Simple Steps to Successful Beginning Percussion is Wylie's most popular and best selling text, providing a comprehensive percussion curriculum for beginning percussion students.

Simple Steps starts with basic foundations of grip and technique, and progresses through various skill sets and techniques that build students into well rounded percussionists, instructing students on snare drum, mallets, drum set, bass drum, cymbals, accessories, and world percussion! The book includes many photos, well organized descriptions, easy to read exercises, and lots of musical examples to help students improve.