4) Memorize the warm-up packet before tryouts or if you get it at tryouts memorize it ASAP
This is actually a bigger thing than most people think. I've seen people cut from college lines, even though they had the chops, because they didn't have all of their stuff memorized.
Yeah, I hated when people tried out for snare or tenor and didn't have the warm-up packet memorized, I was like WTF? I hate it when people like me work their
butt off to memorize and practice and other people either don't try hard or don't care, I want to do this after high school and teach but it's hard to be really good when people around you don't give a crap...I get a little annoyed...