My teachers of note at NIU were
Rich Holly (his chordal approach to music memorization and visualizing the performance),
Mike Steinel (just listening to him play was enough and for allowing me to play behind his AUDITION to NIU - also thanks to Rich for that as well / Trompeter and Brandt were in that combo),
Clifford Alexis (cursory Pan making - I wouldn't pound a garbage can lid without his approval),
G. Allen O'Connor (who taught me that I must strive and continue to keep my ass from engulfing my head - my words, but his philosophy for me)
Robert Chappell (his accuracy approach to music memorization),
Stephen Duke (the art of cock-blocking and yet not offend),
Jim Ross (yes THAT Jim Ross, for his music memorization approach to music memorization),
Peter Middleton (for allowing me to "hang" with the gang on "free" weekends and really absorb recording techniques)
Tom D. Rossing (without your help, my proposal would have sucked, and through his book, the guts to make it a career:
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The Drummers Forum
Ann Montzka (how to have "me" time)
Mark Ott (why practicing music reading is more important than anything else in practicing music)
Paul G. Ross (no relation to JR, except in approach to life in music!),
Dean Groenemier as percussion major (he taught me well, and ye didn't even know it!),
Robert W. (J. Remy's pal) (for his approach to computer programming & World Premiers & being an all around Ensoniq genius! He is probably the first "real" Sample Master, ever.),
Erich Miller & Jim Roberts (for excerpt training skills, and basically shooting heat-sinking missiles at Cloud 9),
Frank Bibb (not taking shit from anyone, but when it really matters - not when I just feel like it most of the time!),
Ron Modell (everything is not as it seems, and the best version of the Aristocrats waaaaay before anyone even heard of the "movie")
The "Paradox" (get it?): Ron Price, PhD. and Eileen Rexroad, PhD (there is that saying, "gettin' back up on that horse", but, sometimes ya just gotta get another horse!)
Robert Fleisher (Instrumental in getting me out of Theory 3/4 Vocal, because he realized I could sing rings around the "other" percussionists - uh, I mean "other" non-vocal majors, sorry. oops.)
The Guy who invented the T.A.P. system..........HA! Take That! Level 5, baby, yeah!
Steve Squires. Wow. The Legend. The Man. The Pot-sticker CHAMP! (really, though, for being able to conduct a tempo and pattern in one hand, and a complete other in the other hand - and mean it!? That is just plain ridiculous, but certainly usable in, say, a production of West Side?)
Carl Roskott. (advice to me - granted at a party - that even the "pros" can suck, hello Pittsburgh ! )
The following is culled from Rich Holly's NIU Percussion syllabi pages.
Rich's "found" and re-"known" links:
Percussive Arts Society YOU MUST JOIN.