- Different rounds of the audition are very important
because you have to survive the preliminary round
and the semi-final round
and you have to win the final round.
What we must make sure we do is follow,
what I call, the three Ts, time, tuning and tone.
If you can't play in rhythm
you have no business playing with somebody else.
If you can't play in tune
you have no business playing with somebody else
and you will have a very solitary musical life.
So, more important than anything are rhythm and intonation.
Those two things alone
will get you kicked out of an audition faster than anything.
I highly recommend you police your rhythm
and police your pitch so that you can survive that.
Above that, you wanna have a sound
that's compatible with your orchestra,
compatible even more so with the composers
whose music you're trying best to serve.