To get into music school..

[Dog--]

..you have to audition. I still got another year before I audition, but does anyone have any insight into this? I want to play this, but you think it'd be good enough?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4wKbcAfMm4&feature=related

I am going there to study classical music (opposed to jazz), and am buying a classical guitar just for the audition.

 

[gFrohman]

What school are you auditioning for, and what are their audition requirements?

Also, have you had a chance to take a lesson with the professor you'd be potentially studying with? (I highly suggest this - you don't want to end up at a school taking lessons from a jerk!)

 

[jet_porkins]

What she said.

Email the guitar professor at each of the schools you want to audition for.

 

[Dog--]

It's not a well known school (called Mohawk), but it's music department is the best around here for a college. My only other choice is the University of Toronto, but due to my grades and my college level classes I took, I can't go, I can however take 4 years of music college, THEN go there (another 8 years of school... wooo).

Also there are many teachers. I'm going purely for music, no math or sciences or anything else, just music.

I just don't know what type of stuff they want me to play there, I've heard of people playing RHCP and getting in, so I don't know..

 

[jet_porkins]

I don't know how you folks do it up north, but unless you go to a music conservatory, they will probably throw general education classes at you.

 

[gFrohman]

From my experience at Illinois State University, they make you take some Gen Eds for University requirements, but they start the music major immediately. I started taking music classes right from the get-go. It also depends on what major you pursue (Music Ed versus Performance versus Therapy); BME will have Education classes thrown in along with music classes because it is essentially a double-major in a way. Again, this varies from school to school (which makes transfer students SO happy).
Each school has different requirements academically & audition-wise; again, if you can get in contact with the guitar professor, that would probably be the best for you.

 

[Dog--]

http://www.mohawkcollege.ca/calendar/ApplMusic.html

 

[Yorick]

Speaking as a musician, I think that piece would satisfy every criteria they could possibly score you on. If you can nail all those chords, the fingerpicking, and the rhythm right, I'd be shock as hell if they didn't take you.

But note that I'm not a professor. gFrohman is right. You should try to get in touch with someone there.

 

[Dog--]

It's not a particularly difficult piece, even with fingerpicking, but I don't know what kind of things they look for in these auditions.

 

[soulslicer]

Play Paul Gilbert's Flamingo...youre sold that way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11KaKhGAa3I

 

[Dog--]

Paul Gilbert is my hero, I have everything ever made by this man.

That said - that is god damn impossible for a mortal man.