Hello all. I spent some time at UNT as a jazz drum set major in the mid 90s and still have my old applied lesson handouts for jazz drum set, snare drum, mallets and timpani. I still use them occasionally for various technique things I want to work on. One day I was feeling nostalgic looking at their website and discovered that the current versions of these (and some older versions via google search) are freely available for download via their website.
Whether or not someone plans to attend UNT or another music school, I think these are valuable not only as a guide perhaps for self-study, but as a way to gain insight into the difficulty level and technical expectations at one of the best drum set/jazz schools in the country. Certainly not a substitute for attending UNT but valuable nonetheless. I had the idea to share this looking at an older thread about "how fast is fast enough?" for rudiments and remembered the chart they gave us with three speed levels for each rudiment (Deficient, Level 1 and Level 2). That chart has always been my guide as far as which rudiments I feel are "together" and which ones need work. Anyway, here are a couple of links if anyone is interested.
List of direct links for various lesson plan PDF files. Note: there are two for drum set...one for jazz majors and one for non-jazz majors (music ed., etc.)
https://percussion.music.unt.edu/student-resources
Here is a google search that turns up some older versions from when Ed Soph was in charge (revision date is usually in upper left corner). Things have changed since then including the applied lesson plans.
https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&ei=V1tGXfbBNsyutQaVuZaYCg&q=unt+percussion+drum+set+pdf&oq=unt+percussion+drum+set+pdf&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i71l3.0.0..432649...0.0..0.0.0.......0......gws-wiz.jbyDdf05_Zc&ved=0ahUKEwi2yaf6rOjjAhVMV80KHZWcBaMQ4dUDCAo&uact=5
Whether or not someone plans to attend UNT or another music school, I think these are valuable not only as a guide perhaps for self-study, but as a way to gain insight into the difficulty level and technical expectations at one of the best drum set/jazz schools in the country. Certainly not a substitute for attending UNT but valuable nonetheless. I had the idea to share this looking at an older thread about "how fast is fast enough?" for rudiments and remembered the chart they gave us with three speed levels for each rudiment (Deficient, Level 1 and Level 2). That chart has always been my guide as far as which rudiments I feel are "together" and which ones need work. Anyway, here are a couple of links if anyone is interested.
List of direct links for various lesson plan PDF files. Note: there are two for drum set...one for jazz majors and one for non-jazz majors (music ed., etc.)
https://percussion.music.unt.edu/student-resources
Here is a google search that turns up some older versions from when Ed Soph was in charge (revision date is usually in upper left corner). Things have changed since then including the applied lesson plans.
https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&ei=V1tGXfbBNsyutQaVuZaYCg&q=unt+percussion+drum+set+pdf&oq=unt+percussion+drum+set+pdf&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i71l3.0.0..432649...0.0..0.0.0.......0......gws-wiz.jbyDdf05_Zc&ved=0ahUKEwi2yaf6rOjjAhVMV80KHZWcBaMQ4dUDCAo&uact=5