Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Regional Audition Results - How to Read Them

Band Parents,
Seasoned 8th grade students and parents that have been through this last year understand how Region and All State auditions and scores work. This hopefully will serve as a tool for those new to Honor Band auditions for Region 4. It is my hope that this will help you interpret the Region Wind and Percussion Results determined by the judges after Region or All State auditions.

School of the Arts is in Region 4- There are 5 Regions in SC. The scores that you will be seeing are considered the UNOFFICIAL Region Results for the Wind and Percussion only for our school. Each of our students auditioned and their computed scores ranked the band student based on their junior scales, band terms, chromatic scale, the solo for their instrument, 2 sight-reading pieces, and overall tone. There are 2 judges in the rooms for the chromatic scale, solo, and sight-reading. That is why you will see Chrom 1 and Chrom 2, Solo 1 and Solo 2, and so on... on the UNOFFICIAL scoring grid for our school.

All 7th and 8th grade band students are in the junior band. The grid is listed in instrument order and the student is listed by their rank within Region 4. The “Y” in the Call back column lets you know that they have made the call back to audition for the All State band. Audition times will be sent out once the band directors have received them. You must provide your student’s own travel to and from that audition. https://www.bandlink.org/all-state-band/rosters/  Be patient for those rosters to be announced.

As you continue to follow the grid across for your student each column has a score. This is an interpretation of what is in those columns and how the final score for the student was computed. The total Region score is out of 200 points. If the student has a Region score lower than 75 points they did not receive ranking in the Region.

The junior scales are scored with a max score of 30.

The terms are scored with a max score of 10.

The chromatic scale is scored with a max score of 5, (2 separate scores, 2 judges).

The solo is scored with a max score of 30, (2 separate scores, 2 judges).

2 sight-reading pieces, Example 1 and Example 2, both individually scored by 2 separate judges with a max score 15 on each example.

Tone judged by the 2 separate judges to a max score of 15.

The amount of students chosen for the Honor Band is determined by the suggested instrumentation set forth by the SCBDA.


Thank you,
Adina Garner


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