All-State posting
Missouri All-State band audition requirements
The 2026-27 cycle uses Set 3.
MBA | All-State Band
Start with one passage
Check MBA's All-State Band requirements for your instrument. Audition date: December 5, 2026.
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://missouribandmasters.org/mo-asb/
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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MBA
Missouri Bandmasters Association (MBA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- Missouri All-State Band
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- Live all-state audition Saturday, December 5, 2026 at Hickman High School, Columbia, MO. Students must first be members in good standing of their MMEA All-District Band, whose audition dates are set by each district in the fall of 2026.
- Instruments
- all band instruments (winds and percussion)
What the organization posted
The 2026-27 cycle uses Set 3. Per-instrument packets are posted for download and now contain the required scales printed inside the packet. Scales must be memorized and performed at a minimum of quarter note = 88, prepared both slurred and tongued; wind packets call for chromatic, major, and melodic minor scales. Each wind packet then contains four printed etudes, each with its own tempo range (for example flute Set 3: four etudes at dotted quarter = 60-80, quarter = 50-66, dotted quarter = 60-84, and quarter = 110-130). Percussion has separate general percussion and timpani packets. Auditions are performed live in person.
Notes
Missouri is a two-stage system: MMEA district All-District Band auditions come first, and each district sets its own dates, materials, and fees. The separate audition-day site missouriallstateband.org still showed the prior-year (December 6, 2025) schedule as of August 23, 2026, so the MBA page is the current one. Set 3 wind packet content confirmed directly from the posted Set-3 All-Winds PDF on the same domain.
Retrieved from the organization's page on October 2, 2026.
Missouri All State Band Information | Missouri Bandmasters AssociationMOAJE
Missouri Association of Jazz Educators (MOAJE)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- Missouri All-State Jazz Band
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- The 2026-27 jazz audition day was not found on the registration page read September 21, 2026. It still posts the completed prior cycle: December 6, 2025 at Hickman High School in Columbia, registration closing November 25, 2025, and $20 per student.
- Instruments
- jazz band instrumentation: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and rhythm section (piano, bass, guitar, vibes, drums)
What the organization posted
Set 3 (2026-2027) materials are posted per instrument: a swing etude and a latin etude, each with a downloadable MP3 accompaniment track, plus two improvisation tunes - I Got Rhythm from Approaching the Standards Vol. 1 (Willie Hill) and Dr. Jay, an E-flat blues, from Jamey Aebersold Vol. 42. Wind players perform the melody and improvise a minimum of one chorus on both tunes. Rhythm section players take the melody on the first chorus, comp or walk on the second, and improvise on the third. Drummers must demonstrate shuffle, samba, bossa, jazz waltz, and funk. No scales are required. Auditions are played with backing tracks, and callback auditions add sight reading.
Notes
Separate posting and separate organization from the MBA concert-band audition, though historically held the same day. MOAJE's general 'Audition Procedures' page still lists tunes from an earlier set (Now Hear This!, Cantaloupe Island), so the Set 3 page is the governing list for 2026-27. The registration page still posts the prior cycle: https://www.moaje.org/registration-and-rules.html, read September 21, 2026.
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.
- 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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