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.
Designer and developer, Kyle Stetz, created this instrument for creating ascii beats. They might be useful for creating hiphop tracks - based on what you type into the input box. Use student names, school names, teams, projects and other text to create interesting beats.
Percussive Arts Society provides countless files, resources and recordings for your aspiring percussionists as well as percussion classes to provide quality instruction. The Percussive Arts Society is also a membership and subscription service as well as providing a annual conference across the country.
This is the Percussive Arts Society. This is a great resource for all of your percussion needs, including: concert, marching, world, drumset, etc. You can subscribe to PAS and receive access to their publication Percussive Notes. There are great articles that pertain to all areas of percussion.
Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. PAS is an incredible resource for directors, especially for those that have minimal experience in teaching percussion. There is a wide variety of free lessons, information, and videos to help guide your percussion section to success.
The Percussive Arts Society is the largest organization for percussionists and drummers from all over the world. Becoming a member grants access to an extensive archive of videos, publications, and articles related to percussion pedagogy, performance, etc. PASIC, the international convention hosted by PAS, is a multi-day event featuring percussionists and lecturers as well as networking opportunities.
The Percussive Arts Society website provides several resources for music educators. There are magazine subscriptions available as well. This site can help not only percussionists, but non-percussionist educator who are looking to find help in teaching percussion.
The Vic Firth website is an essential resource for any percussionist or music educator. The site includes a wealth of educational videos, games, and play along tracks that are beneficial to development of percussionists and music educators.
Fantastic videos to share with your students to teach them the 40 rudiments. Students can play along with audio files in addition to the short video clips tailored to the young drummer. Posters and charts of the rudiments also available here.
This is a website featuring fantastic percussionists in videos, audio, and articles focused on percussion education in various genres: concert percussion, marching, and drum set. This also includes foundation session to learn tambourine, crash cymbals, rudiments, and so much more.
Use this virtual drum-set to explore rhythmic variations. Try and keep the steady beat with one hand while exploring more complex rhythms with the other.