DIGGING DEEPER
a multi-level, balanced approach to the percussion class exercise curriculum
Publisher: Gottry Publications (2025)
Composed: 2024
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DIGGING DEEPER was created to provide a multi-level, balanced percussion approach to the percussion class exercise curriculum, featuring three levels for each technical element and the ability to work on pads, keyboard percussion, or both. The multi-level design of this book allows for students to progress laterally through the collection of exercises, then “dig deeper” into each exercise with a second and third pass through successive levels. All three levels of any exercise—surface, shallow, and deep—are written to work seamlessly together in rehearsal, allowing groups of students within a percussion class to be operating on up to three tiers simultaneously. Any pairing of pad and keyboard exercises that share the same time signature and tempo may be rehearsed together. Exercises include:

• PAD EXERCISES
  • Eights
  • Stick Control
  • Eights & Sixteens
  • Permutations A, B, C, & D
  • Stroke Types
  • Grid Fours
  • Grid Threes
  • Flams
  • Flam Accents
  • Digga Digga Burr
  • Digga Burr
  • Biggada Burr
• KEYBOARD EXERCISES
  (fully notated in five keys with additional scales for reference)
  • Scale Patterns
  • Greenlight
  • Three-Four-Five
  • Thirds
  • Double Stops
  • Arpeggios

The classroom/studio version of this product contains an additional ten page addendum with several of the exercises strategically packaged into a more succinct, unit model to provide suggested sequencing and reduce the number of pages printed or copied.

Play-along tracks at a variety of tempos are included.