I need help picking a song to make myself sound professional for choir auditions

Question:No religious music please. This is just a school choir. And also where can i get the sheet music for free?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: No religious music please. This is just a school choir. And also where can i get the sheet music for free?

What kind of choir is it? A high school choir? A show choir? How would you like to present yourself? If you really want to go all out (and have the time for this, course) I'd suggest learning an Italian song. I recently joined choir and auditioned with "Gia 'Il Sole Dal Gange". I made 3rd chair and the director told me she was very pleased. However, if you're going out for a show choir, I'd suggest a showtune of some sort.

Here's a website with a lot of free choral music: http://8notes.com/voice_sheet_music.asp

I hope this will be of some help to you. Good luck with your audition~

hallelujah

just go to a library and find the music section there are tons of differnt books with songs (and sheet music) wedding songs, religious ones, contemporary ones, some from musicals, some from the 90's and 80's stuff like that. and its free lol just need a library card. its where i found a song to audition for choir, a good song is ..what was it...when i fall in love. its a nice song easy to sing but sounds good. just go to your library and ask for song books there should be lots of options..if your library has that!

YYZ by Rush

Religious music is generally well-accepted, even amongst athiests, if its just for an audition. But I'd suggest something classic, like "Part of your World".

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I am still going to suggest Amazing Grace, not for it's religious implications, but because it was such an important part of the freedom movement in England. The author was a slave ship captain and wrote the song after he quit slave trading and became a minister. This song was a large part of the emancipation movement in America as well.

If you are looking for free choral sheet music, try the Choral Domain Public Library. It has over ten thousand pages of free choral music in PDF format. You can also be assured that everything listed is in the Public Domain and is absolutely free to use for educational purposes.

Some people are just born with better voices than others...
You could try to conserve your voice, stay away from illness, sing your scales (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do), find out what part you should be from your choir teacher (soprano, alto, bass, tenor, etc.), don't raise your shoulders when you sing (you should take in air from the belly), sings your rhythms correctly, use dynamics (ppp, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, fff), and use tall vowels by dropping your jaw when you sing, and more importantly, learn how to read music, which is the most important part and a lot of choir teachers don't teach their students how to do alot of these things which could improve their class and that's why they..... aren't that good.

----Sorry about that (I paste that from a lot of stuff) the judges will be looking for that kind of stuff (including facial expression)

I would suggest a graceful song about love or something religous. Songs from the Messiah are always good.