Join us for a fun true/false game where we talk about the dos and don’ts of auditioning for music grad school!

Topics include:

• What do I play in an audition?
• What is the purpose of an audition?
• What is the panel looking/listening for?
• Why sight reading?

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Y’all it is the end of the semester and we are COOKED but that doesn’t mean we don’t care enough to roast up and serve a hot and ready version of The Complete Musician Podcast for you! Today we talk about secret projects and finding authenticity in one of our shorter segments, while delving slightly into our history as a duo. Highlights include:

• Stop asking for permission to do stuff (or else)
• The villain arc of Drew and James
• Our first recital (there were no chairs)
• Do something because you love it
• Brute force the things you want to happen (within reason)
• Drew’s final words of the podcast

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Dearest gentle listeners: welcome to another episode of The Complete Musician Podcast! We are absolutely nailing our new shorter format and are excited to bring you some creative thought today on how to write quickly if you every have to compose on a short time frame. Some major ideas discussed:

-A focus on first finding sound

-Making musical decisions before you start writing

-Placing yourself in the context of audience

-Hearing what you want in your head before you start writing

…and more!

Silly topics discussed:

-Inundation solving sinus issues

-If you can see us, we’re freaked out

-Lenny and D trumpet

-Another burn on our first few podcasts (for real, they are cringe)

…and more here, too!

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Welcome to the second Q&A segment in our updated format. The big episode 5-0! Although we’ve done more… but in terms of numbering, this one is important. Keep submitting questions for future episodes! Some topics include:

-Epic Composer Battles

-Etude Brute?

-Why Kirby is the best

-What do the AI overlords want to know?

-Smashmouth Mouthwash

And even more!

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In today’s episode, our topic is mock auditions. The good, the bad, the useful, the pointless – all to discuss what are the goals and educational outcomes, and how might we alter our methodology to best meet those goals.

Plus, we hear from our returning sponsor of the podcast: “Planet Fitlips!”

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Welcome to the first Q&A segment in our updated format. Thank you for everyone who submitted questions this time around – we’d love to hear from even more people for future episodes! Some topics include:

-How to improve your sight reading

-Working with music minors (not diminished)

-Old school vs. new cool

-Favorite pieces? (Not sure if we really answered this)

-How to REACH THESE KIDS

-Lumpy articulation

And even more!

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Completely ignore the poppy audio and obnoxious refrigerator hum during entire the show…it’s been a while B’OKAY?!? But we are back and ready to party with a new format that is a bit shorter so you can listen between your practice sessions (and if you do a daily 30, then it’s just 45 minutes gone, so you’re in and out in under an hour, easy-peezy). Featured in this week’s episodes are:

-Things we wish we would have done in undergrad

-An awesome alarm that we have no clue how to describe it

-Would you rather take karate, coding, or bowling in college?

-Chamber music for fun!

-Burgers, popcorn, and Bruckner symphonies

-The worst ways to being a semester (stories from the past)

And even more!

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You ever had one of those days where your chops are just giving a big ol’ NOPE to playing that day? We’ve all been there! And sometimes it can big mentally draining to try and overcome these moments (especially if you’ve got a rehearsal in like 10 minutes!), so what can you do? The Cor Moto Horn duo is here to offer some thoughts on how to combat these weird and random bad chops days and get you back to playing your best! Included in this episode is:

• Which instrument Drew can successfully warm up on (trumpet or horn)
• What things you can actually do when the lips just feel strange
• Colton snoring the entire episode
• The barf range
• Mouthpiece break points
• A teaser about the next podcast topic (it’ll be a doozy)

And even more!

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We are back into recital season, especially at our universities, and thus want to provide you with suggestions and food-for-thought regarding programming as well as the importance of/ways to engage with your audience. Topics include:

• Breaking the wall
• Oral program notes – what should I say?
• Does your audience matter?
• How to pick rep/themes
• Doodle while you play?
• The intention behind intention

And even more!
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What up party people?? Yeah that’s right, we told you we were back to doing this consistently (shoutout to the haters who thought we were gone again) and today we are all about talking some TV music and speculating about what Fantasia 2023 might sound like. So kick back and relax while listening (unless you’re driving) to this show with some of these highlights:

• The return of sound effects
• TV music and how it’s good
• Whatever creature James thought a “Blippy” was
• Drew eating cookies most of this episode
• The hurdy-gurdy and all its glory
• Why Australian sirens go backwards

And even more!
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