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 Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:44 pm
Anyone trying out for them this year? This coming year im going to try out for Carolina Crown on Baritone. Anyone have any tips to prepare my body, playing ability, flexibility .exe lip slurs etc. for the execruciating time?
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:59 pm
Playing-wise: I'm sure you've heard all of this before, but you want to play something that YOU know you can do well on. Don't play something that's above and beyond you're own technical and lyrical ability.
Body-wise: Running and breathing is the best thing to get you ready for all of the conditioning that you're going to be in for.
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:50 am
Im probably trying out for Bluecoats or Glassmen....I'm in Ohio so there isn't too much of a selection. lol
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:51 pm
Nice. hah. I've got callbacks from Santa Clara and Jersey Surf. I'm not really sure if I'm going to take them yet.
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:05 pm
Yea, this is off topic, but there was this DCI Tenor champion from 1991, his name was Lee Hansen.....has anyone seen that video on You Tube, its crazy.......heres a link...... Lee Hansen-1991 DCI
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:44 pm
PLAY LOUD. PLAY LOUD. PLAY LOUD.
I'm a rookie member of the Arizona Academy this year. I was a callback for a camp and two mini-camps until during one audition I figured screw it and BLASTED at my auditioner. He was so impressed they made me a member that day!
My mentor, a three-year Blue Devil (and I think he's baritone section leader now) told me that in DCI, volume is power. So just GO AT IT with the loudest sound you can maintain a decent tone with. That is my best advice.
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:25 pm
I wonder what years he marched BD...I marched BD in 2004. Those were definitely fun times.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:00 pm
Yeah im in Florida, so its going to be tough getting rides to all the camps when i make it. . .
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:06 pm
Quote: I wonder what years he marched BD...I marched BD in 2004. Those were definitely fun times. I think he marched from 2005 on, as he was graduating high school, and this is his last year. I definitely remember him holding a grudge about not being in the final top three his first year.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:23 pm
solarbat Quote: I wonder what years he marched BD...I marched BD in 2004. Those were definitely fun times. I think he marched from 2005 on, as he was graduating high school, and this is his last year. I definitely remember him holding a grudge about not being in the final top three his first year. Eh, maybe he should've came a year earlier.. sweatdrop I marched on the summer of my sophomore year in high school.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:30 pm
ninjashimigami solarbat Quote: I wonder what years he marched BD...I marched BD in 2004. Those were definitely fun times. I think he marched from 2005 on, as he was graduating high school, and this is his last year. I definitely remember him holding a grudge about not being in the final top three his first year. Eh, maybe he should've came a year earlier.. sweatdrop I marched on the summer of my sophomore year in high school. BD won the championship last year, so he's considerably happier. Although he still hates the Cadets. biggrin You marched BD as a sophomore?? That's incredible. I'm a senior and I barely made the Academy. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:53 pm
solarbat ninjashimigami solarbat Quote: I wonder what years he marched BD...I marched BD in 2004. Those were definitely fun times. I think he marched from 2005 on, as he was graduating high school, and this is his last year. I definitely remember him holding a grudge about not being in the final top three his first year. Eh, maybe he should've came a year earlier.. sweatdrop I marched on the summer of my sophomore year in high school. BD won the championship last year, so he's considerably happier. Although he still hates the Cadets. biggrin You marched BD as a sophomore?? That's incredible. I'm a senior and I barely made the Academy. sweatdrop Hah...I'm not all that great though. I wasn't a good of a marcher back then..at least I didn't think I was. I haven't had the opportunity to do DCI since, but I did march DCA last season...it was great! I still have four more years of jr. corps though. I'm probably going to get on board with either Spirit or Jersey Surf.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:26 pm
I'd say to practice a hell of a lot, and just don't sweat it on audition day. Practice really makes perfect and nothing worth doing is ever easy. So, just relax and work on what you think needs to be worked on.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:27 pm
Well coming from trombone backround ive only recently switched myself to baritone/euphonium, ive been working on air capacity, lip flexibility, articulations,and scales, the only thing i really need help on is the finger speed and to be clean while transitioning to the next note. Any tips for that? Also if anyone knows more breathing execercises besides the sip, blade, in or out for however many counts, fighting for air, then someone please tell me. Same goes with lip slur exercises
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:06 pm
Adam Mikurta Well coming from trombone backround ive only recently switched myself to baritone/euphonium, ive been working on air capacity, lip flexibility, articulations,and scales, the only thing i really need help on is the finger speed and to be clean while transitioning to the next note. Any tips for that? Also if anyone knows more breathing execercises besides the sip, blade, in or out for however many counts, fighting for air, then someone please tell me. Same goes with lip slur exercises Finger speed--A really simple thing you can do is just playing up and down scales at different speeds. Try to practice the scales that have to climb up using the combinations of 1-3 and 2-3. Then, try taking on a piece from a method book that's straight up sixteenth note runs. Breathing exercises-- The Power Breath: Take your arms, extend them out as if you're about to clap but wide enough to feel your chest expand and breath in deeply. As you close your hands, push out as much air as you possibly can using your chest muscles. You need to do this exercise for at least 6-7 minutes at a time. The "Ha": (My personal favorite) You breath in using divided breaths, but it's enough to fill your entire diaphragm completely. You start with in for 4 out for 4, in for 3 out for 3...so on. You should stay on each for about four measures. Once you get to the end of the 1 counts, you hold it in, sip in as much air as you possibly can, stretch, sip more air, stretch to a different direction, sip...the out and over. If you feel light-head, nauseated, and can't feel your tongue...congrats, you did it right. xd
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