TIP is intended to help instructors integrate traditional and new media in private, commercial and institutional teaching situations.

Aiming to advance drum education, the program features free, online resources, support and networking possibilities. TIP has been created by leading educators and professionals, an Advisory Board will provide input and oversight. The Board features a roster of well-known drummers/teachers as well as full time educators, including:

• Carl Allen (artist/educator)
  
• Neil Garthly (Academy of Drums, NJ)
  
• Donny Gruendler (PIT, Hollywood, CA)
  
• Steve Houghton (Indiana University-Bloomington, President PAS)
  
• Sherrie Maricle (Director of Education, New York Pops)
  
• Allison Miller (artist/educator)
  
• Rod Morgenstein (artist/educator)
  
• John Ramsay (Berklee School of Music, Boston, MA)
  
• Peter Retzlaff (Drumers Collective, New York, NY)
  
• Jeff Salem (artist/educator)
  
• Ed Soph (North Texas State University, Denton, TX)

Explains TIP program manager, Mike Sorrentino:

\"By learning how to better utilize a wider variety of contemporary instructional media, teachers will be able to make lessons more fun, interactive, effective and relevant for their students while expanding their teaching practices. In simple terms, TIP is designed to help teachers and their students grow further and faster.\"

The core of the TIP program is a series of downloadable Teacher’s Guides containing in-depth information as well as examples of how to augment book-based learning with a new generation of dvds and other forms of media such as cds, mp3s, audio and video recording. Currently available Guides include:

• The Code of Funk (Book+cd) by David Garibaldi
  
• Musical Drumming dvd) by Gregg Bissonette
  
• Secret Weapons For The Modern Drummer (dvd) by Jojo Mayer
  
• Drumset Technique/History of the U.S. Beat (dvd) by Steve Smith
  
• Groove Essentials 1.0 (dvd & book+cd) by Tommy Igoe

TIP membership is completely free after registration at www.hudsonmusic.com/tip