About Us

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My name is Jeff and I live in Greenville, South Carolina. I’ve played drums for years, taught students, and thought I had a pretty solid handle on most styles. Then one day, all of that confidence got checked.

I have a longtime friend in Miami who runs a small recording studio. Nothing fancy — just efficient and affordable. He records jingles for local businesses and demos for bands, and more often than not, he’d call me to play drums. I was cheap, dependable, and honestly, I loved doing it. I never told him I would’ve done it for free.

One day he said,
“I need blast beats on this track.”

I replied,
“What’s a blast beat?”

Yeah. That moment.

After he stopped laughing, he told me to check out Fear Factory and get back to him. He just assumed every drummer could do it.

I listened.
Then I listened again.

And then I had to call him back and say something that hurt more than you can imagine:

“I can’t play this. If that’s a real person and not a drum machine, it’s incredible — and way beyond me.”

That was quite a blow. I always believed I could hang stylistically, but blasting exposed a huge weakness in my hands: speed, endurance, and balance.

So I asked myself the same question a lot of drummers eventually do:

How am I supposed to learn this? Where do I even begin?

I had already done the years of grinding.
Practice pads.
Exercises after exercise.
Patterns.
Hours in front of the TV, pounding away, hoping something would finally click.

And I knew exactly how that story ended.

After five minutes, I’d either quit…
or start playing things I already knew how to play.

No progress.
Just repetition and frustration.

I wasn’t doing that again.

Then I remembered an old exercise — the one where you flip the stick around and slap it into the underside of your forearm with your fingers.

You know the one.

I tried it.

And because of my intensity (and bruised ego), I overdid it. I was slamming the stick into my arm, thinking, “This has to work.”

After about 30 seconds, the pain was intense.
I still have the scars to prove it.

That’s when it hit me:

How can I challenge the same muscles…
get the same benefits…
without the pain, noise, boredom, or impact?

That question changed everything.

Necessity — the mother of invention — showed up right on time.

I wanted something that:

• worked the exact muscles used to move a drumstick 
• created resistance without impact 
• felt natural in the hands 
• could be used anywhere 
• and didn’t require a drum kit 

That’s when Speedstixx was born.

At first, it wasn’t a product.
It was just a solution — for me.

I started using them for:

• endurance 
• speed 
• balance 
• independence 

And something unexpected happened.

I was getting better away from the kit.

I was learning patterns faster.
My hands stayed loose.
My weak hand started catching up.
And I could practice while walking, riding in a car, watching TV, standing in line — anywhere.

No noise.
No impact.
No complaints from neighbors.

The convenience was incredible

After a while, I realized this wasn’t just helping me.

Students started improving faster.
Drummers noticed their hands felt ready before sitting down.
Warm-ups got shorter.
Pain and fatigue showed up less.

That’s when I knew Speedstixx couldn’t stay a secret.

Not because they’re magic —
but because they solve a problem drummers everywhere deal with:

We want to get better, even when a drum kit isn’t available.

Speedstixx lets you do exactly that.

Speedstixx isn’t about gimmicks.
It’s not about learning new exercises.
It’s not about playing louder or longer.

It’s about:

• using resistance to challenge the right muscles 
• practicing quietly, anywhere 
• shortening the learning curve 
• warming up before auditions, jams, or gigs 
• and reducing wear and tear on your hands, arms, and shoulders 

I built them because I needed them.

Now I share them because I know other drummers do too.

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