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Tired of Spending 50% of Your Percussion Ensemble Rehearsals on Ingrained Mistakes?

Join Our Free Online Launch Party!

✅ Never waste your precious rehearsal time on ingrained mistakes again
✅ Discover our brand-new percussion ensemble pieces for 2027
✅ Experience our time-saving practice accelerators in action
🎁 Grab your free Christmas Play-Along eBook

📅 Saturday, November 7, 2026 (1:30 PM CST)
💻 Live Stream (Registered users only)
⏱️ Appr. 60 min. (45 min. info + 15 min. Q&A)

YES, COUNT ME IN!

Can't make it live? Register anyway! You’ll receive a replay.

Are you wasting half of your rehearsal time?

As a busy band director, you already know the challenge: percussion ensemble rehearsals eat up more time than you can spare, especially if percussion isn't your first instrument.

It's quite a challenge to give students a clear picture of their part and their role in the ensemble right away without just endlessly repeating things rehearsal after rehearsal.

But the reality is actually worse than you think.

Studies in motor learning and decades of band room experience show a painful truth: musicians often spend 50% their rehearsal time simply unlearning and fixing ingrained mistakes made during individual practice.

Think about that.

Half of your precious rehearsal time isn't spent on musicality. It's spent on "un-learning" wrong notes and rhythms. It is frustrating for you, boring for your students, and a massive waste of your rehearsal time.

We believe you shouldn't have to spend your rehearsals fixing ingrained mistakes.

Eliminate Rehearsal Mistakes Before They Happen

All pieces in our 2027 Concert Percussion Series are coming with our innovative Performance Acceleration Tools.

This digital rehearsal system does the heavy lifting at home, so you don't have to waste time teaching basic notes during rehearsals. You are getting:

🎯 Solo Accuracy Tracks
Individual "example" tracks for every single part. Your students learn exactly how their specific part is structured, mastering correct notes and rhythms before they set foot in the rehearsal room.

🥁 Ensemble Context Tracks
Full-production "karaoke" play-along tracks. Students practice their parts while hearing the rest of the ensemble, helping them immediately understand their role, timing, and balance in the group.

🔧 Smart Practice Tools
Download the free Practice Smarter Poster with direct links to useful practice apps. Your students can easily loop difficult passages and slow down the tempo, allowing them to master complex sections at their own pace.

100% Digital. 100% Instant.

No waiting for shipments. No risk of items being out of stock.

Starting this season, our new titles are fully digital. The moment you purchase, you receive instant access to download your complete set of scores, individual parts, and the Practice Acceleration Tools.

Do you want to be the first to find out how this works and what the new pieces will sound like?

Join the Online Launch Party on November 7

On November 7, 2026, 1:30 PM (CST) we are hosting a free virtual launch party. Reserve your spot and you'll walk away with:

✅ Access to the Score Play Launch where you can listen to all new percussion ensemble pieces at your leisure after the launch while the score scrolls by.

✅ Tips for Smart Practice Tools which are incredibly useful for your daily program on their own, but absolutely shine when integrated with our useful solo tracks and unique karaoke tracks.

✅ Our free Christmas Play-Along eBook, including a sneak peek and a cool Christmas vibraphone solo. Save it to your files and reuse it every holiday season.

🎁 A Great Deal for registered users only that guarantees you fun and easy-to-learn percussion ensemble pieces for the rest of the year.

Why Others Love Our Time-Saving Practice Tools

"The resource is fantastic. Such a time saver for the director to have a practice track available for each and every individual part!" Hiroshi Fukuoka, Band Director, Jerome School District, Jerome, Idaho, USA

"Kids are often asking me: How does it go Mr. Dorsett? I think those practice tracks are a perfect way to let them know how it goes!" Daniel Dorsett, Band Director, Harshman Middle School, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Meet Your Host: Dirkjan van Groningen

As a graduate percussionist (ArtEZ University of Arts) and percussion teacher at the Quintus Arts Center, Dirkjan gets his hands dirty every week. He understands the rehearsal challenges faced by percussion ensembles better than anyone.

In addition to the pieces published through Concert & Marching Music (EU) and Band Music Center (US), a number of his compositions have been published by Row-Loff Productions. In recent years, several of his ensemble pieces have been added to the Texas PML and the Florida State Music List.

His mission for this event? To provide conductors and instructors with fun new percussion ensemble music, including the latest tools to make practicing at home more enjoyable and to fill rehearsals once again with genuine ensemble playing.

Let customers speak for us

from 14 reviews

A well-thought-out and cleverly structured collection of grooves and fills!

In the first chapter 'Basics', you test if you're ready for the rest. What follows is a well-thought-out and cleverly structured collection of grooves and fills. You learn not only to play many different grooves but also to color them in various ways with hi-hat and cymbal patterns. The target audience Martijn aims for - the intermediate drummer - can thus make significant progress with this.

Mark Eeftens [Dutch Drum Magazine Slagwerkkrant]

02/27/2025

This deserves your attention!

The best book for (somewhat and far) advanced players. This deserves your attention.

As a drum teacher, I've been looking for this for a long time, and it's more than I expected based on the free download. My students are also very enthusiastic. Perfect extensive challenging deepening based on tasty grooves. The exercises in rudiments are immediately applicable in practice, a breath of fresh air.

Bart van der Schalm

A good work for a high school level group

Highly recommended. This is a good work for a high school level group with developing mallet players (esp. cross training for battery players). The music is interesting and cross curricular as it incorporates Turkish folk rhythms into a Western context.

Joe Perea

11/21/2024

This Snare Drum Basics Starter Kit not only has super fun beats to play, but also features very eye-catchy music notation and images as well. Highly recommended for all newbies and folks getting back into drumming gear as well!

Armando

07/16/2024

Great Percussion Writing!

We recently programmed "Dvorak's Bossa" and it was a hit with the students as well as the audience! Dirkjan has taken a familiar melody and created a very playable arrangement that came together in a hurry with our ensemble. There are parts in this arrangement for students of different levels of playing ability (within the stated grade level) which was definitely a plus for my group. The additional technology resources were also very beneficial to the learning process. I'm looking forward to programming additional music from Dirkjan in the future.

Shawn Sandersfeld

05/21/2024

Every 8th note and 16th note combination that I want my students to know.

Dirkjan's new guides are well done and I appreciate the fact that they are "quick". In a matter of minutes, students can work on their technique and sight-reading by playing through these simple exercises. If they have time, they can play along with the background tracks to make them a little more enjoyable than just playing along with a metronome. The Sight-Reading Skills present every 8th note and 16th note combination that I want my students to know. I appreciate that the stickings are written in to continue to reinforce best practices. Well Done!

05/18/2024

Quick Guide To Develop Essential Technical Skills.

Fun to practice to!

Digging the book. It's nice to practice to something more than a metronome when working on rudiments. Thanks!

Daria

06/21/2023

Practicing Rudiments & Technique is Fun!

Interesting

A fun new way to practice rudiments. I recommend it!

John Krantz

04/29/2023

Your book is like a treasure chest!

I have been taking percussion lessons for about 5 years. So, my rudiments are still developing. Before discovering your book, I would practice paradiddles while listening to music ( like Vivaldi's Gloria or The Wellerman) and had almost figured out their mm settings. So, your book is like a treasure chest!

Jenny White

04/28/2023

This was the book I ever wanted to write myself.

When I saw your book, I realized that this was the book I ever wanted to write myself. I am teaching for a couple of years know, but I always had to manage with the existing methods. There was always something; right left indications, counting, structure and always without play-along tracks. But in your book contains everything the way I like it! Thanks a lot for that. In the new season I'm going to use it for all new students.

Paul van der Heijden

08/31/2022

It's organized and structured well

It is organized and structured well and presents the beginning rudimental snare drummer with all the techniques required for developing into more advanced playing. The play-along CD contains high quality accompaniment tracks that are fun to listen to and play with. I highly recommend this book to teachers and students alike.

Jeff Moore

Outstanding tool for the young percussionist!

Dirkjan has used his experience developing solid percussionists to create an outstanding tool for the young percussionist. The pace and sequence of the book is perfect for developing necessary reading skills and rudiment techniques and the play-along cd is a fun way for students to build a solid sense of time. Make sure you check out the book of Recital Pieces which give students an opportunity to perform the skills learned in the Method book in a fun and educational setting. I give Snare Drum Basics my highest endorsement!

Scott Brown