Drum Major Auditions

In 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.

The prepared conducting excercise for 2024 is an excerpt from our 2019 show, "Out of the Silent Planet," letter T - Y.