I hope everyone has been practicing for the Appling honor and jazz band auditions this week.  I have attached a copy of the audition times that students signed up for in class before fall break.  We are on a very strict schedule so everyone must come on their assigned day.  If you did not sign up or come on the wrong day, we will try to work you in but we cannot do that for everyone so please double check your times.  If you have a late time, then you can stay in the band room and practice up until your assigned time or do homework.  We will have a band parent that supervises students while I am holding auditions.  

Make sure that you are prepared so that we can keep the auditions running as smoothly as possible.  The audition time should not be a time where you are "learning" your music but should be a audition....... there are only 4 minute time intervals.  For honor band, students should know the chromatic scale, the first six scales on their scale sheet and I will pick two (C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, and Db) and the marked spots of their audition music.  For jazz band, students should know "Cherry Point" and "It is What it Is".  I will post audition spots on this by Monday afternoon so that you can zone in more on specific spots.  Use Smart Music to work on all of this music..... it is a great tool!   It does not need to be up to tempo yet and I know it will not be perfect, but this will help prepare you for All-West auditions in January...... do your best!

Reminder - all students must have paid their band fee to be eligible to audition.  There are still a few students that have not taken care of this.  Shirts will be distributed this week and those students will not get them. 

I'm looking forward to hearing you this week and making our Appling performance groups the best ever!

 

Mrs. Sanders