Toelatingseisen Latin guitar
General requirements
Rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic affinity with Latin music
Technical requirements
- Major and minor scales over 2 octaves
- Scale related arpeggios over triads and 7th-chords
Genre specific skills
- Play the chords (and extensions) of a given bossa nova
- Perform samba and baiäo patterns (pdf included)
- Sing/clap Brazilian percussion rhythms (samba, partido alto, baião)
- Perform Bolero, Guajira and Son Cubano patterns on guitar/tres
- Play a tumbao in clave 3-2 and 2-3
- Recognize and clap the clave in a given tune
Playing together
lf possible, play with a backing track. The repertoire has to consist of one Afro-Cuban and one Brazilian piece. Some of the genres/rhythms mentioned above have to be presented. You will have to prepare three ensemble pieces of which two will be chosen by the committee.
lmprovisation
Play a single-line solo over at least one of the pieces from your repertoire.
Suggestions for repertoire
- Dinidi (T. Jobim) – Brazilian
- Manha de Carnaval (L.Bonfa) Brazilian
- La Tarde (Sindo Garay) Cuban
- Suavecito (Ignacio Piñeiro) Cuban
Latin Music Theory
Part of your audition also consists of Latin Music Theory