If any of you percussionists out there are looking for some daily tips here is a solution. Drum Tip of the Day, associated with Harmony Central.
Let me tell you – the daily tip email is pretty crappy. Ad followed by another ad followed by a useless link, followed by the tip itself, followed by another half page of ads and useless links. I once sent a not-so-nice email to them, asking them if there was anyway for them to stop including all the ads and useless links, but never got a response. Argh. All that stuff frustrates me…but the tip is pretty good.
Another complaint is that they have recently been including reference links in the tip, to online sheet music or something like that. But of course, they suck, so the links don’t ever work…so you never have any idea what they are talking about. Hopefully, they’ll pass through this “stage” of broken links. …they had better…or they might be receiving another not-so-nice email :-).
Anyways, sign up for it. If they don’t have tips that are useful to you for the first few days, stick with it. They seem to do 5-10 tips in a row about any specific field of percussion. For example: jazz drumming, using brushes, four-mallet playing, and hand drums.
Learn something.