064 - Julia Gaines

For this episode, Megan invited her department director, percussionist Dr. Julia Gaines, to join us.  Julia and Megan were both willing to give us an insider's perspective on last year's Mizzou protests. Julia also talks about the transition from percussion professor to administration, as well as the process of creating her marimba method book and 4-mallet level system.



We also talk about our experiences teaching Percussion Methods classes, as graduate assistants and professors.



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0:00 Intro and hello

1:46 James Doyle: There have been so many wonderful percussion educators who have successfully transitioned to administration. I’d be interested in your thoughts on why you chose a similar path, and if you have thoughts as to why percussion educators seem to find success in administration.

4:43 Challenges of being an administrator

9:38 Protests on the Mizzou Campus, department responses, resulting dialogue

20:02 Laurel: Percussion Methods teaching strategies

38:17 Ted Jackson: Would you mind speaking about the idea behind your “Sequential Studies” series and how you are trying to give percussionists the concise structure that we lack unlike pianists and violinist?

51:08 Megan: R!S October / Jojo Mayer, R!Solos, new Executive Director Joshua Simonds

58:31 Julia’s new CD “Tiger Dance”

1:03:23 Wrap