Students auditioning for percussion section of Longhorn Band must complete a 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.
*Those auditioning for drumline should adhere to the procedures and dates listed below:
1. Preliminary Audition Video
Download the 2022 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 (choose one part, ex: Bass drum 3 or Cymbal 1)
- Gigue – 1 repetition at 160 bpm (12 inches/forte)
- Snares: as written
- Tenors: Pattern 1
- Basses and Cymbals: as written (choose one part, ex: Bass Drum 3 or Cymbal 1)
- 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 and CC ffavis@utexas.edu and reese.maultsby@utexas.edu
The video submission deadline is March 28, 2022.
2. Final Audition
For Percussion auditions, the 1st video submission deadline is March 28, 2022. Preliminary audition videos will be assessed following the March 28, 2022 deadline, and invitations to the live final audition will be extended to select students. The final live audition will be held on Saturday, May 28, 2022. For those with conflicts for the live audition, please reach out to the instructor Francis Favis (ffavis@utexas.edu) to make arrangements. **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!
