Articles for the Student Percussionist

Andy Harnsberger: Self Motivation: Finding Your Focus (PDF)*

Steve Hearn: Practice Techniques (PDF)*

Adams Green: The Right Sound (PDF)*

Dr. John W. Parks IV: The Well-Rounded... Musician? (PDF)*

Steve Hearn: Symphony of Colors - Expanding Snare Drum Timbre Areas (PDF)*

Tom Freer: Refining Your Timpani Roll

J.B. Smith: Timpani Tuning

Steve Hearn: Marimba Techniques (PDF)*

Robert Van Sice: Advanced Mallet Technique (PDF)*

John Mark Piper: The Blues Vocabulary (PDF)*

Andy Harnsberger: Avoiding Injury by Warming Up (PDF)*

Lalo Davila: Basics of Latin Percussion

Steve Houghton: Basic Beats for Drumset

Steve Houghton: Jazz Drumming (PDF)*

Jeff Mulvihill : Do's and Don'ts - The Move to a New City (PDF)*

Julie Davila: Modern Multi-Tenor Technique

Tom Freer: Concert Snare Drum, Toms, and Bass Drum - Tuning and Adjustment (PDF)*

Steve Hearn: Fine Tuning Your Pearl Philharmonic Snare Drum (PDF)*

Kevin Namaky: Marching Percussion Tuning Techniques (PDF)*

Raymond Massey: Drumsticks, Brushes and Mallets

Gene Okamoto: Drumheads

Gene Okamoto: Tuning: No Right or Wrong

Gene Okamoto: How to Replace and Adjust Snares

Gene Okamoto: How to Adjust Bass Drum Pedals and Other Interesting Pedal Stuff

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