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 Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:43 pm
I have no idea if this is a repeat thread, but since I've never seen one like it I thought I'd bring it up.
I live in Florida I auditioned for the band just two days ago. (I play clarinet by the way) I just wanted to know what the procedures for other state's state wide band.
Florida's Procedures:
Two etudes picked by a board of directors, one is lyrical one is technical.
12 major scales two octaves minimum in under two minutes
Sight reading.
We ususally get the results about two months later, and the actual event is held in January.
Note: These are the 9th-12th grade requirements
Oh, and I made it last year, I was fourth chair. Hehe, just thought I'd share.
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:51 pm
I'm going to try out for Idaho's this weekend. I'm going to play tuba and we have to do a 2.5 octave chromatic scale, 2 etudes that were picked, and a solo piece that we had to choose out (or we could use the one they send us, but I don't like it much.) If I remember, I'll post how it went and my results when I get them. Oh, it's a taped audition and I get one try at it!!
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 5:10 pm
In Arizona, we have to play three etudes that the AMEA (Arizona Musci Educators Association) pick out. Then we have to play two random major scales and chromatic scale and sightread a couple of excerpts or cadenzas. Yeah, I think that's it. I attended all-state band last year for clarinet. It was cool, and we played good music.
We don't try out for all-state until March. You can only tryout if you made your regional band, which is held in February. (auditions in January)
So there are eight regions, and from there, the people who made regions tryout for all state, so it's like a preliminary kind of thing. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:11 pm
I'm in Florida as well.... I didn't try out (sadly), but I got 10 hours of community service for help out. It was hosted at my school, Ocoee High, for Orange County... or, well, for our District, I don't know the exact things.. But, I'm pretty sure those were the requirements.... I have that song they all played stuck in my head because I listened to it for 9 hours while I worked the concession stand....
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:34 pm
I was in it for California...when I was in middle school, last year. I don't think it's the same for High School, and with the rule of only ten tapes per school...
We'd play one solo piece, two random two octave scales, and a three-octave chromatic one...for clarinet only, that is. Everyone else had a two or one octave chromatic scale instead...lucky. Oh, and it was in triplets, and some people just didn't get the concepts...I made like 32nd chair.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:48 pm
Never got in in Georgia, but then again I play flute, and there are sooooooooooo many flute players down here. It's crazy.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:06 pm
Never tried out for the state band thing.
Besides i wouldn't get in, i'm not that great a player.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:35 pm
I never tried out for it, and contented myself with All State Choir... but now I RUN All State Band (along with the other brothers of Kappa Kappa Psi), which is also really fun.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 1:16 pm
*le sigh* I tried out for Mississippi Lion's All-State band last year... I made fifth alternate. *cries* It might have had something to do with the fact that I had just gotten my braces on the day before try-outs, though...
Anyway, we've got to play one solo piece of our own choosing. It cannot be any longer than 2 minutes. Then the judges choose 2 scales for you to play out of the 12 major scales, and, of course, the chromatic. I played mine four octaves. wink (I play french horn.) Then... oh gawd... the sight-reading. I bombed the sight-reading...
On a different note - haha, unintentional band pun - Mississippi All-State band has won the international championship 4 times in a row! Go MS! biggrin
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:24 pm
Over here, for Junior Division All-State, we have to play a solo chosen by RIMEA (Rhode Island Music Educator's Association), which for strings, there tend to choose really, really hard pieces. -_- The current one is...like hell. But after you play it a few times, it gets a lot easier quickly! ^_^ At least for me! Anyway, we have to know all of our scales at least two octaves, possibly three, but they'll only ask for one or two at the audition. We also have to do some sightreading.
I have to say, I'm a damn good violinist! I've made it every year I auditioned so far! Last year, I got rank 7! ^_^ Unfortunately, I never make it on flute. I was really closer last year, though. I was one spot from making it. Flute competition is really tight over here.
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:54 am
I'm not in All State but I'm gonna try out at the end of november
I'm in middle school--just curious, in your auditions are you being recorded or is it a live audition? (we're recorded)
anyways I'm from california and I play Bb clarinet in seventh grade
here's what we have to play:
-Two major scales (F Major and D Major, for us clarinets)
-chromatic scale (in triplets)
-solo piece
it's middle school requirements i think^_^.
edit 11.23.05
>o< all state audition today, wish me good luck
-miyoko
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:59 pm
I got in my eighth grade year in Cali All-State...we played two scales as sixteenth notes in two octaves, then a chromatic scale in triplets, and a piece chosen by a board of directors. I got twenty-somethingith chair...in the concert band. xp No hope for me this year, though...our high school has 250+ band people and only ten tapes a year can be sent...
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:01 am
I'm trying out January 12th. I'm a alto sax player in Alabama.
We get all of our exersices out of "The complete sax method" by De'ville (or something like that)
All scales, two octaves if you play them
Chromatic scale low C to F# above the staff
3 prepared studies:
One is usually technical, which means you are roughly staying in the middle register, but are playing 16th notes at MM=120....on a sax, that gets a little hard at times.
The next one is usually expressive. The aren't that hard, but they really check dynamics, cadenzas, turns, and other embelishments
The last one is usually melodic. It's not that hard, mainly just to give you some hard passages that you have to work at, seeing if your smart enough to use an alternate fingering here, or if you can play a phrase with difficult fingering WITHOUT bumbling up and putting a few 'grace notes' that aren't supposed to be there
Last is sight reading.
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:02 pm
I live in Texas, we have rounds, we have a practice round first which is All-District band, then a round where it counts, All Region bands(theres 16 regions in Texas I think), they take the top so many from each intsruments that qualify to try out for the All-Area band(theres 4 areas in Texas), then of course the top so many out of each area go on to have a chair test for the All-State band.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:21 pm
I'm in Georgia. I haven't made it yet but I'm working on it.
requirements:
-4 scales 120-middle school, 8 scales 136- 9th and 10th grades, 12 scales (unsure of tempo) 11th and 12th grades
-2 prepared etudes (1 per audition) usually the first is slow and lyrical the second fast and technical
-2 short sight reading pieces
we also have honor band running through the first audition which requires the scales for your band and the first etude
then there's all-state jazz but I won't get into that
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