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The purpose of the School of Percussive Arts is to create well versed future drummers and percussionists by providing students with versatile, effective, and successful instruction in conjunction with a thorough curriculum of percussion education. Our focus is on mastery of the fundamentals of music, drumming, listening, and reading music. Student success is cultivated through setting goals and learning to achieve the tasks necessary to reach those goals. The focus on objectives and aspirations will be a useful tool that will empower the student in not only his or her study of music but in many other aspects of life as well.