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Re: Solo Piece for High School Audition

Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-04-11 03:28

What you have to do is identify the spots in your 30 sec that you think something extra fits- sustained note, arpeggio, chromatic run, whatever- and experiment to find a winner. And don't settle on something just because it works (though that can be very satisfying)... yank it if it's not an obvious improvement.

You asked me to describe what I mean by an arpeggio up. I don't know this tune, but just for the sake of argument let's assume there's a nice spot with a sustained E minor chord. (If you don't know chords- get help or just experiment until you find the notes that fit well in the given spot.) E minor is E G B E G B... which you'd carry upward to the G just below your high A. Your starting note could be anywhere, even the lowest E- depends on how much time you have, how fast sounds best, what starting (and ending) notes seem to fit best- no right or wrong, just what works. And in most cases you can and should add additional notes to the basic chord. For Em I'd almost always includes the D's (makes it an E minor 7) or the C#'s (E minor 6), and some (but not all) F#'s might sneak in. If it's a major chord like G that would be G B D I'd probably add in the A's and sometimes the E's.

Also you need to figure whether it's just once on each note going up, or whether you make some of it like a G1 B1 D1 B1 G2 D1 B2 pattern, there's a zillion permutations. And whether it's a single run up or down, or instead it goes to the top and then reflects back down, or the reverse of that.

It's not rocket science. Let me know how it goes!

Stan in Orlando

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