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Auditioning for a solo
I'm a 14 year old girl who goes to a music camp. I have a chorus class in which we are singing songs from the musical Les Miserables for our next concert. There are some solos open, one of them being I Dreamed a Dream. A few lines in the beginning, and the "now life has killed the dream I dream." I really want a solo and I think I'm a pretty good singer. Today we got to practice singing solos and I volenteered. I sung in front of the class, and I was applauded (no one else was applauded) and recieved a couple compliments. I'm still really nervous that I'm not good enough, that people are only being polite or doing it because they are my friends. How do I get over that feeling and just sing?
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The best singers are the ones who have pure unbridled joy doing it and can show audiences that. The ones who succeed do the work to understand meaning of lyrics, a story or have in mind what it means to them. Share with people your joy and what I Dreamed A Dream means to you when performing. Forget anything else but singing. Sing for you and let how they interpret it be a secondary thing. You will get parts if you do that. I really doubt classmates nor teachers you audition for would applaud in that matter if they thought you to be awful either.
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If you are not sure if friends and others are being truthful, then the best thing you can do is to work at gaining self confidence. I know that sounds hard.
For a talent, can't say I've heard how to gain self confidence, but I have heard how to gain confidence in ones own looks by borrowing the self confidence of a celebrity. In this practice, a person chooses a celeb for a certain visual feature, I chose eyes. I like my eyes. Then I picked an actress who I felt had eyes close to mine. I know the actress can turn heads and enter a room with confidence. SO the deal here is that once you've decided on a celeb. then every time you leave the house and several times a day, refocus on you looking like, but in your cause, singing like that celebrity. You would be imagining yourself to look like and act like and sing like that female singer, age doesn't matter, just the one who most closely sounds like you. It may take lots of your friends to tell you who you sound most like. I had an elderly neighbor who sang on Second LIfe and she sounded just like Angela Lansbury. i think this is worth a shot.
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