Dear William, it would also be very good for your preparations, if you would abandon some of your "high-school slang", as this influences your playing negatively & special your presentation at the audition. The high school slang is not cool, by no means, except you talk to children at highschool age.
################################################################################################################### Am 12.05.2010 um 21:07 schrieb [email protected]: > > Prepping for my next audition, I got to thinking about all of the nuances > that I've come across during my prep work and during my audition that could > have helped me and could have hurt me. > > There was a discussion on the list a while ago about when one plays in an > audition (1st or not 1st) and there was almost a consensus that playing 1st > would be in ones favor. Whether this is because of psychology with the > auditioning panel, or being prepared for a specific time, or not stewing > around in a practice room and listening to other players annoy you, well it > could be anything. > > I was reminded of this as I was trying to calculate the number of hours I > have prepped so far for this audition (including fundamental exercises and a > warm up every morning) and calculated that at my current rate I will prep > about 100 to 125 hours for this next audition (which is about 40 days > multiplied by 2.5 hours playing each day and some change). The last audition > I had, I went first and prepped about 100 hours into and did fairly well. The > one before that, I prepped about 60 hours and didn't do as well as I wanted > to. > > So, I wonder, if a survey could be handed out to audition applicants during > auditions to find out how much prep work they've done coupled with their > audition time and audition order if one could find any patterns as to their > audition results? I suppose this could be done by giving a very specific > survey to determine how many hours they practiced instead of asking them to > write down a number, then letting the personnel manager write down the order > of who won and sending in the surveys. > > I know it's probably purely academic, but I do wonder about patterns > occurring in every day things - and wonder what patterns that human > psychology will play into audition results. > > > This sounds more of a psychology thesis than a music thesis because it can > apply to acting and any sort of audition or even sports tournaments, but I > thought I'd share my thoughts with the group. > > -William > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
