2026-2027 Junior Auditions

Full Audition List

Audition Date:
December 5, 2026
Audition Location:
Furnace Brook Middle School, Marshfield

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 1. Late registrations will be accepted on December 2– 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

Doxy (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

Wide Open Spaces, Sarah Quartel

Recording will begin at m. 77. Students will sing from m. 81-154
Students will sing with the accompaniment track only.

🔈 Link to Audition Tracks

*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.