Golden Empire Drum & Bugle Corps 2018 Front Ensemble Audition Packet

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1 Golde Emire Drum Bugle Cors 2018 Frot Esemle Auditio Packet Photo Steve Rya

2 Dear Alicat, Cogratulatios o takig your irst ste toards eig a art o the Golde Emire Drum Bugle Cors! I m very excited that you at to joi the cors, ad I hoe your auditio exeriece is oe that is iormative, challegig, ad ultimately ositive! What this acket IS: The olloig auditio acket ill rovide you ith some relimiary io ad/or exercises that ill hel you reare or the orksho/auditios that ill take lace soo. Some o these exercises ill e used all seaso, ad others may oly e used as sulemetal material. You should ecome amiliar ith the material ut e ready or additioal io at the orksho. What this acket is NOT: This acket is ot a comrehesive collectio o the techique rogram you ill e learig this seaso. We ill sulemet this ith more advaced exercises ad o course a ealth o ractical hads-o traiig throughout the seaso. We do t exect you to e ale to erorm this material erectly at auditios. Drum cors is all aout orkig hard to e the est e ca e ad that is a ogoig rocess. Next stes: Fill out the iterest orm at geerormigarts.org/joi i you have t already. Doload revie the auditio acket elo or your sectio ad start to reare or auditios. Register or cam at geerormigarts.org/register Check geerormigarts.org or additioal io, FAQs, ad ay udates. Preare to rig your $0 auditio ee to cam. Atted cam ready to lear, ork hard, ad have u! Thaks agai or takig the irst ste toards a challegig ad reardig exeriece! I look orard to meetig you i erso at auditios. I you have ay questios at all lease cotact me ersoally at theasley@geerormigarts.org or call Sicerely, Tim Heasley Director, Golde Emire Drum Bugle Cors

3 Thak you or your iterest i the Golde Emire Drum Bugle Cors! This auditio acket ill cotai a uiied techique reakdo ad asic arm-us that you ill eed to e successul or your auditio. Oce agai, thaks or your iterest ad BEST OF LUCK! GE Percussio Sta Thigs to have ready/rig or auditios: Auditio Packet Water ug OPEN MIND Recommeded materials: Sticks/mallets Drum ads Three rig ider / sheet rotectors Pecil What e are lookig or i a rosective memer o Golde Emire: Soud Quality Timig Techique Musiciashi Attitude Resosiility Eageress to Lear Good Team Player Not oly do e look or amazig ercussioists, ut most imortatly e look or great eole to e aroud ho are ready to lear, ork hard, ad have a oe mid to hat the activity may etail. Your ositio i this esemle ill e evaluated y ho ell you are reared ith the material i this acket i additio to your aility to ick u e material i a timely ashio. I you have questios aout ay o the cotet i this acket, or i there is aythig that you eed to make the sta aare o eore auditios, lease do ot hesitate to cotact: Dave Ellis daviddrums@aol.com

4 The Process The auditio ill e roke do ito to arts: 1. Esemle erormace I the esemle eviromet, e ill e lookig or your aility to led, alace, ad adat. 2. Idividual evaluatio Have secods o solo material reared to lay! This ca e a solo iece or sho music that dislay techical traiig ad musicality. You ill e evaluated idividually o asic skill sets that are exected rom a Golde Emire memer o your articular istrumet. Suggestios: Prearatio Work util you are amiliar ad comortale ith all o the auditio material. Use a metroome. Record yoursel to etter evaluate your o layig. Auditio Kee i mid that you are auditioig at all times. Be roessioal. Be sure to ask questios i you are coused aout aythig you are eig asked to lay. Stay metally egaged throughout the ENTIRE rocess.

5 Dyamics: This ill e the dyamic seciicatios ad height system that e as a sta have estalished ad ill e imlemetig this seaso at GE: = 1 = 2 m = m = 6 = 9 = 12 = 15 (vertical) NOTE: Ater 12, start icororatig arm ith the vertical motio. Arm should e i additio to a ull rist tur, ot relacig the rist tur.

6 TECHNIQUE Our deault eet ositio is shoulder idth aart, ith kees slightly et. Stad u straight, o slouchig ad kee your chi u. For the most art, our odies are arallel to our istrumets. Set ositio: Mallets are over the correct ote/s ad at the correct height. Everyoe ill ollo the sectio leader so that e all move to set at the same time. Relax: Mallets are at your side or i the mallet ags, ot makig oise. Pre: This is ho e ta ourselves o. Oe erso ill give to res olloed y the etire grou givig to res eore a etrace. Pisto stroke: the tye o vertical motio here the startig ad stoig ositio are the same, o asted or extra motio. The mallet starts i Set ositio, moves straight do ito the ar, ad the reouds straight u to the ext set ositio. This occurs all i oe motio. The doard ad uard VELOCITY should e quick. I doe correctly, there should e a ait at the to o the stroke here the mallet head does t move util the ext stroke. Legato stroke: aother tye o vertical motio. The dierece etee legato ad isto is the legato stroke has a relaxed velocity ad the mallet takes the ull duratio o the ote to reoud. The mallet ever stos movig. Doard velocity should still e quick. Shit: the horizotal motio rom oe ote to aother. To e eiciet, shitig should occur durig the ustroke. Pulsig: As a meas o commuicatig temo etee memers, e ill groove to the eat, either o the quarter ote or the hal ote. Virahoes: your right toes ill e o the edal. This is to esure that your right oot (heel) ill rovide you alace as you move ehid your keyoard ith your let oot. RHYTHM SECTION (Sythesizers/Rack/Drumset/ass guitar) Same osture as mallet layers, chi u. Have arm us memorized ad e ale to maitai temo. Each istrumet should have a cosistet soud. Alays use utmost care ith our equimet.

7 GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR MALLETS I order to maximize eiciecy i our techique, e ill assig dieret muscle grous seciic resosiilities suited or their atures. Larger muscles are geared toard large, slo motios. Smaller muscle grouigs are or small, ast motios. Here is a geeral outlie. The muscle grouigs are listed i order rom largest to smallest. 1. Your legs ad eet cotrol the let ad right motio. 2. The arms move the hads horizotally: orard ad ackards, let ad right. Whe movig orard ad ackards, your arms may move vertically slightly to make u or the height dierece etee accidetals ad aturals.. The rist cotrols the u ad do acceleratio o the mallet. Try to kee the rist i the same agle to achieve a cosistet soud ad stroke.. The igers sometimes hel the rist y makig slight adjustmets to the mallet acceleratio. Mallet layers should ractice irst ithout igers. The mai resosiility o grouig 1 ad 2 is horizotal motio. The mai resosiility o grouig ad is vertical motio. Sometimes smaller muscles ca hel out ith the tasks o larger muscles. Larger muscles should NOT hel ith the tasks o smaller muscles. For examle, you should t take small stes to the let or to the right i you ca easily just shit your arms.

8 TWO MALLET GRIP AND FOUR MALLET GRIP The to-mallet gri Wra your iky, rig, ad middle iger aroud the mallet so roughly a ich o the shat sticks out rom the ottom o your had. The tis o your iky ad rig iger should maitai cotact ith the ceter o your alm. The mallet should make cotact ith the idex iger o the joit closest to your iger ti. The thum holds the mallet i lace agaist the idex iger. This is also ko as the t-gri or the t shae that is ormed etee the thum ad idex iger. Make sure your idex iger is curved ad relaxed; your thum is lat o the mallet ad ully exteded. Steves Gri The outer mallet is held ith the iky ad rig iger. Suggly ra these igers aroud the ase o the mallet. Less tha a ich o the shat should stick out rom the iky ad should ot exted ast the ottom o your had. Whe this is doe correctly, the outer mallet ill e agled u slightly. For the ier mallet: start y stickig the shat directly ito the ceter o your alm, at the edge o your thum at. Bed your middle iger uder the ier mallet ad lace the ti o your iger aove the ti o the mallet. The idex iger getly curves i so that the ier mallet ca rest o the irst joit. The sectio etee the ti o the thum ad the irst joit, or the ad o the thum should e lat o the mallet. Whe held correctly, the thum ad idex iger should e i a caital D shae. Your orearm should lie u i etee your mallets or most situatios.

9 Sigles Mallets - All telve major keys- 2 ad mallets q = m Frot Esemle Auditios Bakersield College Drumlie Œ Noe Casolco shit to e key o eat Syth 1 Syth 2 Bass/Timai Percussio Drum Set Œ / Piao Su-ass m Piao + Strigs Piao + Strigs Tom-tom R.. B.. L.. Œ Œ R L R L R L R L.. R L R L R L R L.. 1 Œ æ Œ Œ j = Scales - All telve major keys 1 q = m Syth 1 Syth 2 Bass/Timai Piao Piao + Mello Strigs æ Tom-tom / o Coyright Bakersield College Drumlie

10 2 Œ shit to e key o eat Syth 1 Œ Œ Syth 2 Œ Œ Bass/Timai Œ / Œ m m R L L R LR LR o + j j = Mallets 1 Syth 1 Syth 2 Bass/Timai Percussio Cotrolled Lateral Strokes q = m / 1 2 R 1 2 R 1 2 R 1 2 R L L L L Music Box - lay 8va tha ritte Su-ass m Strigs Strigs j Tom-tom j æ R L R L R L R L R L R L R.. R L R R L L R L R R L L.. R R L L R R L L R R L L.. Drum Set R L L R L L..

11 Syth 1 6 Syth 2 Bass/Timai æ æ / R L R R L L R L R R L L.. R L R R L R L L R L R R.. R L R R L L R L R R L L L R R L R R.. = 10 Œ Syth 1 Œ Syth 2 Œ Œ Bass/Timai æ Œ R L R L R L R L R L R R L L R L R R L L / Œ o - -

12 L L L L R 2 1 R 2 1 R 2 1 R Syth 1 Syth 2 Bass/Timai æ / Rivet Cym Tom-tom R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R R L L R L R R L L.. R R L L R R L L R R L L.. G R L R R L R R L R R L R R L R = 19 Syth 1 Syth 2 Bass/Timai æ æ R L R R L L R L R R L L.. R L R R L R L L R L R R.. R L R R L L R L R R L L / R L R R L R L R L R R L R L R L R R L 6 6 6

13 5 2 Œ Syth 1 Syth 2 Œ Œ Œ Œ Bass/Timai j æ Œ R L R L R L R L R L R R L L R L R R L L / Œ Œ = Syth 1 Alteratig Strokes q = m Piao - Practice as ritte 1-2 ad 1-2 Syth 2 Strigs Bass/Timai / Tom-tom R.. æ L.. R L R L R L R L.. o + o + æ

14 6 1 Syth 1 Syth 2 cotiue u ad do oe octave (to ars er chord) cotiue u ad do oe octave (to ars er chord) cotiue u ad do oe octave (to ars er chord) Œ Œ Œ Bass/Timai cotiue u ad do oe octave (to ars er chord) æ Œ / reeat ar hrase x8 R L R L R L R L.. reeat ar atter x8 Œ o + Œ = Vertical Strokes/Block Chords 1 q = m 8's U # # Syth 1 Syth 2 Piao Piao / Strigs # # # LH - Volume shaig # Bass/Timai R.. L.. R L R L.. B.. / o + æ æ o + o

15 7 7 # # # # # # # Syth 1 ## # # # # # # # Syth 2 # # # # # ## / Bass/Timai # / + æ æ o + o + æ æ o = 1 's Do ## # # # ## # # m m Syth 1 ## # m m # m m ## # # # # # Syth 2 # # # m m ## # # / # # Bass/Timai # m m / R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L m m 2 ar atter + o + o + o

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