Entrance Auditions

OSU PERCUSSION

ENTRANCE AUDITIONS

PERCUSSION AUDITIONS

2025-2026 AUDITIONS

Email all questions and submissions to:

percussion@okstate.edu

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Music Majors (and non-majors wanting to apply for studio membership):

*** Sign up for auditions HERE ***

Please visit the OSU Music Audition page (above) for all of the latest information on auditioning for a spot in the OSU Percussion Studio. Audition dates are February 8, 21 & 22, 2025. If you need any further information OR you need to request an alternate date for auditions, please email percussion@okstate.edu to request an alternate date. We are trying to complete all auditions by the end of February, 2025. All students should plan to perform solos on the following instruments:

• Concert Snare

• EXAMPLES: an etude from The Solo Snare Drummer by Vic Firth, Portraits in Rhythm by Anthony Cirone or Twelve

Studies for Snare Drum by Jacques Delecluse.

• Rudimental Snare

• EXAMPLES: any solo by Marty Hurley, Mitch Markovitch, Art Cappio, Charley Wilcoxon or John Pratt; The Rudimental

Cookbook (Ed Freytag).

• Keyboards (two and/or four mallets)

• EXAMPLES: Yellow After the Rain (Mitchell Peters), Spanish Dance (Kai Stensgaard), Two Mexican Dances (Gordon

Stout), Three Preludes (Ney Rosauro), Furioso and Valse in D Minor (2 mallets) (Earl Hatch), any ragtime solo by

George Hamilton Green (2 mallets).

• Timpani

• EXAMPLES: Sonata for Timpani (John Beck), Raga No. 1 (William Cahn), Eight Solos for 4 Timpani (Elliott Carter) or

etudes from Twenty Studies for Timpani by Jacques Delecluse, The Solo Timpanist by Vic Firth or Musical Studies for

the Intermediate Timpanist by Garwood Whaley.

Of course, all state audition material can be used if you desire, but we do encourage all auditionees to try to learn something new on keyboard. There are MANY other solos that can be used - the above are just common suggestions for students to consider.

In addition, knowledge of rudiments, scales, and timpani tuning is helpful. Sight reading on snare and keyboard will also be given. Any student who has a conflict on the audition date, or would like more information for the 2024-2025 academic year should contact Wayne Bovenschen via email for additional information.

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OSU Drumline Auditions:

All first round auditions for percussionists wanting to gain membership in the OSU Drumline will do their their first audition via YouTube (or other video submission). All that is necessary is a video of you playing the requested exercises described below. Due date for first round video submission is April 1, 2025. Also, this is NOT a hard deadline - I will begin reviewing videos submitted on the weekend of April 1 and continue to accept them up until the live auditions in April-May (outlined below). Just realize, the video is a benefit to YOU - we will give feedback on what to improve upon before the live auditions.

Also, videos do NOT need to be one take - you can record each exercises individually and then combine them into one video, uploaded as an unlisted video to YouTube and send us the link. Good Luck!!!!

BASS DRUMS: Be familiar with various drums but you only need to send the video playing one part (unison and split). All drums are open, but veterans have an obvious advantage.

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This first audition will consist of exercises on one of the following instruments:

• snare drum (traditional grip) - snare audition packet

• tenors - tenor audition packet

• bass drum - bass audition packet

• cymbals - cymbal audition packet

• front ensemble - pit audition packet

To be included in the video:

• Volume Six (all up and variation 1) @ 132

• 7/8 Double Beat @ 132

• Stick Control @ 128

• Derp Diddles @ 160