Percussion Audition Repertoire

All Music Majors

• Snare Drum - Applicant must be able to demonstrate the following:

• One rudimental solo from any of the following authors: Harr, Wilcoxon, Pratt, etc.

• One concert solo from any of the following authors: Cirone, Podemski, Albright, etc.

• A loud closed roll

• A soft closed roll

• Playing of the following rudiments from memory:

• Flam accent #1 and 2

• Flam paradiddle

• Flamacue

• Flamtaps

• Ratamacues

• Triple Ratamacues

• Timpani - Applicant must be able to:

• Tune two drums a fourth and fifth apart

• Perform a solo from any of the following authors: Firth, Goodman, etc.

• Keyboard Mallet - Applicant must be able to demonstrate the following:

• All major scales one octave

• A two octave chromatic scale

• Two octave major and minor arpeggios in all inversions in all keys

• A two or four mallet solo of your choice

• Drum Set (optional)

• Swing patterns, funk patterns, Latin patterns

Minors, Merit and Honors

• Same snare drum requirement as major

• Tune timpani to intervals of P5 and P4

• Two octave scales on a keyboard mallet instrument up to 4 sharps and 4

• ​Keyboard Mallets
  
• A two and a four mallet solo, preferably from a recent senior recital.
• Three xylophone excerpts.
• Three bell excerpts
•  Sight-reading
• Timpani
•  A four-drum timpani solo 
  
• Four timpani excerpts.
• Snare Drum
  
• Two solo snare drum pieces, one in a rudimental style, and one in concert style.
• Four snare drum excerpts. 
• Sight-reading
• Drumset (percussion studio GA only)
• Demonstrate proficiency, particularly in Caribbean grooves