SENIOR REGIONAL

SENIOR REGIONAL (Grades 9-12) String Audition consists of the following:

1. Scales    2. Prepared Excerpts   3. Sight-Reading

3-Octave Scales

Students may be asked to perform all major and (melodic) minor scales up to 3 sharps and 3 flats in 3 octaves (2 octaves for bass). Scales should be played in groups of two slurred, and two martele ascending and groups of four slurred descending. Scales should be performed at a tempo of quarter note equal to 120 beats per minute. *Scales must be memorized. 

The required scales are:

C Major             a Minor        

G Major             e Minor 

D Major             b Minor 

A Major              f# Minor    

F Major              d Minor        

B-flat Major       g Minor

E-flat Major       c Minor          

Sight-Reading

There will be a sight-reading component to this audition.