<p>Hi,</p>
<p>My son is auditioning for UCLA Jazz on the guitar. Does anyone have info on the format? </p>
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<li><p>Do they ask you which pieces you're prepared to play and pick amongst those? Or you get to play in the order you want to?</p></li>
<li><p>Is there live accompaniment? How does it work - you announce the pieces you're going to play and start?</p></li>
<li><p>How does the improvisation part work? Do you have a choice in what you improvise over?</p></li>
<li><p>Is the sight reading test part of the 15 minutes or is it done separately?</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks in advance for any insights!</p>
<p>Guitardad, last year UCLA’s jazz guitar auditions were full of surprises. They said in advance (via email and website) there would be no live accompaniment. There was. </p>
<p>It said all over the website there was a theory/sight reading test. There wasn’t (when asked, the man in charge said “Oh, we haven’t done that test for a few years.”). Nice of them to update their and audition email. </p>
<p>Sorry, I don’t know anything about how the order went, but I’m sure that was the opposite of what we were told as well.</p>
<p>Oh, and at least last year the website still said they accepted only VHS auditions. VHS. Didn’t apply to us, but I’m sure that wasn’t the case either.</p>
<p>best thing to do is CALL them</p>