CSMS Orchestra Placement 2023
When: Week of May 15, 2023
‘Who: All 6" graders signed up for CSMS Orchestra and 7 grade Philharmonic orchestra
students
Philharmonic is for those students who continue to work on or need to be introduced to proper
right and left hand set up, bow technique, tone, shifting, and counting rhythms.
Chamber Orchestra students should be able to shift in and out of positions easily on all strings,
use vibrato regularly, have excellent bow technique and left hand set up, and be able to sightread
grade level 2 music with few mistakes.
Violin; D Major Scale and arpeggio quarter note = 75 and sightread the day of auditions
D Major 2 Octave Scale and Arpeggio
J=90
Viola: G Major Scale and arpeggio quarter note = 75 and sightread the day of auditions
[vit] G Major 2 Octave Scale
and arpeggioCello: G Major Scale and arpeggio quarter note = 75 and sightread the day of auditions
cele G Major 2 Octave Scale
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Bass: G Major Scale and arpeggio quarter note = 75 and sightread the day of auditions
coe G Major 2 Octave Scale
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