Drum Corps Summer Music Workshop
MUSM 495 / 595
STEP #1: Join the Minnesota Brass or Chops Drum & Bugle Corps
http://www.chopsinc.com/ recruiting@chopsinc.com http://www.chopsinc.com/join/join_info.php
Minnesota Brass Quick Facts
- Season runs from January to September
- All age corps, with an age range from 17 - 60 years old
- 20 performances each season, including parades and competitive field shows
- 150+ members march, teach, support, and administrate each season
- Celebrated 60th Anniversary in 2006
- DCA Percussion Champions 2003-04
- DCA Best Frontline 2001, 2004-05
- Top 10 DCA corps for 16 years running
- Brass and percussion sponsored by Dynasty USA
STEP #2: Register for MUSM 495 (undergraduate credit) or MUSM 595 (graduate credit)
Visit https://www5.stcloudstate.edu/registrar/students/specialstudent/default.aspx
Follow directions to request a student id (usually issued within 48 hours by email)
Use your new student id number to register for MUSM 495 (undergraduate credit) or MUSM 595 (graduate credit): https://webproc.mnscu.edu/eservices/login.html?campusid=073
MUSM 495 Section 56
Course ID 001223MUSM 595 Section 56
Course ID 001224
STEP #3: Email the instructor for details on your assignment and due date.
Mr. Glen Tuomaala gatuomaala@stcloudstate.edu
SCSU - 227 Performing Arts Center720 Fourth Avenue South
St. Cloud, MN 56301
MUSM 495 & MUSM 595 ASSIGNMENT
Based on your experience as a member of the Minnesota Brass Drum & Bugle Corps choose a specific musical, movement/marching, or organizational/logistics topic, and write a minimum two page instructional document describing in detail the chosen topic followed by a complete description of how it was addressed in rehearsals and performances. Advice from instructors and staff may be included in the document as well as your own viewpoint on the best teaching methods for the specific topic.
The finished document will serve as a resource for music and movement/marching teachers as well as future members of the Minnesota Brass Drum & Bugle Corps. With permission of the student, the final document will be posted online on the web site of the St. Cloud State University Department of Music as a resource for other students and teachers.
Chordal Warm-Ups by Nathan Mitchell
Minnesota Brass Summer Music Workshop Final Project - August, 2008
Links
Minnesota Brass Drum & Bugle Corps - www.mnbrassinc.org/
Drum Corps Associates - www.dcacorps.org/
Drum Corps Planet - www.drumcorpsplanet.com/
