Students, you can either work on your audition recording on your own or with the support/help of your jazz band teacher.

Please practice and prepare your audition recording - be sure to NOT identify yourself in any way on your audio recording. 

You are to submit only ONE recording. Please label the file with your last name & instrument. (ex: Jones/Trumpet)

Complete the application form including uploading your audio recorded audition - by the February 02, 2025 audition deadline.

Audition Requirement #1

Saxophone, Trombone, Trumpet players: play a chromatic scale slurred over your playing range, ascending and descending in eighth notes with an audible metronome in the background. Pick a tempo that demonstrates your technique clearly and cleanly.

Pianists: play a three-octave chromatic scale with two hands ascending and descending.

Bassists: play a 2-octave chromatic scale beginning on low/open E. 

Guitarists: play a 3-octave chromatic scale beginning on low/open E. 

Drummers: play a swing feel at 160 bpm for the equivalent of 32 4/4 measures.
                   play a bossa nova at 140 bpm for the equivalent of 16 bars.

                   play a samba at 200 bpm for the equivalent of 16 bars.

                   play a rock beat at 130 bpm for the equivalent of 16 bars. 

                   play a ballad feel with brushes for 8 bars. 55bpm.

Audition Requirement #2

Perform a prepared jazz study or selection of your choice.
(This may even be one of your parts that your high school jazz band is performing this year.) It should at least 16, but no more than 48 bars in length. Try to select a piece or passage which showcases your abilities!