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.

 

  
The most important class, however, for me and for hundreds of other Hungarian musicians, was the chamber-music class. From about the age of fourteen, and until graduation from the Academy, all instrumentalists except the heavy-brass players and percussionists had to participate in this course. Presiding over it for many years was the composer Leó Weiner, who thus exercised an enormous influence on three generations of Hungarian musicians. (Sir Georg Solti)