Thor

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

• Excerpt List 2
Here is this day's audition attempt.

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Thor

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

• Excerpt List
This is the complete list for an upcoming orchestra audition - all first takes (pretty rough). It's 15 minutes long, so it may take a little while to load. Any helpful comments would be appreciated.

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zacharycrawford

Wednesday, September 16th, 2008

Utah All-State Audition Etude

• Utah All-State Audition Etude
This is a pretty spur-of-the-moment recording intended for one of my students who is auditioning for the Utah All-State program.

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zacharycrawford

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Long Tones

• Bb2
• Bb3

Bordogni Book I

• Number 1
• Number 2
• Number 3
• Number 4
• Number 5
• Number 6

Blazhevich Clef Studies

• Number 1
• Number 2

Trombone Ensembles
Three Equali

• Movement 1
• Movement 2
• Movement 3

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historybandgeek

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Rubank Elementary

• Page 52, Number 4
• zacharycrawford: Subdivide eighth notes in your head to get the timing right for all the parts. The first notes in the third and fifth measures should be included in the written decrescendo. Don't worry too much about making them short. An eighth note is pretty long at this speed.
• Page 39, Number 2
• zacharycrawford: In measures 9 and 10, watch that your dotted-quarter/eighth rhythm has an eighth note and not a sixteenth at the end. Your G's are generally sharp. Your legato was very nice. Way to go for the natural slurs across the partials rather than cheating with the tongue.
• Page 31, Number 1
• zacharycrawford: That was great.
• Page 31, Number 2
• zacharycrawford: It is definitely harder in the lower positions to do a clean slur. Try your hardest to imagine that the outer positions are just as easy to play in as the closer positions, since eventually you want it to sound just as good out there as closer in. To improve this, do slur exercises in 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th positions using the valve.
• Page 31, Number 3
• zacharycrawford: If you have to breathe in the middle of the phrase and you choose to do it after a quarter note, try to hold it for at least an eighth note. That way it won't sound as choppy.

Arban

• Page 45, Number 1
• Page 45, Number 2
• zacharycrawford: The purpose of the crescendos is to help you to blow through the slur. Try to crescendo more in the first note so you are pushing the air into the second. Watch the E natural in measure 11.
• Page 45, Number 3