District VI Winter Music Festival

Audition Requirements

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MS Band​

• Wind auditions are comprised of the following:

  • Prepared Piece: 2018-2019 District VI MS Concert Band Audition List

  • Scales: District VI MS Band Scales

    • Concert Pitch Ab, Eb, Bb, F, and C​, and chromatic

    • memorized

    • articulated according to packet

• Percussion auditions are comprised of the following:

  • Prepared Piece and rudiments on a specialty instrument (snare drum, timpani, or mallets)

    • 2018-2019 District VI MS Percussion Audition​

  • Battery Percussion Excerpts

HS Chorus

• Perform the prepared piece: Linden Lea (mm. 1-17)

  • The piece will first be sung in 4 parts, unaccompanied.

  • Adjudicators will fill in for missing parts. All students will be auditioned as a full quartet.

  • The piece can be transposed up or down a whole step if desired.

• Following the quartet performance, each student will sing alone (solo), a portion of the same work. 

• Students will then perform a short sight reading excerpt and rhythmic excerpt

HS Jazz Band

• Students (except drummers) perform their part on the prepared piece: Alianza (coming soon!)

  • Play 1st part wherever multiple parts are presented

• Perform a sight-reading excerpt from a big band chart.

• Students perform improvisation with the Aebersold play-along track to this piece: Billie's Bounce

  • Winds -

    • Play the head (check to make sure you're playing to right version!)

    • Outline the scales/chords using the appropriate improv PDF.

    • Improvise melodically for one chorus

    • Return to the head (judge will stop player once the head is restarted)

  • Piano/Guitar -

    • Play the head

    • Comp chords for one chorus as if accompanying a soloist

    • Improvise melodically for one chorus

    • Return to the head (judge will stop player once the head is restarted)

  • Bass -

    • Play the head

    • For one chorus, play a bass line appropriate to the style and chords as if accompanying a soloist

    • Improvise melodically for one chorus

    • Return to the head (judge will stop player once the head is restarted)

• Drummers: Perform the required piece: Softly, As in  Morning Breeze (coming soon!) 

  • The play-along recording that does not include drums will be used in the audition.

  • The piece will be played all the way through with the recording.

• Perform stylistically appropriate time-keeping patterns and fills in the following styles:

  • Funk

  • Shuffle swing

  • Jazz waltz

• Perform a sight-reading excerpt from a big band chart.

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