MMEA - Southeastern District

Senior Audition Scale Requirements..updated May 26, 2008

All scales should be played as they are written

on the MMEA All-State web site auditions page

***minor scales are not required at s.e. district***

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Senior Audition Percussion Requirements

All percussionists will need to prepare Solo #1 from "Eight 3 Minute Audition Solos for Multiple Percussion" - Tanner, Alfred Pub..cat.# 3-2955. Students will be judged on not only on how they play the different percussion instruments (timpani will need to be tuned) at each station but also on how they count the beats or measures between each written part. Students should take note of the setup of the different stations suggested by the author and should bring sufficient copies of music for each station and the mallets needed to play at those stations. Triangle and tambourine are provided.

Instrument

Required Rudiments

Required Rudiments

Snare Drum

Moderately closed roll with dynamics (ff > pp and pp < ff)

5 and 9 stroke rolls alternating

7 stroke roll, left hand

flam accents 1 and 2 (flam taps)

single and double paradiddles

ruff

triple ratamacue

flamacue

Students should bring their own drum and sticks.

Timpani

single stroke roll with dynamica (ff > pp and pp < ff)

tuning timpani to required pitches

Students should bring their own mallets.

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