How can I Ace the audition for Interlochen’s Center of the Arts?
Chise asked:
I play Alto Sax and have been practicing scales like crazy. I can’t figure out what are good excersises for sight reading. Getting into that school is all I think about.I also have trouble with rythms when theres faster music. A Metronome can help but I dont know.
I play Alto Sax and have been practicing scales like crazy. I can’t figure out what are good excersises for sight reading. Getting into that school is all I think about.I also have trouble with rythms when theres faster music. A Metronome can help but I dont know.
So recommend anything that can help me get better please.
And if you or someone you know attends/attened Interlochen please tell me what I need to focus on.
Learning to Sight Read Music
You might be better asking a music teacher those questions.
They will have an idea of what is required, and what you should do to improve your chances.
Best of luck in your endeavor.
sight reading music
For sight reading, just start reading random pieces of music. Before you play them, look at them, do a quick mental read-through, and then set the tempo to a comfortable tempo. As for rhythm, there are plenty of webpages that have rhythm exercises. Work on those at a comfortable tempo, and then start running them at slightly higher tempos. Make sure you are playing as many variations on rhythms that you can think or find, and just work them until you are sick of them, then work them more. Have you thought of contacting the saxophone teacher/professor at Interlochen and asking him/her what they are looking for?