Percussion - All-Star Brass Bands

Percussion
Celebrating Excellence for Over Twenty Years
Audition Music for Percussion:
Scales (Marimba, Xylophone, or Vibraphone):
D Major Scale
E Major Scale
F Major Scale
G Major Scale
A Major Scale
Eb Major Scale
Ab Major Scale
Bb Major Scale
Chromatic Scale - 1 Octave
Chromatic Scale - 2 Octave
Select and download scales that meet
the Audition Requirement for your age
group and target band.
Select the individual excerpts that you
feel you can play well.
Please refer to Audition Requirements
for thorough clarification of what is
expected for entrance to our bands.
Prepared Excerpts - Snare & Mallets:
Snare #1 Snare #2 Snare #3
Snare #4 Snare #5
Snare #6
Students:
Mallets #1
Mallets #2
Mallets #3
Note to Directors & Students:
These audition selections are provided
as an option for those students
who might not have easy access to
appropriate materials through a band
director or private music teacher. We
have duly noted sources for the etude
excerpts.
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Mallets
Mallets
Mallets
Mallets
Mallets
Mallets
Mallets
Mallets
Mallets
Mallets
Percussion-Snare
Celebrating Excellence for Over Twenty Years
Prepared Excerpts - Snare:
Snare #1
Snare #2
Snare #3
Snare #4 Snare #5
Snare #6
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Snare #1
Play top notes only - the bottom notes are bass drum
Excerpt from Haskell W Harr Drum Method for Band & Orchestra, Book 1
MM Cole Publishing Co © 1937, 1964, 1968
Snare #2
Play top notes only - the bottom notes are bass drum
Excerpt from Haskell W Harr Drum Method for Band & Orchestra, Book 1
MM Cole Publishing Co © 1937, 1964, 1968
Snare #3 (open rolls)
Play top notes only - the bottom notes are bass drum
Excerpt from Haskell W Harr Drum Method for Band & Orchestra, Book 1
MM Cole Publishing Co © 1937, 1964, 1968
Snare #4
(open rolls - rudimental)
Excerpt from Charley Wilcoxon - The All-American Drummer 150 Rudimental Solos
Ed by Richard Sakal, Ludwig Music Publishing Co © 1945, 1972, 1979
Snare #5
(open rolls - rudimental style)
>> Play page 1 or page 2 <<
Excerpt from 14 Modern Contest Solos for Snare Drum by John S Pratt, Belwin Mills Publishing Co © 1987
Snare #6
(open rolls - rudimental style)
Excerpt from 14 Modern Contest Solos for Snare Drum by John S Pratt, Belwin Mills Publishing Co © 1987
Percussion-Mallets
Celebrating Excellence for Over Twenty Years
Prepared Excerpts - Mallets:
Mallets #1
Mallets #2
Mallets #3
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Mallets #1
(Marimba - Choose any of these 6 melodies)
Excerpt from Modern School for Xylophone, Mariimba, Virbraphone, by Morris Goldenberg, Chappell & Co © 1950
Mallets #2
(Marimba - Choose any of these 4 melodies)
>> melodies combining double stops and rolls <<
Excerpt from Modern School for Xylophone, Mariimba, Virbraphone, by Morris Goldenberg, Chappell & Co © 1950
Mallets #3
(Marimba - Allegro)
Excerpt from Modern School for Xylophone, Mariimba, Virbraphone, by Morris Goldenberg, Chappell & Co © 1950