Note Expedition
A room-wide melody hunt for beginning keyboard percussion. 17 printable PDFs.
Praxis Percussion
Teaching resources.
Software.
Built for percussion.
Praxis Percussion is built for the people who teach percussion: workspaces for the business and teaching side of the work, teaching resources from Praxis Percussion Press, and free practice tools that need no account.
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MS Assessment 3-Pack
Snare, keyboard and timpani assessments. Printable sheets, fillable PDFs, pass-off cards and projector slides.
Preview MS assessmentsHS assessments and trackers
HS Assessment 4-Pack: four print-and-write playing assessments. HS Tracking 2-Pack: two trackers. The HS Complete 6-Pack combines both packs in one purchase.
Choose an HS bundleAlso available: Level 1 Written Tests, eight written tests with answer keys. Explore teaching resources, including upcoming books — the first books in Praxis Percussion Pathways, the percussion curriculum we are building.
One percussion-first platform
Three workspaces. Three clear jobs.
Choose the workspace that matches the work.
Praxis Percussion Tech
For independent percussion technicians: clients, services, an editable AI draft of each recap, and invoice records.
$7/month or $70/year
Praxis Percussion Studio
For private educators: scheduling, lesson plans, observations, assignments and progress from one lesson to the next.
$15/month or $144/year
Praxis Percussion Program
For school percussion directors: adult operations in Program Core, including rehearsals, concerts, instruments and rubrics. It holds no learner records. Public Program signup, checkout, and billing remain closed.
$295/year or $29/month for one program · reviewed access opens a 30-day trial
Tech stands alone. Studio includes Tech for the purchasing educator. Program is bought on its own. Compare all three · Pricing & availability
See the Studio app list Names only
This list comes from the same catalog that drives the signed-in workspace. Access still depends on the workspace and the educator's role.
Evidence without overclaiming
A browser can hear a keypress. It cannot hear a rudiment.
Praxis Percussion reports what an activity actually observed and keeps teacher verification separate. Your judgment is not a fallback—it is the part that decides.
Software can report
Answer accuracy, selected responses, trigger order, missed inputs, and the limits of that evidence.
The educator still judges
Tone, timing, grip, rebound, musical intent, physical technique, and whether the performance passes.
Adult operational records only in Tech
Tech does not collect student-private information. Private provider notes never become shared recaps automatically.
Support access needs your approval
If Praxis Percussion support ever needs to open your workspace to help, nothing is readable until your organization's owner approves the request — the grant expires on its own and every one is logged. The Privacy Statement spells it out.
Clear promises about what you can use today
Every Studio workspace starts in fictional-data mode; private studio owners can activate real student records inside the workspace after accepting the applicable terms. One page carries every price, trial, and release state: Pricing & availability.
Calendar sync
Your lessons, on the calendar you already check.
A teacher can connect their Google or Outlook calendar and see their Praxis Percussion teaching schedule alongside the rest of their week.
Praxis Percussion writes to a calendar it creates
Connecting creates one new calendar in the teacher's account and writes lesson times and cancellations into it — never into the calendars a teacher already keeps. On Google, the requested permission is limited to calendars the app itself created.
Changes come back
Move a lesson in the connected calendar and the new time is reflected in Praxis Percussion, so there is one schedule rather than two drifting copies.
Disconnect anytime
Disconnecting is available in the app, without contacting support, and destroys the stored credential rather than deactivating it.
What is stored for a connected account, what leaves Praxis Percussion, and how to ask for deletion are covered in the Privacy Statement.
Free practice tools
Focused practice tools are free and account-free.
Backwerd Rhythm Shop is separate from Studio: percussion web apps and classroom-ready printable resources that open without an account. They stand on their own. Praxis Percussion Studio is the connected workspace built around teaching.
Free percussion apps and printable classroom resources
No Praxis Percussion account required for independent use
Useful on their own
Separate from the hosted Studio workspace
Look around first
Try the tools without an account.
The practice hub uses fictional records and makes no changes. It does not indicate that learner or family access is released.
Account-free practice
Try the student tools
Open the practice hub and use the focused activities without signing in.
No accountTry Praxis Percussion Program
Compare fictional Cityville and Townview program models. Adult operations only — rehearsals, programming, library, inventory, and rubrics.
For district reviewersReview before you sign anything
The whole district-facing record plus a downloadable packet. A review workspace holds no student record and cannot switch student features on.
Want a closer look? Explore Studio today, read how each workspace works one job at a time, or request a Program trial.
Start with what is ready
Find what you need for your next class.
Shop printable teaching resources, or compare workspaces for the ongoing work of teaching and running a program. Run the program. Keep the standards. Get your life back.
Praxis Percussion is a Backwerd Rimshot, LLC product, operated from Fort Worth, Texas.
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