{"id":457,"date":"2018-05-02T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/musicadm\/?page_id=457"},"modified":"2025-06-23T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:45:49","slug":"drumset-audition-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/musicadm\/audition-repertoire-requirements-2\/drumset-audition-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Drumset Audition Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><strong>All candidates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drumset auditions are eligible for scholarships. B.A. and B.M. music degrees, however, require a primary focus in percussion.<\/p>\n<p>All candidates will be required to play along with a recording of their choosing to be selected from the following song styles and playlists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Ballad<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/1pj1FP9bzud7QB4rHshR5t?si=c4f49f4fc8df4cd7\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/1pj1FP9bzud7QB4rHshR5t?si=c4f49f4fc8df4cd7<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Swing<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/0qOEf819BM67b5bsXuQJOW?si=55cd47eb19964625\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/0qOEf819BM67b5bsXuQJOW?si=55cd47eb19964625<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Latin<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/3WxTUDw7IevzjwxLAJi9jl?si=300a0e76b9e444af\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/3WxTUDw7IevzjwxLAJi9jl?si=300a0e76b9e444af<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Candidates may also be asked to demonstrate a variety of styles with brushes or sticks including ballad, jazz waltz, slow, medium, or uptempo swing, bossa nova, samba, mambo, etc.<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__wysiwyg panel panel-wysiwyg site-section__bg--normal\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner l-wrapper \">\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<header class=\"site-section__header\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"site-section__title site-section__title--center h3\" id=\"audition-instructions\" data-name=\"title\" data-livetext data-depth=\"0\" data-index=\"0\">Audition Instructions<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t<\/header>\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-section__content \">\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__wrapper site-grid__wrapper-stagger\"\n\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t data-name=\"columns\"\n\t\t\t data-livetext>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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