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This site is the home to Huei-Yuan Pan - one the most influential marching percussion education specialists in the United States. The site offers media, lessons, sheet music, and links to Huei's educational social media pages

Home to the percussion divisions of WGI (Winter Guard International). The site contains visual and audio media links and downloads, schedules, ticket information, and live webcast information for WGI "The Sport of the Arts." WGI is one of the fastest growing musical activities in the United States, comprised both student (scholastic) divisions and professional (independent) divisions. WGI has mission of providing the highest level of music education possible, constantly pushing and setting new musical standards.

"Rational Funk" quasi-satirical music instruction series of 61 youtube videos by jazz percussion Dave King (Bad Plus)

The purpose of this website is to provide individual drum lessons to young aspiring percussionists. This also would be useful for music educators whose primary instrument might not be percussion. The content features material and video on drum rudiments, purchasing options, showmanship, performance technique, musicality and world connections.

digital musicking diigo group

virtual percussion

Excellent tool for percussionists to HEAR what the 40 essential rudiments are supposed to sound like and gives a very good methodology for practicing them slowly and gradually improving. The one downside (and it is significant in my philosophy) is that many of the illustrations use traditional grip, whereas I teach only match grip.

This page is a one stop shop for all snare drum rudiments. Each rudiment has a video showing the proper technique. In addition, there is a written out version of each rudiment as well as different tempi with which it can be practiced. This is a great resource to share with all percussion students, especially those preparing for auditions.

Great website for teachers who are not percussionist. Rudiments are hard for anyone to memorize if you are not using them everyday. This site is also great for students who are still learning rudiments. One can easily click on a rudiment and can hear what it is supposed to sound like at different tempos, and what it looks like in standard notation.

Middle School band blog with many great resources. I find the percussion resources to be the most beneficial.

Here is a great introduction to vocal percussion, as it starts with the basics then shows where they can lead. Perfect for anyone developing a contemporary a cappella group.

This website was developed to share and discuss the science of rudimental snare drumming.  You can also use this source to develop ideas for teaching and developing your marching percussion section.  Also included are common exercises that can be used.

Music teacher created and relative blog for elementary and secondary levels. Structured around the Orff Schulwerk philosophy, this resource provides musical material categorized and downloadable to suit individual instructional needs. Find resources for action sogs, assessments, holidays, body percussion, seasons, composition, centers, world music, lesson planning, movement and much more!

40 Drum Rudiments all percussionists should know. Many argue about which rudiments to know. These are them! Also included are audio files.

A collection of music education software, as well as furniture, equipment, recording software and other special features.  Books and percussion are also included.

I use this website with my beginning bands when they are first starting to pick what instrument they want to play. It categorizes instruments by family and gives a brief description of each with a sound clip. There are strings, percussion, woodwinds, and brass. The woodwind section is missing tenor and bari sax, and the brass section is missing euphonium but otherwise it is quite complete. I usually show this while having the actual instrument out.

Gary P. Gilroy Music is a website to listen to and purchase music for band programs. Here you can purchase marching band shows with music and choreography as well as concert band , indoor percussion and drumline music. He also offers custom marching show design and unique compositions.

Musication is a YouTube channel that offers boomwhacker, body percussion and handbell play-longs for students. The site is intended for elementary music, but can be used with any age. There is a wide variety of songs on the site and he has a facebook page as well. The site is based out of the Netherlands

This is a songbook put together by the Utah State Board of Education. It's a song book for elementary students, filled with not only the music and lyrics but optional body movements, dance, and percussion instructions.

A compilation of play-along music recordings for students to use Boomwhackers or other similar instruments. Musication provides several free videos for elementary and middle school music students to learn to play along with the melody or chord structure of a given song. New videos are added often and students definitely enjoy playing along.

Musication has play-a-long videos for boomwhackers, hand bells, and simple percussion instruments. The videos are color coded and often have varying levels of difficulty. It provides a visual for melodic direction, durations, and harmony that helps students to see, hear, and experience music in a variety of ways.

One Size Fits All Band Books is a collection of public domain music that is arranged for instrumental groups of any size or instrumentation. Each instrument is provided with the melody and one other part (harmony, bass line, or percussion). Selections are sorted by title, genre, and difficulty.

This site is a webquest on the making of musical instruments; specifically, the violin. While based on a string instrument, this is a great site for inspiration for creating a similar project for wind or percussion instruments.

Excellent resource for rudimental drumming