Resources
Practice Tools:
Music Theory:
Percussion:
Trumpet:
General:
Technology:
- Metronome Online
- Chromatic Tuner (microphone required) - Online (must have Java installed)
- Snare Rudiments - Practice guides, applications, and various practice tempos - from http://www.vicfirth.com
Music Theory:
- MusicTheory.net - A great resource from the basics to advanced. Includes GREAT customizable exercises and a popup piano.
- Teoria - Tutorials and exercises. Good for ear training.
- Noteflight - Music notation online.
Percussion:
- Vic Firth Video Lessons - Video lessons, and instrument guides
- Percussive Arts Society (PAS) Rudiments (PDF file) - from http://www.pas.org/
- Drumline Music Notation - Marching percussion notation and MP3 examples
Trumpet:
- Exercises - http://www.trumpetexcercises.net
General:
- Ed Lisk Creative Techniques - A creative set of teaching strategies that evolves from the study of the Circle of Fourths - from http://www.ysubands.org
- Army Field Band Video Player - Instructional Videos - from http://www.armyfieldband.com
- Exemplary Recordings List (PDF file) - Compiled by University of Michigan Applied Music Professors - from http://www.matthewschoendorff.com
- Hymns in Wind Band Music - Database of 1200 wind band works that contain hymns. Compiled by John Hendricks, Director of Bands at West Virginia University
- Concert etiquette - from http://www.nafme.org
Technology: