HOME
- Applying
- The Bands
- Fee
DOWNLOADS
- Forms
- Info
AUDITION
- Winds/Perc.
- Middle/High School
RESULTS
- Look here on March 12
CLINICIANS
- Director's Bios
SCHEDULE
- Honor Band Events
FAQs/REMINDERS
- Questions?
- Answers!
CONTACT
- E-mail the staff
AUDITION INFORMATION:
Download the AUDITION INFO. (Word document)
Download the Chromatic Scale Ranges. (PDF format)
WOODWINDS & BRASS
Senior High & Junior High Students:
Students will be asked to sight read a short excerpt.
In addition, all students will be asked to perform the chromatic scale. Students should be prepared to play the scale in eighth notes (quarter note = 120 or faster) and articulate the scales with a slurred style ascending and a detached style descending.
PERCUSSION
Senior High (Grades 10 - 12):
Students will be asked to sight read on snare drum, timpani and xylophone. Students should prepare to perform on all three of these instruments. In addition, percussionists should prepare the following:
1. Long Roll
2. Flam Accent
3. Double Paradiddle
4. Swiss Triplet
5. Student's Choice
Mallets: All students will be asked to perform 5 chromatically adjacent major scales with arpeggios, 2 octaves. (quarter note = 120 or faster)
Timpani: Tune the sight reading from one given note. Play a Forte piano roll, then crescendo.
Students will be asked to sight read on snare drum, timpani and xylophone. Students should prepare to perform on all three of these instruments. In addition, percussionists should prepare the following:
1. Long Roll
2. Paradiddle
3. Flam Tap
4. Student's Choice
Mallets: All students will be asked to perform 3 chromatically adjacent major scales with arpeggios, 2 octaves. (quarter note = 120 or faster)
Timpani: Tune the sight reading from one given note. Play a Forte piano roll, then crescendo.