Percussion

Faculty: TBA

Enrollment is limited to 12 percussionists

Participate in a variety of ensembles, including a concert band, orchestra, jazz big band and/or combo (all by assignment). Percussionists should be familiar with snare drum, mallet keyboard, timpani, and drum set as well as accessory percussion instruments.

Auditions will be at 15 minute intervals and will include one prepared solo (of your choice) and sight-reading on snare drum, marimba, or timpani and a demonstration of styles on drum set.

Percussion students are involved in two or more of the following: concert band, orchestra, jazz big band, jazz combos, and percussion ensemble. Included will be time for percussion sectionals and master classes to assist in preparation for the student concerts held later in the week.

Skills needed:

Snare drum: ability to demonstrate basic flam and drag rudiments as well as rolls in an open (rudimental) and closed (concert or buzz) style. Sight-reading will be of the level one might find in Portraits in Rhythm by Anthony J. Cirone.

Keyboard percussion: ability to play major and minor scales and arpeggios; read an etude from Musical Studies for the Intermediate Mallet Player by Garwood Whaley or Fundamental Method for Mallets by Mitchell Peters

Timpani: demonstrate ability to tune intervals; facility to move between the drums and demonstrate good tone production of basic stokes and rolls. A sight-reading etude would be of the difficulty level found in Timpani Method by Alfred Friese and Alexander Lepak

Drum set: ability to demonstrate rock, jazz, and Latin styles and interpret a basic chart in a swing style. Demonstrating the ability to play fills and solo ideas and/or "trading fours" is desirable.

Auditions:
Come with one prepared solo on snare drum, timpani, keyboard, percussion or drum set. Time will not allow students to play more than one solo, so choose the instrument that best demonstrates your strengths.

Bring all mallets and sticks needed to sight-read on any of the above mentioned instruments. One pair of drumsticks will not suffice. All of the other instruments will be provided.

Students will be able to focus on both concert music (band and orchestral) and jazz styles. If students are only comfortable in one or the other of these two, we would hope they would be willing to expand themselves. One of the important aspects of this camp is to give students new musical experiences and growth opportunities.

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