AUDITION INFO

Example AUDITION

  • If you can, please use a phone or tablet to record your audition–external mics and cameras not necessary. If you must use a different setup, be sure that you test your audio beforehand and adjust levels so that it doesn’t distort.

  • Regardless of how you capture the audio, it must be unprocessed–no EQ, compression, reverb, or pitch correction of any kind. We want to hear you as you sound in the room.

  • You can choose to film it as one continuous video or each section separately.

BEFORE YOU START

FILMING YOUR AUDITION VIDEO

Step 1: Introduction

  • Say hello! Tell us your name, age, pronouns, voice part, and where you’re from.

Step 2: Solos and Beatboxing

  • Singers of all voice parts: perform a short section of two contrasting solos, unaccompanied. No musical theatre or classical, please.

  • Beatboxers/vocal percussionists: perform a short demonstration of your skills. This can include various beats, fills, special sounds, and freestyle beatboxing. 

  • Optional: if you sing and beatbox, you may choose to do both.

Step 3: Part Singing

  • Use the learning tracks and/or sheet music to learn the voice part that suits you best.

  • When you’re ready to film, play the “performance” track for your part from a secondary device in the room and sing along with it (your part will be missing from this track, you fill it in with your voice). Don’t use headphones, we want to hear your voice front and center with the performance track in the background. Memorization is not necessary.

  • Pay attention to the phrasing, dynamics, and inflections of the voices on the demo, and do your best to blend with them.

  • If you beatbox, please complete this twice: once singing a part, and the other beatboxing along to the song.

Step 4: Repeat After Me

  • This is a brand new addition to our audition! Play the track, listen to each phrase, and repeat it in whichever octave is most comfortable. We have different tracks for vocals, bass, and vocal percussion. You may choose to do one, two, or all three of them.

Step 5: Scales

  • Sing along with our scale guides going up and down. Going up, sing “eee-ahh” and going down sing “yah yah yah yah yah” until you reach the end of your range.

  • Beatboxers please do this too.

Step 6: Miscellaneous Skills (optional)

  • Please show us any other skills not already covered, such as scatting, singing in other languages, instrument imitation, vocal impersonations, songwriting, arranging. You can include a short segment of preexisting audio or video (instruments, production, tuned vocals, etc. are ok for this section).

Step 7: Personal Statement

  • Briefly tell us why you’re interested in coming to A Cappella Academy, and what you think you would add to camp!

AFTER You’VE FILMED

  • If you chose to film each section separately, edit your video together in order above. Capcut and iMovie are free and user friendly. You also have the option of filming it all together in one take and uploading the whole file.

  • Once complete, upload your audition video to YouTube. Be sure to set your video to “unlisted” or “public.” If you set it to “private” we will not be able to view it!

  • In the video description, please include timestamps for the start of each new section. This will help us navigate your audition seamlessly.

Once your video is uploaded and you have a link, you’re to fill out the:

  • Applications are due February 1, 2025

  • We charge a $25 application fee so that we may carefully consider and process each individual applicant. The application includes information on how to pay.

  • If you audition by January 1, your application fee is waived!