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Author: Jenn
Date: 2000-12-01 22:14
I have a chair-seating audition/playing test coming up in a little more than a week. I received the audition music a couple of weeks ago, and the problem is...it's EASY. Everyone in our section thinks the music is really easy, and so we're having the problem...what to do with it? If the piece were challenging, then in order to sound good you would just have to play it correctly, but since it's so easy, what can I focus on to make it special?
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Author: Al
Date: 2000-12-01 22:47
>If it's thay easy, then you'll have to play it better than anyone else.
>Play the piece as if it were the best piece of music written.
>Understand the style of the piece. Play it as musically as you can.
>Pay attention to all dynamic markings and marks of articulation.
>Be sure to follow the tempo indicated (if any).
>Don't take it for granted.
Best wishes,
Al
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Author: William
Date: 2000-12-01 23:00
Use a metornome and a tuner and play it as perfectly in tempo and pitch as you can. Most "pro" auditions are lost because of an errant out of tune or "off color" note, or a slight imperfection in the rhythmic structure. Everyone can always play all the correct notes, but to do them in tune and musically with impeccable rhythm, THAT is the challenge. Best of luck to you--good clarineting.
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-12-02 03:19
I agree with the above! your band director may have choosen an easy piece so as to judge your tempo, dynamics, tone more easily. One of the most difficult pieces I've played lately is a slow, mostly legato piece in 3/4 thats mostly quarter and half notes. To make it more fun is some of the breath marks are far apart yet you have to maintain steady tone and dynamics.
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Author: Kim L.
Date: 2000-12-02 04:06
It's only what we feel is easiest that is actually hard. What are the intervals? What are the dynamics? What is the range of this piece? Never call anything easy because you can play it as a joke, not practice, and well, wind up with last chair when you feel worthy of a higher position! You will feel regret and anger the rest of the year. I wouldn't want that to happen to me, and I know you wouldn't want that to happen to yourself!
Good luck.
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Author: Keil
Date: 2000-12-02 16:01
Shape the piece into musical sentences or phrases! Musicality, Musicality, Musicality!! Because it's easy you're gonna have to stand head and shoulders above the rest so be sure that you have delicious tone and clean articulation/technique. If the piece is a slow piece then take some liberties with it and shape following ascending lines with crescendos and descending lines with diminuendos etc. look for accidentals and be sure to emphasize any and all leading tones... by leading tones i mean notes that lead up to the tonic or lead down to the tonic of the key that the piece is written, also by leading tones look for chromatic leading tones for example in the piece you might have nothing but E naturals then all of a sudden they through in an Eb that resolves the E natural be sure to take that musical oppurtunity and lead up to the resolving E natural. Subtle things like that really demonstrate ones musical maturity. If you have runs that are going up and down the scale then resolve to basic quarter or half notes, see if it's appropriate to add a slight ritard. Again emphasis on musicality, phrase shaping, and conveying what you feel the composer truly intended the piece to sound like. May I ask if the piece is an excerpt from some well known piece or if it's just an etude or what?
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Author: Jenn
Date: 2000-12-03 01:55
The piece is an etude waltz in 3/4 time, and thanks everyone for your suggestions
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Author: Pam
Date: 2000-12-03 03:03
Sometimes easy ones are the best for putting a lot of emotion in your playing. Make the people you are auditioning for FEEL something when they hear it. Make them want to get up and dance that waltz. :-)
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2000-12-04 15:39
The best way to make people feel what they are hearing is for you to feel what you are playing.
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