Quickly! Drum Assigner

If you have 9 percussionists or less in your ensemble, this program is FANTASTIC for assigning parts to players.  It is called Quickly! Drum Assigner and is available for free at bandworld.org.  The online video tutorials that come with it make the learning time super quick.  However, you may find them to be unnecessary since the program is rather intuitive and easy to figure out on your own.  This software is great for bands where percussionists don't always play the same parts on each tune.

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Quickly! Drum Assigner Screenshot

The free version comes with a small amount of pre-loaded percussion tunes, and if you pay the $20 discounted price, you can get about 1,400+ tunes added to the database.  I found that entry of the music was so quick, it was almost just as easy to put them in myself however.

My main criticism of the software is that it does not accomodate any ensembles with over 9 percussionists.  Every one of my ensembles have over 9 players, so this makes the software obsolete for my use.  I've lost hope that there will ever be an update to accomodate more than 9 players, but who knows.