Louisville man is using beats to build community.

Eric Granger decided to start the Louisville Drumline Academy to give young people interested in music a place to belong.

And he thinks the young adults in the academy have learned more than just music.

It's been a good thing for them and being something, you know, positive for them.

They love it.

They can't wait to rehearsal, can't wait to practice, can't wait to just have fun and join each other's company and is like a family to them.

Being in a group of people who love music and we're going out and performing our talent and, you know, showing people this is what we really love and it's, you know, it's bringing people together.

People who like music and stuff like that is just it's just a great feeling to be in a group like this.

These members of this group is awesome.

They dedicate it, they are loyal.

They have no problems being there.

When we got a we got an emergency performance.

Let's go get it.

Okay, let's go to work.

So they were sitting, jumping, ready to rock.

So and that's the one thing I love about them.

And they are just absolutely awesome.

The amazing.

It really shows like, you know, how to be on time and you have to practice.

You can't just come to practice and play and then go on and you have to go home and practice so you can get better and you can move to a different instrument or something like that.

It's really more so like dedication and communication and having independence and leadership with that to.

Our community gave us a sense of hope and resilience in sincerity, just hoping that people see music as a way out in terms of being angry, you know, drones is very therapeutic as a tool to use when frustration is I use it, you know it, it works.

It works tremendously.

Everything negative, negative in your life, can you use it, turn into your sense of music and hope.

And I hope that people in the community who realize that music can be an expression said of turning towards anger and violence and hate and negativity, turn it into some positive.

Certainly a lot of fun catching up with them last summer.

Best of luck to them.