Video: My audition program, tips?

[sislermi]

Here's a mock or "pretend" audition I did.  I played all three pieces, one after the other and only gave myself one try. 
1) Bach Prelude
2) Bartok - Op 14 Suite first movement
3) Chopin - Op 10 Number 1

Please help, what do I need to work on the most?  I know I had a dumb memory bloop at the end of the bach and the chopin etude was kinda all over the place and hard to hear each note clearly.  So I'm working on those things, but anything else?  I'm desperate, it's coming up soon!

[cometear]

Well I can tell you did the most work on the Chopin (even though a few possible trainwrecks). It doesn't seem theres much to really do with it except mark where you make mistakes and check your technique. I'm not familiar with the Bartok but I found it to be an average performance. I enjoyed the Bach. Very stylistic. Keep it more metronomic though and make sure each voice gets the spotlight. Good luck!

[j_menz]

I'm not familiar with the Bartok, so no comments on that.

You need to play through each of them, particularly the Chopin, SLOWLY several times a day over several days (or more) and make sure you get the notes right.  The Bach was OK except the stuff up at the end, but the Chopin had way too many wrong notes.

That aside (and it's a big aside) I'd make the staccato you use in the Bach more detache and less staccato - it's marginally outside conventional style, but more importantly you only do it in the LH. If you want to keep it, you need to incorporate it into cognate parts of the RH. For the Chopin, the bass is good in parts, but loses focus and direction too often. Play it through on it's own a few times and decide what you want to do with it. It's actually the bit most people get most wrong, so getting it right gets you big brownie points.

[dima_76557]

@ sislermi

Practise on a grand, preferably one of the same kind you will auditioning on, and do it
s-l-o-w-l-y. Not to frighten you, but what one can do in terms of superficial dexterity on a keyboard may completely fall apart on a real instrument, especially the Chopin.