[TPIN] Minnesota All State Wind & Percussion audition etudes

[Michael Anderson]

Yeah.. That ruins the whole thing.


> From: William Graham <weg9 at comcast.net>
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:26:58 -0800
> To: Michael Anderson <manderson at okcu.edu>, Billy Marquis
> <bmarquis at awesomenet.net>, <TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [TPIN] Minnesota All State Wind & Percussion audition etudes
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Anderson" <manderson at okcu.edu>
> To: "Billy Marquis" <bmarquis at awesomenet.net>; <TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [TPIN] Minnesota All State Wind & Percussion audition etudes
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> 
>> I think the Minnesota etude is a good one because it is efficient. Just
>> about everything you need to look for to separate the players who have
>> advanced skills and those who don't is there.
>> 
>> To really test someone on all of these skills would require 5 or more
>> different etudes or solos. I think this one serves the purpose quite
>> well..
>> Flame away. ;-)
> 
> OK. - I don't like the last measure in the second line. There is no reason
> the change the time signature. they should just have split it with a bar.
> Things like this tend to annoy me.....Maybe it's just to see if it would
> confuse the player.....I don't know, but I still don't like it, because I
> see no reason for it.
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