Audition Date:
December 6, 2025
Audition Location:
Furnace Brook Middle School, Marshfield
- Audition Registration Portal
- Junior Audition Times – See Registration Portal for Audition Time
- Audition Time Change Request – Directors Only
- Adjudication Forms
- 2025-2026 Junior Audition Cutoff Scores and Metrics
Audition Procedures
- Each School will be assigned a time that will be known by your group director.
- All requirements and regulations for auditions are listed on the District Web Site in the Handbook for directors to be printed out for students.
- Registration will be open from October 1 – December 2. Late registrations will be accepted on December 3 – 3:00 pm, with a $20 late fee.
- After the portal closes, any changes must be made at the Registration Table on the day of auditions.
Fees:
- The Audition Fee per audition will be $20. Checks should be made out to: Southeastern District – MMEA
- After that, a Late Fee of $20 will be assessed along with your $20 fee at the auditions site for a total of $40.
Scales and Sight-Reading
All Students will be required to perform a sight-reading selection.
Vocal Sight Reading:
- Will start and end on the tonic – C Major – 4 measures long
- Will include the first 5 pitches of the diatonic scale (do, re, mi, fa, so) as they fit the range of the voice part
- Will be step wise motion
- Will include half, quarter and eighth note rhythms.
- Bass sight-reading is in bass clef
Winds/Strings/Percussion Scale Requirements:
- Click here for scale sheets
- All scales are to be performed from memory.
- Students are reminded that required scale ranges are only valued as 1 point on the adjudication forms.
- Trombone and baritone horn: The G scale will be accepted as 1 or 2 octave.
- Jazz Scales include wind/percussion required major scales, Bb blues scale, and F blues scale
Percussion Requirements:
- All Junior percussionists will perform the “Junior Multi-Percussion Audition” selection (Triangle, Crash Cymbals, Tambourine, Bass Drum) in addition to their solo piece.
Snare Drum
- 9 stroke rolls alternating
- Single and double paradiddles
Jazz
Jazz Backing Tracks
Groove Merchant: (Download Backing Tracks)
Jazz Solo Auditions:
- See Auditions Requirements List for the Jazz Audition Piece
- Jazz Winds (Saxes and Brass) will NOT be required to perform solo with recording (minus soloist with rhythm section only).
Jazz Improvisation:
- Improvisation is optional for Jr. Auditions.
Guitar/Bass/Piano/Vibes:
- In addition to the written solo, students will comp changes from assigned solo.
Jazz Drums:
- In addition to the listed performance solo, drummers should prepare to play in a funk style, a swing style, and a bossa nova style. These styles should be demonstrated in the format of four bars of time followed immediately by a four bar solo. These pieces should demonstrate technical and musical control of the drum set.
Jazz Scales:
Jazz Sax/Brass: Same as the wind audition requirements with Bb and F blues scales.
Jazz Keyboard/Bass/Piano: Same as wind/percussion auditions, with no chromatic scale requirement.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Jazz students may audition for another ensemble, with the understanding that if they are accepted in two groups, the only group they may participate in is Jazz.
Vocal
“Wake Me A Song” – Mary Lynn Lightfoot, SATB
**From m. 1 – m. 28 ONLY (Accompaniment track starts in m. 1)**
STUDENTS WILL AUDITION WITH THE VOCAL ACCOMPANIMENT TRACK ONLY!
*Please note that the tracks included are intended to assist students in learning pitches/rhythms only. We strongly encourage students to work with their school music teachers, and/or private lesson teachers, to develop characteristic tone quality and musicality appropriate for the audition.
MMEA Southeastern District 