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Innovative Percussion, Inc. is dedicated to providing the percussion world with professional products of an unequaled quality. Each item is carefully crafted to insure product integrity and the quality needed to achieve the highest standards of today’s percussion excellence. We at Innovative Percussion, Inc. feel that the attention given to detail and design of quality percussion instruments deserves sticks and mallets parallel in quality.
Visit our website to view products , artists , news , and more . You can also view upcoming clinics and concerts by Innovative Percussion artists along with many articles written by our artists with tips ranging from playing techniques, mallet suggestions, warm-ups, and more. If you would like to download a PDF of our current product catalog, please click the image to the left.
Innovative Percussion signature artist James Campbell, currently a Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor and Director of Percussion Studies in the University of Kentucky School of Music, has been elected into the Drum Corps International Hall of Fame. Campbell is responsible for much of the modern look and sound of today’s drum corps percussion ensembles. With a legendary background as an instructor and arranger for the Guardsmen (Schaumburg, IL) and Cavaliers (Rosemont, IL) from the ‘70s through the ‘90s, Campbell’s credits include winning three High Percussion Awards and two World Championships in the process. He is also credited with helping to introduce World music concepts and contemporary performance practice into marching percussion arranging. As an equipment designer, he also helped design the modern tenor drum array, holds two patents for drum head design, and pioneered the use of the front ensemble (pit) percussion. Campbell, along with three others, will be inducted this upcoming August during DCI finals week, held in Bloomington, IN.
For more information please visit www. dci. org .
Congratulations to all of the groups that participated this years Winter Guard International indoor drumline season. Click the image below to view all of the Innovative Percussion videos and pictures from this year's WGI Championships.
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View our blogs for information on new products and music for 2008!
The She-e Wu Series and Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic Series are some of our newest products being introduced at PASIC in Columbus, Ohio.
NEW MUSIC FROM INNOVATIVE PERCUSSION
Innovative Percussion announces the introduction of James Campbell's composition for percussion trio Terra-cotta Warriors.
"While digging a well in 1974, Chinese farmers unearthed a vast 2,200 year-old archeological treasure. This stunning discovery in the Shaanxi province, southwest of Beijing was a terra-cotta army that served as guards for the tomb of the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi. Buried in three pits amid the reddish soil of the Yellow River valley were more than 8,000 armed warriors, servants, and horses pulling manned chariots; each life-size terra-cotta statue unique. The tyrannical Emperor Qin is credited with centralizing power, building the Great Wall, constructing vast highways, and unifying weights and measures, currency, and written script throughout his empire. Qin was obsessed with achieving immortality and ordered that a massive clay army be created to protect his tomb in the afterlife. The inspiration for this percussion work is an image of the terra-cotta warriors as a ghost army that gradually becomes mortal as they carry out their duty to protect Emperor Qin from his many enemies."
The piece is available through any Innovative Percussion music dealer.
The Innovative Percussion Bell Kit (IPPK32, pictured right) features a full 2 1/2 octave bell set with plastic end pieces for increased durability, heavy duty cradle style double-braced stand, 8" practice pad, backpack style carrying case with rolling luggage style cart for easy transportation, removable music rack, Innovative Percussion Fundamental Series F9 model mallets, and IP-LD Lalo Davila signature model concert snare drumsticks. Also available is a bell and snare kit (IPPKSN1). These items are available through one of our distributors, Musicorp , so please have your music store contact them for ordering information.
Innovative Percussion now offers removable rubber practice tips designed to fit any marching drumstick. Each package of RPT-1 contains one pair each of the three sizes (thin, medium, and thick), so the player can choose the thickness that best suits their feel and sound needs. The tips can be easily added to any marching drumstick for individual practice or to create another unique color effect within a marching percussion ensemble.
The music on this page along with many other great pieces are all published or distributed by Innovative Percussion, Inc. Please click the image below for our full publications catalog.
Available at any music retailer is Mark Ford's method book Marimba: Technique Through Music.Below is one of our publications by John Willmarth, Bushido: The Way of the Warrior, mvt III. Yu (Bravery and Heroism). It is performed by Brett EE Paschal. Click on the links to view the other two movements.
Bushido: The Way of the Warrior, mvt I. Jin (Benevolence)
Bushido: The Way of the Warrior, mvt II. Meiyo (Honor and Glory)
Innovative Percussion has a great line of wearables. Click the image below to view all of our wearables and to download an order form.
