Auditions

Most people hate to hear their recorded voice on a tape recorder. But for students who wish to perform in festival choirs and honor choirs, auditioning is a reality. I bought a simple handheld digital audio recorded from BestBuy. You press the red button to record, the stop button to stop, and the arrows to rewind to the desired track and play back the audio.

The student who is auditioning holds the recorder in his/her hand and sings into the recorder. When they are finished, I play the recording back for them. I ask the student if s/he is please with what s/he hears. If s/he tell me no, I allow them to rerecord. If s/he is pleased, the audition is complete. In this way students have performed according to standard and evaluated his or her own singing. If the student was not pleased, s/he made the adjustment necessary to improve his/her voice without any feedback from the teacher. This is what all teachers aspire for this or her students.