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2021 Virtual Honor Band, Jazz, and Select Choir Audition Information
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Honor Band
Click Here for 2021 Honor Band Audition Excerpts

Click Here for 2021 Honor Band Scales
  • NCBCDA auditions only require the following scales:
    1. A Major
    2. F# minor
    3. Chromatic

Select Choir
Select Choir students are selected by their music directors.  Please talk to your teacher. 

Jazz Band

Click Here for 2021 Honor Jazz Band Audition Excerpts
  • NCBCDA auditions only require the Swing and Latin etudes for the 2020-2021 year
Click Here for Improvisation requirements.
​Click Here for the detailed instructions on how to record Jazz Band Auditions - will be updated soon

Jazz Choir

Jazz Choir Audition Material:
1) Chromatic scale, any syllable - quarter note = 120
2) Solo, "Born to be Blue", with supplied accompaniment.
  • "Born to be Blue" Soprano/Alto Sheet Music --- "Born to be Blue" S/A Accompaniment
  • "Born to be Blue" Tenor/Bass Sheet Music --- "Born to be Blue" T/B Accompaniment
4) Part singing "Brazasia" - sing the part you’re auditioning for, a cappella. For divisi, continue with
​    that throughout.

5) 2-3 choruses of blues improvisation


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