This year's Senior Clinic will meet at Cocke County High School Newport, TN on February 23-24, 2024. The fee is $25 per student and will include lunch on Friday and Saturday. Fees must be paid in one check, and are due by Friday February 9, 2024. Please send one check made out to TSSBDA. Please list students in score order. Please screen your students before submitting entry.
Clinicians for this year’s clinic are:
Blue Band - Andrew Lawson
Red Band - Chris Metcalfe
Requirements for Senior clinic auditions are: Winds: 2 scales chosen from Concert F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, C and G (15 pts. each); Chromatic scale (20 pts.), and sight-reading (50 pts.).
Percussion: Mallets: 2 scales chosen from Concert F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, C, and G (up and down, any rhythm, more points for 2 octaves, 20 pts. each); chromatic scale, (up and down full range of instrument, any rhythm, 10 pts.); and sight reading (50 pts.). Snare: 2 rudiments chosen from single paradiddle, double paradiddle, flam, flam tap, flam accent, drag, single drag tap, lesson 25, (Open to closed to open, 15 pts. each ); Buzz roll (closed roll), soft to loud to soft (20 pts); and sight-reading (50 its).
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