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1) The Modern Drummer educational article index - a summary and categorization of valuable teaching articles that I've collected from the pages of MD. I use this as supplementary material for my students. I let them choose lesson material based on the grade I've assigned each article so that sometimes tedious lesson periods can be revived by something of the student's choice that will still be within their ability level.
I posted it as a Word document so if you don't have that program, you might want to save it w/ a .txt extension. To view this, go to the helper application menu through the preferences menu. Associate the 'doc' extension with Word.
2) "An Analytic approach to Polyrhthms" - a mathematical breakdown of how polyrhthms are created, notated, and applied. This might be a tad thick at first if you're not used taking drumming into a mathematical perspective, but if you follow the steps, it should be easy to understand.
3) Suggested Technical book for the Front Ensemble: (11/13)
To fully exploit the potential of your high school front ensemble, I recommend tailoring these exercises to better suit the players. Hillsborough's book this year is challenging to the players in a sense that I'm having them do things that they've never done before as an ensemble (i.e. concentration on quality of sound, uniform body interpretation of music, etc...). In efforts to define a uniform technique for ALL aspects of playing, I wrote or re-arranged exercises to develop the various facets of that technique.
