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Percussion Audition Requirements

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Sight Reading may be requested on any instrument

If you鈥檙e unsure with any of your repertoire, email with Professor Nichols to confirm.听

Snare drum:

  • Long roll, pp-ff-pp, approx. 30 seconds total
  • Perform a solo piece or etude from any of the following composers: Wilcoxon, Pratt, Cirone, Peters, Delacluse, or any repertoire from the FMEA S&E List (grade 4 or higher)

Keyboard:

  • Major Scales with arpeggios, two octaves; full chromatic scale
  • Any 2 or 4 Mallet Etude or Solo from any of the following composers: Peters, Goldenberg, Koshinski, Gottlieb, or any repertoire from the FMEA S&E list (grade 4 or higher)

Timpani:

  • Demonstrate tuning the drums from a pitch source (tuning fork, pitch pipe, mallet instrument)
  • Perform a timpani solo or etude from any of the following composers: Goodman, Peters, Beck, Firth, Gay, Delacluse or any repertoire from the FMEA S&E List (grade 4 or higher)

Drum Set: 听 听 听 听

  • Demonstrate proficiency in multiple styles as follows, performing a minimum of 7 different styles: In each style demonstrate 12 measures of straight time-keeping, move info four measure solo fill, and return to time keeping.
    • Jazz Ballad with brushes
    • Medium tempo swing
    • Up Tempo Swing
    • Samba
    • Bossa Nova
    • Songo
    • Bembe
    • Soca
    • Rock
    • Funk
    • Second Line
    • Jazz - Double Time/Half Time vs Double Time feel/Half Time feel
    • any other styles of your choosing

Contact Director of Bands, Dr. Kyle Prescott (kpresco2@fau.edu)

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