Jazz Drum admission requirements for non-degree studies

Jazz Drum

• Sight reading: performing rhythmic material written for complete drum kit and improvising using the motifs included in the sheet music.
• Performing a snare drum etude from Charley Wilcoxon's Modern Rudimental Swing Solos chosen by the candidate.
• Short solo improvisation: 3-4 minutes.
• With rhythm section: swing, latin (bossa-nova, samba, rumba, Afro-Cuban) jazz ballad, funk and jazz rock accompaniment in different tempos, 4/4, 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures, using sticks and wire brushes.
• Playing 4, 8, 12, 16 and 32 bar solos.

Classical percussions main subject

Snare drum:

• sight reading from Knauer and Stojko drum exercises

Timpani:

• sight reading from Béla Zsoldos: Üstdobiskola (’Timpani Exercises’)

Vibrafon:

• 1 performance piece