As some of you may know, a while ago the singer in my band was not very good. We told him he this and after a lot of umm-ing and ahh-ing he decided to leave the band.
So now we need to go through auditions of mates and unknowns to find who has the best blend of chemistry with the band and musical talent. But how should we go about the audition process? I have a few ideas below, but I'm not sure how good they are:
1) Play a cover of a song and get the guy/girl to sing along (Judges the general talent of the singer)
2) Ask the guy to bring along his own lyrics, and a melody that he has made and ask him to sing it (Judges the guys individual musical creativity)
3) Send the guy a recording of our original music a week or 2 in advance, allowing him time to create at least a vocal melody for the song, or preferably lyrics as well. (Judges compatibility with the band)
These are my ideas, but as you can probably tell I am not sure which is the best way to go about auditioning singers.
Thanks for any help
Will
(ps any other auditioning methods suggested are more than welcome
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