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Re: Making All-State

Author: pewd
Date: 2008-07-27 06:10

>A judge wants to hear it clean and slower, rather than fast and messy.
you bet.

far too many of them never get the technical aspects down. they miss many notes at the audition. most high school students don't comprehend the level they need to take it to. there is no excuse for wrong notes after studying the piece for 4 months.

many students in this state are required to show up at the regional auditions by their band directors, regardless of their ability level. the regional level is the filtering level, to weed out the kids that can not play the instrument. some of them can't even hit all the higher notes in the etudes, much less tell you their names or fingerings. some of them can't even get past the first measure without missing notes. so - first and foremost - learn all the notes and rhythms. perfectly. if you can not do that, you won't get past the region level, much less state.

my message for the students is that it has to be at such a high level that missing a note doesn't even come into play - you have to know the pieces that well. go do that then come see me to talk about the other stuff - but 90% of them never get that far.

and i note we still don't know what state the OP resides in; nor their ability level.

- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas

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