When I was writing my book, “Rock the Audition,” I had the great gift of sitting in on many Broadway and Off-Broadway pop/rock auditions and watching all the mistakes people make regarding communicating with the piano player. In fact, I wrote an entire chapter just on that subject matter! So I wanted to give you guys these quick tips before you show up to your next pop/rock audition, so you can look awesome and professional in something that is clearly very, very tricky!
Here are five tips you need to know about communicating a popular tune to you audition accompanist!
1. Take the time before you come in to run your music with a piano player. The sheet music you often get online rarely sounds like it does on the radio, so you can’t have the first time you sing it be an audition for Telsey + Co.! You have to hear what it sounds like and get in it!
2. Please show your accompanist respect by having a clean organized book with double-sided sheet music. I am shocked at the state of your books! Especially with pop/rock music. Please clean your house before company comes over! Also, you do not want the piano player turning 20 pages, flipping back and forth from the bridge to the coda, etc. You want
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