Interested In Learning?

First thing to do: Ring Don, the Musical Director, on 0428 281 941 after reading all the details below, to register your interest and let him know when you’d like to start.

Weekly Practices

Practices are on each week as well as through the school holidays (except Christmas Holidays). However it is recognised that people can have a break through the school holidays. The learners can have 25 minute in-person lessons or Zoom lessons at home at mutually agreed times.

Choice of available times through the week for a 25 minute lesson (chosen from a list of available times) – Beginner Practice

This is for those that are to start learning. Practices are on pads on tables.

These are individual lessons.

A term fee of $50 is required for tuition (family discounts will be applied). The learners are expected to purchase their own, music folder, sticks and practice pad. Recommended sticks and pads are available for purchase from the Drumline: Sticks: $33, Pads: $17. It must be noted that many drum sticks are quite unbalanced and will put the learner at a distinct disadvantage in learning. When the learner graduates into the Drumline, proper sticks and same sounding pad are mandatory requirements to have.

After a couple of lessons a cheap tin whistle will be required to be purchased. One of the test pieces is a simple tune played on such. The drumline players are all expected to have such diversity.

The learner has a total of 7 test pieces to play at a satisfactory level to graduate from learner practice. The test pieces can be repeated any number of times until the standard is achieved.

2.30pm-4.30pm (winter) 3pm-5pm (summer) each Sunday Afternoon – Recruit Practice

The new recruit will be issued a drum and harness and will start to play with the drumline until they can achieve their 3rd stick stripe (able to play the street march set). They will have also progressed with the Drum Salute No.2. They would then be issued with a uniform and start to appear in public with the drumline

3pm-4.30pm (winter) 3.30pm-5pm (summer) each Sunday afternoon under trees – Drumline Practice

This practice is attended by players who have reached a performance standard and are playing most performance routines. This is the main Drumline practice with most public performances organised with this corp of players.

2.15pm-3.45pm (winter), 2.45pm-4.15pm (summer) – Advanced Drumline Practice

This practice is attended by those players who have achieved certain NCO ranks. This corp of players are aimed at more-advanced drumline performance routines and can either combine with the main corp or perform on their own.
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