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WSMA High School State Honors Music Project 2018 Jazz Trombone Audition Requirements The Wisconsin State Honors Music Project is a nationally-recognized program of excellence for Wisconsin's best auditioned music students. Students apply in November, audition in February, are selected by April 1, attend a June summer camp, and perform in October at the Wisconsin State Music Conference in Madison. By providing talented youth with the opportunity to rehearse and perform with nationally-known conductors in a professional setting, students bring back their new skills to share in their school music programs. Honors students also form lifetime friendships with others who share their level of commitment to music. ELIGIBILITY Jazz ensemble students regularly enrolled as full or part-time students in grades 9, 10, 11 from WSMA-member schools are eligible to audition for the 2018 Wisconsin High School State Honors Music Project. A student must be regularly enrolled in their school jazz ensemble during the November application, February audition, and October performance. SIGHT-READING • Each Honors student will sight-read during their audition. In addition, each jazz player should prepare: REQUIRED ETUDE - "Dido" (pgs. 10 & 11) from Effective Etudes for Jazz, by Jeff Jarvis and Mike Carubia, Kendor. AUDITION REQUIREMENTS: 1. Prepare either "The Very Thought of You" from Jamey Aebersold's Vol. 41 Body & Soul OR "When Sunny Gets Blue" from Jamey Aebersold's Vol. 49 Sugar. Play the head only. 2. From Jamey Aebersold's Vol. 6 Charlie Parker "All Bird,": Prepare either "Now's the Time" (omit the turn/take out the 16th note F# and play as two swung F natural 8th notes throughout the head) OR "Billie's Bounce." Play through the head once, and improvise two full choruses. SCALES (Performed from Memory) - Play a slurred Chromatic Scale evenly as fast as possible to demonstrate your full range. Then, play the following ii-V-I progression in Bb and F Concert, swing eighth notes. Medium Swing ii-V-I in Bb Concert 5 9

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WSMA High School State Honors Music Project 2018 Jazz Trombone Audition Requirements

The Wisconsin State Honors Music Project is a nationally-recognized program of excellence for Wisconsin'sbest auditioned music students. Students apply in November, audition in February, are selected by April 1,attend a June summer camp, and perform in October at the Wisconsin State Music Conference in Madison. By providing talented youth with the opportunity to rehearse and perform with nationally-known conductorsin a professional setting, students bring back their new skills to share in their school music programs. Honors students also form lifetime friendships with others who share their level of commitment to music.

ELIGIBILITYJazz ensemble students regularly enrolled as full or part-time students in grades 9, 10, 11 from WSMA-member schools are eligible to audition for the 2018 Wisconsin High School State Honors Music Project. A student must be regularly enrolled in their school jazz ensemble during the November application, February audition, and October performance.

SIGHT-READING• Each Honors student will sight-read during their audition. In addition, each jazz player should prepare:

REQUIRED ETUDE - "Dido" (pgs. 10 & 11) from Effective Etudes for Jazz, by Jeff Jarvis and Mike Carubia, Kendor.

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS: 1. Prepare either "The Very Thought of You" from Jamey Aebersold's Vol. 41 Body & Soul OR "When Sunny Gets Blue" from Jamey Aebersold's Vol. 49 Sugar. Play the head only. 2. From Jamey Aebersold's Vol. 6 Charlie Parker "All Bird,": Prepare either "Now's the Time" (omit the turn/take out the 16th note F# and play as two swung F natural 8th notes throughout the head) OR "Billie's Bounce." Play through the head once, and improvise two full choruses.

SCALES (Performed from Memory) - Play a slurred Chromatic Scale evenly as fast as possible to demonstrate your full range. Then, play the following ii-V-I progression in Bb and F Concert, swing eighth notes.

Medium Swingii-V-I in Bb Concert