What songs should I prepare for my vocal audition for college?
May.06, 2010 in
College Selection
I am going to be a senior in high school and aspire to become a music major in college (probably somewhere in Texas or Boston or Indiana). I want to learn as much as possible about becoming a music major in college from choosing what songs to audition with, if SAT scores are important, if there are a lot of career opportunities after graduation, etc. Any helpful information and tips to maximize my chances for acceptance would be greatly appreciated!
May 6th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Being cute will get you into an Audition.. after that it takes TALENT… so what can you DO? Whatever you do in the performing arts will depend on the AUDITION… that is why they are called PERFORMING arts… so… what can you DO?
If all you can do is sing… then you already have 2 strikes against you because the woods are full of out of work singers. AND if you really want a career in the music industry, then you need to grow a hide as thick as a rhinoceros because it’s a brutal, dog eat dog business that has no toleration for mediocrity.
If you are looking for a song to sing… look at http://www.sheetmusicpluc.com they have the largest music library in the world and you can easily find something that you would care to perform.
May 6th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
WOW! The 1t person who answered obviously had no experience as a music major what so ever.
I am a music major so I’ll tell you about the process.
1st off, you need to be accepted in to the college AND the Music Dept. The music Dept. does not look at your SAT score, they only care about how well you can sing other stuff I’m going to explain.
When you sing for university jusges you need to know 2-3 songs that contrast in nature. I’m going to tell you something, at least 1 is not in Italian, they will boot you so fast it will not even be funny. The other should be in another foreign language like latin of french. It HAS to be memorized.
The second thing they do is play a random set of notes/rhythms to you in the piano. You have to sing it back to them.
Lastly they will give you a sheet music paper with something that they wrote, give you a starting pitch and you will have to sing it too them.
Then you will have to take a theory test. They want to make sure you can identify scales and the names of notes.
Take Every music class you can in HS.
Also, they usually want proof of 4+ years of private voice lesson, If you have not done this get yourself a teacher.
These are general things I ran into everywhere I auditioned.
Just so you know, judges are intimidating. They don’t applaud you like an audience does.