What Every Percussionist Needs (slideshow): 2019 KMEA Google Slides Presentation

What Every Percussionist Needs (handout): 2019 KMEA handout, including a proposal letter to school administrators to help you add a percussion class.

Blue Jay Percussion Exercises: Do you need classroom materials to teach your percussionists and drum line fundamental techniques? Check out these 6 essential exercises that every young percussionist should know. There are parts for mallets and a full drum line with 3 to 5 basses.

Percussion Ensemble Literature Recommendations: Here is a one-page list of 39 easy, medium-easy, and medium difficulty percussion ensemble pieces. These high quality compositions represent a variety of musical styles and ensemble sizes.

Selecting Quality Literature for the Middle School Percussion Ensemble-Master’s Project by Jared Morris: The objective of this research project was to create a resource similar to the Teaching Music Through Performance series, but for percussion ensemble.  It contains analyses of 31 highly recommended compositions for young percussionists.

Purchase The Percussionist’s Workbook by Jared Morris and Jed Blodgett. It provides a thorough and systematic series of musical benchmarks to take the young percussionist from the first etude to the college audition. The method includes technical exercises and musical etudes in the three primary areas of concert percussion: keyboard, snare drum, and timpani.

Hear Jared in the percussion section on this recording of the Utah Wind Symphony performing live at the 2014 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago.