Practice Exercises
To help you prepare for the improvisation and sight-reading sections of the audition, we have provided downloadable audio files and lead sheets in various voicings, keys, and styles. We suggest practicing with the examples that do not have your instrument included on the track.
Blues Progressions
No Time Blues (jazz blues in F)
Any Day (in F)
Any Day (in C)
Shuffle Blues (in E)
Shuffle Blues (in A)
Funk Blues (in F)
Standard-Form Songs
KJC (based on Killer Joe)
Parquet (rhythm changes)
Aqua Girl (based on Blue Bossa)
Samba de Orbit (based on Samba de Orpheus)
R&B Vamps
R&B Vamp 1 (eight-bar vamp in E-flat minor)
R&B Vamp 2 (two-chord vamp in E-minor)
Rock Vamps
Rock Vamp 1 (two-chord vamp in E)
Rock Vamp 2 (four-bar vamp in D-minor)
Rock Vamp 3 (four-bar vamp in E-minor)
Rock Vamp 4 (two-chord vamp in E)
Funk/Fusion Vamps
Funk/Fusion Vamp 1 (two-bar vamp in B-flat, based on Chameleon)
Funk/Fusion Vamp 2 (Vamp in B-flat, based on The Chicken)
Funk/Fusion Vamp 3 (four-bar vamp in A-minor, based on Sunny)
Funk/Fusion Vamp 4 (Vamp in E, based on Beneath the Mask)