breathe. My pocket and confidence improved almost immediately.”
— Michael S.

“This fixed the exact thing I couldn’t put into words. My time was solid, but the feel wasn’t always there. Learning how to control the quiet notes made everything sound more musical.”
— Adam T.

Here’s the truth most drummers don’t want to hear:
More chops won’t fix your feel.
More rudiments won’t deepen your pocket.
And more random lessons won’t suddenly make your playing relax and flow on a gig.

Because the problem was never effort.

The problem is that most practice completely ignores the quiet control that makes grooves feel musical — how softly notes land, where they sit, and how the space between them moves.

When you train that, everything changes.
Your hands stop fighting the groove.
Your pocket settles in naturally.
Confidence shows up without forcing it.

That’s why Ghost Note Mastery in 7 Days works.

It gives you a clear, step-by-step system for developing the touch, dynamics, and control that connect feel, groove, and confidence all at once — in real musical situations, not practice-room theory.

This is how you become the drummer people love locking in with.
The one who adapts quickly.
The one whose grooves feel right the moment the music starts.

Not because you learned more.

But because you finally learned what actually matters.