Audition Video Guidelines

• The 2027 TMEA Middle School Band Honor Ensemble chair placement auditions for all students will take place virtually using the Snap Audition platform.
• No late submissions will be accepted.
• Directors will submit their students' audition videos. Submissions received from students will not be accepted.
• All auditioning students and their instruments must be visible (face and hands) throughout the video recording. Failure to comply with this could result in a student's audition being disqualified.
• Students will refrain from speaking on their videos to maintain anonymity in the judging process.
• Wind Students should record their audition in the following order:
  1. Etude
  2. Chromatic Scale
• .MP4 is the only accepted file type with a max file size of 2gb
• The director must submit one video of each auditioning student (percussion two videos); including all prepared music. The video does not have to be one single take, but must be one single video. Aside from the merging of videos the videos shall be unedited.
• Common free programs used to edit videos include: Windows Media Editor, Canva, iMovie, and Vimeo Create