Pipe Band Association (Singapore)

ELEMENTARY CERTIFICATE SYLLABUS

Snare Drumming

Syllabus prepared by the

MUSIC BOARD of the PIPE BAND ASSOCIATION (SINGAPORE)

©2012

ELEMENTARY CERTIFICATE SYLLABUS

Major Reference

The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, Structured Learning Book 1 (The Elementary Certificate)

Recommended texts for all levels of examination

Theory of Music

Sound: Characteristics:- Pitch, Volume, Timbre, Dynamics.

Notation: The Staff and the Clefs, Pitch Range of the Pipe Band Instruments, Leger Lines, Extending Notes and Rests, the Bar Lines and their meanings, Anacrusis.

Rhythm and Tempo: Duple, Triple and Quadruple Time, Simple and Compound Time, Dividing the Beat, Accepted Tempo for the March, Strathspey, Reel and Jig.

Music Writing

Write neatly, from memory, on the manuscript provided, a two parted Simple Time and a two parted Compound Time March.  The scores should incorporate a variety of rudiments, as those included in the Practical Section of this syllabus.

Where appropriate; Repeat marks, Embellishments and Dynamic marks should be shown.

Instrumental (Practical)

On Practice Pad:

All Exercises are contained within RSPBA Structured Learning Book 1,        Section 1.21.4 – 1.21.21, plus 1.24.1

Counting and co-ordination exercises

Five Stroke Roll Development

Roll Permutations

Paradiddle Development

The Flam Embellishment

The Drag Embellishment

Monotone Exercises

Sight read, with a fair amount of accuracy, a Simple Time two parted March, provided by the examiner

On Drum:

Display the ability to tune the Top and Bottom Snares.

Accompanied by a Piper, play proficiently a Simple Duple Time March, a Strathspey and Reel and a Compound  Time March, each of 2 parts or more.

The tunes must include a variety of Rolls and Rudiments, as those included in the Practice Pad Section of this syllabus. A score (of the settings to be played) must be submitted to the examiner.