latin/latin jazz/brazilian - admission requirements

Bass guitar Latin/Latin jazz/Brazilian
* affinity with Latin
* good feeling for timing and intonation
* ability to improvise
* major and minor scales
* arpeggios based on three and four-note chords
* sight-read simple themes and chord sequences
* perform a few pieces, which include the most common genres in Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian music
* demonstrate the basic accompaniment patterns for son, chachachá, bossa, samba and 12/8 patterns 

Brazilian guitar
* songs: the candidate has to prepare 4 songs (different in character and tempo) Styles: bossa-nova (from A.C. Jobim), samba, baiao.  
* improvisation: the candidate has to be able to improvise a single line solo over at least one of the prepared songs.  Suggestions for songs/ chord-progressions to solo on:  Dindi Manha de Carnaval Minha Saudade So danço samba
* scales / arpeggios: the major scale and minor scales over at least 2 octaves. The scale related arpeggio's in triads and 7-chords.  
* sight-reading: the candidate has to play the chords (with extensions) of a certain bossa à prima vista. The candidate has to play a melody à prima vista.  
rhythm: the candidate has to sing or clap certain Brazilian percussion rhythms. During the exam accompaniment will be available.

Drums Latin Latin/Latin jazz/Brazilian
* talent and affinity with Latin
* reading and technical skills
* perform in different styles with a conservatory combo

Latin percussion
* talent and affinity with Latin
* play the timbales, congas
* open and muffled tones on conga
* heel and tip playing and floating hand technique on conga
* cáscara patterns, bel-patterns (12/8), songo, bembé and mozambique on timbales
* perform a short solo, a guaguancó, a tumbao in 12/8 and an exercise to test independence on timbales
* knowledge of the basic patterns on surdo, tamborim, ganzá, pandeiro and caixa
* recommended: perform on bongó, surdo and tamborim

Theory and solfège
* knowledge of musical notation in treble and bass clefs, (signature of), major and minor scales, intervals and chords
* write down, reproduce, sing and recognize the major and minor scales, intervals and chords (major, minor, diminished and augmented)
* knowledge of the symbols for all major, minor, dominant, half diminished and diminished seventh chords * build up the first three seventh chords (minor, major and dominant) from any tonic

Musical ear
* repeat (by singing) a simple melodic fragment
* repeat (by singing) a bass line
* pick out mistakes in a notated melody
* sing separate notes which have been played together
* pick out changes to a set of notes played together
* clap a given rhythm
* notate a melodic fragment played aloud
* sight-singing (only for vocalists)

Piano Latin/Latin jazz/Brazilian
* talent and affinity with Latin and/or Latin jazz
* sight-read a piece, written with chord symbols
* improvise
* major and minor scales and broken chords
* simple chord combinations
* perform etudes: choose from C. Czerny, Die Schule der Geläufigkeit op.299 (Leipzig s.a., Peters Verlag) or etudes of an equivalent grade
* polyphony: perform a two-part invention by J.S. Bach or another work in several parts from the 18th century

Voice Latin/Latin jazz/Brazilian
* talent and affinity with Latin and/or Latin jazz
* vocal disposition (posture, breathing and diction)
* sight-sing a given melody
* improvise on a played chord sequence
* sing in at least two languages, with and without microphone
* sing two vocalizes (fast and slow) choose from G. Concone, 50 Leçons de chant op.9 (Leipzig s.a., Peters Verlag); M. Vaccai, Metodo Pratico de Canto (Leipzig s.a., Peters Verlag); S. de C. Marchesi, 20 Vocalises élémentaires et progressives (Offenbach s.a., André)