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RE: JUDGES!

Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-10-30 20:36

Casey -

Tune up carefully before you go in. If you play out of tune, you'll lose points.

For auditions, take scales and sight-reading passages a little slower than you think you can play them. It's more important to get through without stopping than to play fast. Then, if they ask you to try it faster, you've already played it once.

Count like crazy, especially on the rests. More points are lost by jumping in before a rest is over than for any other reason.

Finally, do exactly what they tell you. If they say to start at the beginning of a line, but all that's there is a whole note and a rest, the worst thing you can do is skip those and start the solo or the fast notes later in this line. That's a deliberate trap, to see if you follow directions.

Good luck.

Ken Shaw

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