Practising for Thursday May 28th

This is just a quick blog post for Thursday May 28th, I practised for approximately 20 minutes (warm-up icluded) for my band test. I had to play two exerpts from Chillers and Thrillers, one the first 10 bars of the piece and the second was from bar 191 to the end of the piece. Both sections were the "Imperial March (aka Darth vader's theme)". I was attempting to focus mainly on rhythm, because I notice at times I have difficulty with quick and short rhythms, and my playing becomes a jumled mess. I was also aware of the sfz on some notes and the accented (>) markings below certain repeated notes. I really emphasized the accented notes, in order to create diversity with repeated notes, and the strength that this song requires. The end section also had some difficult dynamics, such as sfz, fp cresc. to a ff. I worked on getting up to ff but not over blowing and sacrificing my pitch. By the end of my practising I concluded that yes, I am sacrificing some dynamic level for pitch, but that is better than vice versa!