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Junior Festival Instrumental Audition Scale Requirements
Scales should be played in complete octaves, winds tongued and strings detaché in the following rhythmic pattern:
Extra points are awarded for string scales that exceed the octave requirements for Junior auditions only.
The Chromatic scale should be slurred in eighth note triplets.
The required scale tempo for Junior auditions is 84 BPM (trombone and tuba = 60 BPM).
Instrumental scales must be memorized for the auditions.
Click here for the complete list of scales
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