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Audition Requirements for all Jazz ensembles

About the Jazz Ensembles
All Instruments except Drums

  • Chromatic Scale, spanning the student’s entire playable range
  • Concert C-major, Bb-major, and G-major scales and arpeggios
  • 1 piece, representative of the student’s current level
  • Sight-reading, chosen by the judges at the audition
  • Other arpeggios (prepare these if you are able):
    • C-maj7, C-min7, C7, B-flat-maj7, B-flat-min7, B-flat7, G-maj7, G-min7, G7
  • N.B.: Piano players will also be asked about their knowledge of chord symbols and if they can read symbols as well as notes
Drums

  • Play 16 bars of time in these feels and a tempo of your choosing:
    • 4/4 Swing
    • 3/4 jazz waltz
    • 4/4 Latin
    • Ballad with brushes

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