 The drum set camp at the Headwaters School of Music and the Arts in Bemidji hopes to show drummers that they're not forgotten. Hady Clotter shows us how they're drumming it up a notch. Rocking to the beat of their drum. These sounds are brought to you courtesy of up-and-coming drummers during the ninth annual drum set camp at the Headwaters School of Music and the Arts in Bemidji. We can take an instrument like the drum set which is very specific technique and we can not a lot of kids get opportunities to play drum set in ensembles and this is an opportunity to broaden our horizons as far as technical stuff is concerned. Every year the Region 2 Arts Council awards a grant to help make the camp possible for these students from local schools around the area. With that grant money we get these great books made and everybody at camp receives drumsticks. Kendall Ballard from Clearbrook Ganvik is in her fourth year at camp. She likes the atmosphere of playing as a unit because you get a better musical ear. Ballard doesn't see drumming as just a male dominated industry. Honestly I mean if you're good you're good people are going to listen to you. It's BYODS bring your own drum set. During the five day camp students build a drum set and fine tune it to their liking. A drum set consists of a bass drum snare drum tomtoms and cymbals. Campers learn different techniques such as a drum fill. Drum fills bridge the verse and the chorus together. A few campers told me their favorite part of the camp is around the room when everyone plays a snippet of a song. Some campers play multiple instruments like Ben Hinckley. He cut back on the piano to focus more on the drums. I focus on them all together and say like in my head like I need to do this part and I need to do this part and I need then I need to put them together. Drummers go on and share the camp experience with their peers. These students are going back to their schools and they're playing they're the drum set player for the school's jazz band or the middle school's jazz band. Former campers have gone on to perform on cruise ships or as vocal-motive drum set players whether drumming is a hobby or you want to make a career out of this. The possibilities are endless in Bemidji, Haiti, Clowder, Lakeland News. Tomorrow is the last day of the camp and students will perform at 3 p.m. at Headwaters School of Music. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.