Self Improvement

When choosing songs it’s a lot more difficult to choose songs for auditions than choosing songs to practice with. You want to practice songs that expand and challenge your vocal technique. It’s important to understand that audition songs should highlight your strengths and accomplishments.

For your singing audition, you need at least one ballad and one up-tempo song.Within your choice of songs, you need a variety of stories, acting choices and range. Singers are usually ballad lovers or ballad haters. If you’re a singer who loves ballads it will be hard to choose your favorite. When you choose a ballad, pick one that you can really relate to and the slow tempo areas will not seem so long. The hardest part of auditioning is choosing the songs to sing. The perfect audition song is one that shows off your talents and it can take time finding the right match for your abilities. While it’s not easy finding songs that are perfectly suited for showing off your skills, it’s definitely well worth the effort.

The number one priority when picking your songs is to have plenty of variety. A little variety gives you an opportunity to show off a well-balanced set of song skills. Why not start with some high notes in the first song and then try a belt song afterwards to show your versatility.

Find songs that show off your strengths as a singer, and try to find variety within each song. Always make sure you search for songs that show off high notes once you’ve finished your belt song. Remember that range is the highest and lowest note that your voice can get to and all the notes in between. Mixing it up a bit and making sure you bring a different character to the audition is important.

It’s possible that you will be asked to sing a pop song, but if you want to show variety then go back in time to early musical theater songs, later songs, and anything else that would bring forth a different appeal. Often singers confine themselves to singing contemporary songs. Utilizing an earlier time period within your songs will be of great benefit when you have your audition.

Once you walk through the door everyone will have their eyes on you, even before you sing. You want to show your body and look great in your outfit. Think about what the character looks like. You want to suggest the character but not dress exactly like the character. It also important to understand that you may not be offered the part straight away. Sometimes directors ask you back to audition again so make sure that you’re outstanding every time you audition and not just on a good day.

So now you know how to choose the right song for a singing audition, you might also be interested in perfecting your singing voice. For the highest quality vocal trainging, I highly recommend The Singing Zone. And if you’re struggling to get gigs do yourself a favor and take a look at Social Bandmaker.