Atlanta · MPC · Finger Drumming Academy
Beats byJBlack
Finger drummer · Producer · Teacher · Standalone, no laptop
Try the pads
Sixteen pads.
No laptop.
This is how Jay works: a standalone MPC, a soul chop, and two hands. Tap the pads or play from your keyboard. Hit lower on a pad for a softer note.
Keys: Z X C V · A S D F · Q W E R · 1 2 3 4. Placeholder synth drums; the real site loads Jay's kit.
Credits & partners
Placements, courtside, and a car.
"Can't Go For That"
ft. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil Duval. Track 5 on So Help Me God! A Hall & Oates flip, performed on The Tonight Show the day the album dropped.
In-game producer. Live finger-drummed music inside State Farm Arena, plus the 2025 NBA All-Star MPC performance.
Akai beat creator since 2016. Five-part MPC X jam series, and the NAMM 2026 interview that gave him the title.
A full beat built in the back seat of the BMW i7. Locked in a groove with Jake from State Farm.
Beats
Soul chops.
Big drums.
Pick a beat, tell Jay how you plan to use it, and he'll send the right license and stems. The full catalog of 36 lives on BeatStars.
BeatStars list prices. Style tags are placeholders until Jay labels them. On the live site each row plays inline.
Finger Drumming Academy
Piano lessons for the pads.
One-on-one, online, built around your machine and your beats. A beginner performs full beats live on the pads in under six months. Over 1,000 students so far.
A single session or a block of three. You get a slot on Jay's calendar and a custom drum kit built for your lessons.
Any 16-pad machine: MPC, Maschine, Push. A speaker you can both hear, a steady connection, a notepad.
Grip, velocity, ghost notes, flams and chops, on exercises Jay plays with you in real time.
Everything lands on your music. Lessons drift into mixing, business and mindset when that's what you need.
One online one-on-one session. A tune-up or a first look.
$55 a lesson. Enough to get through fundamentals and onto your own beats.
Book Jay
Live sets. Brand work. In-game.
The hands that run the Hawks' timeouts and the All-Star stage, for your event, campaign or launch.
Producers & artists
Send loops.
Get a flip.
Jay flips loops from producers he rocks with and co-produces for artists with a record in mind. Keep it simple and he'll actually hear it.
