Sectionals

Success in auditions requires preparation, practice and experience. These suggestions will organize your practice time and help you develop confidence before your next audition. By flutist and UNT professor Mary Karen Clardy.

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Keep It Clean

Keeping your instrument and mouthpiece clean will improve both the performance and longevity of your instrument (and prevent you from getting sick). By jazz trumpeter Chase Sanborn.

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Eight-on-a-Hand

Eight-on-a-hand comes in various shapes and sizes but is universally the first exercise a drum line plays when warming up. But while known as a great exercise to start the day, it’s also known as a total boring snooze-fest. Use this checklist to make eight-on-a-hand more interesting and fun as well as make it work even harder for you in perfecting more than just loud eighth notes.

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Keep It Warm

Depending where you live in the country, it may be the middle to end of winter guard season. In this final segment of the season, it is so very important to keep it warm, both in body and equipment.

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