Looking for a practice pad to work on Delecluse Etudes and other Orchestral Snare excerpts! I own a reelfeel, but it just doesn’t do it for me. I’ve been thinking about maybe a Sabian quiet tone, or the new attacktile reelfeel. But I digress.

Any suggestions?

Would anyone have any idea what this high end percussive instrument is at the very beginning of the track? Is is that he is hitting the triangle in such a way to create slightly different pitches (lighter and harder strikes), or is it possible that it is two individual different size triangles?

Or do you hear a totally different instrument altogether?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c-11v_tU6w

I dunno if this is the right sub, but it’s driving me insane. In the song Still Going Down by Morgan Wallen, there’s an instrument that plays at 0:51-0:52, 1:04-1:05, 1:17-1:18, etc. It’s on the tip of my tongue, but I can’t name it for the life of me. I already know I’m gonna facepalm when someone comments the instrument, but I can’t find it myself lol thanks in advance!!!

Which do you prefer, or do you use different materials for different uses?

Does anyone know where I can find this pad or something like it? I would love to buy one of these.

I have found myself teaching a 4th grade percussion ensemble with Orff xylos and bells. We used sleigh bells for Christmas, but now I need to get about 4 tambourines, but the school has no budget, so these will be bought by me. Does anyone have a favorite low cost one that sounds decent? I’m thinking $15 max each.

Do you guys know how to make birch mallets last? I don’t want to damage them fast

Im not instrument guy, but I'm curious to try it out and maybe even turn it into a little hobby.

I am looking for latin percussion(conga/timpal/bongo) teachers in (netherlands)

Thank you

Don’t get me banned, I know a lot of you guys hate me very much. IDFK why

Hello everyone, I have an audition this weekend where I'll need to play the end of Rite of Spring on Timpani (the Sacrifice - basically the last 2-3 minutes of the whole ballet)

I'm practicing at home with whatever I can along with a recording.

I've played the Rite before, but not on timpani, but playing it without an orchestra is ... weird at best.

For those of you who've had to play this piece as an audition - how did you do it? Did someone conduct? Did you just play solo by yourself? Do you play w/ headphones?

https://youtu.be/QcCawA7TG00?t=199

Even the youtube demos show the player playing with an orchestral recording since it's really almost pointless to play with just counting, but I really just don't know what to expect.

Hey! I’m curious about your preferences for bar width on a 5-octave marimba (C2–C7). Bar widths can affect playability, tone production, and overall feel. I would love to hear your opinions, making it easier for me to choose the keyboard width. Thank you!

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This is for a personal project of mine.

This is what I need to know:

• The diameter and length of the main shaft,
• The length and ending diameter of the taper,
• The length, starting, middle, and ending diameter of the tip,
• The ending diameter of the butt (not as important).

I think I've watched all the YouTube videos demonstrating the go go pocket on congas and bell. There's very little consensus. Are there any other resources for learning this?

I really don’t understand

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Hello! I was wondering if the malletstation can be tuned in a way that it can play a 24-tone chromatic scale. Has anyone tried it? It’s only because I’m a composer and I have an idea for a piece, however, I don’t want to make that huge of a purchase before I know whether or not it’s capable of that. Thank you!

I’m a 17yo Junior in high school and wondering what level I should be at with Snare, 2 mallets, 4 mallets, timpani, etc. I plan to go to college for music or go to a conservatory and wondering what required skill sets I should be at considering my age.

Hello everyone,

I'm applying for colleges for the fall of 2025, and Berklee College of Music is a school I'm excited to audition for. Although, I'm in a bit of a dilemma as to what primary instrument I should choose to audition with.

I've never been a drum set player; I'm alright at it, but not nearly good enough to audition with, and I've also never really practiced hand percussion or steel pan. So, that leaves me with two options: Marimba and Orchestral Percussion.

For context, I'm most proficient at marimba and snare drum, and those are both the instruments that I have the best prepared pieces on. However, my marimba piece is a 4-mallet piece, and I'm not sure that I have the time to learn and clean a 2-mallet piece in what could be less than a month, or if that would even be worth my time. I am pretty good at the usual "orchestral" percussion instruments, like timpani, xylophone, cymbals, etc., so I could almost certainly play whatever they asked me to play if I auditioned with Orchestral Percussion.

Honestly, I feel most comfortable auditioning on marimba, but I'm worried that a) A 4-mallet piece would be the wrong choice for Orchestral Percussion (because 2-mallets is generally more "orchestral") or b) I'm not prepared to audition for explicitly Marimba, and I should be focusing on Orchestral Percussion, as that has been my focus for most of my time playing percussion. Maybe the right idea is to audition with my snare piece. I'm just wondering what you guys think because I'm honestly at a roadblock.

Thank you!