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2018 Music For All National Festival

Music for All National Festival March 15-17, 2018 Indianapolis, IN There’s a fantastic opportunity to hear some great concert bands and percussion ensembles from all over the country next week, but we find many people don’t even know its happening right here in our backyard!  It’s the Music for All National Festival, featuring high school percussion ensembles, concert bands and orchestras from across the US.  The festival also includes a middle school concert band festival, along with Honor Ensembles for concert band, jazz band, and orchestra.  This is a non-competitive festival, meaning its all about just creating and listening to great music, created by some of the best high school and middle school music programs in the nation. Here’s a general schedule for the event:

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Mar 6, 2018 No Comments

2018 IMEA Professional Development Conference

If you’re attending the IMEA conference this week, here’s a list of performances and clinics with percussion interest you should check out!  Make sure to stop by the Chops Percussion and Paige’s Music display booth and say hello! Performing Groups Goshen Jazz Ensembl Friday 1/12, 11:00am IU Jazz Ensemble Friday 1/12, 2:30pm Creekside Middle School Friday 1/12, 2:30pm Carmel High School Friday 1/12, 3:30pm Day of Percussion: Brazilian Batucada Saturday 1/13, 9:00am Concord HS Percussion Saturday 1/13, 10:00am Decatur Central HS Percussion Saturday 1/13, 1:00pm ISU Wind Ensemble Saturday 1/13, 3:30pm All State Honor Ensembles All State Jazz Band Friday 1/12, 12:00pm Junior All State Band Saturday 1/13, 9:00am All State Honor Band Saturday 1/13, 11:00am All State Percussion Ensemble Saturday 1/13, 12:00pm Clinic Sessions with Percussion Interest Friday 1/12: 11:00am How Loud is too Loud?  A Guide to Protecting Hearing (Katrin Meidell) 12:00pm What’s in YOUR Percussion Toolbox? (Chris Crockarell, Chris Brooks) 1:00pm Musicians that happen to play Percussion (Chad Kohler) 3:30pm Put Your Marching Show on the Field in Record Time (Brad Wadkins) Saturday 1/13: 8:00am Beginning Percussion 101 (Clayton Henady) 8:00am Common Matched Grip Problems for Beginning Percussionists (Kyle Lutes) 9:00am Get a Better Snare Drum Sound

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Jan 9, 2018 No Comments

Casey Cangelosi Clinic at Chops Percussion

Come celebrate the grand opening of our new showrooms for Paige’s Music and Chops Percussion with a FREE clinic and performance by Casey Cangelosi, Majestic artist and Director of Percussion Studies at James Madison University! The clinic is this Thursday, November 16th, at 7pm. Seating is very limited, so please reserve your tickets here. Casey is commonly hosted world-wide by educational institutions, music festivals, and educational seminars. He has been a visiting guest artist in Italy, Germany, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Croatia, Sweden, Taiwan, and widely across the U.S. at events including the The Midwest Clinic and PASIC Showcase Concerts. Casey is a regularly commissioned composer and from the percussion community called the “Paganini of Percussion” and “The voice of a new generation”. A big Thank You! goes out to our friends at Majestic for sponsoring this clinic.

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Nov 14, 2017 No Comments

The Percussion Exchange – Presented By Zildjian and Vic Firth

The Percussion Exchange is a TED Talk style presentation that will feature lectures from four of today’s top artists and educators. Join us at this special event right here in Indy and hear how creativity, technology, innovation, and artistry impacts drumming and percussion education today. THE PRESENTERS: Steve Smith – Journey, Vital Information Steve Houghton – Indiana University Russ Miller – Studio, American Idol, Andrea Bocelli So Percussion – Groundbreaking, Award-winning, Percussion Ensemble WHEN: Sunday November 12, 2017 (The morning after PASIC) 9:30AM-11:30AM: Artist Presentations 11:30AM-12:30PM: Meet the Artists and Discuss their Presentations WHERE: JW Marriott 10 S. West St. Indianapolis, IN 46204 This event is free and open to the public. Spread the word! We look forward to seeing you there.

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Oct 24, 2017 No Comments

IMEA Professional Development Conference

IMEA Professional Development Conference January 12-14, 2017 Grand Wayne Convention Center Ft. Wayne, Indiana If you’re attending the IMEA conference next week, here’s a list of performances and clinics with percussion interest you should check out.  This year, there will be a special “Percussion Focus Day” on Saturday of the conference!  There is an option to purchase a one-day Saturday pass for those that might want to take advantage of this, but cannot make the previous two days. Also, make sure to stop by the Chops Percussion/Paige’s Music booth and say hello! Percussion Focus Day – Saturday, January 14 8:00     Clinic: Auxiliary Percussion Techniques – Jim Catalano (Ludwig/Musser) 9:00     Clinic: Fundamentals of Keyboard Percussion and Wellness – Laurel Black (James Madison Univ.) 10:00   Clinic: Designing an Effective MS/HS Percussion Curriculum – Aaron Griesser (Penn HS) 11:00   Performance: Butler University Percussion Ensemble – Jon Crabiel 1:15     Performance: All-State Percussion Ensemble 2:30     Clinic: The Fundamentals of West African Djembe and Dundun – Andy Miller (Indiana Univ.) 3:30     Clinic: My Approach to Percussion Composition – Casey Cangelosi (James Madison Univ.) Other Conference Sessions with Possible Percussion Interest: Friday, January 13 11:00   Performance: Ball State Wind Ensemble 12:00   Performance: All State Jazz Ensemble 1:00    

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Jan 3, 2017 No Comments

Indiana Percussion Association Clinic Day 2016

The 2016 IPA Clinic Day will feature artists with various percussive specialities. All students, directors, and educators will be able to choose between clinics and masterclasses throughout the day. They have also opened up one of the only wind clinics and cymbal clinics thanks to the X Academy and Seavine. The 2016 clinic day will truly have something for everyone! Any further questions can be directed to: [email protected] Please note that the cymbal and winds clinics are more expensive than the percussion clinics. There are more items given in these clinics and will be geared more in a teaching masterclass setting. Please plan to bring and instrument for these. Highlights BYOS will be back again this year with a hands on masterclass in how to perform many of their stick tricks. They will be debuting their ABC’s of stick tricks that explores a new musical language in which each student is challenged to learn in order to communicate new ideas with one another. BYOS will also be giving a group clinic at the end of the day with Amir on drumset and quads.

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Nov 29, 2016 No Comments

Katarzyna Mycka Masterclass & Concert at Lawrence Central High School

International marimba virtuoso Katarzyna Mycka will present a master class next Tuesday, November 8th at 7pm in the Lawrence Central Auditorium. The master class will be followed by a concert of her marimba quartet from 8-9pm. Admission is for both events is $10 at the door. About The Performers: Critics have given the internationally renowned marimba virtuoso and chamber musician Katarzyna Mycka the sobriquet “she who dances with the mallets”: “the greatest fluidity”, “perfect mallet technique,” and a “marvelous, rhythmic precision” are characteristic for the musician, who is able to simultaneously produce up to six tones on her concert marimba with the sixty narrow wooden bars and resonance pipes. After receiving training in piano and drums, the artist born in 1972 discovered the marimba as her “ideal medium for musical expression” while studying at music academies in Gdansk, Stuttgart, and Salzburg. Numerous prizes and awards at international music competitions then followed: in 1995, first prize and audience prize at the International Percussion Competition Luxembourg for Marimba Solo, one year later first place at the First World Marimba Competition Stuttgart. Then followed stipends and invitations to master courses in the United States, Asia, and various European countries, through which the young

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Nov 1, 2016 No Comments

Audition Alert! – Indiana All-State Percussion Ensemble

Deadline: October 15, 2016 Directors – We want to make sure you’re aware of this great opportunity for your most outstanding young percussionists. The experience of being involved in the All-State Percussion Ensemble is very rewarding in itself, but also comes with the added bonus of working with world-class performer, educator and featured guest, Casey Cangelosi.  Here are details for the audition process and performance at IMEA, along with information on Casey Cangelosi.  Please share this with any outstanding high school percussionist that may be interested in this fantastic opportunity.   2017 Indiana All-State Percussion Ensemble Performance Information Grand Wayne Convention Center, Fort Wayne January 12-14, 2017 Featured Clinician: Casey Cangelosi IMEA, in partnership with the Percussive Arts Society and Indiana Percussion Association is pleased to present this fantastic opportunity for your percussion students! Participating students will have the opportunity to explore different genres of percussion ensemble music led by regional clinicians and featured guest Casey Cangelosi. Activities will begin on Thursday, January 12 at 1:00 PM and conclude on Saturday, January 14 by 5:00 PM.  Audition Information Eligibility: Students in Grades 9-12 residing in Indiana or neighboring states are eligible to apply. Application materials: Available at the following website http://imeamusic.org/programs-events/all-state-honor-ensembles/all-state-percussion-ensemble/ Audition Requirements: Applicants will make use of the online interface to submit audio or video recordings of 1-2 minute excepts from at

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Oct 4, 2016 No Comments

Why Attend A Clinic

Why should I attend a clinic?  What’s the point when I can watch everything on YouTube? We’ve discussed this topic quite a bit over the years here at Chops, but not because we don’t see the value in attending a clinic.  We’ve discussed it because we feel there are many reasons why people SHOULD attend clinics.  We remember when we were kids, before so much media was available at your fingertips online.  Music stores hosted clinics quite frequently, and were packed, sometimes needing to host them in a local school auditorium, gym, or ballroom at a local hotel!  That was also when there wasn’t the assistance of easy online promotion.  It was much more difficult to get the word out. Now, it’s very easy to promote clinics through many different avenues and notify many more people.  But, it seems less and less attend clinics and many music stores abandoned them long ago because of low turnout.  So, besides the obvious reason that music is better experienced live than on video, here’s a list of reasons of why clinics are worth attending. Education – You could learn a lot.  There’s a lot of information shared at clinics.  You might be able

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May 24, 2016 No Comments

Todd Sucherman Drum Set Clinic – May 26th at Chops

We’re really excited to have Todd Sucherman back to do a clinic at Chops Percussion on Thursday, May 26th at 6:30pm. The last time he was here was December of 2011. If you were’t here then, be sure not to miss him this time around. Todd’s clinic was one of my favorite clinics that we’ve hosted here at Chops. Not only is he a master of technique with monster chops, but he’s extremely musical in his approach to the drums. The feel that he had on every thing I heard him play that night was spot on and I can’t wait to hear him again! The picture below shows the kit that he used in 2011 in the store. Be sure to ask Jeff Huffman about the snare drum in this picture. Contrast that with the video below of the kit he’s currently using on the Styx tour.  Todd personally gives you a tour in the video below. This is another thing that I appreciated about Todd. He’s a huge (and I mean this in the most honorable sense of the term) drum nerd when it comes to gear. His kit has a lot going on, but because of his

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May 17, 2016 No Comments
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