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MUSP 247 - Percussion Major

1 hr (Sem I, II)
Private Music Lesson. This course is designed for students majoring in percussion who are placed into the major level of study after auditioning for the music faculty. The course is required each semester for all percussion majors. Weekly lessons will include (but will not be limited to) major and minor scales/arpeggios and 4-mallet technique for mallet instruments, rudiments and stick control techniques for snare drum, musical styles and chart reading for drum set, and tuning and mallet techniques for timpani. Appropriate method books, etudes, and solo literature will be studied. During subsequent semesters of study, more advanced performance techniques, music etudes, and solo literature will be introduced and explored on each instrument. Each student will perform a jury examination for the music faculty at the end of each semester of study, as well as perform in at least one student recital each semester. This course is repeatable for credit based on approval from the music faculty. There is a lab fee for this course. 1 private music lesson hour.