i tried out for all county yesterday.i didnt make it.it wouldnt bother me so much if the one kid who did wasnt so praised for it.
and this other kid,named daniel,he didnt make it and he had the nerve to tell me that my "performance was crap".uhh...obviously he didnt do so well himself!
sorry.i just really needed to get that out.

I`ll give you a quote I heard in a masterclass: "The music business is tough... if you have expectations, you will get dissapointed. If you have goals, you will never get dissapointed." - R. Tizzard. Think about this for a bit...

that makes alot of sence.thanks.i may have not made it but now i know a bunch of scales.i guess it wasnt a complete waste.

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First time i tried out for my junior clinic, I didn`t make it, and my last year, I made the first chair. Don`t worry about the butt-holes. I`ve ran across plenty of those, myself. Keep practicing. There`s always next year.

ya your right.thanks.

you are better than me though i was to afraid to try out. you have better courage than me.

Anyone who`s willing to be that much of an jerk doesn`t deserve to have an instrument in their hands. There will always be dissapointments along the road to your destination. Pave your own path. Of course, I wouldn`t go to far down that path without acknoledging who gave you the gift to begin with. Just remember to use your gift to edify others, not tear `em down.

A thought I had:
You start with the GIFT of music. You have the option to refine that gift and turn it into TALENT.

Also: (and this comes from a Wynton Marsalis book.)
If you want to get to where no one else has gotten, you need to do what no one else has done. Ponder that for your own interpretation.


Create your own voice with your music. Too many people have followed the greats, only to end up beating the same path. The way I think of it is this: Learn to master what the masters have mastered, then use that foundation to master something from within yourself.

note: these are tid-bits that I`ve collected and rephrased. I do not have the history or accomplishments to back them up.... yet! So take `em or leave `em.

Hey at least u tried i droped out of it a day or two after they gave us the music which was a huge mistake

Hey, when I was in High School I tried out for All-State band. I had practiced a great deal and was just sure I`d make it and then they put the Eb concert scale in front of me. I was really happy, since that is an easy scale and I proceeded to blow a concert Ab as the first note. I was embarassed but too proud to stop, so I played the Ab scale hoping that they wouldn`t notice. Of course, they did and I didn`t make it.

I listened to the concert, and the parts weren`t that tough and the other players weren`t that great and I knew I should have just stopped to start over and said, "whoops..that`s an Ab" and went on. Performance in an audition depends on many things and our individual ability can change from day to day. The only thing we can do is practice (and practice the hard stuff) so much that our weaknesses become our strengths, our worst day is as good as the other auditioners best days and always picture a sound in your mind before you play and then make your instrument sound better than anyone else. Since that audition, I`ve done many things in music and not making it that one time has never kept me back.

Don`t worry about this or that other kid, whomever it is or whatever he says. School is like a fishbowl and once you graduate, the fishbowl spills out into a vast ocean. Just put some time into the practice room remembering to practice what is hard and make the best sound possible and before long All-county will be very small potatos to you. Keep practicing!