All-State Music

[Band Of Champions]

How's everyone coming on their etudes? Anyone have smaller competitions such as All-City, All-Region, or All-District coming up soon?

[Fata1]

My etudes have been coming good. I've stepped up the practicing a lot this year. I hardly practiced last year and now I practice about an hour and a half after school and band rehearsal everyday. All-District is on the 27th of November for us. Region is on December 3rd and 8th. I'd like to make State this year but they only take 2 French Horns for 4A.

[Band Of Champions]

  Fata1 said:

My etudes have been coming good. I've stepped up the practicing a lot this year. I hardly practiced last year and now I practice about an hour and a half after school and band rehearsal everyday. All-District is on the 27th of November for us. Region is on December 3rd and 8th. I'd like to make State this year but they only take 2 French Horns for 4A.

 

Dang that's pretty tough. I admire your determination.

[Fata1]

  Band Of Champions said:

Dang that's pretty tough. I admire your determination.

I actually need to rephrase that. They only take two from each Area from 4A. Thanks, though.

[JustAddWat3r]

anyone have any tips for the saxophone etudes?

[chickora]

I'm coming along real good on the clarinet etudes. I hope to make Area, but I'll be satisfied with All Region WE

[MaverickBand15]

All the percussion pieces this year are really contemporary and jazzy. They are all easier in my opinion. I think the timpani is the hardest out of them all.

[borchnork]

  MaverickBand15 said:

All the percussion pieces this year are really contemporary and jazzy. They are all easier in my opinion. I think the timpani is the hardest out of them all.

 

I was listening to somebody in our band practice the timpani etude.

 

I really liked it. it sounds very cool.

[ClarinetGlissandoInBlue]

i need to get mine up to tempo. right now, my first etude is around 7-10 under tempo, the second one is about 20 under my target tempo which is about 10 over the recommended tempo, and the slow one is done save two measures of weird rhythm that i can't get my mind around for some odd reason.

[MaverickBand15]

  borchnork said:

I was listening to somebody in our band practice the timpani etude.

 

I really liked it. it sounds very cool.

 

The Timpani etude is really jazzy...i didn't ever know Timpani could play Jazz haha

[Drillz]

My Bass Clarinet music is coming together and should be ready by All-Region Ph.1 on Dec. 1st. I'm working really hard this year to make the All-State Band. Last year I missed it by 2 chairs.

[t3hZm4n]

My music is coming along pretty well (tenor trombone). I'm really worried about this year though, since the music is so easy that it's proably going to be a lot more difficult for me to make state than it was last year, since more people will be able to sound decent on easy music, and it's a lot harder to judge musicality than it is to judge how many notes a player missed... Oh well, we'll see

[azncmasta]

  ClarinetGlissandoInBlue said:

i need to get mine up to tempo. right now, my first etude is around 7-10 under tempo, the second one is about 20 under my target tempo which is about 10 over the recommended tempo, and the slow one is done save two measures of weird rhythm that i can't get my mind around for some odd reason.

same here for the first etude, like it recommends of the TMEA website, i still need to work on the evenness of the notes... quite bold of you to go over tempo for the second, but i think i have that one down (92ish). the third is posing as the most difficult of the pieces with that TWO MEASURES OF WEIRD RHYTHM! and i think i'm gonna go under tempo to emphasize the musicality...

[borchnork]

yah, I'm just having tempo problems now, and I also practice my music in sections, so now I need to work on being able to loop the sections together without having to take long extended breaks.