Auditioning for Music School - Storytime with EMC

[@RedDogMamaHD]

I love how when you talk about someone failing, you always perform as Steven!! 😂😂🤣🤣

[@beartube9507]

Emc I literally just came home from an audtion

[@MandoPercussion]

Hoping it went swell! 👏😊

[@EMCproductions]

Did you get in?

[@ultra9349]

I just came back from giving a percussion tour of my school since i’m a mused percussion major

[@TheAmazingRaptor]

same and I think I bombed it 😭😭😭 got too nervous :/

[@ultra9349]

@ when you get to the professors level, it’s not hard to realize when you’re nervous in your playing versus just plain lack of preparation/skill Even as a freshman i can see it but that’s because my brain is wired differently from most where i see these small things easily and it’s not by any means normal for a freshman to come in with that level of understanding I’m sure that if most of your problems were nerves you’ll be fine because that was my problems to where i only played my snare piece correct one and it was supposed to be my main piece yet i still got it because it’s a very hard and tight piece but nerves got the better of me

[@LexiWithPepsi]

Hey EMC, I've been watching for a bit now. I'm no longer in high school and don't do drumline anymore, but you're content is still entertaining none the less :)

[@oolexplayz]

Just came home from my region Jazz Concert to a EMC video. Great day!

[@talonwhite694]

Ah I remember the audition days. So glad mostly everything went smoothly

[@vibingonvibes8630]

Had my first audition today! Auditioning at West Chester in a week.

[@walpaster]

man i friggin love this guy

[@MandoPercussion]

For The Audition Algorithm! 💪😎

[@JacksonDworsak]

Literally perfect timing for this video. Just had my last audition last week

[@JamesThatcher]

My audition at UT was decent, they let me okay through my two pieces and had me sight read a piece, then I got to spend some time with Doctor Karrick and that was cool. My audition at OSU was very different, it was a cattle call...

[@euphguy22]

Shoutout to the Legends of the Hidden Temple shirt! I was a Green Monkey on a live taping!

[@johningram2153]

Here's a funny college audition story from the 1980s. Specifically, this was 1989. We had a nice Community College in my hometown, so it was a good option. I had seen a show choir that they had there and, somehow, I ended up in a conversation with the director of that show choir, and he wanted me to come in the next day to audition. He wanted me to bring something prepared. I was a self-taught piano-playing singer, who at this point really just played by ear. For some reason, "Carolina In My Mind" by James Taylor popped into my head, even though I didn't have a recording of it. I did what you do in the 1980s in such a situation: I called the radio station and requested that they play it. I got my Dad's tape deck ready to record it. This was also back in the days when they actually played requests, and it didn't take that long. 15 minutes later it was on the air, and I had it on tape. I took it two doors down to my grandmother's house, where she had a piano. I banged it our and learned it, poorly. I did not yet understand the magic of minor-seventh chords or how awesome James Taylor's songwriting was. But it was good enough. I did the tune the next day at the college. I got in, and got a little $200 scholarship to go with it. Community College was super cheap at the time. In retrospect, I think my performance of that song had to be awful. I'm much better at James Taylor songs now.

[@coreyarndt]

I've got my next audition on Presidents' Day 🥲My last audition was kind of like yours at Rutgers with the interview. I was not prepared for all the questions they were asking me, and the whole woodwind department was in there not just the saxophone professor lol

[@jamesnelson5108]

I can definitely confirm the singing part of the audition with music education. Right before I was about to go on stage to play for my audition, I was pulled off to the side by the music theory professor who had me sing either happy birthday or the national anthem, I don’t remember which one but I just remember being kinda weirded out, especially cuz they didn’t introduce themselves so I just thought some guy was having me sing Also, I know most people’s minds for an audition are on the playing and any possible interview aspect, but I would also use the opportunity to look around the music building or any other places you might be because you’re gonna be there for a while so you should like where you’re gonna be

[@tonyV07]

I just got accepted to UT Austin yesterday my audition went really well 🤘

[@darry_lavis]

Music school auditions are a fun time- I only applied to one college for undergrad in percussion and got in. I switched to drum set after a year, applied to transfer and got into 2/3 of the schools. I auditioned for 2 grad schools last year and got into both, but decided not to go. Sort of fast forward, and this past year I was adjudicating auditions for the regional and all state auditions in my state. Fun times! Good luck to anyone auditioning out there

[@Hans5958]

You should create a playlist for your stories. Wanna binge them

[@gothard5]

I highly recommend Marshall University in Huntington, WV. I was never a music major, but I was in the marching band, pep band, and percussion emsemble so I spent a lot of time in the music department. Really good school of music. Also, is that a Legends of the Hidden Temple tee short?

[@ChristopherBolling-my9lo]

Just got back from a clinic and now I’m getting ready to go to all state for another clinic

[@goatjwp]

I love videos like these

[@TheFelloMello]

Love you man but my OCD went crazy on this one seeing your glasses being closer to your nose on one side than the other. 😂💙

[@zivkovicable]

I studied piano at the Royal; College of Music in London from 1986-89. I recently attended a first year concert there, and came to the realisation that there is no way i'd get in today. The standard is so much higher. I was awarded a full maintenance and tuition grant from the government, including rent and money to live on. That's not happening these days, so I probably wouldn't have been able to afford it anyway.

[@cerasinopshodgskissi3817]

The first ever music festival I played at in high school had a completely different timpani than what I was used to, and the tuning was all off. Also they gave me specific mallets to use, then criticized me for using the wrong mallets. It was an interesting experience.

[@MaxisaBandKid]

We were doing all region round two auditiins in TMEA. Me and my friend went to the restroom, and there was no soap. We go back to the room without touching anything and holding our hands up like we had the plague. The proctor tells us we can look behind the screen for hand sanitizer (we found some). Later, my lesson teacher tells us we shouldnt have done that, and when we told her the full story, she said that the proctor was dumb and she shouldnt have said we could go behind.

[@ThunderboxMusic]

ATSSB kid here. When the judges all walk by and they tell you to cover your number:

[@MaxisaBandKid]

@ThunderboxMusic idk how it happens in other regions, but in Region 33 our directors drop us off and go like 2 hours before registration begins

[@alonzobruce1767]

Do you remember performing Karel Husa's Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble at Rowan? In college we performed it with Dr. Husa conducting. It was quite an experience...that opening chime part! This was in the 70's. I sent you an email about it with more details, but I don't think you read emails?

[@CarsonFord-s5q]

The only school I've really seriously auditioned for was Baker University, in Baldwin City, KS, back in October. I was auditioning as a bass clarinetist, and I was literally the only person who decided to do it in person. So I crushed it (I played "Adagio and Allegro" by Galliard), got feedback, and I got scholarship for the athletic bands, Symphonic Winds, and they want me to play jazz band, so I got money for that. And I also got money for my GPA and ACT scores, and also from bowling, which is my main sport. So I'm headed to Baker this fall to major in Music Education.

[@mrnoname2353]

German Here We dont really have Auditions Here If you want to do Something they Just ASK you "can you Play" and If you can, your'e in

[@micahdavisonpercussion]

Waiting list or not, playing for She-e Wu and Joseph Tompkins and still eventually getting accepted is pretty fire 🔥 Mad respect.

[@JohnathanAndrews-u5t]

Hey emc I'll be a senior next year and planned to audition for SAU and i have the list on what i need to do and this video is very useful for me thank you and............ have a good morning

[@recipefordisaster443]

i love u, i just got co-star in my school play

[@brennengrimes]

I remember my college auditons. I only applied for 2 schools my senior year: Baylor University and University of Arkansas. The pieces I played are Michi - Keiko Abe (4 mallet marimba), Some Cyrone Snare piece in his book and some Decluise timpani piece in his book. Baylor was my first audition, I never been down there before so my dad and grandfather took me down there to audition. It supposed to be a 7 hour drive but with the Dallas traffic, it took us like 12 hours. When I got there, they straight up told us that they're only selecting a few newcomers in the program and its hard competing with the rest of Texas so I didnt get in. Then I went to University of Arkansas which is only 1.5 hours away from where I lived. I decided to play the Decluise piece first and for those who dont know his pieces, lots of weird counting and time sig changes. Like half way through the piece, the percussion professor turned his eyes on me from the music with a very frustuated look, arms crossed, and everything. I wanted to stop to see whats wrong but I wasnt sure about it so i just kept playing. But once I finished the piece, he told me my rolls were uneven. But once i got to the snare and marimba piece, he told me I did a good job and I got in with a max scholarship. I had my heart set on Baylor but with me not making the audition and FAFSA not helping out a ton, I decided to go to Arkansas. It was pretty good there but then I gave it up after some family issues and decided to go to TCC for 2 years and ORU for 3 for music education. No problems there. Although, ORU only had a 4 octave marimba with no height adjustment at the time. It was really awkward to play on haha. But they told me they got a 5 octave and will be here before I start

[@gsensel]

I went to one and had the option of instrument to audition. I chose mallets because I was better at them than snare. So I talked to a guy who just did a piece for solo and ensemble (Air on G string) and thought ohh it’s slow enough I can sight read it. I couldn’t and figured this out in the warmup room. So I flipped through and found some simple (really simple) 2 mallet solo, which I still flubbed up. I did not get in but I was only doing it for fun as I was a biology major. Two year later they start a marching band and I got in on bass with just the fact I was from Indiana and had exposure to drum corps.

[@Turbothrill3417]

Boi! 🫱

[@kassemir]

"Application fee" honestly sounds wild to me, as some one who isn't American. I mean, you're basically already auditioning to hand over a big sum of money to them if you get in and accept. So, like, I feel like having the auditions on the house would actually be pretty fair, all things considered.

[@Mapex_178]

Good morning,this is video#2 of me asking you to do episode 10 of drums are never animated correctly

[@liamwbaseball]

I literally just got my acceptance letter from the University of Delaware school of music yesterday

[@pathos_music]

EMC PLEASEEEE MAKE LEFT HANDED TENOR DRUMSSSS PLSSSSSSSS

[@ultra9349]

7:22 they had me play everything and then talk

[@ThunderboxMusic]

I didn't get into a couple great music schools I really wanted to get into: oh well....

[@Eroi_iorE]

can't imagine myself doing college auditions. All-region is enough for me

[@worldsheaviestjamband93]

I’m a dumb dumb guitarist so my auditions were all over the place as far as my experience. Very few schools had Jazz Education AND allowed guitar to be your main instrument. So… My Montclair audition was the most off putting experience I had. Frankly just a rude student group and staff all around. My William Paterson audition was a sent in recording and I wish I had realized they were looking for mostly performance majors for their Jazz program. Rowan was the only one where the audition was straight forward and made sense.

[@Mythik_Keyub]

UNT auditionee here, crossing fingers

[@dkerwood1]

I'm trying to remember if I even talked to anyone in the music department before I applied to the university after finishing my associate's degree. I don't think I did.

[@JacksonAE]

I'd say there's potential

[@ultra9349]

I’m from buffalo area so i auditioned at 6 schools SUNY Fredonia SUNY Buff State SUNY University of Buffalo SUNY Potsdam Nazareth University Roberts-Wesleyan University I started with roberts and had an amazing experience it was definitely the most fleshed out audition day, they have you take a theory test, attend an actual class, and participate in an actual rehearsal before going to get free food from the university cafeteria with some of the staff Buffalo University was on the other side where you walk in play and leave I’m not going to say where I am for some sense of anonymity but i don’t regret my decision and i have a couple friends who are auditioning here soon and are possibly going to join me I did however get accepted everywhere My rep was From the Cradle from Quartier’s Image collection Moby Dick from the black pratt An etude from the snare goldenberg And an etude from the saul goodman timpani

[@texillini1]

So when did you join the USMC? I thought that you would’ve join them and have the G.I. Bill pay for your schooling.

[@napkinkitten8712]

Are you reinstating war flashbacks?

[@Red_water_bottle]

Hi

[@spacemachete]

The Billy Madison comparison doesn't make sense because Billy was overly confident about how bad his answer was.

[@Kieran.percussion]

15th!

[@phillatella6470]

Then what... Continue

[@betaomega04]

First

[@EMCproductions]

Correct! Good work.