Audition Requirements

Woodwind and brass instruments are required to perform the following:

• Prepared piece: grade IV or higher solo, etude or other work 
  
• Major and minor scales and arpeggios from memory (tempos and ranges vary according to instrument)
  
• Sight-reading: standard concert band, jazz band (applicable instruments) and march music
  
• Flutists should bring a piccolo and be prepared to sight-read on both flute and piccolo.

Percussionists must perform on snare drum, drum set and a mallet instrument. The requirements are:

• Snare Drum: solo, rudiments and sight-reading
  
• Drum Set: sight-reading and demonstrate the following idioms: swing, rock, Latin and funk
  
• Mallet: scales and sight-reading.

Rhythm instruments (Keyboard, Electric Guitar and Electric Bass) are required to do the following:

• Prepared piece, one in each of the following styles: swing, pop/rock, Latin and ballad
  
• Scales: same requirements as listed above
  
• Sight-reading: standard music for your instrument, chords and chord changes, bass lines, and chord progressions.

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