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Trumpet All-State Prep
Workshop No.1

"Covering All The Bases"

24 May, 9 - 11 AM

Mt. Olive Lutheran Church
10310 Scarsdale blvd - 77089

Prices

Workshop Regular Price: $35

Walk In (no registration) Price: $40

Registration

Electronic registration is "open" until midnight, May 22. If you register before May 19 you will receive a $5 Early Bird discount. Payment is due at the time of registration. 

Click HERE to register.

Payment

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U.S.P.S.

To pay by mail, please send a check or money order for the appropriate amount to:

Consort Immanuel
PO Box 34027
Houston, TX 77234

Registration will be confirmed via email.

Workshop Description

The Trumpet All-State Prep workshops are from a series of workshops spread out over the year which are aimed at increasing the trumpet student's musical maturity. We believe that it is musical maturity which wins auditions. When high school students sound like a college students, it puts them in a different league from everyone else.

This concept has helped Eddie Lewis' students win auditions for over twenty years now, including the Texas All-State band. Mr. Lewis made the Texas All-State band himself in 1981 and 1982. His students have been making All-State since 1984. He has served as a judge for many All-Region auditions and has an insider's view of the process.

This first workshop, "Covering All The Bases", focuses on all the things the student should be focusing on and practicing over the summer months, before the All-State audition music is announced. It is strategically placed in the last half of May to give the students the right information at the right time.

Most students don't know it, but summer is a crucial time in the All-State preparation process. Most think that you don't need to begin preparing for All-State until the music is announced. After all, how do you practice something you haven't even seen yet? Right? WRONG!!! Playing the music is only half of what you are judged on. Those things which are most important MUST be practiced months if not years in advance.

"Covering All The Bases" will get you started in the right direction. Use your summer months wisely, work on the musical objectives Mr. Lewis gives you in this workshop, and you will do far better than those who don't.

This is the first of six All-State Prep workshops. The second workshop is in mid summer. In it we will be discussing various practice techniques. Those techniques will be used later on the actual music when it is released. The third is a couple weeks after the music is announced. That's when we will look at efficient strategies for learning the music, making plans and setting short term goals. There will be two workshops early in the fall semester and a final workshop a week before the All-Region band auditions. The last workshop will address the actual audition process with mock auditions and lots of inside information.