Berklee Audition ideas? (DB)

osmarokuma · #1 09-12-2008, 04:48 AM

Hello
I play jazz double bass and I have a Berklee audition in December this year, so as some of you might know they ask me to do certain things but only one of them I am concerned about... the prepared piece. I need some ideas, I still got a lot of time so any idea no matter how hard it is to play would be good since im taking all of this time to concentrate on my audition. So I really dont know where to start... transcribe a solo from Parker, Coltrane...etc, make an arrangement of a standard, play a bass solo (harmonizing)...etc. Some ideas would be good, I have about 7 years playing the bass so really with this amount of time left whatever that will make me look best is fine cuz I got the time to polish it.
Thanks

j.a.e.r.i.p · #2 09-12-2008, 04:54 AM

Berklee is a school that teaches "modern" music, so try to loosely apply the term modern to your audition. I would try to learn something by christian mcbride.

namraj · #3 09-12-2008, 05:08 AM

something you know well already and could just nail beautifully

osmarokuma · #4 09-12-2008, 11:58 PM

Well really the thing is that I got a lot of time to work on a piece, so I really want to nail the prepared piece to try and get the scholarship. I was thinking since yesterday I could do an arrangement of a standard like beautiful love or autumn leaves into a solo bass with folk rhythms (Im from peru so peruvian folk music would be it). You know it could be interesting idea... but im still not sure.

PocketGroove82 · #5 09-13-2008, 10:59 AM

...if you use the search function you can find numerous posts pertaining to your question.

therex · #6 09-13-2008, 11:05 AM

dude you are frome peru?
OMG me too!!

osmarokuma · #7 09-13-2008, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by therex

dude you are frome peru?
OMG me too!!

Rly? thats cool, do you play somewer? I might know you.

therex · #8 09-14-2008, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by osmarokuma

Rly? thats cool, do you play somewer? I might know you.

well i play in a local pop punk band(why did i ever enter in the DB forum?) so i doubt you know me since you are DB player, but anyways my band is called trikolor, we just formed 5 months ago, i live in lima

great to see i am not the only peruvian in TB

Soulfishing13 · #9 09-14-2008, 10:49 AM

hey the key is to not do something that they expect, i went in to do some bach cello suites, and they told me they've heard enough of those and to not even bother, luckily (im electric) I just did frankenstein by Marcus Miller and that was different and stood out from the norm, and now I'm going into my 3rd semester here, also be loose, I really think personality matters to them, best of luck!