There are multiple ways of becoming a member of the NIU Steelband. Below are the requirements for playing either pan or percussion.
All University Steelband:
- Be a current student at Northern Illinois University
- Attend beginning of semester meeting
- Sign up for class
NIU World Steelband:
- Be a current student at NIU
- Attend beginning of semester meeting
- Have prior Steelband experience
- Sign up for class
Steelpan Major:
- Major and harmonic minor scales, two octaves at quarter note = 100. These should be played as sixteenths.
- All major and minor arpeggios.
- Audition pieces: Prepare J. S. Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor, movement 1 or 3 at quarter note = 100. Also, J.H. Fiocco’s Allegro at quarter-note = 100.
- For on-campus pan auditions there will be sight-reading of excerpts from the Baroque period as well as a Calypso piece.