Private Percussion Instruction

Topics covered:
  • Concert/Rudimental Snare Drum
  • Mallet Instruments (2 & 4 mallets)
  • Drumset
  • Jazz Improvisation
  • World Percussion
  • Preparation for: Solo & Ensemble, All-State Auditions, College Scholarship Auditions

Feel free to contact Keith for availability and rates.
Video Teaching (NEW!)

Send me a video performance of a solo, ensemble, or audition material for online tutoring -- pay for the service using Paypal and I will review your video within 10 days!

Cost is $25 per Solo or Ensemble (up to 10 minutes).

Once your payment has been made - send me a video link for feedback. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Video Tutoring
Here are some teaching resources for percussion, be sure to visit often as these will be updated regularly!
  • Snare
  • Mallets
  • Timpani
  • Drumset
  • Accessories
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Major Scales
Arpeggios

Mallet Keyboard Sight-Reading Materials

Flash Cards:
C Major
F Major
G Major

Music Speed Reading etudes:
Etude #1
Etude #2​

Other related materials:

J.B. Smith's Flash Tracker Program
Improving Sight-Reading on Marimba by Ming-Hui Kuo
Sight-Reading through Spatial Visualization by Alice Gomez
Check back later for some resources on Timpani!


Recommended Resources for all drummers:

George L. Stone - Stick Control
Ted Reed - Syncopation
VIDEO - Jojo Mayer's Secret Weapons of the Modern Drummer

Jazz Styles:
Jim Chapin - Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer
John Riley - The Art of Bop Drumming & Beyond Bop Drumming
John Ramsay - The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary as taught by Alan Dawson

Latin Jazz styles:
Mark Walker - World Jazz Drumming
Ed Uribe - Essence of Brazilian Percussion & Drumset
Ed Uribe - Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion & Drumset
Frank Malabe & Bob Weiner - Afro-Cuban Rhythms for Drumset
Duduka da Fronseca & Bob Weiner - Brazilian Rhythms for Drumset
Jim Branly - The New Method for Afro-Cuban Drumming

Funk/Fusion, etc.
David Garibaldi - Future Sounds, The Code of Funk
Gary Chester - The New Breed
Rick Latham - Advanced Funk Studies

Chart Reading/Play a-long books:
Steve Houghton - Essential Styles (books 1 & 2), Studio and Big Band Drumming, Ultimate Drumset Reading Anthology, The Drumset Soloist
Steve Fidyk - Big Band Drumming at First Sight, Inside the Big Band Drum Chart
Dave Weckl - Contemporary Drummer + One
Tom Morgan - The Jazz Drummer's Reading Workbook
Steve Davis - The Ultimate Play Along for Jazz Drummers
Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Play Along: Drums (with Bernie Dresel)
Percussion Accessories (i.e. Triangle, Tambourine, Cymbals, etc.)

Triangle Exercises
Tambourine Exercises
Crash Cymbal Exercises