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Part One: Booking It
In “Booking It,” we cover the most important tool in your audition — the Audition Book — and the adjustments performers can make to it to guarantee a less stressful environment in the audition room, especially for their accompanist.
We’ll cover everything from the look/material/size of your binder, what songs you should have in it, and what your sheet music should look like and include. The one person who will see and interact with your book is the accompanist in the room, so this presentation is tailored to their needs in particular so that your focus can be on “booking it.”
Part Two: Making the Cut
In “Making the Cut,” we dive deeper into the importance of investing in your sheet music. By getting creative with our cuts and hiring a copyist/arranger to put our ideas on the page, we can fill our books with cuts that are perfectly tailored to us and leave a lasting impression on everyone in the room.
Long gone are the days of awkward cuts and struggling to make a piece work in the audition room. With the help of a seasoned arranger, we can create exciting “Frankencuts” of virtually any song that show off a performer’s full range and feature a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Participants will hear past examples of well-arranged audition cuts and develop tools to brainstorm their own, with or without music theory knowledge. We will place an emphasis on range, story-telling, and preparation for less stressful audition experiences.
Part Three: Workshop
Both parts of this presentation provide visual and aural examples to illustrate concepts and engage students, but we highly recommend including a workshop/masterclass portion at the end where we put these tips to use. Options for live interaction and participation can include brainstorming an audition cut live, consulting with various students before the workshop to prepare new cuts that can be demonstrated side-by-side with the old versions, and many other possibilities tailored to your program. We highly encourage everyone involved in your program to attend and participate.
Part One: Booking It
In “Booking It,” we cover the most important tool in your audition — the Audition Book — and the adjustments performers can make to it to guarantee a less stressful environment in the audition room, especially for their accompanist.
We’ll cover everything from the look/material/size of your binder, what songs you should have in it, and what your sheet music should look like and include. The one person who will see and interact with your book is the accompanist in the room, so this presentation is tailored to their needs in particular so that your focus can be on “booking it.”
Part Two: Making the Cut
In “Making the Cut,” we dive deeper into the importance of investing in your sheet music. By getting creative with our cuts and hiring a copyist/arranger to put our ideas on the page, we can fill our books with cuts that are perfectly tailored to us and leave a lasting impression on everyone in the room.
Long gone are the days of awkward cuts and struggling to make a piece work in the audition room. With the help of a seasoned arranger, we can create exciting “Frankencuts” of virtually any song that show off a performer’s full range and feature a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Participants will hear past examples of well-arranged audition cuts and develop tools to brainstorm their own, with or without music theory knowledge. We will place an emphasis on range, story-telling, and preparation for less stressful audition experiences.
Part Three: Workshop
Both parts of this presentation provide visual and aural examples to illustrate concepts and engage students, but we highly recommend including a workshop/masterclass portion at the end where we put these tips to use. Options for live interaction and participation can include brainstorming an audition cut live, consulting with various students before the workshop to prepare new cuts that can be demonstrated side-by-side with the old versions, and many other possibilities tailored to your program. We highly encourage everyone involved in your program to attend and participate.
With these presentations and workshops, we hope to empower students, teachers, and all performers to get creative with their music, while also setting themselves up for the smoothest audition experience possible.
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