Honors Band Auditions (part 1) || All South Jersey Middle School Percussion Audition

The struggles of honors band auditions were real. Hopefully this video will reduce the struggles for today's youth.
Tambourine - 5:40
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[@rdavidr]

do I sense a random thumb roll lick in the future? 🤔

[@zacharywilliams2]

Hey david. Do I sense a collab in the future?

[@j.cordero6965]

Ruh roh collab time

[@dillonstephenson1539]

Random chicken lick

[@JulianKlimczyk]

Woah didn't expect you here

[@Anthonydmusic.21]

Fancy seeing you here!

[@sebastianbernal7021]

Ah, the tambourine. What would percussion ever do without such a beautiful instrument?

[@sclom5676]

It would do better

[@ferretyluv]

My favorite instrument as a kid!

[@zanmolecules4105]

69th like

[@cuber9215]

Nice

[@tmcrabtree4369]

I just watched 16 minutes of tambourine auditions for middle school. I dont even play percussion and I am not even in middle school anymore.

[@mr.starfish4965]

Tmcrabtree | That’s actually how I am. I don’t play percussion and I’m in highschool. Also I don’t even live in this state.

[@jeremy_385]

I'm the exact same. I'm in highschool and I play tuba

[@tkvids1377]

Ok, what middle schoolers are ever taught thumb rolls??? I wasn't even taught that till late high school lol

[@calebsullivan8220]

@@EMCproductions im just learning this and i think it is pointless in general

[@gavinlively8151]

TKvids 13 I didn’t learn it until today and I’m a senior 🤭

[@OMGitsEricE]

i learned thumb rolls in college haha

[@heathgillard5468]

TKvids 13 I’ve never even heard of it tbh 😂😂

[@garrotmon]

I taught myself because it made a cool sound on the concert bass😂😂

[@jimiwatton7367]

Since when does Stevie T play drums?.

[@andylopez0731]

LMAOOO I WAS THINKING THAT

[@angelorizzieri3696]

done dirty.

[@ExpiredPork]

I never thought about it that way...

[@optimized8318]

I’m confused

[@StevenWeven258]

Hey hey

[@gusstork508]

damn that's a nice chair

[@oliverbouchard1499]

@@EMCproductions what type is it because I'm looking for a chair atm

[@Sam-ye6sg]

What’s the audition for Carrmen heights like?

[@tkvids1377]

You have to single split 64th notes at 210 bpm, nothing big

[@Sam-ye6sg]

EMCproductions lol I got all these notifications an hour late, but maybe one day u can release the sheets and we can send in some auditions

[@Sam-ye6sg]

EMCproductions only few would be worthy enough to split chicken tuplets tbh, thanks for all the great content!

[@jayprivacy1900]

I hear it's like the movie Drumline mixed with B.U.D.S training. You'll end up being a great dancing drummer with the skills to go out and completely obliterate the competition with hertas. And if that doesn't work then you'll blow them all to hell with your demolition training. They run a tight ship over there.

[@markathugbiscuit8743]

This is my favorite video of yours. I like when you go into a lot of detail on how to do something. I don’t even play percussion I just find it really interesting

[@tripplefflermusic1289]

We had to tune timpani for our 7th grade auditions, it isn’t difficult now but in 7th grade you know practically nothing about how to tune or play timpani in general

[@christian6262]

alpha cappuccino bro my schools 6th graders can tune timpanis

[@nahaight1373]

BD teaches you how

[@ilikecheeseandcheeseonly2442]

Learned in 6th grade

[@natex.x1955]

I've literally never played an instrument in the percussion family, I don't know why I'm here

[@Theawesomedudes7]

I thank the people at Vic Firth and Innovative for posting those videos to get me through honor auditions 🙏

[@drummerboy81000]

The editing in all of your videos is SO funny! I love it

[@silhouettelectric]

This channel is a hidden gem.

[@Jemanzanares640]

Lowkey I’ma use this as my warm up now thanks New Jersey and EMC♥️

[@JustinBerke]

Far and away the best tambourine tutorial I've ever seen.

[@stelladavis1798]

From watching this, I'm just now realizing how lucky I was to have had my teacher when I played percussion. I learned all of this within the first year. I'm not sure if she taught us that because she knew it would be on the audition (I never actually auditioned) or if she just was a really good teacher. Percussion wasn't even her instrument, she plays the tuba. We were playing stuff like this in seventh grade. We actually didn't have very good equipment (we had only two snares, one of them was really rusty, and the timpani were like, peeling. ) so I'm realizing now that, Mrs. Wiberg, you are a great teacher. I wish I could go back and thank her. I don't play percussion anymore though, and I'm not in middle school any more. (I play guitar and violin now, I got a bit tired of waiting like, 64 measures one time I think (and I know the rests just get longer the more professional you get) and I wanted to have more of a noticeable role in the orchestra, doing melodic stuff, playing scales, etc. Also with guitar, I just became enfatuated with the myriad of techniques you can do, I mean, tremolo, rasgueos, arpeggios, natural and artificial harmonics, tambora, apagado, dead notes, picado, abanico, golpe, alzapua, arrastre, slapping and popping, slides, hammer ones, pull offs, tapping... there's just so much you can do. The violin isn't quite as versatile, but I like the variety of bow strokes that can be used (martelé, spiccatto, ricochet, sautille, detaché, etc.)

[@stelladavis1798]

EMCproductions oh wow what a coincidence! She definitely is!

[@Chiickiienuggiies]

Never been more proud to be a Texan

[@monkeyman7048]

Texan percussionists

[@Chiickiienuggiies]

@@monkeyman7048 Got that right, bud.

[@fettuccinealfred]

Lol yeah in Texas or at least in Region 9 for concert percussion we just all sit in a room for 8 hours and we go: Snare- one at a time, in a cyclic order based on the letter we were given (A, B,... AG, AH) Mallets- 2 mallet one at a time, then 4 mallet one at a time. Timpani- one at a time. Usually they rotate the letters so every range gets a chance to go first or last. We also usually auditions in groups of five in the order of the letters such that they warm up for 1 minute and then each person performs their etude. The judges are behind a curtain usually, and if you’re lucky, they’ll do 3 rooms (Snare, mallet, timpani) So yeah, everyone else gets to watch you play your audition and it’s very nerve wracking.

[@mkh1688]

"I'm really good at thumb rolls." I laughed my lmao off.

[@darwonka]

It's all about the research. Like doing a paper, the research is half of journey.

[@0Aquamelon]

I thought this was the audition stories vid when I saw the title, and got my hopes up. I’ll watch the rest later, I don’t have much time now

[@kennbutler1234]

I’m a music educator in middle school land. This video is really funny and extremely illuminating. I love how you transcribed the sight reading. I laughed out loud and then thought...Is this bad to tell the kids? I remember auditioning and listening to those who finished before me thinking along those lines. I guess it’s something to make them aware of but to prepare them in advance to not over think listening to others and just be really good at sight reading. Anyway, thanks for your hard work on this project. It’s gonna help folks all over the country.

[@alejandrocintron3722]

Good stuff Eric👏🏼👏🏼

[@somerandomdude3744]

First was England is my city Now it’s New Jersey is my hometown

[@aleckasper67]

I live in texas and every year we get videos of every piece

[@corap183]

I play flute so I have no idea what you’re talking about in your videos when you talk about percussion stuff but I still watch them.

[@danielburke9831]

Very insightful for technique!

[@stnimrod2014]

EMC: Making a serious vid on how to help Me: THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER

[@collierdevaney3052]

Alabama always posts all their material, just on the official Bandmaster association website.

[@dubbtubbdrum]

I had FMEA All State in September and got the music in May

[@johncoyle8551]

University of Illinois' music school channel posts videos of the ILMEA etudes and excerpts for almost if not all instruments for band and orchestra, and for sure all of the percussion material, and they help like crazy.

[@DouglasStevens0521]

Can we get a play through of the tambourine part in the thumbnail?

[@keathmueller7826]

Yes please!

[@JacksonArnoldMusic]

It would be really cool to see some videos like this on the technique for different instruments!

[@JacksonArnoldMusic]

EMCproductions that’s awesome, didn’t even catch the part 1 whups

[@TylerDunphy]

I did all district just recently as a junior and the snare solo was quite difficult, also had a triangle part. Made it in!! (Barely)

[@jayprivacy1900]

I was in Lions Bands snare line. I only went one year but I made it all 3 I tried out for. I loved drumming but I started falling out of love with marching. Wasn't for me. However, the year I went we won. My state always did well with that. There's actually video on KZbin and it's hilarious to look back on it. Now that I'm older I kinda wish I went the other years. Kinda.

[@RARZMusic]

Dr. Zator certainly puts in work for those Texas audition videos.

[@duke_-kz7gp]

I'm in South Carolina, I did region band for the first time this year on Timpani, and our solos are on KZbin, so I could watch mine and I got it down. I got 4th chair in the state

[@creamiememies2755]

i gotta SEMSBA audition on saturday thank u for making this

[@connorbarritos7462]

In Louisiana, we only have to do Snare, Bass, Timpani, and Marimba, but snare is allways in 6/8 and marimba allways starts with sixteenths at like 120 or faster. There was also this one shcool that allways had about 98% of there kids make it into honor band every year. It was stupid hard.

[@davidbishop407]

Just had this experience. Had a student who was a total beginner. His dad wanted me to prep him for all region tryouts. The snare piece was in 3/8. Lots of flams, lots of diddles. C'mon. I had to tell his dad "that's a little ambitious, let's try next year."

[@jessekaye7323]

In Connecticut, Hartt School posts the all states and i think the regionals pieces too

[@brisket5588]

I’m confused so i was chosen to be in the schuylkill river valley area honers band by my band director could you do a video on their music

[@GraysonPeterman]

In Texas they usually make all of one section go at the same time so no one can talk about it. They also make all the other kids in the audition room sit and wait so we have to listen to each person play

[@nathandrum47]

This is amazing

[@tessatrayner8422]

Where did you go to school in Jersey? I go to Steinert in Hamilton, and I just joined Pat Petrilo's training band called Encorps in South Brunswick, and I'm excited to go further. It's unfortunate that my school band is really... really.... REALLY lacking, I didn't learn this in middle school but I also haven't learned ANYTHING in high school, besides playing jazz on set. Where did you start for DCI?

[@daviddotorg]

I am mainly a string player (Viola), but I also do Concert Band Percussion, as well as Marching Band Drumline, and I can say that string excerpts are way easier to understand, at least in California.

[@PokeStarrStudios]

Man I don't even play tambourine but this was very interesting to watch

[@TheBANDit_67]

I don't even play percussion... I'm a trombone/baritone player but I'm still entertained 😊

[@CDCGaming]

Most of those Texas videos are for high school all region.

[@jocabulous]

Just a quick thing on what you said about going last: It might be good to hear what you are playing first, but when I did this last year (at least as a wind player) there was a sightreeding part, and it was in 4/4 time but had weird rhythms, so the first person went and played it like it was 3/4, the next person followed and did the same thing, and so on, until me, and I knew I just heard a wrong rhythm being played like 15 times in a row, but I couldn't figure out how to actually play it in time so I just copied what everyone else did.

[@exstreamise302]

At my 8th grade All-District band tryouts, I didn't follow the unspoken rule and ended up going 1st in my audition. I ended up getting 2nd chair Concert so it came out fine but by god I was nervous.

[@spike6192]

I live in new Hampshire and I made honors band percussion ensemble.wish me luck on march 15th

[@HotrodHud]

Congrats on winning the superdrummers battle royal I saw the drumpad and it cool

[@0Aquamelon]

playing tamborine now seems like an extremely difficult instrument to me after watching this XD

[@LisaF97]

Texas has so many of them because they have UIL, which is a big competition for most events and subjects. Band ones have the chance for scholarships and other things.

[@cmingus2044]

I dont even play tambourine, nor am i in band (i play piano and bass) but i still found this video very interesting

[@samfielder8789]

I had to play a huge timpani etude and the timpani at my school have gauges but the ones at the audition school didn’t so I did so bad

[@bensexton7350]

Knicks Fan? You’re a trooper

[@not_carson8642]

When I was in middle school the only thing we had to do to get into honors band was scales

[@monkfry]

Came here for no reason, stayed for the entire thing! Now I want a tambourine and I don’t even play. Interesting. . .

[@eggperson5410]

The 8th grade trumpets at my school have to do a high D flat (C sharp) for their UIL piece

[@drewjarrell2667]

That’s stupid 😂

[@ryans6741]

that’s incredibly stupid actually-I’ve known kids in high school who can’t / couldn’t play that note

[@tobysturgell121]

This is what I think when I have all state auditions

[@NotxOmnis]

I want to audition for drum corps but i only played in late high school. I need to practice rudiments but other than that i have no idea how to improve i’ll be aging out soon so id like to at least play for one year asking for a friend pls help

[@NotxOmnis]

EMCproductions what audition piece should i use for quads or is it just open enrollment?

[@ericsilverman2367]

Can you do North Jersey?

[@Deageke]

I never ended up doing any of this because my south jersey hs has no one in the district who teaches percussion

[@bernie9543]

We were actually taught how to thumb roll in middle school and they even told us about the bees wax

[@jasminpineda4113]

Thanks! I could never figure out the tambourine! Thx for future reference even if you do act like a sassy woman...

[@CDCGaming]

Where’s part 2 at?

[@timbeer8266]

I can't have a good morning until I see the rest

[@TJWins225]

A lot of ketucky schools have a channel and post it, well at least 3. 3=a lot right?

[@ethanyeats5872]

Texas Band Director here. We are definitely fortunate to have so many resources for students in our state! Also, I think thumb rolls in general are just not very practical in a lot of settings - I rarely ever even see a tambourine that's good enough to do a thumb roll on. Most percussion accessories in the average school band hall have been virtually destroyed by years of... well... percussionists.

[@isaacgeorge6388]

As you notice that Texas has the most videos for middle and high school music, also take note that Texas has many of the best concert and marching bands in the country. Take note other states

[@austindalbey7767]

Ha your wearing a knicks Jersey how do you feel about the yrafe

[@matthewpinon1994]

Woohoo Texas is the best state for percussion and band in general ( it's my home so I'm biased lol) but lots of good people and are from Texas tho

[@chaser22081]

That or California

[@SusannE-zw8rn]

Yesss Texas!! Whoop

[@BronsonGold]

Random tambourine lick ?

[@captainkiwi77]

I’m a freshman in college for music and I still haven’t got to thumb rolls yet. What on earth

[@captainkiwi77]

EMCproductions exactly

[@PostLagone]

Lol only reason I learned thumb roll was to show off I'm a junior in hs

[@captainkiwi77]

pvt.edgy lol

[@captainkiwi77]

pvt.edgy sometimes we’d see who could thumb roll on the concert bass

[@PostLagone]

@@captainkiwi77 that's my new favorite thing to do

[@anthonyotlowski1978]

What a day for the Knicks shirt...

[@notbad2400]

random tambourine lick?

[@thethunderant9208]

Random tambourine solo next

[@chiwea123]

New Jersey... My hometown.

[@friendlyepictv9808]

I knew how to thumb rolls in middle school. That’s because I was in orchestra though

[@sammorgan7914]

wait a second... Is the middle school honors band image you used in the beginning of the video from Easter Kentucky University's website? Because I think it is... Which is funny because we don't even have auditions for it lol

[@angelportillo4151]

Just my school or are band teacher makes us play high school music

[@dubbtubbdrum]

I learned thumb rolls in 6th grade

[@levy2752]

8:54 legit thought there was a bee in my room

[@littlelamp100]

this is harder than my maryland senior all state tambourine audition excerpt wtf???

[@matteojmusic5234]

I auditioned got in 2nd chair battery in the blue band, and I had to play this I auditioned for snare and traps (battery)

[@matteojmusic5234]

EMCproductions Thanks!!!

[@EnderGaming50]

New Jersey represent

[@dubbtubbdrum]

I got in the Duval county district honor band

[@averyhoppes]

Wow. all of these people talking about not learning or using thumb rolls until late high school or college and im a freshman in high school and i have already had to play them in two pieces. 😂

[@fivelines6609]

Never thought tamberine could be so complicated.

[@calebdalton7227]

I feel like Missouri's high school district auditions were easier than this.... Hey, might as well teach them to get good early :P

[@___Bruh__]

Good morning Eric

[@yomamasnutz]

Is it weird that I watch your videos even though I play the saxophone?

[@samstrom7660]

Wait! Wait!...... down

[@raleighsingleton7455]

Actually if you have the opportunity, audition first. By the end, the judge has already heard good auditions. If you're good go first. There's nothing wrong with going last just make sure you audition very well.

[@grant8548]

and this is why I live in Texas (shh I'm a tuba but shhhhh) ((and I have District auditions tomorrow))

[@trevorthomas123]

I'm in 7th grade and I am in my district's honor band for bass clarinet

[@darkzeus691]

Why am I watching this? I play saxophone 😂😂

[@radioactiveyoshi7558]

Oh yeah