You might try to do what they do with the orchestras on cruise ships and other venues.

Record a click track, sort of a metronome track with the first beat of the measure being a different pitch and feed that to the drummer via an ear bud.

You might try also mixing in a little bit of the rest of the track in that feed, but that would depend on the drummer.

This would make it much easier for the drummer to stay on tempo, and that would let him think more about playing tastefully and helping the music.

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