All-State posting
Mississippi All-State band audition requirements
Woodwind, brass and mallet percussion candidates play all 12 major scales and the chromatic scale in the circle of fifths beginning on concert F, within a three-minute time limit, plus two prepared pieces and sight-reading.
Mississippi Lions | Mississippi Lions All-State Band
Start with one passage
Check Mississippi Lions's Mississippi Lions All-State Band 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://www.misslionsband.org/audition-info
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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Lions Band
Mississippi Lions All-State Band (Lions Band)
2026-27 materials are posted.
The full requirements were not readable from a public official source.
- Ensembles
- Mississippi Lions All-State Band
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- The audition information page does not state an audition day or location. The form embedded on the application page is titled "2026 Mississippi Lions All State Band Application" and is no longer accepting responses; it is not a live 2027 application.
- Instruments
- winds and percussion, plus colorguard, dancer and drum major positions
What the organization posted
Woodwind, brass and mallet percussion candidates play all 12 major scales and the chromatic scale in the circle of fifths beginning on concert F, within a three-minute time limit, plus two prepared pieces and sight-reading. Snare and tenor drum candidates play ten rudiments including the five-stroke roll, flam, long roll and paradiddle, opening and closing each rudiment within a one-minute limit, plus prepared material and sight-reading. Timpani and keyboard percussion have their own listed materials. Prepared etudes are organized into rotating sets labeled Year A through Year E and differ by instrument, and judges choose which excerpts to hear at the audition. The posted 2026-2027 rotation is Year A; the audition fee is $35.
Notes
The 2026-2027 rotation is Year A: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oxORI_BHyc4IWX5pGwD01HlNUyheRy2q4bynRIqzurY/export?format=csv. Fee: https://www.misslionsband.org/audition-fee. The form at https://www.misslionsband.org/audition-application is the closed 2026 application. Read September 21, 2026. Confidence remains partial because no audition day or location is stated. This is a marching/parade band representing Mississippi at the Lions International convention, separate from the director-nominated MBA State Band Clinic honor band.
Retrieved from the organization's page on September 21, 2026.
Mississippi Lions All State Band - Audition InfoMBA
Mississippi Bandmasters Association (MBA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- MBA Honor Jazz Band
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- The audition-video deadline was Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 9 pm and has passed. Results are posted after the second round of Lions Band auditions. The Honor Jazz Band convenes at the MBA State Band Clinic in Natchez, Mississippi, with jazz beginning Tuesday, December 8, 2026.
- Instruments
- jazz winds, strings, piano, and drum set
What the organization posted
Recorded audition consisting of scales and a prepared piece. The video is filmed in one take with no edits and no added audio effects, the student and instrument must be visible for its full duration, and it is uploaded to YouTube set to Unlisted and submitted through MBA's Google audition form. Winds, strings and piano play E-flat blues, G blues and A-flat blues scales, B-flat Mixolydian, C Dorian and a chromatic scale, plus a prepared piece. Drum set candidates play at least eight measures of their own creation in each of three styles - ballad using brushes, swing at quarter note = 140, and rock at quarter note = 120 - each ending with an original fill, plus a prepared piece. No sight-reading is listed.
Notes
Requirements read from the "2026 MBA Honor Jazz Band Audition Information" PDF linked on that page; the application form on the same page is labeled "2026-27 MBA Honor Jazz Band Audition Application," and prepared-piece/etude files sit in a linked Google Drive folder. MBA separately runs a State Band Clinic honor band in Natchez in December 2026 filled by director nomination (nomination form due September 15) rather than by audition, so it carries no audition requirements to publish. Deadline source read September 21, 2026: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10jE77aj-28oZ45rTDap1uNuXX56YhJjJ/view. The PDF title is 2026; its deadline sentence gives Tuesday September 15th by 9 pm without a year or time zone.
Retrieved from the organization's page on September 21, 2026.
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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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