
Summer 2022
Percussion Camp
Instructional Text and Music for the Beginning Percussionist

K. Wylie Virtual School of Percussion
Curriculum Overview
WELCOME
List of items needed for the course
LESSON 1.
SD - instrument set up, grip, hand position, stroke
MAL - music ABC's, natural note identification
LESSON 2.
SD - review 8 on a hand , sticking page / paradiddles
MAL - playing position, grip, stroke, accidental note identification
LESSON 3.
SD - review stickings, introduce foot tap / counting aloud
MAL - half steps / whole steps
LESSON 4.
SD - time signature, quarter note/rest, Half note/rest
MAL - tetrachords
LESSON 5.
SD - whole note/rest, dotted notes, repeat signs
MAL - review tetrachords / build C, F, Bb major scales
LESSON 6.
SD - 8th note/rest
MAL - Introduce NEW notes C, D, E, F, G
LESSON 7.
SD - review 8th notes/rests
MAL - introduce NEW notes bb, Eb
LESSON 8.
SD - Dotted quarter note / one and two bar repeat sign
MAL - introduce NEW note A ( etude #2)
LESSON 9.
SD - Review lessons 1 - 8
MAL - introduce upper B and C (etude #3)
LESSON 10.
SD - intro to 16th notes/ Warmup #3
MAL - review C,F,Bb scales, ADD Eb, Ab, Dd,
LESSON 11.
SD - 16th note/8th note rhythms
MAL - inttroduce "Green " exercise and others
LESSON 12.
SD - 16th note / 8th rest rhythms
PERC - Bass Drum / (mal review)
LESSON 13.
SD - combining rhythms from Week 11 - 12
PERC - Crash cym, Sus. Cym. / ( mal review)
LESSON 14.
SD - introduction to dynamics
PERC - tambourine / (mal review)
LESSON 15.
SD - Review lessons 10 - 15
PERC - triangle / (mal review)
LESSON 16.
SD - introduce double stroke / exercises
MAL - chromatic scale
LESSON 17.
SD - use 16th note roll base/ Warmups 6,7, and 8
MAL - mallet reading ( patterns, etc.)
LESSON 18.
SD - exercises using 5, 9, and 17 stroke rolls
MAL - Fun etudes
LESSON 19.
SD - introduce 7 and 13 stroke rolls / Rolling Etude
MAL.- Hunters Chorus
LESSON 20.
SD - introduce buzz rolls
MAL - Hunters Chorus
LESSON 21.
SD - Review lessons 16 - 20
MAL - Introduce NEW notes Ab, Gb, / rolling on mallets
LESSON 22.
SD - introduce the controlled stroke / 2's, 3's
MAL- Review (etude #3)
LESSON 23.
SD - single hand accent exercises
TIMP - basic info /mallet selection / technique / rolls / bass clef notes
LESSON 24.
SD - hand to hand accents / Warmup #11
TIMP - tuning
LESSON 25.
SD - moving accents / accented paradiddles
TIMP - basic interval ranges of each drum / muffling
LESSON 26.
SD - flam / flam accent / flam paradiddle
TIMP - sticking with odd-even note groupings / fp rolls
LESSON 27.
SD - flam tap / flamacue
Concert toms - set up, notation / etude
LESSON 28.
SD - flam combo
Bongos, cowbell, guiro / mal. etude
LESSON 29.
SD - 16th note rhythm "e-&-ah"
Timbales, maracas, shakers, shekere, cabasa / mal. etude
LESSON 30.
SD - 16th note rhythm. "1-e-ah-2"
Congas, claves / mal etude
LESSON 31.
SD - 16 note rhythms "1-ah-2" and "1-e"
Perc. wood block / castanets / sleigh bells / slapstick / vibraslap / wind chimes / gong
LESSON 32.
SD - 8th note / 16th note triplet
Drumset - Introduction / Set up / Pedal technique / Basic Coordination
LESSON 33.
SD - Review lessons 29 - 32
Drumset - Basic beats / Notation / Encore #1
LESSON 34.
SD - ruffs and ratamcues
Drumset - Drum Fills / Song Form / 16th note beats
LESSON 35.
SD - cut time
Drumset - Jazz ride pattern / comping patterns / shuffles
LESSON 36.
SD - odd meters
Drumset - Basic Latin styles - Bossa Nova / Slow,Med., Fast Samba / Mambo
LESSON 37.
Drumming Rudiments
LESSON 38.
Final Solo - "Rock n Roll"