Music Competitions / Festivals

[Ollie The Drumming Legend]

Does anyone here know anything about public performance competitions and music festivals with competitions attatched? I mean, how do they generally work n all that?

[nobodyblossomsforever]

Yes, I'm actually practicing for one. It's called All-State.

See, there are three tryout rooms you have to go to, the Scale room, the Prepared Studies room, and the Sight reading room. To make it into All-State, you have to play for a judge from each room. In the scale room, you must play at least 7 major scales, playing more than that betters your score, you must play C Harmonic Minor and A Melodic Minor, plus the arpegios, then F chromatic, 2 octaves. Then the next room, you play 3 pieces of music, not long ones, just ones that you are assigned to. You practice these for months, trying to perfect them, then go up there and try it out. The next room is sightreading, where you have one minute to look at a piece of music, then play it to the best of your ability.

What All-state is, is something very hard to get into. Only at least 2 people from each instrument section make it, while the others make it into Honors Band, which the Allstate people make into also.

[even if they were canadian]

Yes, I'm actually practicing for one. It's called All-State.

See, there are three tryout rooms you have to go to, the Scale room, the Prepared Studies room, and the Sight reading room. To make it into All-State, you have to play for a judge from each room. In the scale room, you must play at least 7 major scales, playing more than that betters your score, you must play C Harmonic Minor and A Melodic Minor, plus the arpegios, then F chromatic, 2 octaves. Then the next room, you play 3 pieces of music, not long ones, just ones that you are assigned to. You practice these for months, trying to perfect them, then go up there and try it out. The next room is sightreading, where you have one minute to look at a piece of music, then play it to the best of your ability.

What All-state is, is something very hard to get into. Only at least 2 people from each instrument section make it, while the others make it into Honors Band, which the Allstate people make into also.
What state are you in? In new york, you play a nyssma(new york state school music association) solo, and your acceptance into honor bands is based on that. We have 6 levels of pieces, 6 being the hardest. To get into area all state(4-5 counties) you have to get a good score on at least a level four, but usually it's just 5/6s that get in. Generally 4-5 people from our band make it in.

Then there is conference all state, which is obviously the entire state. It's a bitch to get into in new york (probably in most other states too) because because of the giganto number of people in NYC. You basically have to get a 100 on your nyssma solo to get into all state, and even then it's not guarenteed. A trumpet player at my school got a 100, an was only selected as an alternate. I've only seen one person get in, in the three years I've been in high school, and he was a senior who had been playing violin since he was 4 or something. I will hopefully make it in next year. I got a 94 on a level 6 last year. I hope I can bring that up... a lot. :p

[nobodyblossomsforever]

Alabama

[mip07]

Yes, I'm actually practicing for one. It's called All-State.

See, there are three tryout rooms you have to go to, the Scale room, the Prepared Studies room, and the Sight reading room. To make it into All-State, you have to play for a judge from each room. In the scale room, you must play at least 7 major scales, playing more than that betters your score, you must play C Harmonic Minor and A Melodic Minor, plus the arpegios, then F chromatic, 2 octaves. Then the next room, you play 3 pieces of music, not long ones, just ones that you are assigned to. You practice these for months, trying to perfect them, then go up there and try it out. The next room is sightreading, where you have one minute to look at a piece of music, then play it to the best of your ability.

What All-state is, is something very hard to get into. Only at least 2 people from each instrument section make it, while the others make it into Honors Band, which the Allstate people make into also.

It's kinda like that in Florida. Only you got play 10 sacles or something like that. Have you heard of the SEUS honors band (South Eastern US)? It happens at Troy state.

[Ollie The Drumming Legend]

7 scales doesn't sound that hard... no offence... the trick would be playing them perfectly on the day, under pressure and everything. I was thinking more about ones that aren't like interstate ones. You know, like one's that anyone can go for. Oh well. I can do 7 major scales no probs.