Middle SCHOOL HONOR BANDS
Schedule & Registration Information on the Main Honor Band Page
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS
Scales
Scales
- The following scales will be required every year for all Middle School students auditioning for the Honor Band: C Concert, F Concert, Bb Concert, Eb Concert, Ab Concert and Chromatic (Percussion will NOT play the Chromatic).
- Buzz roll (soft-loud-soft; minimum of 20 seconds), Single Paradiddles, (Alternating) Flams
- One prepared piece, download below
- Students will sight-read a short 12-16 measure example based in the key of Bb, F, or Eb with at least one accidental. Rhythms will include quarter, half, whole, eighth, dotted-quarter, and syncopation rhythms.
- Special note: Percussion will sight-read on snare drum and keyboard.