The following information available for students the week prior or sooner...
DISTRICT BAND AUDITION INFO
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26
Perry Middle School (on Belt Line Road, west of Josey)
Perry competition gym open for warmup at 5:00pm.
Tryouts begin at 5:30pm.
(* - These times may vary slightly.)
Upon arrival at Perry MS, check-in with your monitor (this may be at your audition room or in a designated area---look for signs) and take your audition ID tag. Wear the ID tag on your shirt. Cuts and scales will be posted outside your auditinon room.
You need:
1. Your music
2. Your instrument (remove it from the band hall at the end of the school day. Do not wait until it is time to audition. Percussionists need their stick bag; instruments are provided.)
3. Your mouthpiece, extra reeds...
4. You do NOT need to wear your school ID.
The District audition procedure will be similar to Region except all instruments will be a single phase.
The tryout consists of the following parts:
Wind instruments:
two of eight major scales (memorized)
chromatic scale (memorized)
part or all of a lyrical etude
part or all of a technical etude
sightreadingPercussion:
one of eight major scales or chromatic (memorized)
one rudiment for percussion (memorized)
mallet etude
timpani etude (timpani are pretuned)
snare drum etude
sightreading on snare (8 measures)
sightreading on bells (4 measures)
Prior to the audition day students will be given a time window of their expected audtion, for example 6:00-6:30pm.
1. Arrive early and locate your audition room or table.
2. Check-in at your audition room/table. You will be given an ID tag with a pre-assigned 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,...) as much as possible. It is ok if someone goes out of order.
3. Your room may run ahead of schedule. Be flexible but don't walk into the audition room without doing a warmup.
4. When you are escorted into your audition room the monitor will announce your letter. If the monitor says the wrong letter, be sure to quietly tell the monitor. (You should not talk to the judges. They are seated behind a "curtain" so they cannot see you and you cannot see them.)
5. If something goes wrong during your audition (spring comes loose, keys comes off,...), you may leave the room and tell the monitor. The monitor will tell the judges so that you have the problem fixed and continue with the audition.
6. After you complete your audition you may leave; results will be posted on this web site late in the evening.
7. Adults will monitor the hallway. Be polite. Disruptive students may be disqualified from the auditions.