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the sticks i used (or planned to use) for each excerpt in my 2011 MET orchestra percussion audition
if you’re thinking about taking the upcoming MET percussion audition, you’re going to have to choose
sticks! i recommend that you use a method that i call the A/B method to choose them for each excerpt.
here’s what that is:
for each excerpt,
1. line up all the sticks that you could possibly use for that excerpt.
2. find a stage and ask a friend to listen to you.
3. play the excerpt twice. once with pair A (the first pair in the line), and once with pair B (the second). make
sure the friend is far enough away that they’re using their ears and not their eyes.
4. ask the listener to choose a winner. put the ‘loser’ pair away and move to the next pair of 2 mallets.
5. continue like it’s a march madness bracket until there’s only one pair left - that’s your winner!
it’s going to leave you with a great mallet choice. it’s even better if you can have a friend play with your
mallets and you can choose. feel free to do this multiple times with different people, like i did.
in the end, you’re going to come up with a list of mallets that work for each excerpt. chances are that you
play differently than i do, and your personality is different, so your ideal sticks for each excerpt will be
different than what i chose. you should use my list as a reference and for ideas. good luck!
NOTE: you’re gonna have to find this 2011 MET list for yourself to see the exact excerpts i’m talking about! a
bunch of the excerpts aren’t in the public domain so i can’t reproduce them. :-)
1. xylophone
f dd
i’m realizing as i write this that i’m not sure all these mallets swtill exist! for instance - i have two pairds of
malletech OR39Rs.kinda red. the other one is brown.
strauss: salome - dance of the seven veils, rehearsal “d” malletech reds (see above)
gershwin: porgy and bess, act ii, scj. 1 freer K6 (the pro-mark era, i believe)
2. bells
delibes: lakme, bell song freer KBFM (an older version of these)
4. marimba
bach: e major partita, gavotte en rondeau (tape only) vic firth robert van sice sticks (a selection)
5. snare drum
bellini: norma, act ii stage music pearl philharmonic 14x4 aluminum & innovative CL-1L
britten: peter grimes, act ii, sc. 1 pearl philharmonic 13x4 maple & innovative CL-3L
britten: peter grimes, act iii, sc. 1 pearl philharmonic 13x4 maple & innovative CL-3L
berg: wozzeck, act i stage music pearl philharmonic 13x4 maple & innovative CL-3L
berg: wozzeck, act ii reh. 643 pearl philharmonic 14x4 aluminum & innovative CL-1L
prokofiev: lt. kije, mvt. i opening pearl philharmonic 13x4 maple & innovative CL-3L
prokofiev: symphony no. 5, scherzo pearl philharmonic 13x4 maple & innovative CL-3L
prokofiev: symphony no. 5, finale pearl philharmonic 14x4 aluminum & innovative CL-1L
rimsky-korsakov: scheherazade, mvt. iii pearl philharmonic 13x4 maple & innovative CL-3L
rimsky-korsakov: scheherazade, mvt. iv, reh. n pearl philharmonic 14x4 aluminum & innovative CL-1L
rimsky-korsakov: scheherazade, mvt. iv, reh. p-u pearl philharmonic 14x4 aluminum & innovative CL-1L
zuber: roll exercise pearl philharmonic 14x4 aluminum & innovative CL-1L
delécluse: douze études, étude no. 9 pearl philharmonic 14x4 aluminum & innovative CL-1L
6. tambourine
7. triangle
(there was not, ahem, good enough record-keeping to include the bass drum mallets, sorry!)
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