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Singing Audition Advice
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 12:12 pm
by islandofsodor
I know there are always lots of questions about thi ssort of thing so I thought I would post this as its not something I'd thought of before.
My husband spent yesterday playing around 50 piano accompaniments for a dance/MT college auditions. The candidates were asked to prepare a certain number of bars of a song. One thing that happened time and time again was that they hadn't thought about what introduction they wanted. Did they want him to play the bar before as a lead in, or just give the starting note or a chord? Obviously you want to make as confident a start to the song as possible so just something to think about.
Re: Singing Audition Advice
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 2:13 pm
by Robin64
islandofsodor wrote:I know there are always lots of questions about thi ssort of thing so I thought I would post this as its not something I'd thought of before.
My husband spent yesterday playing around 50 piano accompaniments for a dance/MT college auditions. The candidates were asked to prepare a certain number of bars of a song. One thing that happened time and time again was that they hadn't thought about what introduction they wanted. Did they want him to play the bar before as a lead in, or just give the starting note or a chord? Obviously you want to make as confident a start to the song as possible so just something to think about.
That is very useful, thanks. Which option does he prefer to accompany with or which does he think works best? I would imagine a short intro would sound nicest but I am no expert at all.
Re: Singing Audition Advice
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 2:35 pm
by bop2thetop
Thanks very much for this advice. Thats very useful to know
Re: Singing Audition Advice
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 3:54 pm
by islandofsodor
Robin64 wrote:islandofsodor wrote:I know there are always lots of questions about thi ssort of thing so I thought I would post this as its not something I'd thought of before.
My husband spent yesterday playing around 50 piano accompaniments for a dance/MT college auditions. The candidates were asked to prepare a certain number of bars of a song. One thing that happened time and time again was that they hadn't thought about what introduction they wanted. Did they want him to play the bar before as a lead in, or just give the starting note or a chord? Obviously you want to make as confident a start to the song as possible so just something to think about.
That is very useful, thanks. Which option does he prefer to accompany with or which does he think works best? I would imagine a short intro would sound nicest but I am no expert at all.
Whichever way the auditionee finds easiest, After all the panel want them to do well and perform to their best.