Audition Requirements 

Woodwind, Brass, and Mallet Percussion Students will perform:

• 12 Major Scales and the Chromatic Scale (3 minute time limit). 

  • • • • Perform scales in the Circle of 5ths beginning on Concert F.

• Two Prepared Pieces (Links Below) 

• Sightreading

• Mallet Percussion students will also need to prepare a short excerpt on snare drum (See below).
  Mallet Percussion Snare Excerpt for 1st Round Auditions

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Snare and Tenor Drum Percussion Students will perform:

• Five Stroke Roll 

• Inverted Flam Tap 

• Flam 

• Long Roll 

• Flam Accent 

• Nine Stroke Roll 

• Flam Drag 

• Paradiddle 

• Flam Tap 

• Paradiddle-diddle (not alternated, right hand lead every time) (ex. rlrrllrlrrllrlrrllrlrrll)
  
  Rudiments will be timed to not more than one minute per rudiment.
  YOU MUST OPEN AND CLOSE EACH RUDIMENT IN ONE (1) MINUTE
  
  

• Two Prepared Pieces (Links Below) 

• Sightreading

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