Popular Music Studies

Commercial Music Vocalists should be prepared to perform:

• Three (3) standard contemporary music compositions, contrasting in style and tempo (No more than one original composition will be allowed).
• Major scales in all keys, ascending and descending in eighth notes at metronome marking quarter note=80
• Dorian Mode ("Re" to "re" in solfege, movable "Do")
• Sight-reading

*Vocalists may choose to bring an accompanist or sing to a pre-recorded track.

Commercial Music Instrumentalists should be prepared to perform:

• Major scales in all keys, ascending and descending in eighth notes at metronome marking quarter note=80
• Minor scales in the key of c,g,d,b, and a
• Arpeggios on major and minor triads
• Arpeggios on major and minor seventh and dominant seventh chords Improvise on a basic twelve-bar Blues progression (12 bar solos for drummers).
• Perform standard commercial music/contemporary compositions in at least two contrasting styles and tempos (No more than one original composition will be allowed)
• Sight-reading standard notation (no tablature).

**All rhythm section musicians will also be expected to accompany from a chord chart or lead sheet.