All Southern auditions
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- thatonehornguy
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All Southern auditions
Any tips? I know they're in January (at least for High School), but I want to start working on everything now so I can be sufficiently prepared. So if anyone could give me any advice, it would be greatly appreciated
What's the definition of perfect pitch?
The ability to throw a flute into a toilet without hitting the rim
The ability to throw a flute into a toilet without hitting the rim
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Re: All Southern auditions
Take a little time to work on sight reading---probably the single most thing that you don't really work on. For a change of pace, instead of sight reading material for your instrument, consider reading material for other instruments. For example: flute or violin music for trumpet players; cello music for trombone players, etc. Your private teacher [if you have one] or band director will probably have some recommendations for you as well. Last thing: try not to psych yourself out or over stress---pace yourself for these next couple of months and try to have a daily practice schedule with proper warm-ups and cool-downs. And always practice with a metronome [cheap ones are about $2]; developing your internal clock is invaluable and helps with sight reading.thatonehornguy wrote:Any tips? I know they're in January (at least for High School), but I want to start working on everything now so I can be sufficiently prepared. So if anyone could give me any advice, it would be greatly appreciated
two bucks?!!
Where do you get $2 metronomes? That would be fantastic!
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Re: two bucks?!!
Don't get too excited, they're digital metronomes that are about the size of a small pocket watch and use tiny watch batteries---I got mine at Hollywood Sheet Music. It's my emergency metronome that lives in my gig bag along with my trusty Korg tuner which is less than the size of a cassette.Chapagne wrote:Where do you get $2 metronomes? That would be fantastic!
The old fashioned manual ones start at about $10 for a mini one and $20 on up for bigger ones.
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