Cort McClaren returns to talk about his middle school and high school teaching and his teaching philosophies (02:15), the teaching expectations in front of an ensemble, not playing your “hottest Licks”, my recent performance at NCPP 2022, and “how to bow and accept applause” (15:00), graduate student rep class, dissertation coaching, and learning how to write and think (30:00), starting the National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy (NCPP) (41:40), studying and teaching at Oklahoma University with Richard Gipson and having to buy a computer in the mid-1980s (54:20), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including sections on impressions (of him, by me), swimming during his childhood, and the author CJ Box (01:13:15).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2022 film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (01:33:20).

Links:

Part 1 with Cort McClaren

Cort McClaren’s C. Alan bio

Leigh Howard Stevens

Nathan Daughtrey’s most recent podcast appearance

Laura Franklin’s 2016 podcast appearance

Jeff Calissi’s 2017 podcast appearance

Danny Frye’s 2017 podcast appearance

Richard Gipson

P. Thomas Tallarico

Dennis Fisher

Joseph Shively

Lisa Rogers 2017 podcast appearance

Lance Drege’s 2017 podcast appearance

“Send in the Clowns” - Stephen Sondheim

Brian West

Dr. Zhivago trailer

The Joe Pickett series - CJ Box

BF Skinner

“Misty” - Errol Garner

“Misty” - Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry

Raves:

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent trailer

A Landmark Episode means a Landmark Guest!  Pete’s Grad School (UNCG) Mentor Cort McClaren stops by to talk about his text The Book of Percussion Pedagogy and its beginnings (04:30), his effective way of running repertoire class (21:40), how his ideas of pedagogy and musicianship developed from his musical training in Hutchinson, Kansas, studying at Wichita State (KS) with J.C. Combs, teaching swimming lessons in high school, and watching other types of musical ensembles rehearse (33:00), the “push down” principle to performance and music learning, and the “four levels” (52:00), the beginnings of C. Alan Publications (01:03:15), and moving away from his active performing career while seeing that he was “born to be a teacher” (01:16:00).

Finishing with a professional Announcement and a Request (01:25:55).

Links:

Cort McClaren’s composer page at C. Alan Publications

C. Alan Publications

The Book of Percussion Pedagogy - Cort McClaren

National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy (NCPP)

Nathan Daughtrey on the podcast in 2020

Laura Franklin on the podcast in 2016

Teaching Percussion - Gary Cook

Percussion in the School Music Program - Al Payson

“Yellow After the Rain” - Mitchell Peters

J.C. Combs

Concertino for Marimba - Paul Creston

Manhattanville Music Curriculum Project (MMCP)

An Actor Prepares - Constantin Stanislavski

Inside the Actors Studio

Labanotation

Diabolic Variations - Raymond Helble

OU Percussion Press

Paschal Dances - David Gillingham

Stained Glass - David Gillingham

Heroes, Lost and Fallen - David Gillingham

Concerto for Marimba, Third Movement - David Long

Randy Kohlenberg

Mosaic (Professional Composer)

Raves:

PASIC 2022

Georgia-Based Percussion Performer, Specialist, Educator and Media Company Owner Marcus Hawkins stops by to talk about his various gigs and work with Drum Corps (02:40), his professional beginnings and the finer points of playing drumset (14:50), Marcus Hawkins Media and working through the pandemic (22:10), growing up in Georgia, his early music training in church and early years with Winter Guard and Drum Corps (44:10), his undergrad years at Jacksonville State University and gigging outside for college (01:00:45), his post college life (01:15:50), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions on the techniques of sound, Outkast, great books and Yebba (01:21:40).

Finishing with a Rave of Appreciation for the passing of Long Island Youth Orchestra (LIYO) Emeritus Director Martin Dreiwitz (01:55:00).

Links:

Marcus Hawkins’ website

ALLIANCE Drum and Bugle Corps

Atlanta CV

Chris Romanowski

Spirit of Atlanta Drum Corps

Marcus Hawkins’ YouTube page

Logic Pro

MainStage

Ableton

Final Cut Pro

Avid

Matthew Jordan on the podcast

Music City Mystique

“Virginia Tate” - Paul Smadbeck

Speakerboxx/The Love Below - Outkast

Soul Food - Goodie Mob

Dungeon Family - WitchDoctor

Lost - Eightball

“Blessed” - Fred Hammond

Clint Gillespie

Tracy Tyler

JSU Marching Southerners Showcase 2021

“Funky Drummer” - Daru Jones

Donuts - J Dilla

Things Fall Apart - The Roots

Black Messiah - D’Angelo

Jacob Collier Tiny Desk concert

Megan Arns on the podcast

50 First Dates trailer

High School Musical trailer

Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller

12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson

“Creep” - Radiohead

“The National Anthem” (Live) - Radiohead

Clausula

Species Counterpoint

“Hyperballad” - Björk

Olafur Arnalds

Yebba Tiny Desk Concert

Raves:

Long Island Youth Orchestra

Obituary of Martin Dreiwitz

Recent Mizzou Percussion Graduate Jordan Nielsen returns to talk more about working with his fellow grad assistants and working on difficult chamber music (02:30), the “portfolio career” he’s putting together in town in the near future (12:40), and the Random Ass Questions segment, including discussions of cymbal technique, being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, the A.P.E.X. series from Southern Utah University, and some great movies and TV shows (23:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the Charles Dickens classic David Copperfield (01:00:00).

Links:

Jordan Nielsen’s webpage

Part 1 with Jordan Nielsen on the podcast

“Torque” - Vijay Iyer

Missouri Contemporary Ballet

“Kyoto” - John Psathas

Hickman High School Bands

Clip Walker on the podcast

Vento Music and Visual Design

The Missouri Symphony

Brandon Boyd

Symphony No. 9 - Antonin Dvorak

Scheherazade - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

blue cathedral - Jennifer Higdon

Marie Osmond

Heartland Marimba

Mizzou international Composers Festival

Alarm Will Sound

Keith Also on the Podcast

Angelica Negron

Cameron Monaghan

Shameless trailer

Shattered trailer

Gotham trailer

Ex Machina dance scene

A.P.E.X. Lecture Series

Lynn Vartan on the podcast

Zainab Salbi

Women For Women International

Ask A Mexican - Gustavo Arellano

Springfield Confidential - Mike Reiss

Bad Blood - John Carreyrou

The Dropout trailer

Tarzan soundtrack

The Lion King soundtrack

Game of Thrones trailer

The Vampire Diaries trailer

Xanadu trailer

The Vatican Art Collection

Missouri State Capital

Fun Home trailer

Raves:

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

2022 Master’s of Music in Percussion Performance Mizzou graduate Jordan Nielsen stops by to talk about literature from his recitals (03:00), working with composers through Mizzou’s New Music Ensemble (11:00), thoughts about graduate school and careers in the arts (28:40), staying on for a third year (40:30), growing up in Utah and his early music career (47:00), and his undergrad years at Southern Utah University and getting connected to Mizzou (01:08:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick (01:29:20).

Links:

Jordan Nielsen’s website

Megan Arns on the podcast

Stephen Landy on the podcast

“Child of Tree” - John Cage

“No Wind, No Rain, Just a Subtle Mist” - Joe W. Moore III

“In the Fire of Conflict” - Christos Hatzis

“Kyoto” - John Psathas

“Falling Embers” - Ella Macens

“The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” - Annika Socolofsky

“Luminosity” - Tomasz Golinski

“Gravity” - Mark Mellits

Heartland Marimba Quartet

“Aphasia” - Mark Applebaum

Karli Viña on the podcast

Jacob Druckman

Pedro Zamora

Keep the Cameras Rolling: The Pedro Zamora Way

“minipops 67” - Aphex Twin/Alarm Will Sound

Carolina Heredia

Piano Concerto No. 1 - Sergei Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto No. 2 - Sergei Rachmaninov

Symphony No. 2 - Gustav Mahler

“Don’t Stop Believing” - GLEE

Lynn Vartan on the podcast

“Wild Rose” - Ivana Bilic

“Fractalia” - Owen Clayton Condon

Bryce Canyon

Zion National Park

“Etude in E Minor” - Pius Cheung

“Blue Ridge” - Michael Burritt

“Departures” - Emmanuel Sejourne

“Into the Air” - Ivan Trevino

“Tantrum” - Kevin Bobo

“Tajin” - James Campbell

“Toccata” - Anna Ignatowicz

“The Gender of Metal” - Casey Cangelosi

“The Big Audition” - Casey Cangelosi

Transient Canvas

World Percussion Group

Raves:

Top Gun: Maverick trailer

Part 2 of our conversation with Percussionist Stephen Landy opens with a discussion of Stephen’s time in undergrad at the University of North Florida (02:15), getting to Mizzou for grad school and some of what he learned there (18:00), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions, with topics involving rehearsal etiquette, Anime, Star Wars, assorted sports fandoms, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and that time he wore a robe to play marimba (33:25).

Finishing with a Rave on Claude Monet’s Water Lilies (01:04:00).

Links:

Stephen Landy in Part 1

Robert McCormick

Charlotte Mabrey

Andrea Venet on the Podcast

Kevin Garry

Escape Ten

Megan Arns on the podcast

“Spine” - Michael Laurello

Erin Bodnar

“Rebonds b+a” - Iannis Xenakis

Troy Hall on the podcast

Get Back trailer

“Stairway to Heaven” - Led Zeppelin

“Fool in the Rain” - Led Zeppelin

“Rosanna” - Toto

Naruto vs. Sasuke final battle

Tracy McGrady Orlando Magic highlights

Dwight Howard Orlando Magic highlights

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Pokémon

Pirates of the Caribbean trailer

Star Wars soundtrack

The Mandalorian trailer

Lord of the Rings soundtrack

Seinfeld

Spongebob Squarepants

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Charlie Day

Raves:

Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies”

2022 Mizzou Masters of Music in Percussion Graduate Stephen Landy stops by to talk about his Master’s Degree recital (03:00), playing in the New Music Ensemble at Mizzou (16:10), staying around for a third year (25:40), the challenges of learning brand new music all the time (36:40), and growing up in “Space Coast” Florida, his early guitar playing days, and the greatness of both Ringo Starr and all of The Beatles (42:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 film The Lost Daughter (01:07:00).

Links:

Stephen Landy’s Biography on the Odyssey Chamber Music Series

“Three Moves” - Paul Lansky

“I Dream of the Moon” - Keeghan Fountain

“Wavelengths” - Joe W. Moore III

“Shell” - Emma O’Halloran

“sympathy” - Evan Chapman

“Shady Run” - Stephen Landy

Megan Arns on the podcast

Connor Stevens on the podcast

So Percussion Summer Institute

Firebird Suite - Igor Stravinsky

Mizzou New Music Ensemble

Jordan Nielsen

“Blue Ridge” - Michael Burritt

“Chromeo” - Andrea Venet

“8 on Three and 9 on Two” - Robert Marino

“TORQUE” - Vijay Iyer

“Kyoto” - John Psathas

Kevin Garry

Merritt Square Mall

Jimmy Page playing with violin bow

Jon Bonham drum solo

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” - Nirvana

Guitar with feet percussion

Pete Best playing drumset

Get Back documentary

Ringo Starr tribute

Raves:

The Lost Daughter trailer

Jacksonville State University (AL) Percussion Professor Matthew Jordan stops by to talk about his position at JSU and the coordination of the large studio there (02:20), his Drum Corps teaching, work schedules with Bluecoats, and freelance performance work (20:00), growing up in Nashville, TN, his musical family, boy scouts, BMX biking, and getting into DCI as a performer (36:55), going to Middle Tennessee State for undergrad (50:10), North Texas for the master’s (56:16), Florida State for his doctorate, working at MTSU, and his time working at Pearl/Adams (01:04:50), and finishing up with the Random Ass Questions, including discussions of movies, books, and that time he stumbled into his solo xylophone concerto performance (01:24:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the recently concluded 2022 National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy in Memphis, TN (01:51:30).

Links:

Matthew Jordan’s website

Matthew Jordan’s Jacksonville State page

Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps

Music City Mystique

Spirit of Atlanta

Andrew Lynge

Clint Gillespie

Brant Blackard

Tony McCutcheon

Emrah Kotan

JSU’s Marching Southerners

Randy Nelson

Shane Gwaltney

Sean Womack

Cavaliers DBC

Scott Johnson

Paul Rennick

Sandi Rennick

Santa Clara Vanguard

Raves:

National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy website

Freelancing Vibraphonist, Percussionist, and Composer Jen Martinez-Bre stops by to talk about gigging in South Florida, the PAS Diversity Panel at PASIC 2021, and challenges of various vibraphones (02:00), growing up in Florida, studying percussion and audio engineering in college, pandemic-related issues, and unusual requests from playing corporate gigs (44:55), and stays for the Random Ass Questions (01:20:00).

Finishing with a Rave on a recent live performance by The Mavericks (01:52:55).

Links:

Jen Martinez-Bre’s website

PAS Diversity Alliance

Elizabeth DeLamater’s 2021 visit on the podcast

The Center for Mallet Percussion Research - Kutztown University (PA)

Sasha Berliner

Giant Steps - John Coltrane

Warren Wolf

“Genie in a Bottle” - Christina Aguilera

Valerie Naranjo

Sausage Party trailer

The Food that Built America trailer

Modern School for Xylophone, Marimba and Vibraphone - Morris Goldenberg

More Myself: A Journey - Alicia Keys

Chris Bosh

Dafnis Prieto and Michel Camilo

Dawn FM - The Weeknd

Thriller - Michael Jackson

Quincy Jones

Raves:

The Mavericks 2022 Tour

Greenville (SC)-based Percussion Freelancer, Educator and Performer Layne Mauldin stops by to talk about her job as Educational Engagement Coordinator for DRUM Percussion Studio, teaching at Clemson University and Erskine College (SC), working for SC PAS, and teaching in local schools (03:00), her work with the Catch 22 Duo with Emily Salgado (27:40), the recent PAS Regional Day of Percussion In North Carolina (32:40), growing up in Rock Hill (SC), giving us an outline sketch of her career, getting her first drumset, and her years horseback riding (41:00), going to Clemson University for undergrad and studying with Paul Buyer (01:01:40), going to Ohio State to study with Susan Powell and Joseph Krygier, learning the idea of transferability, and her experiences living in “The North” (01:12:10), dealing with issues of burnout (01:23:15), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions, including portions on female-identifying percussionists, Glennon Doyle, Clemson Football, and various enjoyable book series (01:32:25).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 film Petite Maman (02:05:20).

Links:

Layne Mauldin’s homepage

DRUM Percussion Studio

Layne Mauldin’s Artifact Percussion page

Jesse Willis

Emily Salgado on the Podcast

Drew Tucker

Greensboro Cultural Center

Lamon Lawhorn’s 2020 Podcast visit

Eric Willie

Susan Powell

Joseph Krygier

Paul Buyer

“Hold My Hand” - Hootie and the Blowfish

“Sadie Hawkins Dance” - Relient K

Barrel Racing

“Virginia Tate” - Paul Smadbeck

The Moeller Technique

Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer - Jim Chapin

Buddy Rich Bus Tapes

“Concert Suite for Snare Drum” - Eckhard Kopetzki

“Etude No. 1” - Vic Firth

“Cold Pressed” - Dave Hollinden

Kris Keeton

Scott Herring

Cort McClaren

Clemson University Choirs

GIrls March

The Emperor’s New Groove trailer

Halloween (1978) trailer

Rob Zombie’s Halloween trailer

Teeth trailer

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

A Song of Fire and Ice - George R.R. Martin

The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan

Untamed - Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach

Cara Wildman on the Podcast

Raves:

Petite Maman trailer