Jon Ortiz is currently pursuing is DMA for Percussion at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Prior to moving back to Texas, Ortiz completed his Masters Degree at Middle Tennessee State University. He is an extremely talented individual with great insight on Texas band culture, standards and benchmarks for teaching and evaluating percussionists, method books, percussion performance, vast musical genres and numerous other topics. In this episode, Ortiz thoroughly runs down the "industry standards" of percussion method books, covering snare, mallets, timpani and auxiliary.

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