jimtyler
Senior Member
After much prodding from my teenage daughter, I decided to send an audition tape to America's Got Talent TV show. The guidelines were to send around a 2 minute video of a copyrighted, regular song, no originals. I thought about my wiz of oz solo, but it is too long. I thought of the Money video, then thought of the judges and figured they might not have heard it before. My Amazing Grace solo has the swiss army triplets under the medley, I don't think any of them would understand that.
So I sent them a nice safe version of "Lean On Me". The hard part in this tune is keeping the snare beat going on 2 and 4 while carrying the melody. The opening and bridge has the melody in thirds which they may notice. I doubt if I hear from them, but at least I kept my daughter happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESJjmsD0UhQ
So I sent them a nice safe version of "Lean On Me". The hard part in this tune is keeping the snare beat going on 2 and 4 while carrying the melody. The opening and bridge has the melody in thirds which they may notice. I doubt if I hear from them, but at least I kept my daughter happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESJjmsD0UhQ