I was the only other person to audition so I got in. Using her instrument and materials, I basically sight-read the audition. One of my new friends told me that she, “was the only person auditioning on bass clarinet. I realized that I’m so out-classed there’s no chance that I’m going to be in this group. I’m listening to these people practice and we’ve got upper classmen that are virtuosic.
I show up and there’s a hundred clarinet players. Show up and you do your audition on clarinet. My clarinet teacher gave me the audition materials for fall wind ensemble. I was going to my private, mandated clarinet lesson because I was a music major at that point. Ken: I was playing mellophone in marching band. KCO: I went to school in New England and, you’re right, not as big a deal. I don’t know where you hail from, but in the South, marching band is a big deal. They didn’t have as many ensemble choices in the fall, so that they didn’t compete too heavily with marching band. You don’t have to be good, just be able to play.
#Virtual french horn full
Not a full audition, but they make sure that you can actually play.
Even then, the section leaders required you to play some scales and learn the fight song. The only thing that was a near guarantee was marching band. The music program is almost a quarter of the school. It’s a pretty decent, but unheard of, music program. Ken: That’s at Northwestern State University, at Natchitoches Louisiana, Central Louisiana. But, the way that I came to playing French horn, it was a bit of a boondoggle. The idea of switching instruments was a big deal. I went to college on a partial music scholarship for clarinet. Had I known, I might have picked a different instrument to switch to, but it was sort of opportunistic. I thought that it would be pretty similar to mellophone or trumpet. I didn’t pick up the French horn until college. He was a trumpet player, so I got some private lessons from him. The band director said we need mellophones. We grew up in Louisiana so it was a given and so that was what I played all the way through high school.įor my last two years in high school marching band, I played mellophone because who are we kidding, clarinets are useless in the marching band and I wanted to play something a little bit more flashy. My dad was a clarinet player and was into the Dixieland Jazz-style clarinet. It would have been recorder or something like that, but they moved you off to another instrument pretty quickly. I started playing an instrument in the fourth grade. I play French horn now, but I didn’t always play French horn. Ken: I’m Ken Adamson and I play French horn. KCO: Who are you what started you down your musical road?
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