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oh those competitions, if we're lucky and get into regionals again we'll have to site read whee I think also for my other competitions too.

my conductor tells the band this all the time:

-look through the music once you get it,
-DON'T YOU DARE STOP PLAYING! I DON'T CARE IF YOU MISS EVERY NOTE, AND PLAY THE WRONG NOTE! PLAY DAMMIT! (thats what my conductor said)
-LISTEN ot other people around you, look at your conductor, if you listen you can be with the band more, say you're going faster then everyone and get a count ahead, clearly you're not listening, if you start getting fast, listen...erm just listen to your band
-use as much musicality as possible, I know its hard to do it during site reading, but it creates bad habits, my section doesn't put musicality unless told to, I'm like the ONLY one who does.
-always look ahead
-look at the key signature, I played b natural for two lines until I realized that the person mr. a kept on saying was playing a B natural was me...
-finger through it if you can't play three minutes before you play it
-don't hesitate!

I can't remember some other stuff but...

Zan, if I could site read level two music close to what it takes an average third or fourth row clarinetist (or second possibly) can play in two days then you can too, if I can do staacatos while site reading it during lessons (and not telling my teacher i just got it) you can do it a BILLION TIMES BETTER THEN ME.

remember my dear conductors advice!
-miyoko

if you don't I'll throw molded reeds at you!!! scream

I heart teaching people the clarinet, its so fun and I feel very happy when I do..ahahah

anyways, I will not boast zan but i must...

I'm a excellent site reader heart ^_^, sometimes I'm not but mosy of the time I am smile .

AND IF YOU FAIL IN SITE READING I'LL TELL MY CONDUCTOR...
he'll be very disappointed even if he doesn't know you zan D: !

lol yeah x)! it makes the music simpler to know your music theory, on hard music when you see those runs, look closely and it may be a scale or appregio.

also, I finally realized why its good to do etudes, because they help you get used to patterns and such, so its easier.

and its even better when you can set the mood of the music, light, happy, or dark, sad, or battle sounding like, anger.

from the title of the song you can figure it out sometimes, or the notes and words used in the song, then, best to have a image or a memory in your head that kinda relates to it, it allows the musicality to be released in site reading (hah not making any sense at all)

neither have I. Our school's too retarded for that, and I don't go to a music school nor do I have private lessons. Just learned that stuff on the internet; lot of good sites out there.

ALright during the three mins don't play, don't talk. don't pretend like your talking. As soon as the music is in front of you don't think about talking. think of playing. Relax. GO through the song real fast and look for the hard junk. or what you think is hard. First look at time sig, key sig,and changing yime sig, and key sigs. I know this is out of order. But your smart you can prioritize.

you can learn music theory on your own...lol...its good to know it.

o_O; mia_cows- thats nearly like what I said O_o; ah well oh well...zan must remember all this anyways mrgreen

My tip is to count really well.

This one band counted it really strong, really well.

But they played it worse than anyone.

And they won.

EDIT:

Oh.

I just realized you can't talk.

Well, then pay close attention to the music.

Look for hard stuff first.

Work on that in your mind.

Finger the notes if you want.

Yeah...