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Re: US Navy Band Audition

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2020-03-12 22:20

Paul Aviles - Make no mistake about it, the major service bands in DC are premium jobs. Yes, there is lots of competition for those slots, so go in as if you were auditioning for an established symphony orchestra.

With these 4 top bands you get in at a higher rate. For example most people who sign up for the military start off as an E1. It takes several years to become an E5 or higher. So people spend 20 to 30 years in the military and often don't reach the pay scale of E5 or higher. These bands start you off as E5 to E6 depending of college degrees.

These players are often very gifted and can sit in some of the top symphonies. Yet the auditions are not easy. The auditions must be close to perfect or perfect. Sight reading is a very big problem for most. It's not really sight reading, because the parts are usually similar to orchestra music or they are actual orchestra parts such as Mendelsohn's 3rd and 4th symphonies, cappriccio espanol, Beethoven and Brahms symphonies are also put up as sight reading. As we all know these can take a week each to master or more.

It's a GREAT gig, so be prepared, there will be at least 100 players there for just 1 spot. A strange thing happened to me when I was in. I mainly played the saxes.

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