Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-08-31 03:04
Ken Shaw wrote:
> You have stumbled over the most important rule for auditions.
> Slow and perfect always beats fast and uneven, even if you only
> make one mistake.
>
Up (or down) to point. No one is getting a first chair in a band I conduct from playing *too* slowly, even if the notes are right.
But the principal is that you should play at the most musical tempo you can play cleanly for a school audition. Playing faster than you can handle is foolish. If someone else can play faster with equal accuracy, and the tempo is still musically appropriate, then they'll place better. But if you play faster than your fingers can keep up with *cleanly* someone who plays slower but still appropriately and cleaner may come off better.
Again, none of us heard your audition, so we don't know how you sounded objectively. Ask your band director.
Karl
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