Welcome to the WCU Drumline online audition page!!
Please post your individual "unpublished" Youtube or Vimeo links in the appropriate spaces below. Please make 3 separate videos for Part 1.
Instructions for how to upload videos to youtube can be found here.
Instructions for how to upload videos to vimeo can be found here.
General instructions about the actual process can be found here.
If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to Matt Henley directly: mhenley@email.wcu.edu
All submissions are due by 5:00pm on Wednesday, June 17th.
Part 1: Music - Separate Videos
"Loosey Lucy"
"5-7-9"
"Bisquitz"
"There it is"
"WCU Fanfare"
"PB Boogie/Spyder"
"Gravy" (snare and bass only)
"Trolls" (bass only)
** Snare and Quads - play solo. However, Bass Drums & Cymbals - please play the part that you would prefer, along WITH the mp3 recording of the exercises. It would be great if you could have the viewer (me) be able to hear you and the recording simultaneously. If not, just wear headphones/buds.
Part 2: Vocabulary
Resource Page:
https://hub.yamaha.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PERC10050-Percussion-Rudiments-Poster-1.pdf
Drums: One Video
Play each rudiment at the fastest tempo that you can comfortably play with strong technique, without sacrificing rhythmic integrity or quality of sound. I would much rather see great quality with slower tempos than bad quality fast... Speed is just a bonus.
Play 16 of each
- Flam Taps
- Flam Accents
- Flam Drags
- Flam Accents with Cheese
- Flam Fives
- Pataflafla Right Hand Lead
- Pataflafla Left Hand Lead
- Cheese Pataflafla Right Hand Lead
- Cheese Pataflafla Left Hand Lead
- Single Paradiddles
- Paradiddlediddles Right Hand Lead
- Paradiddlediddles Left Hand Lead
- Inverted Flam Taps
- Cheese Inverts
- Swiss Army Triplets Right Hand Lead
- Choo-Choo
- Hertas
- Single Flammed Mill
- Book Reports
- Shockadiddle
- Swiss-A-Diddle
- Egg Beaters
- Swiss Cheese Inverts
- Tagada
Cymbals: One Video
Post one video of two cymbal exercises: "Flip 1" and "Bucket Breakdown".
Part 3: Visual
DO THE ENTIRE BOX DRILL TWICE THROUGH/NO INSTRUMENTS
Once at 136 bpm
Once at 160 bpm
Mark Time 8
Forward March 8
Crab Right 8
Backward March 8
Crab Left 8
Mark Time 8
Forward March 8
Crab Left 8
Backward March 8
Crab Right 8
Halt
NOW, DO THE ENTIRE THING WITH INSTRUMENTS WHILE PLAYING THE FIRST 8 MEASURES OF THE SECOND PHRASE OF BISQITZ. (LONG ROLL SECTION). REPEAT FOR EACH BOX.
140BPM
150BPM
160BPM
172BPM
180BPM
Continuous video. No editing please. Stop the met, and restart for each tempo change.
In summary: 5 left boxes at various tempi while playing those 8 measures of the roll exercises. 5 right boxes doing the same thing. 10 total boxes at various tempi. No editing of video. Continuous shot.