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.