Students auditioning for percussion section of Longhorn Band must complete an preliminary online audition video. Please record yourself (files must include both audio and video) performing all the audition material. Your full body must be visible throughout the video, you must mark time throughout, and an audible metronome should be used. We prefer that your audition video be either one continuous video, or if filmed in multiple takes, edited together as one long video.
If you do not have access to an instrument for this video audition, please notate that on your Prospective Member Audition Form and also let our office staff know by emailing them at lhbinfo@utexas.edu.
1. Preliminary Audition Video
Download the 2021 Audition Packet
- 8-8-16 – 1 repetition each at 120 bpm (12 inches/forte) and 144 bpm (9 inches/mezzo-forte)
- Snares: as written
- Tenors: Pattern 1
- Basses and Cymbals: as written
- Gigue – 1 repetition at 160 bpm (12 inches/forte)
- Snares: as written
- Tenors: Pattern 1
- Basses and Cymbals: as written
- Pressure Jam – 1 repetition as written
- Flams – 1 repetition as written (Cymbals do not have a requirement for this excerpt)
When you are ready to submit your video audition, please send a link (Unlisted and not Private if on YouTube) to your video with your name and EID to lhbinfo@utexas.edu.
The video submission deadline is May 28, 20201.
2. Final Audition
Preliminary audition videos will be assessed following the May 28 deadline, and invitations to the live final audition will be extended to select students. The final live audition will be held Saturday, June 19. **PLEASE NOTE: all appropriate COVID-19 precautions will be taken.
3. Summer Clinics
All all students selected for the percussion section at the Final Audition are required to attend one of two clinics offered during July and August (students are encouraged to attend both if possible). **PLEASE NOTE: all appropriate COVID-19 precautions will be taken.** Clinic dates will be posted here, so please check back!
