Visit Us At IPA State Prelims and State Finals! Indoor Percussion season is in full swing and we’re proud to once again be the Presenting Sponsor for the Indiana Percussion Association. This weekend starts the march to state finals, with State Prelims and Divisional Finals at Avon High School and Decatur Central High School. Check out the schedules at the links above. IPA State Championships will once again be held in Hulman Center, on the campus of Indiana State University in Terre Haute. Once this weekend’s preliminary events are complete, the State Finals schedule will be available here. We’ll be running a booth at state prelims (Avon site) and state finals, so if you’re attending either of these, make sure to stop by and say hi! We’ll have lots of sticks, practice pads, mallets, stick bags, t-shirts, and many other items to choose from. It would be a great time to try out all the different sticks and pads and take something home! If you go to any shows, let us know what you think on our Facebook page! If you wear a Chops Percussion shirt, make sure to post a pic to our Facebook or Twitter page! For more

Demo Gear/Clearance Items – February Update We had several items move off of the list during January. Head back over now to see what’s still available and what’s been added to the list! View the entire list on our website. Third Coast Percussion Wins Grammy Third Coast Percussion won a GRAMMY for their Steve Reich album. Click to watch them perform with Ravi Coltrane soloing over Steve’s “Mallet Quartet” at the 59th GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony on Feb. 12, 2017, in Los Angeles.

Demo Gear/Clearance Items – January Update The new year brings a fresh new update to our demo gear/clearance list, with items from PASIC, Midwest and year-end clearance. Head on over to the demo page to see what’s been added. View the entire list on our website. Percussion Performances & Clinics at IMEA 2017 If you’re attending the IMEA conference this 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. Read the entire article on our blog. My First Drum Set We share this blog post at this time each year. Christmas is a popular time for kids to get their first kit, so it seemed appropriate to share this again. myfirstdrumset.com is a great resource for those just getting started in the world of drumming. Read the entire article on our blog.

PASIC 2016 Pre-Sale List Chops will be manning the Pearl booth this year at PASIC. Because of that we’ve scored some great deals that we can pass on to you. Check out this list and let us know if there’s anything you’d like to grab before the booth opens on Thursday. View the entire list on our website. Why You Should Attend PASIC 2016             Join us for #PASIC16! The Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) is taking place this week in Indianapolis. Here are some great reasons on why you should be there. Guest post on the blog by Justin Ramirez of the Percussive Arts Society. Read more on our blog.

Demo Gear/Clearance Items – September Updates October brings a fresh update to our demo gear/clearance list. Head on over to the demo page to see what’s been added. View the entire list. Audition Alert! – Indiana All-State Percussion Ensemble   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. Read more. It’s All In The Bag Today we’re going to cover the different options available for stick and mallet packs. There are great options for starting a young percussionist, as well as expanded packs for the intermediate student. These sticks and mallets should last for many years and can be used at every level (beginner, intermediate, high school and college). Read the entire article.

Demo Gear/Clearance Items – September Updates September brings a couple of new items to the list, as well as a couple of items with lower prices. There are some fantastic deals on this list. Make sure you check it out ASAP. First-come, first-served! View the entire list on our website. Marching Season Is Here   Fall is here and it’s already week 2 of marching season! Head on over to indianamarching.com to see results from last week and to pick out which show you’re going to see this week!   College Marching Band Preview If you are a fan of the marching arts, it’s hard to beat Indiana. Between drum corps during the summer, marching band in the fall, and winter guard and percussion during the winter and spring, there’s rarely a break between marching seasons. However, it’s easy to forget that there are many great college marching bands in the state. Read more >> Read the entire article on our blog. Product Spotlight & Special Offer: Lalo Quick Mount Practice Pad and Mount Designed in collaboration with Pearl Artist and acclaimed percussionist Lalo Davila, the Lalo Quick Mount Rehearsal Pad provides a convenient way to stay productive during a

Demo Gear/Clearance Items Our demo list has been refreshed for August. Everything has been combined back to one list for your convenience. Plus, we added a few demo items that we’ll be getting from the Yamaha DCI Booth. View the updated list on our website. DCI Championships It’s been an exciting drum corps season and the end is almost here. Make sure you make plans to see some of the action next week as all the corps converge on Indianapolis for the DCI World Championships, where Lucas Oil Stadium will be the center of it all. Plus, Indiana residents can enjoy DCI Finals for only $19, and bring two children under 12 for free! You can find more info on the DCI website. www.dci.org Come visit us in the Vic Firth booth at DCI We’ll be running the Vic Firth booth at DCI, so if you’re attending any of the events inside the stadium, make sure to stop by and say hi! We’ll also have special show pricing on Vic Firth sticks, practice pads, stick bags, t-shirts, and many other items. It would be a great time to try out all the Vic sticks and pads and take something home!

Student Equipment Lists For parents with kids in band for the first time, back to school can be quite confusing (especially with a young percussionist at home). Do you, the teacher, have a required list of sticks and mallets for your percussionists to get? We would love to have a copy of that here at Chops. A list of all of your required implements would be a huge help to us and would ensure that your student gets exactly what they need before their first day of band class. This also helps us with keeping your required implements in stock, so that no child is waiting on sticks or mallets when school starts. I know it’s hard to believe, but the first day of school isn’t that far away. Let’s work together and make sure your student is 100% prepared before they walk into your band room. Please e-mail your list to [email protected] and we’ll do our very best to make sure we have what your student needs in stock. Thanks for the help and enjoy the rest of your summer! Demo Gear/Clearance Items Our demo list has been refreshed for July. Follow the link below to view what’s been

Demo Gear/Clearance Items Our demo list has been refreshed for the June Transmission. New additions include summer concert festival gear from Yamaha and Ludwig/Musser as well as some lightly used Pear gear from the Pacers High Octane Drumline! Follow the link below to view what’s been added and sold! View the list on our website. Todd Sucherman Clinic Gear Sale The Todd Sucherman clinic on May 26th was incredible. And, so was the gear that he played. All of it is now available for sale. Click through to see the list of gear and the pricing. Make sure you visit the store to see the gear setup exactly how he had it at the clinic. Visit the Todd Sucherman clinic gear sale page. Subscribe to our Chops Transmission

Todd Sucherman Clinic – 5/26/16! The amazing Todd Sucherman will be in Chops for a clinic on Thursday, May 26, 2016. Start time will be 6:30pm. Doors will open around 6:00pm. Learn more about Todd Sucherman. Download the event poster. Demo Gear/Clearance Items Our demo list has been refreshed for the May Transmission. We also combined the cymbal demo page with our main demo page. All demo items are now in one place. Follow the link below to view what’s been added and sold! View the list on our website. Remembering Remo Belli By now you have probably heard of the passing of a true innovator in the music world, Remo Belli. There have been a flood of great tributes to him and his career coming across social media. We collected a few that we thought did a good job in telling the story of Remo and everything that he has meant to the world of percussion and beyond. Visit our Remo page. Subscribe to our Chops Transmission

Demo Gear/Clearance Items Our demo list has been refreshed for the April Transmission. Follow the link below to view what’s been added and sold! View the list on our website. Zildjian Demo Cymbals from Midwest Clinic We’ve partnered with Zildjian at the most recent Midwest Clinic to bring you some great prices on the cymbals that were on display in Chicago. Visit the link below to view the list of cymbals that are still available. Visit the list on our website. Mystery Clinician Coming In May! We’re "this close" to locking down a clinician for May, but we can’t quite release the name just yet. Needless to say, you’re going to love it. Watch our Facebook and Twitter pages for the name, date and time over the next few days! 10 Things To Know About Percussion & Winds World Championships Here’s a great article from the WGI Staff that will bring you up to speed in this year’s World Championships for Winds and Percussion. How I Did It: Remo Belli How many of you knew that Remo Belli was an Indiana boy? There’s a whole lot more you’ll learn about him and his company in this INC. article. It’s a

If you aren’t signed up for our Chops Transmission emails, you may be missing out on the most update happenings around the store. Below is the March edition of the transmission. If you don’t receive our emails, you can sign up here! Visit Us At IPA State Prelims and State Finals! Indoor Percussion season is in full swing and we’re proud to once again be the Presenting Sponsor for the Indiana Percussion Association. This weekend starts the march to state finals, with State Prelims and Divisional Finals at Avon High School and Decatur Central High School. Check out the schedules at the links above. An exciting change this year is the move of IPA State Championships to the Hulman Center, on the campus of Indiana State University in Terre Haute. Once this weekend’s preliminary events are complete, the State Finals schedule will be available here. We’ll be running a booth at state prelims (Avon site) and state finals, so if you’re attending either of these, make sure to stop by and say hi! We’ll have lots of sticks, practice pads, mallets, stick bags, t-shirts, and many other items to choose from. It would be a great time to try out

If you aren’t signed up for our Chops Transmission emails, you may be missing out on the most update happenings around the store. Below is the February edition of the transmission. If you don’t receive our emails, you can sign up here! Futureman & Jeff Coffin Clinic at Fishers High School The 5x Grammy Award Winning Drummer of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones and The Black Mozart Ensemble, Futureman (Roy Wooten), will be giving an instructional clinic with Jeff Coffin. Jeff Coffin also plays with Bela Fleck as well as the Dave Matthews Band! The clinic is taking place at Fishers High School on Tuesday, February 23rd at 4:30pm. Don’t miss this opportunity to check out two great musicians! View the flyer here. Demo Gear/Clearance Items Our demo list has been updated. follow the link below to view what’s been added! View the list on our website. Zildjian Demo Cymbals from Midwest Clinic We’ve partnered with Zildjian at this year’s Midwest Clinic to bring you some great prices on the cymbals that were on display in Chicago in December. Visit the link below to view the list of cymbals that are still available. Visit the list on our website.

If you aren’t signed up for our Chops Transmission emails, you may be missing out on the most update happenings around the store. Below is the January edition of the transmission. If you don’t receive our emails, you can sign up here! Demo Gear/Clearance Items It’s a new year and there’s new gear on the demo list. Head on over to the website to view the latest additions. View the entire list on our website. Prepare for Solo & Ensemble With an Adams Practice Marimba The AMPD33R 3.3 octave Academy Marimba with Resonators (above) is designed to be an affordable option for home practice. We have this and other instruments available on our rental program. View the entire list of instruments on our website. Five Ways To Play Like Dave Grohl Here at Chops Percussion we’re big fans of Dave Grohl. Ever since emerging as the hard-hitting drummer of Nirvana, Grohl has been at the forefront of music. In honor of Dave’s birthday last week we put together a quick lesson on five ways to emulate his playing. Visit our blog to check out the lesson.

If you aren’t signed up for our Chops Transmission emails, you may be missing out on the most update happenings around the store. Below is the October edition of the transmission. If you don’t receive our emails, you can sign up here! Demo Gear/Clearance Items – October Updates There’s been a few more additions since last month, including some great deals on marimbas! Check out the current list to see if there’s anything you need for the upcoming indoor season. View the entire list on our website. When Will I Need to Replace or Retune Bars on My Synthetic Bar Instruments?   Occasionally when a school is faced with needing to replace their synthetic bars, or have them retuned, the question pops up of how long they normally last before needing replaced or retuned. There are many factors that go into answering this question, so I contacted our friends at Pearl/Adams, Yamaha and Majestic to get some input on the topic. Read the entire article on our blog. Drum Corps and Winter Drumline Audition Tips A couple of weeks ago Glen wrote an excellent article on how to prepare for a Drum Corps or Winter Drumline audition. Go check out

If you aren’t signed up for our Chops Transmission emails, you may be missing out on the most update happenings around the store.  Below is the September edition of the transmission.  If you don’t receive our emails, you can sign up here! Demo Gear/Clearance Items – September Updates September brings a couple of new items to the list, as well as a couple of items with lower prices. There are some fantastic deals on this list. Make sure you check it out ASAP. First-come, first-served! View the entire list on our website. Marching Season Is Here   Fall is here and it’s already week 2 of marching season! Head on over to indianamarching.com to see results from last week and to pick out which show you’re going to see this week!   College Marching Band Preview If you are a fan of the marching arts, it’s hard to beat Indiana. Between drum corps during the summer, marching band in the fall, and winter guard and percussion during the winter and spring, there’s rarely a break between marching seasons. However, it’s easy to forget that there are many great college marching bands in the state. Read more >> Read the entire article

If you aren’t signed up for our Chops Transmission emails, you may be missing out on the most update happenings around the store.  Below is the August edition of the transmission.  If you don’t receive our emails, you can sign up here! DCI Wrap-Up We had a great time at DCI Championships last week! Thanks to everyone who came by the Vic Firth booth. We had a great time catching up with many of you and hope you had a great time watching the incredible performances throughout the weekend. Congratulations to all performers, staff members and volunteers on a great drum corps season! Here are the official scores from the DCI website. Back-To-School Supply Lists Attention Educators! We’re gathering school supply lists to make it easier for your students and parents to get what they need for school! Send us your required supply lists for your various classes and ensembles and we’ll post them on our website as a quick reference for your students to find what they need! Demo Gear/Clearance Items – August Updates We have accumulated some more items recenty that fall into the Demo category. There are some fantastic deals on this list. Make sure you check it