Kevin and Drum Roll Please!
"Drum Roll Please!" is a play-along series of practice routines for beginning percussionists aged 10-14(ish). It will help build confidence to rock out in band class and teach you how to play open rolls. This is a great supplement to any beginning-percussion class and a powerful tool when one-on-one lessons are not available!
Kevin Rank
Creator | Drum Roll Please!
Greetings! I'm a music educator with multiple degrees in percussion performance and over a decade of teaching experience in public schools. My students consistently place in All-District & All-Region bands in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, gain acceptance to many of the most exclusive music schools in the United States, and have been awarded over $750,000 in performance-based scholarship funding by those same institutions.
I developed "Drum Roll Please!" because one-on-one music lessons make a huge difference for students and there are always kids for whom these lessons are out of reach. The school may be too far away for a teacher to drive out, the cost might be prohibitive for families even though a student is all-in on band, or there might not be enough interest to support a lesson staff. In situations like these, DRP offers a strong foundation for beginning percussionists at approximate cost of one lesson per month at school district rates.
I truly believe that this project has the potential to serve beginning percussionists across Texas and beyond.
Let's get to work!
-Kevin Rank