READ ME FIRST!

Please read ALL THREE pages of this document

Current and Future Hume-Fogg Band Students (and parents)

In Mid-April we will begin Ensemble Placement Evaluations for next year’s HFA Bands. It is very important that you visit the band Dropbox and print out the files you will need for your placement evaluation! Please paste the following link to the HFA Band website into your browser URL and then hit “Enter.”Then find the section on that page that says “Ensemble Placement Evaluations.”

Current Students

If you wish to be a member of one of our two top groups, the Silver Jazz Band and/or Wind Ensemble, you must perform an evaluation for the director. If you wish to be a member of Concert Band, you must indicate that to the director, who will make your placement without an ensemble placement evaluation.

  1. Go to the HFA Band website and download ALL documents to your computer.
  2. FIRST, please read the “READ ME FIRST” document. Really!
  3. You will be playing scales, prepared music, and sightreading for your placement evaluation.
  4. Please FILL OUT the top section of the “Hume-Fogg Bands Ensemble Evaluation” document and make sure to bring it with you to the audition.
  5. Please print out, and sign the Wind Ensemble and/or Silver Jazz Band student agreement document and bring that with you to the audition.
  6. Posted on the board in the lower band room will be a sign-up sheet for Ensemble Placement Evaluation times.

NEW Students to Hume-Fogg

If you want to be a member of the Hume-Fogg Bands, you must perform an evaluation for the director, UNLESS you are planning to join Beginning Band. This is done to make sure that you are placed in the ensemble that best fits your current level of musical development.

  1. Go to the Ensemble Placement Evaluations folder and download ALL documents to your computer.
  2. FIRST, please read the “READ ME FIRST” document. Really!
  3. You will be playing scales, prepared music, and sightreading for your placement evaluation.
  4. Please FILL OUT the top section of the “Hume-Fogg Bands Ensemble Evaluation” document and make sure to bring it with you to the audition.
  5. Please print out, and sign the Wind Ensemble and/or Silver Jazz Band student agreement document and bring that with you to the audition, ONLY IF you wish to audition for those top two groups.
  6. I will be visiting Meigs and John Early Middle schools to conduct these evaluations, so you do not need to worry about scheduling a time slot. Ms Deaver or Mr. Norris will do that for you.
  7. If you attend any other school, please contact the Hume-Fogg Band Director, Dr. Richard Ripani, to set up an evaluation time slot. or 615-604-0612 cell.

Hume-Fogg High School

Ensemble Placement Evaluation

CONCERT BAND and WIND ENSEMBLE INSTRUCTIONS

1)Prepared Music

  1. Woodwinds, Brass, each of you has one piece of music to prepare.
  2. Percussion, each of you has both a snare piece and a mallet piece

2)Sight reading

  1. All students will sight read one or more musical examples.

3)Scales and rudiments

  1. Woodwinds, Brass,Mallets: CONCERT major scales as follows: C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, G, and D, one octave minimum. Two octaves should be played, if possible, for full score. ALSO, chromatic scale, two octaves, you select the starting pitch.
  2. Percussion: Snare rudiments as follows, played slow-fast-slow: Long roll, paradiddle, 5-stroke roll, 7-stroke roll, 9-stroke roll, flamacue, single ratamacue, single drag

Hume-Fogg High School

Ensemble Placement Evaluation

SILVER JAZZ BAND INSTRUCTIONS

4)Prepared Music: All students have one or two pieces of music to prepare

5)Sight reading: All students will sight read one or more musical examples.

6)Improvising

  1. All brass, saxes, piano, bass, guitar, vibes will be asked to play a 24-measure improvised solo on Blues in F. The sheet music for that and an audio practice track are available on this web page. Do not play the written melody, but rather, use the chords for improvising a solo
  2. Drum set players will be asked to perform eight measures of each of the following:
  3. Funk groove @ quarter note =100 bpm
  4. Samba groove @ quarter note = 100 bpm
  5. Swing groove @ quarter note = 140 bpm

7)Other: Students who are proficient on more than one instrument should tryout on both to increase chances of acceptance into the group.

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