That's Not Spit, It's Condensation!

You’re organized. You’re recording yourself. You’re running mock auditions and putting in the hours. But once you get on stage, with the committee listening, something changes, and you don’t play the way you know you can in the practice room. Download your free winning auditions workbook here: http://www.goldmethod.us/auditions In this episode of That’s Not Spit, It’s Condensation, Ryan Beach and Kathleen Costello explain why the usual audition prep (more practice, more mock auditions, tryi...

More practice and more effort won’t fix inconsistent playing. If sometimes you sound great and sometimes you don’t, and you don’t know why, this episode is for you. Maybe your preparation goes well and the audition doesn’t. Or one audition goes great and the next one, a few weeks later, doesn’t come close. Keep that up long enough and you walk into every audition not knowing which version of you will show up. Download our free Winning Auditions Workbook http://www.goldmethod.us/auditions R...

If you're looking to understand what goes in to winning an orchestral audition, download our FREE winning auditions workbook! http://www.goldmethod.us/auditions What if the way you think about orchestral auditions is the reason you play worse in them? Tessa Vermeulen, second/assistant principal flute of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, joins Ryan Beach and Kathleen Costello to talk about audition preparation from the inside. Tessa trained at Carnegie Mellon and Juilliard and won her Alabama ...

Most players who can't produce their best playing in an audition assume the problem is skill. If they could just get a little better, the pressure wouldn't matter. For some players that's true. But there are a lot of musicians who can already play well enough to win a job and still can't reliably show it on the day. If that's you, the problem isn't the skill you have. It's your access to it. Free Winning Auditions Workbook http://www.goldmethod.us/auditions In this episode we talk about wha...

Most players preparing for orchestral auditions are working hard on the wrong target. They practice, organize, record, run mock auditions, and work on the mental game, and still walk off stage knowing they have more than they showed. The problem usually isn't effort or talent. No one ever showed them what their audition preparation is supposed to produce. In this episode, Ryan talks about the actual end goal of audition preparation, what has to change in your practice to reach it, and the pa...