The camp is open to middle school and high school students.

Students must have completed one year of percussion instruction to participate in the camp.

 

High School participants of this camp are placed into drum lines based on ability. Students will work on exercises and cadences that prepare them for the demands of the modern drumline. Students need to bring their own instruments: snare, tenors, bass, carrier, drum stand and sticks/mallets.

 

High school students may choose a symphonic track and therefore not participate in the marching drumline. Keyboard instruments, steel drum band, Latin percussion and drum set equipment are provided by Texas State University.

 

Texas State University faculty members, Genaro Gonzalez, Kari Klier, Butch Miles, Bobby Lopez and John Lopez will serve as instructors for the camp, in addition to percussion clinicians from around the state.

 

2013 Guest Artists:

Murray Gusseck
http://www.vicfirth.com/artists/gusseck.php

Nathan Daughtrey
http://www.nathandaughtrey.com/bio/

Zoro
http://www.vicfirth.com/artists/zoro.php