Jazz Band
2025-2026 JAZZ BAND AUDITION MATERIAL
2025-2026 Audition Information TBD - Link to previous audition material.
Upload a video of yourself playing the jazz etude (found in this same module). Be sure I can see your face in the video.
The style is swing.
Accuracy and appropriate style is more important than the exact tempo. In other words, slower and more accurate will be more rewarded over fast with poor technique and inaccuracies.
Saxophones only need to submit one video. Record yourself on the instrument with which you are most comfortable (alto/tenor/bari).
Trumpets should submit both the "Trumpet" and "Lead Trumpet" music. Do your best and show me what you can do - don't worry about perfection when it comes to range. I need to see where your abilities currently are.
Piano/Guitar should "comp" the chords given with the melody of the etude.
Rhythm Section - the slashes in the last line mean you will comp or make up a walking bass line.
Drum Set Players:
Upload a video of yourself playing the jazz etude (found in this same module). Be sure I can see your face in the video.
The style is swing.
Accuracy and appropriate style is more important than the exact tempo. In other words, slower and more accurate will be more rewarded over fast with poor technique and inaccuracies.
Saxophones only need to submit one video. Record yourself on the instrument with which you are most comfortable (alto/tenor/bari).
Trumpets should submit both the "Trumpet" and "Lead Trumpet" music. Do your best and show me what you can do - don't worry about perfection when it comes to range. I need to see where your abilities currently are.
Piano/Guitar should "comp" the chords given with the melody of the etude.
Rhythm Section - the slashes in the last line mean you will comp or make up a walking bass line.
Drum Set Players:
- Drummers will also play sixteen bars each of the following styles:
- Funk at 110 bpm
- Swing at 110 bpm
- Double-Time Swing at 220 bpm
- Double-Time Swing Trading Fours (four bars of time, four bars of solo) at 220 bpm
- Samba at 220 bpm
- Jazz Waltz at 220 bpm
- Drummers will play each sixteen-bar phrase in prescribed order, as one continuous etude, then after a short pause, play eight bars of swing ballad with brushes at 80 bpm
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| Jazz Handbook - Aebersold |
"There is two kinds of music: the good and the bad. I play the good kind." - Louis Armstrong