Secondary Instrumental Music Methods: Percussion

Music 190 Secondary Instrumental Music Methods: Percussion (2 hours credit)

Instructor: Ricky Burkhead Percussion Studio: Scruggs Music Complex Phone: 915-5665 Email: [email protected] Office Hours: posted, or by appointment Class location: Scruggs (Band Hall) Class Schedule: WF 8:00-9:15 AM Course Objectives 1. Coverage of teaching techniques and information applicable to all percussion instruments, such as grips, strokes, pedaling, tuning, etc. 2. Coverage of teaching techniques, including information dealing with particular problems encountered in playing and teaching percussion instruments. 3. Develop rudimentary playing skills on snare drum, accessory percussion, mallet keyboard, timpani, drum set, marching and ethnic percussion instruments.

Grading Criteria 1. There will be a total of six tests (4 unit tests, a midterm and a final exam). The unit tests will be playing only and the midterm and final exams will be written only. 2. The unit tests will account for 60% of your overall grade and the midterm and final exams will count 20% each. 3. Grading scale: A = 90-100, B = 80-89, C = 70-79, D =60-69 & F = 0-60 Procedure 1. Prerequisites (selecting students to play percussion instruments) 2. Snare Drum 3. Bass Drum & Cymbals 4. Timpani 5. Accessories 6. Keyboard Percussion 7. Drum set 8. World Percussion 9. Marching Percussion 10. Writing Percussion Parts Required Text: Percussion: A Course of Study for the Future Band and Orchestra Director by Thomas Siwe. You will need a pair of concert drumsticks, a pair of medium hard timpani mallets and a pair of medium wound marimba mallets. Music 590 Secondary Instrumental Music Methods: Percussion (2 hours credit) Instructor: Ricky Burkhead Percussion Studio: Scruggs Music Complex Phone: 915-5665 Email: [email protected] Office hours: posted, or by appointment Class location: Scruggs (Band Hall) Class Schedule: TBA Course Objectives This course of study is designed to acquaint students with the history of each major instrument found in the percussion family, their acoustical properties and methods of sound production, and the idiosyncrasies of percussion music notation. It will provide future band and orchestra directors with a rudimentary technique on many of the instruments labeled percussion, concentrating on those that are most common to today's elementary and high school band and orchestra literature.

To understand and to teach beginning percussion techniques, it is important that the music educator go through the process of learning basic performance skills. Without at least attempting to attain a modicum of performance ability on each of the major percussion instruments, a future teacher will lack the knowledge and insight that comes only through this process. For each instrument or area, graduated exercises and etudes provide step-by-step learning. Through this accelerated course of study, student music educators will develop performance skills on snare drum, drum set, timpani, the mallet-keyboard instruments and many of the other percussion instruments common to the repertoire. As they do so, they will formulate an approach to teaching the beginning percussionist while increasing their own efficacy in the studio, in the classroom and on the podium.

Grading Criteria 3. There will be a total of six tests (4 unit tests, a midterm and a final exam). The unit tests will be playing only and the midterm and final exams will be written only. 4. The unit tests will account for 60% of your overall grade and the midterm and final exams will count 20% each. 3. Grading scale: A = 90-100, B = 80-89, C = 70-79, D =60-69 & F = 0-60

Required Text: Percussion: A Course of Study for the Future Band and Orchestra Director by Thomas Siwe. You will need a pair of concert drumsticks, a pair of medium hard timpani mallets and a pair of medium wound marimba mallets.