Steve Hemphill, Percussion
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    • Study for Pandeiros & Tan-tan - Music Trio
    • Brazilian Funk Study for 2 Pandeiros, Tan-tan, and Caxixi - Music Quartet
    • Brush Textures - Snare Drum Solo
    • Auxiliary - World Percussion Etude - Music for Commerical Percussion (solo)
    • Principles of Calabash - Shekere Trio
    • Caxixi Duet - Music Study
    • Haydn String Quartet No. 13 - for Four Marimbas
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    • Pandeiro - Musical Exercises and Studies
    • Caxixi Exercises
    • Timpani Warm-Up
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Instruction and Assessment

    All percussion students receive instruction by a tenured faculty member (not a graduate teaching assistant)

    Excellent teacher-to-student ratios and faculty access in music

    Frequent guest artist appearances, clinics, and master classes

    Multiple levels of student opportunity; project-based ventures; collaborative performances; programmed
        curricula for listening, composition, self-assessment; professional/business training

    Percussion lessons are taught using instructor's Marimba One 5-octave instrument, Yamaha gold-bar vibraphone,
        Yamaha Birch Custom Absolute drum set, Hinger or Black Swamp concert snare drum
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Students rehearsing "Into the Air" by Ivan Trevino (two 5-octave marimbas) - percussion office