We suggest that you choose material from the following list that best demonstrates your abilities. We also encourage potential percussion majors to prepare material in all areas in which they feel comfortable, but we realize that many students will enter college with deficiencies in one or more areas.
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Snare
- Solos/etudes- select from
- Missouri All-state Audition List
- Missouri Percussion Solo List
- Concert
- Fred Albright- Contemporary Studies for the Snare Drum
- Anthony Cirone- Portraits in Rhythm
- Jacques Delécluse, Keiskleiriana 1 or 2; 12 Studies for Snare Drum
- Colgrass- Six Unaccompanied Solos
- Rudimental
- Freytag- Rudimental Cookbook (choose one)
- Freytag- Just Desserts (choose one)
- Other
- Ziggadabuzz (choose one
- Basic rudiments and orchestra-style rolls at various dynamic levels
- Sight-reading in concert and/or rudimental style
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Timpani
- Solos/etudes- select from:
- Missouri All-state Audition List
- Missouri Percussion Solo List
- Vic Firth: Solo Timpanist
- Saul Goodman- Modern Method for Timpani
- Raynor Carroll- Exercises, Etudes and Solos for the Timpani
- Fred Hinger- Technique for the Virtuoso Tympanist
- Other
- Demonstrate ability to tune four drums, preferably from a single pitch
- Rolls at various dynamic levels
- Sight-reading
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Keyboard
- Solos/etudes- select from
- Two-mallet etudes
- Missouri All-state Audition List
- Missouri Percussion Solo List
- Goldenberg- Modern School for Xylophone, Marimba, and Vibraphone
- Andrew Reamer- Reamer’s Elixirs (pick two)
- Four-mallet etudes
- Bart Quartier- Image (pick two)
- Peters- Yellow After the Rain
- Gomez- Mbira Song, Etude in D Minor, Marimba Flamenca
- Other
- All major scales, minimum of two octaves, plus all major arpeggios, minimum of two octaves
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Set
- Demonstration of basic styles: medium swing, up-tempo swing, rock, bossa nova, and samba. Time keeping and soloing in each style.
- Sight-reading