Admission Requirements, Jazz Guitar

- Performance of three popular jazz standards of different tempo (slow, medium, fast): theme, improvisation, harmony playing, chordal accompaniment.

 - Playing major and minor blues (improvisation, chordal playing without theme) in various keys and tempos.

 - Knowledge of about 10 jazz standards – theme and improvisation – in original harmonisation from memory. The repertoire has to be presented to the examination panel in the exam material submitted by the candidate.

- Improvisation on the harmonic line given at the exam.

- Sight reading of a melody or chordal line given at the exam.

- Presentation of frequently used jazz chords in basic position and in various inversions.

 

  
Bartók presented an austere, forbidding front to the world and even in those years, when he was still in his mid-forties, his reputation was daunting. Although he had received little official recognition and was widely regarded as a raving radical, we music students knew exactly how important he was, and we revered him. We were fully aware that there was an authentic genious teaching at our Academy. (Sir Georg Solti)