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2014 Region and All State Jazz Ensembles Senior Jazz Ensemble Audition Requirements (Grades 9 - 12)


All Solo Etudes, Scales, Applications, and Locations may be found on the NJAJE Website: www.njaje.org


***IMPORTANT DATES FOR ALL REGIONS***


Audition Date: Rehearsals: Concert:


Monday, March 17, 2014 (Director’s Meeting - 4PM; Auditions - 4:30PM) March 24, April 7 (4 - 8 PM); April 11 & 12 (9 AM - 3 PM) April 13 (3 PM)


***Audition Requirements for ALL INSTRUMENTS***


• SOLO - All students are required to prepare the solo listed below in its entirety. Note new solo editions! All Solo etudes may be downloaded from the NJAJE Website: www.njaje.org


• SCALES / STYLES - Saxes, brass, piano, guitar, and bass students are required to prepare the scales listed below. Scales are listed in WRITTEN pitch. All scales should be played in a swing style. Drummers are required to demonstrate the ability


to keep time in the styles listed below. Scale sheets for all instruments may be downloaded from the NJAJE Website: www.njaje.org


• IMPROVISATION - All students are required to play an improvised solo demonstrating creativity, technique, & musicality. *Saxes, brass, piano, guitar, and bass students must improvise a solo over 2 choruses of Blues in F or Bb concert using the Jamey Aebersold "New Approach to Jazz Improvisation, vol. 1." Student will pick a card to determine key. *Drum improvisation is included as part of the solo etude.


• SIGHT READING - All students are required to perform a short excerpt never previously seen. Students will be given 30 seconds to look over the piece before playing.


Saxophones: *


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Required solo: NJAJE Senior Saxophone Etude No. 4A NEW EDITION! NOTE - Bari Sax: Students will play the entire saxophone etude using the bottom lines in the ossia section.


Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Alto/Bari: C, G, D Blues - 2 octaves, A Blues - 1 octave. G & A Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 1 octave. C & D Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 2 octaves.


Tenor:


Trumpet: *


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F, C, G, D Blues - 2 octaves. G Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 1 octave. F, C, D Dorian & Mixolydian - 2 octaves.


Required solo: NJAJE Senior Trumpet Etude No. 4A NEW EDITION! NOTE - Lead Trumpet: Students will play the entire trumpet etude using the top lines in the ossia section.


Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: C, D Blues - 2 octaves; F, G Blues - 1 octave. C Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 2 oct.; D, F, G Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 1 oct.


Trombone: Required solo: NJAJE Senior Trombone Etude No. 4A NEW EDITION!


Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Bb, C Blues - 2 octaves; Eb, F Blues - 1 octave. Bb Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 2 oct; C, Eb, F Dorian & Mixolydian modes – 1 oct.


Bass Trombone: * *


Piano: * *


Required solo: NJAJE Senior Bass Trombone Etude No. 4A NEW EDITION!


Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Bb, C Blues, Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 1 octave (begin below the staff.) Eb, F Blues, Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 2 octaves (begin below the staff.)


Required solo: NJAJE Senior Piano Etude No. 4A NEW EDITION! Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED and 2 HANDS]: C, F, Bb, and Eb Blues, Dorian, & Mixolydian modes - 2 octaves.


Guitar: * *


Bass: * *


Required solo: NJAJE Senior Guitar Etude No. 4A NEW EDITION! Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: C, F, Bb, and Eb Blues, Dorian, & Mixolydian modes - 2 octaves. Required solo: NJAJE Senior Bass Etude No. 4A NEW EDITION! Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: C, F, Bb, and Eb Blues, Dorian, & Mixolydian modes - 2 octaves.


Drums: * *


Required solo: NJAJE Senior Drum Etude No. 4A NEW EDITION!


Styles [ALL STYLES MEMORIZED]: Swing (slow w/brushes, medium w/sticks, and fast w/sticks), Jazz Waltz, Shuffle, 8th Note Rock, 16th Note Rock (Funk), Latin (Samba). Styles must be memorized. Students must be able to play 2, 4, & 8 bar phrases with a fill at the end of each phrase.


OCTOBER 2013 71 TEMPO


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