Who We AreWe are Band Directors with percussion expertise. We know many directors don't have lesson teachers and specialists to help their percussionists and that they don't have lots of time to do sectionals. We have put together many helpful techniques from our years of teaching that will help band directors find ways to help their young percussionists succeed through teaching in regular band class settings as well as sectional time.
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John Hearnes
Originally from Cape Girardeau, MO, John R. Hearnes is an associate band director at Oakland Middle School in Rutherford County, TN. He has taught middle school since 2001. Mr. Hearnes received his BME from Middle Tennessee State University in 2001 studying under Lalo Davila and his masters degree from Bryan College in 2020. Mr. Hearnes completed his EDS in 2021. Considered a total percussionist, Mr. Hearnes finds himself at home on all aspects of percussion, including snare drum, timpani, mallets, drum set, Latin percussion, marching percussion, and world percussion. An avid composer and arranger, Mr. Hearnes currently has 100+ individual publications with Row-Loff Productions, including both marching and concert literature. Making him one of the companies most prolific composers. He is the author of "The Mallet Player’s Toolbox," a beginning method book by RLP. He is an Innovative Percussion and Mapex/Majestic artist. Mr. Hearnes has presented sessions at the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic, 2014 NAfME National In-Service Conference, the 2013 and 2015 ASBDA Region V conferences, TnMEA Conference (including upcoming in 2023), TN PAS, and at district meetings and state conventions in TN, MO, and KY. Mr. Hearnes lives in Murfreesboro, TN, with his wife and two sons.
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David England
David England currently teaches the Blackman Middle School Band in Murfreesboro, TN where he was selected as Teacher of the Year in 2008 and 2017. The BMS percussion section has performed at TN PAS and TnMEA where they will perform again in 2023. He has been teaching middle school band since 1994. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1994 where he studied with Lalo Davila. Since 1993, David has been the percussion arranger and an instructor at Father Ryan High School in Nashville, TN. Father Ryan has won three WGI World Championships and has been a perennial WGI Finalist, medalist and a fan favorite. Father Ryan is also a three-time winner of the PASIC indoor marching percussion standstill competition as well as several local and state awards. David is a composer for Row-Loff Productions and an artist with Innovative Percussion and Mapex/Majestic. He is an active clinician having presented at the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic, NAfME National Conference, ASBDA Regional conference, TnMEA Conference, TN PAS, and many others. David is also a very active adjudicator for marching bands and indoor percussion/winds in several circuits. David marched with the Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps. He also served as an instructor for the Dutch Boy Drum and Bugle Corps and was the percussion supervisor and percussion arranger for the Music City Drum and Bugle Corps from Nashville, TN for 2017 and 2018. David and his wife Jennifer have four children, Breanna, Aaron, Angel and Damien, and two grandchildren, Aliza Dimple and John David.
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