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Author: J-MB
Date: 2016-09-02 05:00
I have 2 auditions coming soon and i need some tips? Thanks in advance
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2016-09-02 05:45
Learn your major and minor scales and arpeggios through at least 4 sharps and 4 flats. If the auditions are above high school level, learn them all.
At the auditions, play at only 90% of your best speed. Controlled and even is much better than fast and sloppy. If the judges want it faster, they will ask you for it, and you'll have the advantage of having just played it.
Count like crazy, especially on the rests. Jumping in early after a rest is a sure way to get downgraded.
Follow the directions, even if they seem silly or wrong. In the Beethoven 6th 1st movement arpeggiated solo, the instruction will usually be to begin at the beginning of the line, on the end of the preceding phrase. If you leave those two notes out, you lose.
Make music all the time, even on sales. Never play faster than perfect, and make the most beautiful sound you can.
Good luck.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2016-09-02 12:54
What are you auditioning for? College, high school, a band, an orchestra? Are they giving you the music ahead of time? Need a lot more info.
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Author: Roxann
Date: 2016-09-03 15:06
Watch some of Amy Cuddy's Power Pose lectures on YouTube...very powerful!
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2016-09-05 19:22
Assuming they gave you excerpts to play try to memorize them as much as possible so you can concentrate of how you're playing them musically instead of worrying about the notes. Of course play it in the marked tempo with the dynamics indicated in the music. Then try to put your own sense of musical expression into them. Rhythm accuracy is most important. Rhythm is either right or wrong, there's no almost about it.
If you're playing a solo piece try to play it traditionally but doing it musically as well, expression etc. Of course it goes without saying with a good tone and intonation. Good luck.
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