Jr. SYMS Percussion Inormation Greetings and welcome to the Junior Session o Summer Youth Music School (SYMS) at the University o New Hamshire! Enclosed are the required materials or your lacement audition. You will be assigned a 10-15 minute audition time-slot uon your arrival to cam. Please begin racticing these materials now so that you may resent your best eort when you arrive. Remember: your ensemble lacement tends to be a direct relection o your level o rearation. How to Preare a Successul SYMS Audition You audition will consist o the three enclosed excerts, a demonstration o technique on various auxiliary instruments, and sight-reading. Pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and consistent temo are o utmost imortance and should not be secondary to seed. 1. Snare Drum: While rhythmic accuracy is the rimary goal, aying close attention to dynamics, articulations, and smoothness o rolls is equally signiicant. Work with a metronome to hel internalize these concets. 2. Timani: You will be required to tune the drums as noted in the iece. Be sure to ractice this while you have access to your school s timani. The use o a tuning ork or itch ie is advised. Pay attention to the roer laying areas o the drums and oints throughout the excert that would beneit rom muling or damening, always striving or the best sound quality. In addition to itch and rhythmic accuracy, we will be considering dynamics, articulations, and roll quality (with the use o single stroke rolls). 3. Keyboard Percussion (mallets): This excert may be erormed on whichever mallet instrument you eel most coortable on (bells, xylohone, marimba, or vibrahone). Consider the aroriate mallet tye or that instrument when making this decision. Again, while rhythmic and note accuracy are imortant, strive to make your erormance as musical as ossible by observing written dynamics and ersonal hrasing ideas.. Auxiliary Percussion Techniques: You may be asked to demonstrate roer technique on several auxiliary instruments. These may include (but are not limited to) crash cymbals, tambourine, and triangle. There are many online videos and article resources available or those unamiliar with the roer technique o these instruments (a highly suggested resource is the Percussion 101 video series on the vicirth.com website). 5. Jazz Band: For those auditioning or jazz band, you are required to reare a swing beat, bossa-nova beat, and a rock beat in addition to the concert materials discussed above. A drum set will be rovided at your audition. Drummers chosen to be in one o the jazz bands will be able to kee their drum sets on camus; students not selected should send their drum sets home ater the audition results are announced. Auditioning or a jazz band is otional and only students interested in doing so need to reare the drum set audition materials.
PLEASE REMEMBER: ALL ercussionists must bring the ollowing to SYMS sticks, brushes, and mallets (timani and keyboard) that you may own a ractice ad is required and will be used extensively in master classes ersonal cymbals or those who wish to articiate in the jazz ensembles INSTRUCTIONS FOR KEEPING AND STORING DRUM SETS AT SYMS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE FINAL EMAIL IN JUNE. Finally, all ercussion students have the otion o taking rivate lessons with instructors on the ercussion instrument o their choice (keyboard, timani, snare drum, drum set). I you are interested in a rivate lesson, lease consider what you might like to ocus on as this will assist the instructors in roviding you with the best exerience. Any questions regarding audition materials should be directed to the ollowing individuals: Concert Band / Orchestra: RON GOODWIN at r.s.goodwin@alumni.unh.edu Jazz Band: LES HARRIS, JR. at lesharrisjr@comcast.net All other questions regarding SYMS should be directed to Lyndsay Boysen at lyndsay.boysen@unh.edu This year s aculty is looking orward to meeting and working with each o you at SYMS this summer!
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