JASON KIHLE

For my students:

  The following is a list of equipment and literature.  Some is recommended, some is required.  Please know that we must respect copyright laws and copying of music is illegal.  Also know that these are materials for your chosen profession and you should set aside money to purchase the necessary equipment and literature over time.

1 pair of concert snare sticks: IP-JC

1 pair of drum set sticks: IP-JZ

2 pairs of medium marimba mallets

        Any of the following are recommended:

        IP She e-Wu

        IP Thomas Burritt

        IP William Moersch

2 pairs of vibraphone mallets: IP RS-201

1 pair staccato timpani mallets: IP GT-4

1 pair of xylophone mallets: IP 906

1 pair of bell mallets: IP 908

1 pair of triangle beaters: Black Swamp Spectrum SPEC2 5/16" head

2 black towels

Moongels

Mallet bag

Tuning fork

Over the ear headphones (Vic Firth are recommended)

Two pairs of combo drum sticks

Two pairs of big band drum sticks

Two pairs of brushes

Recording device

Access to Spotify or Apple Music

Art Pepper Plus Eleven/Art Pepper/Mel Lewis

Basie Straight Ahead/Count Basie/Harold Jones

Big Swing Face/Buddy Rich

Clifford Brown and Max Roach/Max Roach

Live at MCG/Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra/Jeff Hamilton

Moanin'/Art Blakey

Milestones/Miles Davis/Philly Joe Jones

Monk's Dream/Thelonius Monk/Frankie Dunlop

Shout Me Out/Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra/Jeff Hamilton

We Three/Roy Haynes

The Art of Vibraphone Playing by Buyer and Gottry

Modern School/Goldenberg

Exercises, Etudes and Solos for Timpani/Carroll

The Multiple Percussion Book/Petrella

Stick Control/Stone

Portraits in Rhythm/Cirone

Advanced Snare Studies/Peters

Douze Etudes/Delecluse

The Art of Bop Drumming/Riley

Studio and Big Band Drumming/Houghton

Syncopation/Reed

Marimba

Method of Movement/Stevens
Ideo-Kinetics Workbook/Stout
Four-Mallet Democracy/van Geem

Snare Drum

Contemporary Studies for the Snare Drum/Albright

The Solo Snare Drummer/Firth

Tributes for Snare Drum/Atkatz

Develop Sight Reading for Snare Drum/G. David Peters

Timpani

The Solo Timpanist/Firth

Modern Method for Timpani/Goodman

Studies in Copper/Orfaly

Fundamental Method for Timpani/Peters

Vibraphone

Songs of Venus/Daughtrey 

Vibraphone Technique/Friedman

Drum Set

The Drummer's Bible (Second Edition)/Berry and Gianni

Big Band Drumming/Grassman

Brushworks/Cameron

The Ultimate Play Along for Jazz Drummers/Davis

The Evolution of Jazz Drumming/Gottlieb

Advanced Funk Studies/Latham

Afro-Cuban Rhythms for Drum Set/Malabe and Weiner

Groove Alchemy/Moore

Mel Bay's Studio/Jazz Drum Cookbook/Pickering

The Art of Bop Drumming/Riley

Beyond Bop Drumming/Riley

Jazz Drummer's Workshop/Riley

Pathways of Motion/Smith

World

The Art of Playing Timbales/Rendon

Conga Cookbook/Sanchez

Conga Drummer's Guidebook/Spiro

These are not necessarily pieces you should have played, but you should at least know about them and have looked at them.  

Marimba

Michi/Abe

Suite for Marimba/Fissinger

Monograph IV/Gipson

Toccata Fantasy/Helble

Yellow After the Rain/Peters