Do you have to have a snare drum test?

Hi Olumide,

Thanks for getting in touch with your question.

There is an audition process to join the Corps of Army Music, alongside completing your general Army application online. The audition involves performing a two contrasting recognised solo works on your instrument, as well as some sight reading, an aural perception assessment, and some technical exercises.

We absolutely have vacancies for percussionists, but they should ideally be able to perform confidently on a range of percussion instruments. At a percussion audition we would usually expect to hear, for example, a piece on a full drum kit, plus a piece on tuned percussion (perhaps the xylophone/marimba), or a piece for timpani. This equipment can be provided for you at audition.

You can find out lots more information about the application and audition process here: https://bit.ly/2JxbJ6d.

If you don't already, I'd also recommend following the Corps of Army Music on Facebook and/or Instagram to see what sort of thing we get up to.

I hope that helps answer your question, please do post below if not and we can chat further.

Bethan