Drum Major Auditions
Additional RequirementsIn addition to the regular leadership application and interview process, candidates for drum major will participate in a supplemental audition. This consists of five parts:
- Full Panel Interview
Candidates will answer questions before a full faculty/staff panel. - Command Calling
Candidates will give commands for attention, stand by, parade rest, horns up, and horns down. - Conducting Patterns
Candidates will conduct a series of patterns in various meters. - Tempo Control
Candidates will conduct four bars at specified tempos without a metronome. - Prepared Exercise
Candidates will conduct a prepared excerpt.
Conducting Exercise
The prepared conducting excercise for 2024 is an excerpt from our 2019 show, "Out of the Silent Planet," letter T - Y.