{"id":9924,"date":"2026-04-21T16:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:18:15","slug":"sound-of-the-south-holds-drumline-interest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/04\/21\/sound-of-the-south-holds-drumline-interest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound of the South holds Drumline Interest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Whether you play snare, tenor, bass drum or even cymbals, the drumline says there is a place for you in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-humanities\/departments\/john-m-long-school-music\/sound-of-the-south\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sound of the South<\/a> (SOTS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday morning, prospective members were given an opportunity to learn some of the SOTS music and get a head start on upcoming band camps throughout the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;For June Camp, we have essentially two and a half days to put our entire show on the drums,&#8221; says Robert Clayson, Marching Drumline Instructor. &#8220;We have to learn about eight minutes of music in 48 hours, a warmup packet and a cadence so whenever I don&#8217;t have to do introductions to playing techniques during June Camp it always makes it much, much easier.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/04\/20\/chris-hood-elected-as-100th-sga-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CAMPUS COVERAGE: Chris Hood elected as 100th SGA president<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Returning members and instructors were the ones teaching potential members. Current Senior and future Graduate Assistant for the band Will Heeres talked about his experience teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Just getting into the nitty gritty of here&#8217;s where you came from, here&#8217;s how we can improve on that,&#8221; said Heeres. &#8220;Getting everyone together, seeing the melting pot that is the Troy band and starting the process to getting it all the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their biggest advice to prospective students? Don&#8217;t be afraid to learn fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t have the time most days to spend an hour and a half on one thing,&#8221; said Clayson. &#8220;We have in any given rehearsal day 50 different things that we have to do and we only have about an hour to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-humanities\/departments\/john-m-long-school-music\/sound-of-the-south\/band-camp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> to find more information about upcoming band camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Whether you play snare, tenor, bass drum or even cymbals, the drumline says there is a place for you in the Sound of the South (SOTS).<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning, prospective members were given an opportunity to learn some of the SOTS music and get a head start on upcoming band camps throughout&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/04\/21\/sound-of-the-south-holds-drumline-interest-day\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[151,3030],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-9924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-sound-of-the-south","tag-sound-of-the-south-band-camp","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9986,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions\/9986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}