Recomended Snare drum sticks are
Vic Firth SD1
or
Promark SD1
Recomended Keyboard Mallets are
Balter Mallets B4 (light green) medium rubber mallets
Students will need to purchase a percussion kit.
The brands I recommend are Vic Firth, Yamaha, Innovative Percussion, Ludwig(Musser), or Pearl
A metronome is essential for beginning percussion students. There are a lot of good metronome apps out there. Here is the one I like to use for class.