Before the First Rehearsal
Twenty minutes with the part at home saves the whole section an evening. This free checklist card covers the part, the practice, the bag and the room, and closes with three habits from the professionals.
Print it and it lives in the front of your folder; save it to your phone and it is there at the rehearsal break. It is free, and there is nothing to sign up for.
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What to mark before you arrive: bar numbers, rest counts, cues, every change of key, time, tempo and mute, and the page turns worth a pencilled V.S. What to practise: the entries at their written dynamic, and the hard bars alone with the speed you reached written beside them. What to pack, down to the pencil grade. And how to behave in the room: quiet warm-up, brief tuning, and pencilling every instruction the moment it is given.
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This card pairs with the free practice guide for your instrument — all twelve are on the Guides hub — and with the other reference cards on the Cards hub.
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