HHS Jazz Auditions 2023-2024:
All submissions are due by Sunday, June 11th.
We will be completing our jazz auditions for the jazz groups next year (23-24 school year) via video submissions. Go through the steps below to complete your audition:
Requirements:
Saxophones:
Trumpets:
Trombones:
Piano:
Guitar:
Bass:
Drums:
Vibes:
Reference Recordings:
Below are links to reference recordings so you can hear what professional musicians sound like on this tune:
We will be completing our jazz auditions for the jazz groups next year (23-24 school year) via video submissions. Go through the steps below to complete your audition:
- Practice the material from the Requirements section.
- Create a single video recording of you performing all of the material from the Requirements section in a single video.
- **You do not need any special equipment for recording; I suggest simply using your smartphone to create the video recording.
- **Be sure the camera is pointed at YOU (not the ceiling) so we can see YOU performing.
- **No editing. This should be a single recording with all of the material just like a live audition. Don’t worry about everything being perfect; just do the best you can.
- Upload the video to your @haverfordsd.net Google Drive account.
- Complete the Jazz Audition Registration form (https://forms.gle/YyqZYH1vh77rwz1t8 ). There is a spot at the end of the form to submit the video from your Google Drive account.
- **Be sure you are signed in using your @haverfordsd.net Google account when completing the form.
- **If you are auditioning on more than 1 instrument, complete 2 separate forms.
Requirements:
Saxophones:
- Perform A Doll. For saxes, it is optional (but encouraged) to perform the tune with playalong accompaniment.
- Alto and bari sax sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xBCKdhVzqYBjtTD8W5dvh6X1OowO7V0j/view?usp=share_link
- Tenor sax sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vcMjyB6FFXtge4v7PM733trtByqEYTo3/view?usp=share_link
- OPTIONAL Playalong Accompaniment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aCREiMEqsPxOe53A3HgP-jSzZeuwHXY8/view?usp=share_link
- Perform your D major, mixolydian, and dorian scales 2 octaves. Your written D, not concert D.
- Perform your Eb major, mixolydian, and dorian scales 2 octaves. Your written Eb, not concert Eb
Trumpets:
- Perform A Doll. In spots with higher and lower octave pitches, you may play whichever octave you choose. For trumpets, it is optional (but encouraged) to perform the tune with playalong accompaniment.
- Trumpet sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jvJU-rCj7BmahC8mRZTMrtKMJlHbj1uK/view?usp=share_link
- OPTIONAL Playalong Accompaniment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aCREiMEqsPxOe53A3HgP-jSzZeuwHXY8/view?usp=share_link
- Perform your Ab major, mixolydian, and dorian scales (2 octaves where possible).
- Perform your C major, mixolydian, and dorian scales (2 octaves where possible).
Trombones:
- Perform A Doll. In spots with higher and lower octave pitches, you may play whichever octave you choose. For trombones, it is optional (but encouraged) to perform the tune with playalong accompaniment.
- Trombone sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-iqlpof9Vrv5TBp533xVaPNGnuOSiToP/view?usp=share_link
- OPTIONAL Playalong Accompaniment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aCREiMEqsPxOe53A3HgP-jSzZeuwHXY8/view?usp=share_link
- Perform your G major, mixolydian, and dorian scales (2 octaves where possible).
- Perform your Eb major, mixolydian, and dorian scales (2 octaves where possible).
Piano:
- Perform A Doll with the playalong accompaniment. If possible, comp the chords in your left hand and perform the solo in your right hand. Alternatively, you may perform the solo in a take and then comp the chords in a separate take. I included the notated melody with chords above and also a page with only chords for comping.
- Piano sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V0VQmSb4NV09FklP7WXRRess6Y4YX0e9/view?usp=share_link
- Playalong Accompaniment for Piano: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XqJ01L27O0Es8_ew4jmLnDeDK8xo1XNc/view?usp=share_link
- Perform your A major, mixolydian, and dorian scales 2 octaves (2 hands together).
- Perform your Eb major, mixolydian, and dorian scales 2 octaves (2 hands together).
Guitar:
- Perform A Doll. For page 1, comp the chords in a jazz style with the playalong accompaniment audio file. For page 2, perform the melody to from intro to m.16 (you can perform the melody with or without the playalong accompaniment audio file).
- Guitar sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YOuf6mwDMB_rYMIMgSVKvaE7gYxBkoZq/view?usp=share_link
- Playalong Accompaniment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aCREiMEqsPxOe53A3HgP-jSzZeuwHXY8/view?usp=share_link
- Perform your F major, mixolydian, and dorian scales 2 octaves.
- Perform your Bb major, mixolydian, and dorian scales 2 octaves.
Bass:
- Perform A Doll with the playalong accompaniment audio file. You are playing the melody for intro to m.16 and then you are playing a notated walking bass line from m.17 to the end.
- Bass sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I5gFbYAGQrikbDwZQlQ6UZ3KSvZ7hJ1c/view?usp=share_link
- Playalong accompaniment link for bass OPTION 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O2eoyTZLI8H2avRWG9qb6D9-Mtyb6IMm/view?usp=share_link
- OPTIONAL: Using the chords on p.3 of the PDF, walk your own bass line over the chord progression.
- Optional Bass Walking sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y9pauG7Qn8vE43ii-Gow0ZIKOSCBDD4J/view?usp=share_link
- Playalong accompaniment for optional walking bass line: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ut1rD1iTayOprj_D8fRvsCnFfG-TGLg6/view?usp=share_link
- Optional Bass Walking sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y9pauG7Qn8vE43ii-Gow0ZIKOSCBDD4J/view?usp=share_link
- Perform your E, F, and G major scales 2 octaves.
Drums:
- Perform A Doll with the playalong recording.
- Drums sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1URhXuoLIEShhth-Nq9BY-AIRPZa11KvP/view?usp=share_link
- Playalong accompaniment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e4b2XfLU8naPKHCZNKrBCQsYhXSjevAq/view?usp=share_link
- Play 16 bars of a swing feel at 170 bpm. Play fills to mark 4 or 8 bar phrases.
- Play 16 bars of a bossa nova feel at 120 bpm. Play fills to mark 4 or 8 bar phrases.
- Play 16 bars of a rock feel at 100 bpm. Play fills to mark 4 or 8 bar phrases.
- Play 16 bars of a funk feel at 130 bpm. Play fills to mark 4 or 8 bar phrases.
Vibes:
- Perform A Doll with the playalong recording. Perform the notated material.
- Vibes sheet music link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12F43eBe1kLaA22PrXjCCzCPh2oUseojT/view?usp=share_link
- Playalong Accompaniment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aCREiMEqsPxOe53A3HgP-jSzZeuwHXY8/view?usp=share_link
Reference Recordings:
Below are links to reference recordings so you can hear what professional musicians sound like on this tune:
- Alto Sax - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ciT0megVUS5hn-3sXWMnGeM4z9EoZ_nc/view?usp=share_link
- Tenor Sax - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sghUwj3x-8V_IaB_sTajDET85gpMAvx2/view?usp=share_link
- Trumpet - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_0fn6sCfWAKmbpTLcxQnqy7Ju-OXVM7P/view?usp=share_link
- Trombone - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ixSsFdh-h--EMtcbFscfDOz8l1hQX_KB/view?usp=share_link
- Guitar - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L7p7qo-ndQvCeV1ujo-o2UEv9QiwYqZJ/view?usp=share_link
- Piano - https://drive.google.com/file/d/109Ye_PzLFFLRBPQTMrQqrVOSrVe_7Cnl/view?usp=share_link
- Bass - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FGIEHU6VPXEFyshbZjysuNbUgrhCMKqv/view?usp=share_link
- Drums - Listen to the drummer on any of the above reference recordings.
- Vibes - Listen to the above guitar reference recording.