The Lions Christchurch Schools' Music Festival

Choir audition practice tracks

If you are auditioning for a place in the Junior or Senior Representative Choir, you will be required to:

sing the National Anthem
sing up or down a scale that will be taught at the audition
sing back to “La” a short tune (a 2 to 4 bar melody) that has been played to you on the piano
sing back on “La” each of five notes played to you
sing the top, middle and bottom notes of a 3-note chord to “La”

More detailed information is available, so please be sure to read the Information Sheet carefully.

Below are music tracks to help you to prepare and, to the right, you can watch an actual audition.

Watch Martha & Jimmy’s Audition

National Anthem

Here are the learning tracks you can use to practise singing the New Zealand National Anthem. The music score (words/lyrics and notes) for this version of the National Anthem is on the last page of the Information Sheet (link above).

You can practise singing the National Anthem with another singer and the piano accompaniment – track number 1 – or you can practise singing it on your own with just the piano accompaniment – track number 2.

In the actual audition, you will only be played the piano accompaniment so make sure you are confident singing the Anthem on your own.

Singing back from memory – practice tracks

These are the sound tracks of the Melody Examples which are shown on the Information Sheet. Each example starts with the beat provided by claves, then the simple melody played on the piano. Listen carefully – the melody is repeated exactly the same a second time, then you sing it back as close to the original as you can.

At your audition, you will be unlikely to hear one of these exact melodies, but you will be played something similar. These tracks are here for you to practise listening carefully and then singing back the same melody.