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The Reno Youth Jazz Orchestra
Auditions

 

2024-2025 RYJO Audition Information

To request a time, fill out this registration: https://forms.gle/TJumCiAButHWPwgU9

Auditions will be held Monday, October 21 through Thursday, October 24, 2024 from 5:00 pm. - 8:00 pm in the Note Able Therapy Services building, 2590 Orovada St., Reno.

Audition Fee: $10

You Can Pay Online

The season will run November 12, 2024 through July 10, 2025. The RYJO fee is $400. Payment plans and scholarships are available.

Be sure to attend the pre-audition workshop to get help with the music and auditioning tips. Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 6:00-7:30 pm at Swope Middle School, 901 Keele Drive, Reno.

RSVP deadline date for the pre-audition workshop is Tuesday, September 24, 2024. Contact ryjo@renojazzorchestra.org to reserve your space.

 

Materials You Will Need to Prepare for Your Audition:

Saxophone Audition Requirements

  1. Complete online registration: https://forms.gle/K3QhcoxfQ9mAHX299
  2. Audition fee $10.00
  3. Full Range Chromatic Scale—play in triplets, tongue up/slur down
  4. F Concert Scale—2 octaves or full range
  5. Alto Sax/Baritone Sax: Concert F Dorian: Play D to D in the key of C
  6. Tenor Sax: Concert F Dorian: Play G to G in the key of F
  7. Audition Excerpt: Cool Blues
  8. Sight Reading: Jazz style, articulation & accuracy. Focus on good tone and musicality.
  9. Improvisation: Play the head and solo twice through the chorus of Doxy using the Play Along Track

Trumpet Audition Requirements

  1. Complete online registration: https://forms.gle/K3QhcoxfQ9mAHX299
  2. Audition fee $10.00
  3. Full Range Chromatic Scale—play in triplets and tongue up/slur down
  4. F Concert Scale—2 octaves
  5. Concert F Dorian: Play G to G in the key of F
  6. Audition Excerpts: Limelight & Jeneve
  7. Sight Reading: Jazz style, articulation & accuracy. Focus on good tune and musicality.
  8. Improvisation: Play the head and solo twice through the chorus of Doxy using the Play Along Track

Trombone Audition Requirements

  1. Complete online registration: https://forms.gle/K3QhcoxfQ9mAHX299
  2. Audition fee $10.00
  3. Full Range Chromatic Scale—play in triplets and tongue up/slur down
  4. F Concert Scale
  5. Concert F Dorian: Play F to F in the key of Eb
  6. Audition Excerpts: The Very Thought of You & Cute
    1. Bass Trombones: Whisper Not
  7. Sight Reading: Jazz style, articulation & accuracy. Focus on good tune and musicality.
  8. Improvisation: Play the head and solo twice through the chorus of Doxy using the Play Along Track

Drums Audition Requirements

  1. Complete online registration: https://forms.gle/K3QhcoxfQ9mAHX299
  2. Audition fee $10.00
  3. Audition Excerpts: Cute Medium Swing & Work Song Swing
  4. Play each style for 32 bars
    1. Shuffle Quarter Note = 108-112
    2. Samba Quarter Note = 100-108
    3. Bossa Nova Quarter Note =124-132
    4. Ballad with brushes Quarter Note = 80
    5. Rock/Funk Quarter Note = 100
    6. Fast swing Half note = 100-110
  5. Sight Reading: Jazz style, articulation & accuracy. Focus on good tune and musicality.
  6. Improvisation: Solo at least 1 chorus of Doxy using the Play Along Track

Bass Audition Requirements

  1. Complete online registration: https://forms.gle/K3QhcoxfQ9mAHX299
  2. Audition fee $10.00
  3. Chromatic Scale—one octave
  4. F Concert Scale
  5. Concert F Dorian: Play F to F in the key of Eb
  6. Audition Excerpts: Cool Blues and Whisper Not
  7. Sight Reading: Jazz style, articulation & accuracy. Focus on good tune and musicality.
  8. Improvisation: Play the head once, walk the second chorus and solo the third chorus of Doxy using the Play Along Track

Piano Audition Requirements

  1. Complete online registration: https://forms.gle/K3QhcoxfQ9mAHX299
  2. Audition fee $10.00
  3. Two Octave Chromatic Scale, 2 hands
  4. F Concert Scale and arpeggio, 2 octaves 2 hands
  5. Concert F Dorian, 2 octaves: Play F to F in the key of Eb
  6. Audition Excerpt: Cool Blues
  7. Sight Reading: Jazz style, articulation & accuracy. Focus on good tune and musicality.
  8. Improvisation: Play the head once, comp the second chorus and solo the third of Doxy using the Play Along Track

Vibes Audition Requirements

  1. Complete online registration: https://forms.gle/K3QhcoxfQ9mAHX299
  2. Audition fee $10.00
  3. Full Range Chromatic Scale
  4. F Concert Scale
  5. Concert F Dorian: Play F to F in the key of Eb
  6. Audition Excerpt: Cool Blues/piano excerpt
  7. Sight Reading: Jazz style, articulation & accuracy. Focus on good tune and musicality.
  8. Improvisation: Play the head once, comp the second chorus and solo the third of Doxy using the Play Along Track

Guitar Audition Requirements

  1. Complete online registration: https://forms.gle/K3QhcoxfQ9mAHX299
  2. Audition fee $10.00
  3. Full Range Chromatic Scale
  4. F Concert Scale
  5. Concert F Dorian: Play F to F in the key of Eb
  6. Audition Excerpt: Cute
  7. Sight Reading: Jazz style, articulation & accuracy. Focus on good tune and musicality.
  8. Improvisation: Play the head once, comp the second chorus and solo the third of Doxy using the Play Along Track.

Vocal Audition Requirements

  1. Complete online registration: https://forms.gle/K3QhcoxfQ9mAHX299
  2. Audition fee $10.00
  3. Sing a one octave chromatic scale—up and down
  4. Sing a major scale on solfege—up and down
  5. Sing a prepared piece of your choosing in the jazz style
    1. If you have recorded accompaniment, be sure to send it to ryjo@renojazzorchestra.org prior to your audition or have it on your phone with Bluetooth enabled.
  6. Sing the Star Spangled Banner without accompaniment.

Please Remember:

To request a time, fill out this registration: https://forms.gle/TJumCiAButHWPwgU9