All-Access

• Minimum Age: 12 years
• Maximum Age: 18 years

Students can participate up to and including the summer following their senior year of high school. Consideration will still be given for those students whose age is >18 during their senior year of high school.

Each student must audition for a slot on their primary instrument. Secondary instruments will also be taken into consideration. It is best to display the ability to sing and/or play percussion as a secondary instrument than to only choose a primary instrument.

Students can audition for All-Access on the following instruments:

• Guitar
• Bass
• Drums
• Keyboards
• Voice

Commitment through the end of Summer 2021, with the possibility of extending through the Fall. Students are required to re-audition every year. No student is guaranteed a spot year after year.

Students who wish to audition should:

• Be a positive influence and contributor to school and local community
• Act as an advocate of Stages Music Arts
• Have technical ability and theoretical knowledge of their primary instrument
• Exhibit strong leadership skills
• Be self-motivated to sing back ups and play percussion
• Know how to mix themselves to create a great stage sound
• Be open-minded and able to play all styles of music
• Be able to take direction and check their ego at the door
• Be a team player
• Be comfortable representing All-Access and Stages Music Arts in public and on social media
• Promote opportunities as if they were for their own band

• All-Access members should demonstrate powerful stage presence, understand tone emulation on their instrument, play with dynamics, and be able to play/solo in all keys
• Guitarists should be familiar with the use of effects pedals and understand how to operate amplifiers, etc.
• Drummers should be able to set-up and tear down a drum kit, be able to play in odd time signatures, and have an understanding of various styles
• Keyboardists should have a firm grasp of finding sounds on various keyboards, sequencing, and sampling
• Bassists should be able to walk a bass line in all keys and understand how to operate amplifiers
• Vocalists should be able to confidently replicate vocal harmonies and display a high level of microphone technique