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So Percussion
Sandbox Percussion The Big Trouble Third Coast Percussion Les Percussions de Strausbourg Square Peg Round Hole Escape X Mobius Percussion BP Renegades |
Keiko Abe
Sheila E Carlos Chavez Eriko Daimo Emmanuelle Caplette Cindy Blackman Santana |
Ivan Trevino
Xenakis Varese Delecluse Andy Akiho |
Websites
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For Equipment:
Steve Weiss Percussion Source Lone Star Percussion Black Swamp Zildjian LP Innovative Percussion Drum Workshop Sweetwater |
For research:
PAS The Percussion Room The Orchestra: A User's Manual (Percussion) Drummerworld Oxford Music Online The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments VAP Media The Repertoire - Will James |
All District/All State
Band Masters Association Website: https://www.ncbandmasters.org/
All District/All State Audition Requirements Page: www.ncbandmasters.org/audition-requirements
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11-12 High School Snare Drum
Cirone - Portraits in Rhythm #10
Willie and Hill - All-Inclusive Audition Etudes Set 1 mm. 41-73
Sight-reading
Rudiments
Cirone - Portraits in Rhythm #10
Willie and Hill - All-Inclusive Audition Etudes Set 1 mm. 41-73
Sight-reading
Rudiments
9-10 High School Snare Drum
Cirone - Portraits in Rhythm #18
Willie and Hill - All-Inclusive Audition Etudes Set 2 mm. 29-53
Sight-reading
Rudiments
Cirone - Portraits in Rhythm #18
Willie and Hill - All-Inclusive Audition Etudes Set 2 mm. 29-53
Sight-reading
Rudiments
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Middle School Drum set and Jazz Audition
Audition Requirements: www.ncmea.net/sections-2/jazz/audition-information/ Manhattan Dance Party Drum Grooves |
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*updated for the 2021 auditions
Choppy Holidays!!
The percussion studio at Western Carolina University has a tradition of doing a 15 minute etude/exercise/piece of music throughout the holiday break. I wanted to add the exercise our percussion professor, Dr. Adam Groh created, so that anyone can join!
To find more information on this years version and what the studio is doing click here or search their profile on instagram @wcupercussion .
To find more information on this years version and what the studio is doing click here or search their profile on instagram @wcupercussion .
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Drumset
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Work books:
Ted Reed - Progressive Steps to Syncopation Carmine Appice - Ultime Realistic Rock Mitchell Peters - Stick Control for Drum set Charles Dowd - Funky Primer The Real Book Garibaldi – Future Sounds Houghton – Essential Styles Riley – The Art of Bop Drumming Steve Weiss Drum set method books |
(insert drumset recommendations here, playlist of different grooves, etc)
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Snare
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Work books:
Delecluse – Douze etudes pour caisse claire Delecluse – Keiskleiriana Tompkins – Nine French-American Rudimental Solos Wilcoxon – The All-American Drummer Cirone - Portraits in Rhythm |
(insert snare recommendations here, playlist of different examples, method book recommendations, warmups, etc)
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Mallets
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Work books:
Stevens - Method of Movement for Marimba Bona-Rhythmical Articulation Goldenberg - Modern School for Xylophone, Marimba and Vibraphone Ford - Marimba: Technique Through Music George Hamilton Green Books Burton - Four Mallet Studies Friedman - Vibraphone Technique: Dampening and Pedaling Whaley - Fundamental Studies for Mallets Stout - Ideo-Kinetics, A Workbook for Marimba Technique |
(insert mallet recommendations here, playlist of different examples, method book recommendations, warmups, etc)
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Accessories
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Work books:
Cirone - Portraits for Multiple Percussion Dietz - Reflex: 15 Studies for the Intermediate Multi-Percussionist Aleo - Complementary Percussion Meehan - Percussion Accessories Vol 1 & 2 +Orchestral excerpts |
(insert accessories recommendations here, playlist of different examples, warmups, Keith Aleo and Todd Meehan/Liquidrum stuff)
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Marching Percussion
(insert recommendations here, playlist of different examples, method book recommendations, warmups, etc)