Your Northern California Session Drummer in Sacramento

🎧 Session Work: Need professional drums for your next recording? Patrick Hennessey provides in-person and remote session drumming for artists, bands, songwriters and producers in Sacramento, Northern California and beyond.

Learn more about Patrick’s professional drumming background.

Recording experience

Mr. Hennessey began his drum recording career in his teens in Minneapolis, MN. where he was first hired by a singer songwriter to add drums to her solo project in 1993. From there he went on to record at multiple studios with varying musicians in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for the next 15 years. The most notable studio where he recorded was a little place named Paisley Park.

Remote drum recording

With the enormous expansion of recording technologies over the last 15 years he can now record in his home studio and provide individual and stylized drum tracks to fit the exact needs of your songs.

Studio sessions

He is also within driving distance of some of the most amazing recording studios in California, and is happy to meet you at the studio of your choosing.

Equipment

Drum Sets

7 piece Gretsch Catalina Maple

6 Piece Yamaha Stage Custom Advantage

5 Piece Pacific Drums FS Series by Drum Workshop

5 Piece Tama Stagestar

4 Piece Pearl Export

5 Piece Roland V-Drums

Various sizes of Paiste, Zildjian, PA Meinl, and Soultone Cymbals

Various Percussion options as well as other unique drums

Genres

Rock: Alternative, Classic, Oldies, Hard, Pop, Soft, Yacht, all styles

Blues, Jazz, Soul, Funk, Gospel, RnB, Hip Hop, Dance,

Indie, Americana, Singer Songwriter, Folk, Reggae, World

You name it, I’ll try it.

Turnaround

Every project is different. Whether you need a quick turnaround for a single track or drums for a larger recording project, I’ll work with your schedule to establish a realistic delivery date before we begin.

How artists send tracks

Primarily over the internet via WAV or MP3 files, but I can work with just about any format

Hear Patrick’s Session Drumming

Hear Patrick’s playing across different musical styles and collaborations. These recordings demonstrate the versatility, feel and song-focused approach he brings to session work.

Hear More Session Recordings

Hennessey On Drums YouTube Channel

Session Rates and Quotes

Session rates depend on the number of songs, recording requirements, revisions, turnaround time and whether the project is remote or in-studio. Send Patrick your project details for a personalized quote.

Learn what affects the cost of hiring a session drummer.