Fall 2025 Drum Line & Front Ensemble Audition Information

2025 Drum Line & Front Ensemble Camps

(Attendance at all camps is mandatory. Exceptions would be for those marching drum corps, or school-related conflicts at the May camp. All absences must be approved prior to camp.)

Summer Weekend Camps
  • Saturday, May 3 - Battery Only
    • This camp will be about meeting the staff and student leaders for the percussion as well as learning the standards and technique we utilize in the MSU Pride Marching Band! (No cuts/moves are made during this camp).
    • While this camp is about learning the ways of our percussion section, having the ability to play the audition material for this camp is heavily encouraged. The faster we can start rehearsing the music and not learning the music, the better off we will be!
  • June Camp - Saturday, June 7-Sunday, June 8  (This will be for battery & front ensemble)
  • July Camp - Saturday, July 19-Sunday, July 20 (This will be for battery & front ensemble)
Sunday, August 10 - Sunday, August 17 - MSU Pride Marching Band Camp
  • This camp will be held the week prior to the first day of classes in August. It encompasses everything from moving to campus, to our first performances the weekend before classes start.

Audition Material:
Battery Audition Material
SNARE EXERCISES TENOR EXERCISES BASS EXERCISES

Fundamentals

Triplet Rolls / audio

Exercise 1 Revised

Exercise 2 Revised

Double Beat

Spider 2.0

Fundamentals

Triplet Rolls / audio

Exercise 1 Revised

Exercise 2 Revised

Quad Exercises

Double Beat

Spider 2.0

Fundamentals

Triplet Rolls / audio

Exercise 1 Revised

Exercise 2 Revised

Double Beat

Spider 2.0

   Cymbal Audition Material
EXERCISES

Please refer to the following videos for proper cymbal technique.

Double Beat

Spider 2.0

 

Flips

Chokes and Crashes

Sounds

The Basics

   Front Ensemble Material

EXERCISES

Block Chords

Collapsing Eights

Maroon Scales

Fight Song

If you have any questions, please email.