HONOR BAND & AHS audition – 2026
SCALES:
- Your Ab Major
- Your G Major
- Chromatic D1 to D3. Practice with the 3 note slurs + a pause.
- HONOR BAND – CLASSICAL ETUDE/SOLO:
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- HONOR BAND: CONTRADANCE MELODY > YouTube
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- AGOURA HIGH AUDITION
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- SONATA No. 3 – Page 2 & 3 > YouTube
- Please prepare the Concert Ab, G and D Major the full range of your instrument, and a chromatic scale one octave.
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- JAZZ TENOR > Jazz III (Jazz B)
- Play the following major scales the full range of your instrument: Ab, G and D Major and a chromatic scale one octave.
- Prepare a short classical etude on Tenor Sax. demonstrating your technical ability on your instrument.
- Play the melody for “Tenor Madness” once — and prepare/play two choruses of a 12 bar Bb blues solo using transcribed licks. Then play the melody one more time
Download the music: HERE - Participation in Marching Band, Wind Ensemble I/II is highly encouraged.
PRACTICE
- (2/18/25) – MODES, SCALES & CHORDS > check your worksheet
- 2025/2026 > “CONTRADANCE / MOZART”
- WARMUP – KLOSE BOOK
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- 8/11/25 > #4
- 3/18/25 > #17
- 2/25/25 > Page 13, #11
- Page 6, #4 > PDF
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- PRACTICAL STUDIES > Assigned or choose a new one. Extra: review previous exercises’
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- 8/11/25 – Page 14, #27 > Tempo = 130 “Con Brio”. Watch out for added “staccatos”. Loop difficult section/measures.
- 2/25/25 – Page 13, #25 > tempo = 88-92
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- WRITE OR PRACTICE CHORDS FOR “All The Things You Are”
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- 2/11/25 – ALL 12 Major Scales
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CONCERT BAND
JAZZ SONGS
* Texts in RED are YouTube links to the track
* Text in BLUE are Audio or webpage links to tracks
- 5/13 – EVERYTHING
- 3/25 – MOANIN’
- 3/25 – MISTY
- SUMMERTIME
- GEORGIA ON MY MIND
- THINGS AIN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE
- YOU DON’T KNOW ME
- S’ WONDERFUL
- PDF > BLUES SCALES IN ALL 12 KEYS
- MINNIE THE MOOCHER
- BAD DOG!
- BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK (BLUES SHUFFLE TRACK)
- SATIN DOLL
- I CAN’T BUY ANYTHING BUT LOVE
- NORWEGIAN WOOD
- FLY ME TO THE MOON
- ONLY A PAPER MOON
- IN A MELLOW TONE
- AS TIME GOES BY
- IT HAD TO BE YOU
- COMFORT ZONE
- A TRAIN
- BIRDLAND
- PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
- NOLA JUMBO GUMBO
- UNA MAS
- I GOT RHYTHM
- BASIE-CALLY THE BLUES
- BEN’S BLUES
- BEWITCHED
- IT DON’T MEAN A THING
- A BLUES TO BLOW ON (YouTube) / A BLUES TO BLOW ON
- EASY STREET / AUDIO
ADVANCED CONCERT BAND
- WINTERWINDS
- NEVERMORE
- ARABIAN DANCES
- LEGACY
- HERCULES VS THE HYDRA
- KOREAN FOLK SONG ** (based on Variations of Korean Folk Songs) > LINK
- JOY / TICHELI
- THE CAVE YOU FEAR
CHROMATIC SCALE by memory
- Use your fingering chart > PDF
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- 3, 6, 12 note slurs with a pause.
- Try to play as many notes in one breath.
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MAJOR SCALES
- PLAY YOUR MAJOR SCALE (1-2 octaves)
- PLAY YOUR “ADVANCED” ARPEGGIOS > PDF
- AHS audition > Major Scales > FULL RANGE > Concert Ab, D & G > Optional: ALL SCALES
SCSBOA JAZZ HONOR BAND 2026
SCSBOA CLASSICAL HONOR BAND 2025 > LINK
LESSON ASSIGNMENTS
- PRACTICAL STUDIES
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- JULY 23 –
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- PAGE 10 – Exercise #19 – Grazioso. Bpm 76-84
- Use your T1 tuner to keep you from Squaking.
- Long tones to the T1 tuner
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- JULY 23 –
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- KLOSE > LOOSE SHEET
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- (JAN 5) – EXERCISE #4 > (ADVANCED) > PDF
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BAND SHEET MUSIC
- FLOURISH
- COLLIDING VISIONS
- TWIN CITIES MARCH
- MARCH FOR A FESTIVAL
- CELTIC DANCE
- CELTIC AIR AND DANCE No. 2
- SIMPLE GIFTS
- CREEPY CRAWLIES
- MIDNIGHT MISSION
- HEROES OF THE GALAXY
- PREHISTORIC SUITE
- I. STEGOSAURUS
- II. BRONTOSAURUS
- III. PTERODACTYLS
- IV – THE BATTLE
SAXOPHONE RESOURCES
- BLUES in ALL 12 Keys > PDF
- ONLINE METRONOME > LINK
- FINGERING CHART > PDF
- LONG TONE SCORECARD > PDF
- CHROMATIC SCALE > PDF > Middle C to high C
- WARM-UP AND TONE BUILDER > PDF > We will start this soon
- ** (we need to start this) CHROMATIC SCALE/USE THE FINGERING CHART
- Extra Fun songs! CHRISTMAS SONGS > PDF
