Archive for October, 2007

Latest percussion ensemble news from ZC percussion

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Many of you know that I am great friends with Jazz educator Zac Courtney. I’ve helped him put together his website of groove percussion music, which contains loads of ideas for percussion.
 If you go to his page now at www.zcpercussion.com you’ll find that you can still download his free warm up exercise.
 Heaps of people have responded [...]

Drummers Survey - win a free book and DVD

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Do you play the drums, and can you spare five minutes?
If so, then visit this page:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB22724URGP4Z
and complete a survey from my good friend Jim McCarthy. Jim writes tutor books for drums, and he needs to know more about what sort of thing you are looking for.
It will only take a few minutes, and Jim has agreed [...]

Have you seen our latest music theory worksheets?

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Do you teach music theory?
Any classroom teachers out there will know what I mean when I say that it can be incredibly difficult to be prepared for everything as a music teacher, and teaching theory is something that you never have time to prepare for!
At the Fun Music Company our development team has been working [...]

Give yourself the musical edge - Learn some piano!

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

I’ve got a confession to make.
I also play piano.
Not that I don’t love percussion, because I do… but I’ve played piano for many many years, and I’ve even done piano exams over the years.
Piano is the thing I do for fun. I’m not brilliant, and I wouldn’t do any professional gigs, but I do play [...]

Percussion Education Survey - Get a free CD for five minutes of your time!

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

At KT Percussion and the Fun Music Company we care! We want to find out exactly what you need in relation to percussion and percussion music in schools.
In order to do this I have just launched a little survey which is designed to find out a little bit more about my visitors and the percussion [...]