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Delaware All-State band audition requirements

In-person auditions.

DMEA | Junior Band

Start with one passage

Check DMEA's Junior Band requirements for your instrument. Audition date: January 9, 2027.

Begin your etude with a short passage. Confirm the official packet with your director.

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Last checked October 6, 2026 | Official source: https://www.delawaremea.org/all-state.html

What to work on this week

Use this plan for your next round, a solo, or next season. Not taking another audition? Choose music with your director and use the same steps.

5 minutes - Read before playing. Find the required passage in the official packet. Mark its start and end. Count through a rhythm that needs attention.
10 minutes - Work on one small chunk. Choose a few notes or a short phrase. Play slowly enough to follow the notes and rhythm.
10 minutes - Connect two chunks. Practice the next small section. Then join the sections, paying attention to the connection.
5 minutes - Record and listen. Record the joined passage. Follow the score while listening. Write down one thing to revisit.

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DMEA

Delaware Music Educators Association (DMEA)

2026-27 materials are posted.

Ensembles: All-State Junior Band, All-State Senior Band, All-State Jazz Ensemble
Season: 2026-27
Audition window: Instrumental applications are due November 13, 2026. In-person auditions are Saturday, January 9, 2027 (weather date January 16, 2027). Junior and Senior Band events are March 18-20, 2027; Jazz is February 4-6, 2027 at Cape Henlopen High School.
Instruments: all band instruments (winds and percussion); jazz ensemble is grades 7-12

What the organization posted

In-person auditions. Junior Band: memorized major scales through four flats and three sharps for winds, and four flats and four sharps for mallets, at quarter note = 120, chromatic scale, named solos and sight-reading. Senior Band: memorized major scales through six sharps and flats at quarter note = 144, chromatic scale, named solos and sight-reading. Jazz: concert Bb, Eb, A and G Mixolydian scales, linked excerpts, one improvised chorus each of All the Things You Are and Black Orpheus, and 30 seconds of sight-reading. Apply with a Google Form and live-signature page; the fee is $25. The director must be a current NAfME/DMEA member and attend 7:30am-4:00pm or the student is disqualified.

Notes

The hub links the 2026-2027 student and director packets. Student packet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zxcng-PVeXDkgQdL-s1077hjIPaRnsWJUdnOkYDk1Ac/export?format=txt. Director packet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SQtGufs2EIx5LgR_IbDiQE3YoF3Ttj_RoC0NFiNTJJo/export?format=txt. Read October 4, 2026. The hub operations-manual link changed and was not opened; Junior and Senior Band grade numbers were not restated in the student packet.

Retrieved from the organization's page on October 4, 2026.

All-State - DMEA - Delaware Music Educators Association

Practice for DMEA with your audition tempo, tuner and drone on one screen

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How it fits each part of this audition

Scales: Set up each scale in Virtunity and practice it with the metronome at your audition tempo, with the tuner and drone in the same window. Scale Checker confirms scale notes on your iPhone. Notes only. Not tone, rhythm or a complete performance.
Prepared solo: Keep the PDF in your Music Library and set the piece up in practice with the metronome, tuner and your notes beside it. Start under tempo: good reps in a row move the tempo up a step, and Keep lets you stay at the old tempo.
Sight-reading: Sight Reading Sprint in the Lab puts one note at a time on the staff for a 60-second round of fast note reading. It is not a full sight-reading excerpt, so read something new every day too, and keep your counting steady with the Lab's rhythm modules.
Tone and intonation: Every judge listens for these. The tuner shows your note and how sharp or flat it is, and the drone gives you a steady reference pitch for long tones.
Tempo: Tap tempo finds a marked tempo, and subdivision clicks keep your eighths, triplets and sixteenths even.

For students 13 and up. Virtunity helps you prepare. Your playing on audition day earns the chair.