Wikipedia:WikiProject Percussion

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

Overview

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.

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 within the scope of the project.

Subpages

For a list of encyclopedias, books, articles, and other resources, see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Percussion/Resources
For a list of things needing to be done, see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Percussion/To-do

Templates

Assesment

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

Quality

FA	A	GA	B	C	Start	Stub	FL	List	Category	Draft	File	Project	Template	NA	???	Total
4	0	14	45	215	595	325	1	29	173	7	0	9	17	161	0	1,595

Importance

Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
78	334	216	364	341	262	1,595

Participants

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
Tim (talk) 21:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC) — Multi-Percussionist from St. Louis, Missouri in the United States.
Timpguy22 (talk) 14:03, 28 January 2010 (UTC) — Orchestral percussion and timpani, jazz
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.
Worldish2024 - I do Vibraphone(3yrs) and was part of the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade bands of a "specific" school!

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