Talladega County Honor Band

Audition Date: Tues., Feb. 24, Talladega High School, begin at 4:00.

Fee: $5 per student auditioning. Audition fee is due to Ms. Todd by Feb. 20th. You may bring your money any time between now and then. I must turn in the list on the 20th, please have your fee in by then.

Audition Requirements:
Jr. High Brass/WW: Concert F, Bb, Eb, and Ab major scales/arpeggios; Chromatic Scale Bb – Bb (one octave from memory); Sightreading, Tone Quality.
*students must pass-off their scales to Ms. Todd prior to auditioning, please schedule a time to do so.

Percussionist will audition on both mallet and snare drum: Mallets: Concert F, Bb, Eb, and Ab major scales/arpeggios; Mallet Sightreading; Snare Rudiments: Long Roll, Flamacue, 9-stroke roll, triple ratamacue, flam tap, flam paradiddle; Snare Sightreading.

This a great opportunity for our students to grow musically, meet other musicians from local schools and at the same time to make friendships that will last a lifetime. I encourage everyone to audition. Especially since the auditions will be held at Talladega High School. If you never try out you will never gain the experience to be successful at auditioning. It is just like anything else, it takes practice and preparation.

Upon making honor band the Clinic will be on Friday, February 28th and Saturday, February 29th at Zora Ellis Jr. High. The concert will be held on Saturday at Harwell auditorium. This is a great time to audition since it is right here in Talladega. Start working now.

Congrats to the Ellis Emeralds!

The Ellis Emeralds traveled to Pell City this past Saturday to compete in the first Winter Guard competition of the season, Field Day. They had a great day and in the end won 1st place in the cadet class. As proud as we are of them for the 1st place finish, we went on to discover that they did such a great job that the SCGC promoted them from the Cadet classification, that is made up of jr. high guards, to the Novice classification where they will compete against high school guards.

What a great Accomplishment. Congratulations ladies!

To see more pics and info click here to visit the Ellis Emeralds Blogspot.

Also, Congratulations to the Dega Darlins (click here to visit the Dega Darlin Blog)for finishing Second place and being promoted to Scholastic AAA classification and the Dega Darlins Addition (click here to visit the addition blog) for finishing 3rd and being promoted to the Scholastic B classification.

Great Accomplishments for such talented young ladies.

All-State Tryouts

Students auditioning for all-state,

With the break coming to an end, I hope that you have been practicing. The break flew by and all-state try-outs are quickly upon us. Auditions will be held at Jacksonville High School on Saturday, January 10, 2008. Yes, that is the Saturday after we return from the holidays. With the number of students we have signed up it will be the responsibility of the student/parents to get to the audition. I suggest that a few of you get together and carpool. Last year several students did this and ended up having a great experience.

Registration is at 8am. Students will sign up for a number, audition and after each student auditions the results for that section will be posted. Typically students audition and then go eat lunch, then come back to see if results are posted. Remember that if you do not make all-state you may make the District Honor band. They use the same audition for both.

You will receive more information about registration on the Tuesday we return to school.

I hope that each of you have had great progress practicing over the break.

(Before you go to the audition, each student participating must pass off their scales. The best time to do this is in the mornings. See Ms. Todd to set up a time.)