Model Middle School
164 BARRON ROAD, N.E.
Rome, Georgia 30161-9679
7O6/29O-815O
FAX: 7O6/8O2-6775
Dear Colleagues:
We are looking forward to hosting the District Clinic Band here at Model High School. The clinic date for this year is Saturday, April 28, 2018. This letter provides the information both you and your students need to prepare for this event in order to make this a successful experience for everyone.
Enclosed are several sheets of important information. There are nomination sheets for both first and second year students. WE ASK THAT YOU LIMIT YOUR NOMINATIONS OF STUDENTS TO THE TOP 10 PERCENT FOR EACH EXPERIENCE LEVEL.
• When nominating your students, please list them in order of ability (Ex. #1 is your top student in your program). We will try to take as many students as possible to make a complete instrumentation, but we will not be able to take everyone.
• Please make sure that you get a commitment from the students you nominate to be available for the Clinic Band date.
• Do not substitute for missing students unless they play the same instrument.
• Please indicate with a circle around their number which students were participants in last year's clinic band.
• Please remember to only nominate students who have NOT been selected for the 7th District
Honor Band.
• The deadline for the nominations will be Friday, March 23, 2018.
• We expect to have the bands selected by Friday, April 6, 2018 and will e-mail the list to you.
• Submissions:
- If you wish to e-mail your nominations to me (BrCrider@floydboe.net), please use the same format as on the printed sheet. E-mailing is the best way to submit your nominations.
• I have also enclosed a letter explaining the audition requirements, and the prepared piece the students will need to play for their audition. The prepared piece for both bands is in the same key and written roughly along the same lines, so if you have mixed classes or wish to work with all of your students together on the prepared piece, they can play them at the same time.
• ALL SCALES MUST BE MEMORIZED (both 1st and 2nd year).
• The clinicians will be Mr. Travis Downs with the 1st year band and Mrs. Sheila Smith with the 2nd year band.
• Each director who nominates students is REQUIRED to be in attendance and help with the chair placement auditions.
• Please make sure you MAIL the participation fee for your students by
Wednesday, April 11. Cost is $10 for each student accepted. Please make the fees available in the form of ONE (1) school or booster check, payable to "GMEA DISTRICT 7." We will hold a personal check from you until the one from your school or boosters can be provided. PLEASE, DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE DAY OF THE EVENT TO PAY. Students will not be registered without the payment of the participation fee. Please do not have your parents pay for their child when they arrive.
• If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by phone or e-mail.
I am looking forward to seeing you at Model High School on Saturday, April 28, 2018.
Sincerely,
Brandi Crider,Band Director, Model Middle School Band
E-Mail: BrCrider@floydboe.net
W: 706-290-8150 Ext.36
Fax: 706-802-6775
C: 256-453-4748
DISTRICT 7 CLINIC HONOR BAND
AUDITION MATERIAL
*ALL SCALES MUST BE MEMORIZED
1ST YEAR BAND STUDENTS
Students are to play the concert Bb scale with arpeggio one (1) octave in any pattern of quarter notes or eight notes (Quarter Note=120). Students will also perform the appropriate prepared piece (Quarter Note=120). There will be no sight reading.
Percussionists will audition on mallets and snare drum. The mallet portion of the audition etude is the same as the wind players (Scales and Prepared Piece). For snare drum, the students will perform a long roll and alternating flams (Open-Closed-Open) in addition to the prepared piece (Quarter Note=120). There will be no sight reading.
2nd YEAR BAND STUDENTS
Students are to play the concert Eb scale with arpeggio one (1) octave in any pattern of quarter notes or eighth notes (Quarter Note=120). Extra credit will be given to extra octaves and speed. Students will also perform the appropriate prepared piece
(Quarter Notes=120). There will be no sight reading.
Percussionists will audition on mallets and snare drum. The mallet portion of the audition etude is the same as the wind players (Scales and Prepared Piece). For snare drum, the students will perform a long roll and alternating flams (Open-closed-Open) in addition to the prepared piece. There will be no sight reading.
** DIRECTOR'S NOTE: Although the pieces for both 1st and 2nd year students are different, they may be practiced together if you have both level students in the same class or wish to work with all of your students at the same time.
NOMINATE HERE
DISTRICT 7 CLINIC HONOR BAND SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2018
7:45 AM-8:30 AM Students pick up Audition Forms & Warm Up
(Model H S Auditorium)
8:20 AM Directors meeting in the Band Room
8:30 AM-9:30 AM Chair Placement Auditions
9:30 AM-12:00PM Morning Rehearsal
12:00 PM-1:30 PM LUNCH
1:30 PM- 4:00 PM Afternoon Rehearsal
4:00 PM- 4:45 PM Change Clothes for the Concert
5:00 PM Concert -Model High School Auditorium
DIRECTIONS TO MODEL HIGH SCHOOL
Host-Brandi Crider
IF YOU ARE COMING SOUTH ON U.S. HWY. 27
Take Hwy. 27 South to Hwy. 140 East to Adairsville. (Turn LEFT.) Go approximately 6-8 miles to Hwy. 53 (Hwy. 53 is a four lane to Rome.) Turn RIGHT on Hwy. 53. Get in the left lane just after your turn and take the next LEFT on OLD CALHOUN RD. (There will be a sign for this readjust after your turn on Hwy. 53.) Go approximately 4 miles and Model High School will be on your LEFT. Park in the parking lot in front of the stadium and the auditorium is the right side of the building in front of this parking lot.
IF YOU ARE COMING NORTH ON U.S. HWY 27
Take U.S. Hwy. 27 North to Rome and then take Hwy. 411 to Cartersville. Go to the fourth-RED LIGHT and turn LEFT. (This is the East Rome By-Pass also known as Ga. Hwy. 1). Go to the second RED LIGHT and turn RIGHT. (This is Old Calhoun Hwy) Go approximately 3 miles and Model High School will be on your RIGHT. Park in the parking lot in front of the stadium and the auditorium is the right side of the building in front of this parking lot.
IF YOU ARE GOING NORTH OR SOUTH ON 1-75
Take the Adairsville Exit #306 and go toward Adairsville (Hwy 140 West). Pass through the four lane in Adairsville and stay on Hwy. 140 West (This will take you to Hwy 53). When you get to Hwy 53 turn LEFT to Rome. Get in the LEFT lane just after your turn and take the next LEFT on OLD CALHOUN RD (There will be a sign for this road just after your turn on Hwy. 53) Go approximately 4 miles and Model High School will be on your LEFT. Park in the parking lot in front of the stadium and the auditorium is the right side of the building in front of this parking lot.
DIRECTIONS TO EATING ESTABLISHMENTS IN ROME
Lunch is from 12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Food Court at Mount Berry Mall:
(Estimated travel time is 20 minutes to Mount Berry Mall)
Turn LEFT as you come out of the school
Go 3 miles to the first RED LIGHT and turn RIGHT
Go FOUR RED LIGHTS and turn RIGHT on Hwy. 27 North
Go two RED LIGHTS and that will be the mall entrance
The food court is in the back of the mall
There is parking in the rear of the mall.
Restaurants at the Food Court inside Mount Berry Mai include:
Chick-fil-A, Chinese, Japanese, Pizza and a cookie place for dessert.
