ClaireAnnette07 Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 = some girl named alyssa from Kingwood Park got first, Cody Gibson got second for tuesday night. however, cody tells me that andrew of DP got first. *shrug = thanks sarah! Mann. Tough competition this year! I hope it's not as bad as last year since we '07 prodigies graduated Good luck tomorrow! Show those Kingwood kids who Andy REALLY is..mwah ha. On a side note, I feel extremely OLD. But glad I don't have to go through a 5th year of the nail-biting, reed cracking, obsessively practicing fall semester! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireAnnette07 Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 Yes, best of luck to everybody!!!!! I want as many people from this forum making state as possible! I already made state. Like 5 seconds ago. I made it 10 times. (if you don't watch the "Karen" skit on SNL, my apologies..I hope I'm not the ONLY one who watches that..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickBand15 Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 wow i got sooo nervous at Region. I played like crap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAddWat3r Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 speaking of nervousness. anyone have good techniques on how not to get nervous? my section leader from last year told me to bring a sports magazine or something to read in the room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_DRUM_MAJOR Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 I definitely miss the obsessive practicing and audition for the fall....i mean...it was an adrenaline rush...but yea...im sure you will advance to area andy. just be chill in the room...as for the others who are nervous....the banana thing...i dont know..lol...but i would just take deep breaths and play the first note for like 10 seconds....it also helps if you get to scope out the room to find the right reed to balance it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAddWat3r Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 monday is phase one...ive played so much i cant even tell if my tone is good or not... ahh help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 What I did was while the person before me was playing, I forced myself to zone out. I stared around the room and was reading the posters and looking at all the cool decorations that were up in the room. And I was doing homework when everybody else was playing. It helped keep my mind off of things for a long time. Also, our director told us that if you just take deep breaths through your nose, it helps relax you. It didn't work to well during my first etude, but on the 2nd and 3rd pieces, I forced myself to take a LONG and SLOW breath, out of tempo of the piece and I felt fine after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAddWat3r Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 (edited) haha reading posters and decorations in the room has to be one of my favorite parts of region tryouts. i remember this one room i was in last year, it had all these encouraging quotes all over the room. it was really cool. Edited December 1, 2007 by JustAddWat3r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takigan Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 (edited) This past Spring, I had to play a Euphonium solo on stage with a piano player I just met that day in front of the Tuba and Euphonium professors from practically every major university in the State of Texas (UT, Texas State, Baylor, SFA, Sam Houston, UNT--all of them were there!). I tell you what, it's one thing to play in front of 30-80 HS players who know just about as much as you do about playing, but it's a whole other level of nervousness when that same number of people in that audience consists of old people who are masters of your instrument, who've been around the world, played in the finest Symphonies, sampled the finest wines and all that jazz, lol. And not only that, since I was the representative from my school for that recital (each school sends their best players to perform) my performance would be a measure of the collective strength of my school's Euphonium studio! There was a lot riding on this performance! I had nerves of steel in HS, I could always put out a performance in the region room that equated to about 90-95% of what I was truly capable of.....but wow, when I walked out onto that stage I was shaking like a little **** !! The trick I always used was psyching myself up by talking to myself inside my head, like a boxing coach or something. Like; "All right, you're going to knock the socks off of every person in this room! You're a bad@$$! This is nothing! I know you're nervous but when you get through with this etude, THEY'RE the ones that are going to be nervous! Ugh, I never made state though....there were roughly 60 Euphoniums in my region competing and they only took 2 to Area.....I made the top 8 my sophomore, junior and senior years, but I'd always miss one of the 2 spots by just a couple chairs. EDIT: Oh come on....p.ussy isn't a bad word! Stupid language filter >_>. Edited December 1, 2007 by takigan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireAnnette07 Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 I never had nerves of steel, which is what hindered me from making 5A area last year. My last etude was a train wreck, and after I played, I knew I was done. Worst thing was that I was a senior. UGH! I have a band audition for a spot in the UT Wind Symphony on Thursday & I hope my nerves can settle. I am already so freaked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_sax_agent Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 The clinicians don't have to select the music until like, after Area competitions, so we probably won't know for awhile. Makes sense. I hope they do another piece like Turbine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron067 Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 The clinicians don't have to select the music until like, after Area competitions, so we probably won't know for awhile. ...the audition cuts that are passed out to those who qualify AT the Area audition are from the actual concert pieces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRtrumpet Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 Good luck to anyone who hasn't tried out! I GOT 2ND IN AREA!! WHOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy. It's my first year to try out, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarinetGlissandoInBlue Posted December 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 i had a glitch in one etude, got second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takigan Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 ...the audition cuts that are passed out to those who qualify AT the Area audition are from the actual concert pieces. My mistake....that would actually make MORE sense because it would be a good idea to get the music out to the qualifiers ASAP....my assumption came from personal experience talking to a clinician one year about it (he mentioned to me he hadn't picked out the pieces for State yet even though he only had a couple more weeks to do so). Since his workshop that I regularly attend is held in early January, I assumed that I had the conversation then, but I forgot the conversation I had with him about it was actually sometime in early December....just a miscalculated memory gap :/. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireAnnette07 Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 i had a glitch in one etude, got second. Hey, that's awesome! I know you wanted first, but second is still really great. Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warfact Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 trombone pieces are a piece of cake right trombones? I hope Berkins picks these pieces more often Haha yeah they are. We just finished phase II yesterday and I got 2nd, our prodigy child freshman trombone player got 3rd, and his brother(junior) got 5th so we're all going to area in January. Our bass trombone player got 2nd and is going to area as well. For some reason this year the music just wasn't as difficult as it has been in the past for trombone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarinetGlissandoInBlue Posted December 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 Hey, that's awesome! I know you wanted first, but second is still really great. Congrats! thanks...haha just traded one kingwood kid for another. Cody was failing regular biology last year... Kingwood, Myself, Kingwood, Kingwood, Rayburn, .............Kingwood, Kingwood, Kingwood pretty much that's the school distribution, but with less Kingwood in the top band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_DRUM_MAJOR Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 so many kingwood...makes me want the clear schools back...i mean honestly...our region band was really good when they were in it...lol last year was kind of...uhhh lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarinetGlissandoInBlue Posted December 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 so many kingwood...makes me want the clear schools back...i mean honestly...our region band was really good when they were in it...lol last year was kind of...uhhh lol yeah. the orchestra was especially affected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actualgirltrombone Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 We definately had an impromptu TxBands meetme at region 26. It was pretty gangster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireAnnette07 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 so many kingwood...makes me want the clear schools back...i mean honestly...our region band was really good when they were in it...lol last year was kind of...uhhh lol Try being in the 2nd region band..it SUCKED! If only I would have had one more year..lol. Who's Cody from Kingwood? I don't remember him from last year, I guess because he failed biology or whatever it was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t3hZm4n Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 trombone pieces are a piece of cake right trombones? I hope Berkins picks these pieces more often Ugh I don't want Brickens picking the music ever again. The music is too easy, plain and simple. It's going to be 1000000x harder to make state than it was last year, because everyone at area is going to sound so unreasonably similar. I'm glad I made state last year, because a lot is going to have to go right for it to happen again this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonepit06-07 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 the music was good but i kinda wish is was more technical Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 this year is the only year I feel like if I were to just sit back and listen, I would genuinely enjoy listening to this region music, but I did NOT like playing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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