LCM Grade 1 Timpani

Technical Work

The Candidate will be required to tune one drum to the given note, without the aid of tuning gauges. The examiner will sound the given note three times.

Song List

Item	Song	Composer / Arranger	Publications	Publisher
1	Study	Jack Richards	LCM Timpani Grades 1-5	Stainer & Bell
2	Freewheel	Jack Richards	LCM Timpani Grades 1-5	Stainer & Bell
3	Troopers	Jack Richards	LCM Timpani Grades 1-5	Stainer & Bell
4	Barns & Fields	Aidan Geary	Timp-Tastic (Geary)	Southern Percussion
5	A Shaw Thing	Aidan Geary	Timp-Tastic (Geary)	Southern Percussion
6	Doubleheader	Brian Slawson	Dynamic Solos for Timpani	Alfred Music Publishing
7	Kettle Waltz	Carol Barratt	Bravo! Percussion (Book 1)	Boosey & Hawkes
8	Alpenstock	Carol Barratt	Bravo! Percussion (Book 1)	Boosey & Hawkes
9	Joy to the World	Jan Faulkner	Simply Seven	Southern Percussion
10	Majestic March	Matthew Hardy	Concert and Audition Pieces for the Young Percussionist	Southern Percussion
11	Monkey Bars	Tomáš Chmura	Playground for the Beginner on the Timpani	Barenreiter Praha
12	Carousel	Tomáš Chmura	Playground for the Beginner on the Timpani	Barenreiter Praha

Discussion

The examiner will ask simple questions asking candidates to identify basic terms and signs including the stave; bars and barlines; note values; location and purpose of the time signature; repeat signs. All as occurring in the music performed. In addition the candidate should know names of the parts of the instrument.

Sight Reading

The candidate will be asked to play a short piece of a standard appropriate to the grade. Two examples are given in the handbook. Up to one minute’s preparation time will be allowed to study the test before playing, during which the candidate may try parts of the test if they wish.

Aural Tests

Rhythm

A short harmonised passage, of approximately 6–8 bars in length, will be played. The passage will be in either @2/4 or @3/4 time. Candidates will be asked to:

• identify the time signature as 2 or 3 time.
• clap or tap on each pulse beat, in time, in 2 or 3 time, accenting the first beat of each bar, as the examiner plays the passage again.

Pitch

Two notes of different pitches will be played, one after the other. Candidates will be asked to identify as ‘first’ or ‘second’ which of the two notes is either the higher or the lower, at the examiner’s discretion. The two notes will be played again. Candidates will be asked to sing back one of the two notes (either the first or the second, at the examiner’s discretion). The key-chord of a major key will be played, followed by a short unharmonised melody in the same key, of approximately 4 bars in length. The examiner will stop playing before the final (tonic) note. The candidate will be asked to sing clearly the missing final tonic.