“Play any scale you would like,” the violinist said to me. Play any scale? Saying this to a well-trained musician is like telling a mother to choose her favorite child from her many children. There are biases of the difficulty of each scale to every person, especially depending on the different strengths and weaknesses for each instrument. The person who auditioned me was a violinist, and I was a flutist. There is a major difference of scale biases between someone who plays a wind instrument and someone who plays a string instrument. My head was a ping-pong table of different options bouncing back and forth: C, G, D, A, E, B, F sharp, D flat, A flat, E flat, B flat or F major. “Well, what scale are you going to play for me today?” I had
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I entered the white brick building that was in the middle of the parking lot with almost no cars in it. The person at the front of the small room asked who we were and she assigned us a place for me to warm up my cold …show more content…
“Hello,” the person who was auditioning me muttered. His name was not important enough to remember. “I focus on violin mainly, but I am here to audition you today.”
I’m just saying that violins and flutes mainly have one thing in common: both instruments focus in treble clef. There isn’t much of a similarity of how one plays each instrument. One requires lungs, while other requires horsehair. The man auditioning me wouldn’t be able to tell my strengths as well as a flutist auditioning me would, which was going to make the audition process difficult for the both of us. Interviewing me must have been like telling a painter to go sculpt with clay; it is the same interest, but a different area of study. “The audition is about 20 minutes long… I will be asking you questions and not all of it will be you playing… I will be recording you on this camera…” As a musician, I have learned in the past that recordings do not always capture the true essence of the music being heard. For example, if one has ever heard the Chicago Symphony Orchestra live versus the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on a recording, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra being played live is so much better and full of life compared to the
I entered the white brick building that was in the middle of the parking lot with almost no cars in it. The person at the front of the small room asked who we were and she assigned us a place for me to warm up my cold …show more content…
“Hello,” the person who was auditioning me muttered. His name was not important enough to remember. “I focus on violin mainly, but I am here to audition you today.”
I’m just saying that violins and flutes mainly have one thing in common: both instruments focus in treble clef. There isn’t much of a similarity of how one plays each instrument. One requires lungs, while other requires horsehair. The man auditioning me wouldn’t be able to tell my strengths as well as a flutist auditioning me would, which was going to make the audition process difficult for the both of us. Interviewing me must have been like telling a painter to go sculpt with clay; it is the same interest, but a different area of study. “The audition is about 20 minutes long… I will be asking you questions and not all of it will be you playing… I will be recording you on this camera…” As a musician, I have learned in the past that recordings do not always capture the true essence of the music being heard. For example, if one has ever heard the Chicago Symphony Orchestra live versus the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on a recording, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra being played live is so much better and full of life compared to the