All-State posting
Kansas All-State band audition requirements
Live, in-person audition.
KMEA | District honor audition
Start with one passage
Check KMEA's District honor audition requirements for your instrument. Audition date: confirm with your director.
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://ksmea.org/allstate/rules/
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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Confirm every date and requirement with your director. Organizations update packets.
KMEA
Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- All-State 1234A Band, All-State 56A Band, All-State Orchestra (winds and percussion)
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- Scales and excerpts were posted by May 1, 2026 and re-posted August 15, 2026 as the official final version. Live state auditions are January 16, 2027 at Salina-South High School, Salina, with January 23, 2027 at the same site as the weather contingency date. A district-level process precedes the state audition.
- Instruments
- woodwinds, brass, and percussion (piccolo through tuba, plus mallet, snare, auxiliary and timpani)
What the organization posted
Live, in-person audition. Every wind player performs a chromatic scale slurred up and tongued down at quarter = 60 in the rhythm printed on the instrument's scale sheet, memorization not required; one major scale as written on the scale sheet with up to four sharps or four flats, also at quarter = 60 in the printed rhythm, starting on the note indicated for that instrument and non-transposed, meaning a trumpet asked for a C scale plays C on the instrument rather than C concert, with the specific key announced by the band chairpersons on the morning of auditions; assigned sections of the required etudes and solos posted per instrument as downloadable PDFs; and sight reading. Percussionists auditioning for the 2026-27 all-state ensembles must prepare the complete mallet excerpts (two), the complete snare drum excerpts (two), plus the bass-drum auxiliary excerpt and one of the timpani excerpts (director/student choice). Tie-breakers are mallet sight-reading, then snare sight-reading. Students are told to prepare exactly what is posted in the August 15 version regardless of later corrections suggested by private teachers or other sources.
Notes
KMEA runs ten districts and students must first be performing members of their district's 2026-27 KMEA Band, Jazz Ensemble or Orchestra; the sponsoring director must hold active Kansas KMEA membership (NAfME associate membership does not qualify). Registration itself sits behind the KMEA members site. Separate postings exist for All-State Jazz Band, the 12A Honor Band and middle-level and elementary choirs.
Retrieved from the organization's page on September 21, 2026.
Audition Excerpts - KMEA (All-State Wind & Percussion 2026-27)KMEA
Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- All-State Jazz Band
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- Jazz excerpts and scale requirements were posted by May 1, 2026 and re-posted August 15, 2026 as the official final version. KMEA's live instrumental auditions are January 16, 2027 at Salina-South High School, Salina, with a January 23, 2027 weather contingency date.
- Instruments
- jazz winds and rhythm section - alto, tenor and bari saxophone, trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, bass, and drums
What the organization posted
Live, in-person audition using posted 2026-27 jazz material. Horn players (alto, tenor and bari saxophone, trumpet, trombone) play a full-range chromatic scale in quarter notes at quarter = 120; play etude #1 in full and then improvise over its chord changes with the provided backing track; play etudes #2 and #3 in full; and sight read an excerpt after 30 seconds to review it. Optional lead trumpet and bass trombone excerpts are posted for players seeking those chairs. Rhythm section players on piano, guitar and bass play and then improvise over etude #1 with the backing track, play etudes #2 and #3 in full, and sight read on the same 30-second review. Drummers play etudes #1 through #4 in full plus sight reading, with no improvisation track. All etudes and the scale are played without the metronome sounding; the metronome only establishes the tempo at the beginning.
Notes
This is a separate posting from the KMEA All-State Band excerpts, with its own etudes and its own scale rule. Eligibility is the same: the student must be a performing member of their district's 2026-27 KMEA Band, Jazz Ensemble or Orchestra, and the director must be a KMEA member who registers and pays for each audition. The January 16, 2027 date comes from KMEA's Instrumental Auditions page, which covers band, jazz and orchestra together.
Retrieved from the organization's page on September 21, 2026.
Audition Excerpts - KMEA (All-State Jazz)Practice for KMEA with your audition tempo, tuner and drone on one screen
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- 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 etudes
- 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.
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