Major Scales in order of the circle of 4ths for percussion class to quickly get to practicing.
Mallet Exercises
Major Scale Arpeggios in order of the circle of 4ths for percussion class for quick practicing.
Major Scales in Chromatic order -- reorganized from the circle of 4ths for even quicker practice.
Major Green Scales in Chromatic Order for the advanced percussionist. Quickly cover a wide range of technique through extended intervals.
Exceptional mallet percussion exercises from Navy Band Master Chief percussionist, Curt Duer, and an Advanced Green Scale exercise from John Kilkenny. Includes: -Singles -Accuracy -Arpeggio -BGD-BGD-BOP -6-3-2-1 -Advanced Green Scale
Singles is an exercise for mallet percussion that helps players examine their technique on each hand, like 8-on-a-Hand does for drummers. It also is helpful for new players to quickly learn each note on the bottom row of the mallet instruments. From the Marching Band Front Ensemble Warm Ups packet.
BGD-BGD-BOP (biggidy-biggidy-bop) is a 2 mallet exercise based on the chromatic scale. It also helps train players to find target notes in runs. From the Marching Band Front Ensemble Warm Ups packet.
If you have a keyboard player in your front ensemble for marching band, these are what I wrote to help a student transition from mallets to synthesizer for the show music, instead of trying to play the exact same mallet exercises as the rest of the Front Ensemble. Includes: Singles Arpeggio Accuracy Advanced Green Scale 6-3-2-1 BGD-BGD-BOP
This is a mallet exercise arranged for piano or keyboard as a warm up for Marching Band music. From the Marching Band Front Ensemble Warm Ups for Piano packet.
This is a mallet exercise arranged for piano or keyboard for Marching Band. From the Marching Band Front Ensemble Warm Ups for Piano packet.
This is a mallet exercise arranged for piano or keyboard in Marching Band. From the Marching Band Front Ensemble Warm Ups for Piano packet. *Note: instead of the 16th notes the mallet players play, the keyboard player should just practice power chords off of each beat, harmonizing the moving part of the exercise, as the other warm ups work melodic coordination between the fingers.
This is a mallet exercise arranged for piano or keyboard for Marching Band. From the Marching Band Front Ensemble Warm Ups for Piano packet. As the ensemble plays each half of the exercise, the keyboard player should switch hands.
This is a mallet exercise arranged for piano or keyboard in Marching Band. From the Marching Band Front Ensemble Warm Ups for Piano packet. The keyboard player should switch hands every time they repeat the entire exercise, until they have the pattern down extremely fast. Then the keyboard player can try putting his/her hands together.
This is a mallet exercise arranged for piano or keyboard in Marching Band. From the Marching Band Front Ensemble Warm Ups for Piano packet. After being able to play the whole exercise hands together with both hands playing the chromatic scale fingerings, the keyboard player should try just playing intervals of fifths in both hands with his/her pinkies and thumbs for the whole exercise.
This is a drawn out major scale exercise from John Kilkenny's teacher, Greg Zuber, which combines together lots of exercises from Lesson One in George Hamilton Green's method book for Xylophone. Advanced mallet players should try this with different mallet pairings with four mallets as well.




