Michael Sims

A step by step, year by year guide to help you develop a curriculum for your percussionists. This includes break down of what each student should learn each year of band/percussion and can be easily adapted to your current school.

This guide will help your snare drum students as well as the educator diagnose and correct common snare drum playing issues. I typically put these in my student's beginning of the year binder so they may self-diagnose and self-correct.

This guide will help your timpani students as well as the educator diagnose and correct common timpani playing issues. I typically put these in my student's beginning of the year binder so they may self-diagnose and self-correct.

This guide will help your mallet students as well as the educator diagnose and correct common mallet playing issues. I typically put these in my student's beginning of the year binder so they may self-diagnose and self-correct.

This guide will give the ranges for all drums as well as common songs and pitches to sing for ascending and descending pitches in all intervals.