Combo A Audition Requirements 2023/24

Requirements for combo A

Assuming you can already play all your scales in two octaves...?! If you can play your scales then continue with instructions below. If not go learn your scales!!!

                                                "Anything worth having is worth working for" 

                                                                         Ernest Tibbs 

                                          Audition Friday 11/10 from 2:30-6pm!

Scales 

Two octave major scales in all keys plus arpeggios to the 7th

Two octave blues and kansas city blues scales in concert F, Bb, Eb Ab

Songs 

1- Mellow Tone

2-Tenor Madness

3- Doxy 

4-Blue Bossa

5 Blues By Five , Blues Up and Down, Blues Walk and Blue Monk

Be Bop

Learn a Be Bop Tune list:

1-Anthropology (Charlie Parker)

https://youtu.be/aBYnZSnG0RM?si=zJk2YnM05-UgTLHG

2-Confirmation (Charlie parker)

https://youtu.be/1XxMWYIor8w?si=_l7_N81ka6tlr5fv3-

Donna Lee (Charlei Parker)

https://youtube.com/shorts/0iGVLa2KGw4?si=tv1TWBmjHTH_rqN8

4-Joy Spring (Clifford Brown)

https://youtu.be/2hpk3jh6hu4?si=0SMR_IARTwhnsp9L

5-Oleo (Sonny Rollins)

https://youtu.be/HHNiOxP_Hj8?si=hkP-jOfRyUWIodaY

How to learn your selected bebop tune:

-Learn the Melody  

2-Learn to arpeggiate the chords while leaning the Melody

3-Learn Solo on the form of the tune 

You have two weeks to complete this!

Know about the history of the musicians you are studying on bebop tunes...

Steps to learning a bop tune. Know at leats five musician the play your instrument