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2025 Tryout Sheet

For general information about tryouts, visit our tryouts page.

The tryout sheets below contain musical exercises and are a required component of the music audition. The tryout sheet does not need to be memorized.

Candidates must also be prepared to play Buckeye Battle Cry, Fight the Team, Hang On Sloopy, and I Wanna Go Back from memory. Schools songs are available for download here.

 

Brass

 

Brass candidates must also be prepared to perform:

  • Two major scales up to four sharps and flats (In Concert Pitch) (You determine tempo and rhythm.)
  • A two-octave chromatic scale. (You determine the starting pitch, tempo and rhythm.)
  • One short sight-reading etude.

 

Percussion

 

Snare

Tenors

Bass

 

Cymbals

Rubrics and Scoring Sheets

These documents are designed to inform candidates how they will be scored during tryouts. The rubrics describe the criteria judges and squad leaders use to evaluate the auditions for music and marching. Scoring sheets are the documents the judges and squad leaders will fill out in your evaluation.


Rubrics

Music rubrics are split into three groups based on your instrument. The marching rubric is identical for all instruments.

 

 

Scoring Sheets