Jazz Audition Requirements

For Jazz Scholarships
To audition for a jazz scholarship, you will need:

• to demonstrate your basic skills in the following areas
  • technique (scales, arpeggios, etc.)
  • improvisation (blues, rhythm changes, etc.)
  • sight-reading 
• two letters of recommendation from music professionals who know you and your musical background (your band director, private instrument teacher, etc.)
  
  Note: Jazz pianists and guitarists should demonstrate the ability to comp over blues and/or rhythm changes; bass players should demonstrate the ability to construct bass lines over the same. Drummers should demonstrate a basic command of styles (medium swing, even eighth, ballad, Latin, etc.)