There are thousands of amazing music schools around the world. How are prospective undergraduate and graduate students supposed to filter out this seemingly endless list of schools to find the ones that best fit their needs?

For any serious snare drummer, practicing and mastering snare drum rudiments are a must.

Memorizing information can often be a tedious and annoying task. For me, the epitome of this was trying to memorize translations for my freshman year Spanish course. When I tell you that I was awful at Spanish, I am not exaggerating.

Good time and rhythm can be elusive. However, I think everyone can agree that working with a metronome is paramount to developing these skills.

Ah, yes. The snare drum, my first musical love. It was the first instrument to really grab my attention and it totally pushed me over the edge after watching the local high school drumline play.