Warm-ups     HOME PAGE  AUDITION PAGE FOR NEXT YEAR'S CHOIR MEMBERS E Mail Mrs. Benefield For membership you must: 1... sign up in the office or bring a letter from home stating you would like to change your 1st choice elective from ??? to choir --- or have Zero period for 8th grade and have 2 electives   2... meet me and get copy of audition song and questionaire. Return questionaire ASAP   3.... sign up for an audition day/time. You are automatically placed in Advanced Chorus if you do not come in to audition.   4.... You will sing a scale ( please use do, re mi - preferred ), sing melody 1 of audition piece - alone - know both parts and sing either part with at least 1 other person. You may prepare another song in addition to the Dona Nobis Pacem.   ( FYI) only 7/8th grade choirs audition to perform at Disneyland.

Warm-ups   Note trainer - learn your note names    Look around, click on a scale that feels comfortable for your voice and practice from there. Songs need not be memorized     C Major Scale - high voices Eb Major Scale - higher voices ( soprano) A Major Scale - altos, high tenor F Major Scale - low altos, tenor D Major Scale - lowest voices   INTERVAL PRACTICE _ ASCENDING Do to Do in E major Do to Do in C major Do to Do in A major Do to Do in F Major Do to Do in D Major   Tonal memory examples - grades 5 through 8 listen to each and sing it back exactly on NAH. Progressive example in D major ( it starts with 4 notes then grows to many) Random melodies to work on.     Major Triads - DO MI SO MI DO Minor Triads - DO MEH SO MEH DO