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Tenors – Audition Packet
(Updated 12/28/2020) The official Pacific Crest 2021 audition packet for tenors.
Tenors – Technique #1
Instrument position, playing zones, axes and moving from drum to drum.
Tenors – Technique #2
Quality technique for crossovers and scrapes and how to avoid common problems.
Tenors – Milkbone Single-Handed
Tap quality, rhythmic integrity, and energy shifts.
Tenors – Milkbone Alternating
Tap quality, rhythmic integrity, and energy shifts, played with alternate sticking.
Tenors – Three Strikes
Develop your triple-stroke technique.
Tenors – Paradiddles
Developing combinations of accents, taps, and diddles, the building blocks of paradiddles.
Tenors – Bitty Rolls
Shifting from 16th note diddles to triplet diddles.
Visual – Field Percussion Crabbing and Oblique
Specific technique for field percussion (battery) as you move across the field.
Submit Video Project
If you are auditioning for our Drum Corps, here are the video submission instructions.