Berklee Audition

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- March 24, 2008 at 2:25 am
FretDancer69
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Hey guys! This Friday (March 21) i had my audition at Berklee! It was awesome! i did really good, except for the sight reading and the chords hehe 😀 but yeah i did good imo. The place is so amazing, loots of cool people from everywhere with all kinds of instruments and different approaches and thoughts about music, its an amazing place! The faculty is really nice and make you feel comfortable about the place!

Just wanted to share this with you guys, 🙂

Rock on ! 😀

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- March 26, 2008 at 1:47 am
tjchep
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Yeah.. And then another 7 grand a semester for housing and food… owch..

So your parents are cool with you going there if you get accepted?
- March 26, 2008 at 1:49 am
FretDancer69
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@tjchep 2219 wrote:

Yeah.. And then another 7 grand a semester for housing and food… owch..

So your parents are cool with you going there if you get accepted?

I know.. its ridiculously insane… It hurts myself everytime i think of the money that its needed 🙁

Yeah my parents are cool with it if I get accepted, but they cant afford it, and thats why they (and me) are hoping that i get at least a small scholarship and then apply for financial aid.
- March 26, 2008 at 2:59 am
Stevie Ray Vaughn
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I thought I remembered somebody telling me that its required that you have had professional music lessons, heh, oh well, I’ll keep practising for 4 more years and apply when the time comes 🙂
- March 26, 2008 at 3:59 am
FretDancer69
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@Stevie·Ray·Vaughn 2226 wrote:

I thought I remembered somebody telling me that its required that you have had professional music lessons, heh, oh well, I’ll keep practising for 4 more years and apply when the time comes 🙂

yeah man, that is a good idea, 4 years is plenty of time to become really good. 🙂 Good luck 🙂
- March 27, 2008 at 1:15 am
Robert Mussatti
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I’m curious about something. What did they make you read when it came time for the sight-reading portion of the audition?
- March 27, 2008 at 3:20 am
FretDancer69
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@Robert Mussatti 2291 wrote:

I’m curious about something. What did they make you read when it came time for the sight-reading portion of the audition?

There were like 6 sight reading exersises in total.

The first one was just notes, varying in length, then the exersises had titles like “Latin Swing”, etc, and were more complex, and included Key Signatures and 16th notes, etc.

Nonetheless, each exersise was only like 10 bars (if i remember correctly, probably less).

Also there were some which had chord names on top of the bars, i assumed those were arpeggios, but i couldnt play them anyway. I had no idea at all how each exersise sounded… 🙁
- March 27, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Lit1219
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@FretDancer69 2297 wrote:

There were like 6 sight reading exersises in total.

The first one was just notes, varying in length, then the exersises had titles like “Latin Swing”, etc, and were more complex, and included Key Signatures and 16th notes, etc.

Nonetheless, each exersise was only like 10 bars (if i remember correctly, probably less).

Also there were some which had chord names on top of the bars, i assumed those were arpeggios, but i couldnt play them anyway. I had no idea at all how each exersise sounded… 🙁

I wouldnt have done good on that. I need to start practicing and studying a lot more starting like today!
- March 27, 2008 at 8:07 pm
FretDancer69
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@Lit1219 2318 wrote:

I wouldnt have done good on that. I need to start practicing and studying a lot more starting like today!

yeah, sight reading is a nightmare 🙁
- March 28, 2008 at 3:57 am
Lit1219
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@FretDancer69 2323 wrote:

yeah, sight reading is a nightmare 🙁

Yeah, expecially when I havent really studied it or anything yet.
- March 28, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Robert Mussatti
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@FretDancer69 2297 wrote:

There were like 6 sight reading exersises in total.

The first one was just notes, varying in length, then the exersises had titles like “Latin Swing”, etc, and were more complex, and included Key Signatures and 16th notes, etc.

Nonetheless, each exersise was only like 10 bars (if i remember correctly, probably less).

Also there were some which had chord names on top of the bars, i assumed those were arpeggios, but i couldnt play them anyway. I had no idea at all how each exersise sounded… 🙁

Ok cool.

That doesn’t sound too bad. Although that “latin swing” thing kinda made me go “uh oh”
- March 29, 2008 at 4:20 am
FretDancer69
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@Robert Mussatti 2374 wrote:

Ok cool.

That doesn’t sound too bad. Although that “latin swing” thing kinda made me go “uh oh”

lol yeah me too, specially when i saw the 16th notes, key signatures and triples if i remember correctly lol 😀
- April 23, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Gollum
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I have a cousin that’s a berklee grad who’s a trumpet player – http://www.myspace.com/shobeemusic

He was going to go into producing but ended up liking performance too much 2 years after graduating, so now he mostly just plays and find what ever money he can to help supliment rent in new york.

If I somehow save enough money I hope to be able to attend GIT someday.
- April 23, 2008 at 10:44 pm
FretDancer69
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so hows life like that in NY? is it hard or does he manages to get gigs often?
- April 24, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Gollum
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Last I taked to him he seemed to be doing well. They’re about to come out with their second CD (his band “Wu Li Masters” and he always says he’ll never regret turning his back on producing and moving into performance.

He has several places that host his band often, and hopefully once the new CD gets out they’ll maybe have the money to travel a bit.
- April 24, 2008 at 10:09 pm
FretDancer69
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@Gollum 3107 wrote:

Last I taked to him he seemed to be doing well. They’re about to come out with their second CD (his band “Wu Li Masters” and he always says he’ll never regret turning his back on producing and moving into performance.

He has several places that host his band often, and hopefully once the new CD gets out they’ll maybe have the money to travel a bit.

wow, awesome, that inspires me more to risk living out of music 🙂