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Admissions
Music Auditions
Graduate Info
Audition Requirements
Follow the links to view audition requirements in
the following disciplines:
Brass
| Jazz | Graduate
Keyboard | Percussion
Strings
| Voice
| Woodwinds
Jazz
The following requirements apply to all pitched instruments:
jazz guitar, double bass, saxophone, trumpet, trombone,
and piano. (See below for Drummers.)
- Major scales and modes, harmonic minor scales, and
melodic minor scales in twelve keys and two octaves;
chromatic scale full range.
- Arpeggios: major, minor, augmented, and diminished
triads; major 7th, dominant 7th, minor 7th, minor
7th b5, diminished 7th chords; all in root position,
twelve keys, two octaves.
- Sight-reading skills will be tested.
- Aural recognition of triads and basic intervals,
7th chords, and rhythms
- Two songs, one each from lists A and B below, both
memorized (melody and chords). Play the melody (acoustic
bass players must play melody arco), comp one chorus
(guitar and piano only), walk one chorus (bass only),
improvise one chorus, and play the melody again.
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List
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- Scrapple from the Apple
- Half Nelson
- Dewey Square
- Blues for Alice
- Ornithology
- Confirmation
- Donna Lee
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- Have You Met Miss Jones?
- All the Things You Are
- Stella by Starlight
- Afternoon in Paris
- I Remember You
- You Stepped Out of a Dream
- There Will Never Be Another You
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The following are additional requirements for trumpet,
trombone, and saxophone:
Jazz Trumpet
- One technical study or étude
- One transcribed solo (memorized) from Kent Sloan's
29 Modern Jazz trumpet Solos or Chet Baker's Tangerine
Jazz Trombone
- One Rochut étude
- J.J. Johnson's solo "Bloozineff" from The J.J. Johnson
Collection by Scott Whitfield (Hal Leonard), memorized
- Lead trombone: 88 Basie Street by Sammy Nestico
- Bass trombone: Intermission Riff by Ray Wetzel (Stan
Kenton)
Jazz Saxophone
One étude from Ferling 48 Studies
Jazz Drumset
- Perform the following time feels: swing in 4/4 and
3/4 (slow, medium, and up-tempo, with sticks and brushes),
bossa nova, samba, shuffle, and Afro-Cuban
- Sight read basic figures in swing style while keeping
time. Play intermediate-level rudimental and orchestral
snare drum solos
- Improvise 4-bar, 8-bar, and full-chorus drum solos
within the context of a standard jazz form
- 26 standard N.A.R.D. rudiments
- Aural recognition of triads and basic intervals,
7th chords, and rhythms
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