2024 UAB Drumline Audition

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@PepeTheJonkler 8 ай бұрын

•Make sure to focus on the tap heights. Sometimes it's at 12" and 9" instead of a 12" and a 6" or a 12" and 3". •Watch those hand-to-hand transitions, and make sure the hand speed matches the opposite's (playing a simple double beat or triple beat, like 1e& 2e& 3e& 4e& as double-stops can help with targeting a matching speed). •When you're playing roll patterns, try not to rely on the rebound to carry the diddles. The hands should be wrapped around the stick _without any tension_ and a wrist turn should initiate each partial of the diddle. Rebound is there to reset the wrist motions, so don't rely on it and rely on your wrist control instead. •Flambrough's Kids, like I mentioned at the start, relies on defining consistency in tap-accent height difference (but in the case of flams, grace note and primary partial height differentials). Touch is everything here, and tension will wreck tone. Stay loose, keep the grace notes low, but play _through_ the head with that low tap. A grace note should be essentially felt as a 1" tap height or lower but with enough velocity to get a rebound. You won't hurt the drum head's feelings. Get after it, hoss. And for the Chicagos (the paradiddles with an accented diddle on partial one and a flam on partial three (which is a diddle away from a Book Report, but thats besides the point)), gotta focus on all three heights here (grace note, tap height, accent height). Add in each variation to the Rlrr Lrll as you go (something like this starting with check pattern paradiddle w/no accent and adding a check after each thing: first accent, then first diddle, then first accent and flam, then the whole Chicago by tagging the diddle in one the skeleton layer is built properly) to help define the motions and physics required for each partial of the Chicago rudiment. The rl(r)r/lr(l)l [third partial flam thing] should kinda feel like a flam tap, if that helps. Repping those, getting a good grace note height, and figuring out how partial two is a faux diddle motion with the grace note following it will even out that pattern- so like, "-l(l)Rr, -r(r)Ll" (skipping partial one, treating it as a flam tap with the parentheses being the grace note, helping seeing how the lead-in fits together) Combining all of the aforementioned thought process and techniques will get a consistent quality of sound (non-pinched, consistent clarity) and will make playing the drums easier. You gotta play them rather than them playing you, ya dig? From a JSU Marching Southerners 2016 quadline member, I wish you the best of luck in your auditions and Go Blazers, my man. Be receptive to information, absorb as much as you can from staff, and always practice how you would perform.