The following handout available for students the week prior or sooner...
DISTRICT BAND TRYOUTS   
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29

...section times to be announced...

Perry cafeteria open for warmup at 5:00pm.          see additional tryout info. letter
Tryouts begin at 5:30pm.                                          below...click this link
(* - These times may vary slightly.)

Take your equipment with you Wednesday.  If you need help moving an instrument tell Mr. Black or Mr. Kincaid as soon as possible.

Upon arrival at Perry, check-in with your monitor (this may be at your audition room or in a designated area---look for signs.)  Cuts and scales will be posted in the warmup area.

You need: 
1. Your music
2. Your instrument
3. Your mouthpiece, extra reeds...

Phase I:  Upon arrival at Polk, check-in with your monitor (this may be at your room or in a designated area----look for signs).  Cuts and scales will be posted in the warmup area.

You'll need:
1. Your instrument,
2. Your music,
3. Your mouthpiece, extra reeds...
 

 Students performing in the 5:15 block:
-         Will stay in the cafeteria until check-in at 4:45
-         Small gym should be available at 4:45 for warm-up for the 5:15 block
-         If basketball practice runs past this time, only the 5:15 block will be allowed to warm up in the cafeteria. 

Students performing in the 6:00 block or later:
-         Should NOT enter the building until 5:00
-         Please hold your students with your chaperone until 5:00 when the gym is available.

CONCESSIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE CAFETERIA.  NO FOOD IS ALLOWED OUTSIDE OF THE CAFETERIA

You should plan on going home when you finish your audition.
 
UPDATED REGION BAND TRYOUT PROCEDURES

...tryout procedures information to be posted...basic information listed below.

We do not wish to schedule an activity on Wednesday due to church conflicts but this year’s schedule was too difficult to work around.  This is the only Wednesday evening activity during this school year.

All members the Symphonic Band should attend these tryouts.  Some Concert Band members will be asked to attend the tryouts as well.  ANY interested band member may tryout.  Sectionals have been scheduled before or after school to work on the tryout music, scales, as well as the procedure to be used.

Students who pass all classes on their FIRST NINE WEEK REPORT CARD are eligible.  A student who fails this report card will not be eligible for District. (Region tryout eligibility is determined by the same report card.)

Students earning a position in the All-District Band will receive a medal.  The students will not perform a concert this year.

In addition to the All-District Band, is the All-Region Band.  Any interested band member may also tryout for this
group.

Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD middle schools are a part of the Region XXIV All Region Band.  The region includes
middle schools from the following school districts:  Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, Lewisville ISD,
Grapevine-Colleyille ISD, Carroll ISD, Frisco ISD, and any private schools in the region. 

Last year, almost 2000 students competed to make four bands.

The four bands from the Region 24 are scheduled to perform at R.L. Turner HS on Saturday, December 9.
Clinicians for the bands have not been announced but are well-respected and successful directors. 
Transportation will be available for students.

This procedure will be similar to the Region procedure except all instruments will be a single phase.

1.  Arrive early and locate your audition room or table.

2.  Check-in at your audition room/table.  You will be given a preassigned letter.  You will keep the same letter all day.  Do not trade letters.  You will tryout in letter order...AA-1st, AB-2nd, AC-3rd,...

3.  Your room may run ahead of schedule.  Be flexible but don't walk into the audition room without doing a warmup.

4.  After you complete your room you may leave; results will be posted on this web site late in the evening.

Below is the tryout procedure for All-Region. The All-District tryouts simulate this procedure as much as possible. As you read below, note that all instruments at District tryout in one phase.

The tryout consists of the following parts:  

Wind instruments:
two of seven major scales (memorized)
chromatic scale (memorized) 
part or all of a slow etude
part or all of a fast etude
sightreading

Percussion:
two of seven major scales (memorized)
mallet etude
timpani etude (timpani are pretuned)
rudiments for percussion (memorized)
snare drum etude
sightreading on snare

Each student has registered as a certain letter of the alphabet.  Students will tryout in a room one at a time.
Below is the schedule for each section:  

PHASE I & II SECTIONS...
FLUTE, CLARINET, ALTO SAX, TRUMPET, FRENCH HORN, TROMBONE,
PERCUSSION, EUPHONIUM, TUBA 
Phase I on THURSDAY, NOV. 6 (after school)
Phase II on SATURDAY, NOV. 15
  

NON-PHASED SECTIONS (Saturday only)...
OBOE, BASSOON, BASS CLARINET, CONTRACLARINET, TENOR SAX, BARI SAX
  
Tryout will be in one phase only consisting of two scales, chromatic, slow piece excerpt, fast piece excerpt, and
sightreading.

The two-phase rooms will follow the follow procedure:

The sightreading music will be 8-10 measures and the student will have 30 seconds to study (only)
before playing.  

Percussion tryouts will follow a similar format.  All judges are "hidden" behind a curtain and may
not know who is performing.  More specific information will be prepared and given to each
student, plus the directors will help the students practice the tryout procedure so they are comfortable
with it. 

Warm-up will be in a cafeteria or gym. 

The Region tryout fee is $6 per student.  A check made payable to DFLBC is during October.
Students must pass the FIRST NINE WEEK REPORT CARD in all subjects in order to be
eligible.  Tryouts will be held at Lamar Middle School in Lewisville.  Since students do not need to
be present all day, transportation will be arranged in carpools or left to parent discretion.

Students who make one of the Region Bands will receive a patch following the Region Concert in January.

 

SYMPHONIC SECTIONALS have been scheduled and started Monday, August 27. Afternoon sectionals for students will begin at 4:05 and finish at 5:05. No sectionals will be held on student holidays. Private lesson instructors are a great resource for one-on-one help.

Regarding athletics, if your sectional is on as game day, you will be excused from the sectional.  If you have a later time on the game day and can attend part or all of the sectional it is expected for you to do so.

This music tends to be difficult at first; it is a terrific challenge for these musicians. It takes steady, persistent work from August to November to be successful and the directors, along with the private teachers, will be there to help.

Ask to see and hear what your son/daughter is preparing.

To see the current sectional schedule, click on the link below:
Fall 2008 Symphonic Sectional schedule