Percussion Equipment
BASIC PERCUSSION STICK AND MALLET REQUIREMENT BY YEAR
Georgia College Department of Music
Freshmen: You should have at least this equipment when you come to school
Equipment | Recommended: (any of these are ok) |
Choose one from each category | |
Basic stick bag | Steve Weiss pro stick bag – 18" X 22" or |
Promark DSB1 Deluxe-14" X 17" or | |
Promark JSB5 Jumbo – 17" X 19" or | |
snare sticks | Firth General SD1 or |
Cooperman "Mike Rosen #6" or | |
Promark TX2B – Hickory | |
Marimba mallets (2 pair) | Mike Balter Ensemble series -13 blue yarn w/ birch handles or |
Mike Balter Ultimate series – 113 blue cord with birch handles or | |
Steve Weiss R3 med hard marimba | |
Timpani mallets | Firth VFT1 general mallets or |
Balter MBT3 general mallets or | |
Black Swamp David Gross DG2 general or | |
Encore Payson General T103 |
SOPHOMORE YEAR ADD THE FOLLOWING:
Equipment | Recommended: |
Choose at least one from each category if more than one is listed | |
snare sticks | Promark RB or |
Regal Tip 5A or 7A nylon tip | |
xylophone mallets | Musser M4 or |
Malletech Or42B or | |
Mike Balter black birch 04BB med | |
Bell mallets | Musser M24 or |
Malletech Or39R or | |
Musser M1 yellow (soft) | |
Timpani mallets | Firth T2 Cartwheel or |
Balter legato mallet or | |
Encore Payson soft mallet T104 |
JUNIOR YEAR ADD THE FOLLOWING:
Snare sticks | Firth Bolero sticks SD2 |
marimba mallets | Balter 84 B medium soft blue and Balter xsoft burgundy |
xylophone mallets | Balter Grandioso Unwound XL Birch – Med. Lgreen rubber (Bal-104B) |
Timpani mallets | Firth American Custom Timpani – Staccato (VIC-VFT3) or Saul Goodman Timpani mallets - #2 Staccato (CAL-602sg) |
Specialty sticks, brushes, bass drum mallets, gong mallet, triangles, triangle beaters, etc. |
SENIOR YEAR ADD THE FOLLOWING:
Snare sticks | Any that you want for your own personal playing. |
marimba mallets | get a second pair of each of the mallets listed in the junior year so that you have two pairs of each hardness of mallet: Balter 84 B medium soft blue and Balter xsoft burgundy |
Xylophone mallets | Balter Grandioso Unwound XL Birch hard Grey rubber (BAL 1065B) AND Balter Grandioso Unwound XL Birch soft tan rubber (BAL 102B) |
Bells | Balter Grandioso Unwound XL Birch – Hard 7/8" brass (BAL 109B) |
Timpani mallets | Firth American Custom wood mallet (VIC VFT 5) |
