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Drummer Boy by Thomas Couture (1857)

Welcome to WikiProject Percussion! This WikiProject aims to create, improve, and maintain all articles related to percussion instruments and those who play them!

Overview

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Goals:

  • To improve percussion-related articles to good or featured standard.
  • To improve the categorization of percussion-related articles.
  • To rate and review percussion-related articles.
  • To compile a list of useful resources on percussion for article referencing and writing.
  • To create much-needed articles covering all of the below

Scope:

  • This project focuses on articles about percussion instruments, techniques, and notable compositions. It also oversees biographies of all percussionists, from classical marimbists to heavy metal drummers.

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Assesment

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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Percussion/Assessment for a more in-depth guide to tagging articles.

Quality

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 FA A GABCStartStub FLListCategoryDraftFilePortalProjectTemplateNA???Total
3011431524783131251311300917148361,380

Importance

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 77  326  179  218  296 284  1,380 

Participants

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WikiProject Percussion Participants
  • Kakofonous—mainly a drum set player, novice at marimba, experience with a wide range of orchestral percussion instruments and some hand drums as well.
  • EvanSeeds—plays drum set (four years) and all orchestral percussion (seven years).
  • Badagnani—percussion music enthusiast, into contemporary classical music, world music, and all forms of the avant-garde.
  • Qzply— kit drummer, orchestral percussion, latin percussion, mallet percussion, marching percussion.
  • Andrewa—kit drummer (since 1974), jazz, rock and gospel, world music, cymbal enthusiast, interested in all genres
  • Brad Halls—rudimental drummer, member/instructor/arranger of marching bands & drum corps
  • Rm w a vu—classically trained A-muss player, now plays rock (quite a quantum leap). Also plays Jazz, Funk and teaches style extensively (I only teach experienced players, not beginners, any more).
  • Barkjon —mainly drum kit player, some djembe, plays some other percussion, loves Christian Rock and Alternative Rock, loves drums!
  • Philip.t.day — Orchestral Percussionist, and Drum Kit player. If you hit it, I like it! 12 years of experience as a Drummer, 7 years as an orchestral percusinist. I teach Drum Kit for pocket money to take to Uni.
  • Tpvibes — Jazz vibraphonist.
  • Mike — Rock, Jazz drummer, some guitar playing. Four years of experience.
  • Steve — classical percussion, specializing in battery; also jazz, rock, and funk drumset (8 years of experience)
  • Callum — Rock, Funk, and a little bit of Jazz. Interested in Electric Kits. Two years of experience
  • Opus88888 (talk) 15:20, 23 November 2009 (UTC) — rhythmic percussion aficionado[reply]
  • Tim (talk) 21:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC) — Multi-Percussionist from St. Louis, Missouri in the United States.[reply]
  • Timpguy22 (talk) 14:03, 28 January 2010 (UTC) — Orchestral percussion and timpani, jazz[reply]
  • Frederick Arciniegas (talk) Drummer with 18 years' experience. Attended Berklee College of Music. Also appears as Prince Frederick in the band The Charms. Afro-cuban and afro-venezuelan percussion studies at the Bigott Foundation.
  • MichiHenning (talk) Passionate djembe and dunun player and teacher.
  • yutsi (talk) — Concert percussionist, jazz drummer, and drumline enthusiast since 2010.
  • Smuckola Rudimental snare player, student of Mitch Markovich, authoring various percussion articles (Mitch Markovich, Frank Arsenault) and editing various others.
  • Pollack man34 Basic drum kit (plus another crash and second floor tom), 9 years' experience, specialize in rock, specifically AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and the Beatles. Helped expand articles John Bonham, Phil Rudd, Neil Peart, Ringo Starr and many more!
  • Dobbyelf62 - drum kit, cajon, hand drums, and assorted percussion
  • Dpepper73 - Started with piano lessons in 1981; Drummer/percussionist since 1984; started concentrating on the drumset in 1987; I still play piano but mainly for fun. I still play the drumset, sometimes professionally, sometimes not. And I still use the knowledge that I gained way back in 1984 when I practice and perform with my local community band.
  • Gudzwabofer (talk) - Piano for a while in primary school. Joined a brass band in high school and settled on percussion, have since played in a few rock bands and collected a few percussion instruments, most sadly in storage interstate at my parent's place, so I can't record them all for Wikimedia
  • tcxspears - Jazz drum set and percussion, as well as fife and drum, specializing in music from 1760s-1950s, attended New England Conservatory of Music
  • FiendYT - Intermediate pianist for more than 5 years. Have a collection of music theory books to use.
  • Ryukin - Pro drummer and percussionist, BA in Music, 23 years experience, private teacher, drum line instructor, concert percussion clinician, published author of several drum instruction books, multiple record deals.
  • 4and3and2and1 - Jazz drum kit and percussion enthusiast. Master's degree in Music Tech.
  • Willstrath - Piano (6 years), Drumset (4 years), Mallets (4 years), Guitar (2 years). Plays for marching band, concert band, and youth symphony.

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