listening to my college audition CDs...how I sounded 10 yrs ago |  

Come watch my cringe at my high school self’s playing 😬 ALSO I’m sorry that the audio quality is so bad!! I thought my audio recorder was on but it wasn’t :,(

Lets give a round of applause for the dedicated pianists who follow our tempo when it changes for the 10th time in one line 😭😭😭

You could make a second part of this video where you play some of these pieces now. It could be like a “10 years of flute improvement” video!

Eddy from TwosetViolin once said that if you look at your past self and _don't_ cringe, then you're not doing something right :P But I look up to your playing any day, whether it's 10 years old or not :D

Can’t stress enough to everyone preparing for college auditions. Playing fast isn’t impressive - playing the right notes and clarity is. - Marianne Gedigian UT flute professor

Katie, it would be nice if you played those same pieces NOW, and compare it to THEN.

i really loved this video!!! as a 16 year old who is ALREADY stressing about college auditions and whether or not i’m good enough, i get fairly frustrated hearing professional recordings and people who have been playing for much longer than me. so hearing this and seeing that you made lots of mistakes that i would is honestly super reassuring tbh

Pretty sure we can all laugh at some of our past performances. And hopefully improve! P.s. That Beethoven cake was EVERYTHING and I’m jealous!!!

okay but even 10 years ago your playing was goals 😍

Wow! Your playing was really good for being a senior in high school! I definitely understand because I sent recordings for grad school a few times and didn’t get into those schools. Granted, the first time I wasn’t 100% prepared and the second time I got injured right before recording. I was so traumatized from the recording experience that in the third time, I only chose schools that I could go live.

You should play the same pieces again to see the improvement.

Dutilleux!!! 🙌🙌🙌😂😂😭😭 that piece was so intense , but fun! ❤️

I’m halfway through my performance degree in college and this sounds better than me ☠️ to be fair I also was teaching myself how to play in high school

Ohhh, you should do another video on you playing a different instrument...or attempting to play a different instrument 😂

2:07 don't worry katie, I think we can all relate to that!

Way better than I was in high school!

It would take about 14 Tequilas to get me to play back any of my recordings from my teens. May those cassettes (CDs hadn't been invented yet) have mercifully disintegrated!! All kidding aside, this video is a VERY GENEROUS offering to some struggling student out there!!!

Hi Katie my friend. Nice. Thanks for sharing. All the best/Kjell 🎸 🎸

LOVE THIS VIDEO CONCEPT!

Thank you so much for this video!! I am heading into my senior year and it helps to be reminded that my college auditions don't have to be perfect

Your audition pieces were great.

I love your videos Katie! Thank you for sharing. Your playing before college is so much better than mine is now. I found you by accident as a suggested video to watch because you did a recorder video where you followed Sarah Jeffrey's tips for getting started in the recorder. I happen to play both flute and recorder 😊

I’m the same age as you so I know how that is. I remember the summer before my senior year ( Summer 2010) when I auditioned for a summer music camp and RU-vid was relatively and my oldest sister uploaded my audition video. Before that, I remember my high school band director my sophomore year of high school was helping me prepare for solo and ensemble and one day he recorded me with a tape recorder of me playing the piece that I was working on and he told me that I needed a new flute. He burned the cd and gave it to me. When I listened back to that cd recently, I said “I had a lot of potential back then but I wasn’t that good” You sound a whole lot better than I did ten years ago.😊❤️🎶👏👏👏👏

Just found your channel. I was a music major many moons ago and rarely ever get to play now (busy mom). Anyway, you were wonderful then. If you listened to this as if it was your student playing I bet you would have a different perspective. Soooo enjoying watching your videos and hearing all the flute repertoire!

Lol in college I was finally ready to play twinkle twinkly little star on violin and flute, so , yah you did amazing and always have 😂

Katie u sound good in all CDs love u Katie 😘❤️💕😊😊😊

I'm so happy to find this YT channel. I really want to thank you. I'm so inspired by your channel and your music. btw I play the classical guitar and I entered The College of Arts in Russia this year.

I felt called out with that mozart as it was one of my dip pieces and I know I wasn't that clean when I played it

I'm learning the Mozart Concerto for my own college auditions, comforting to know that I'm not alone

I recently looked back at a performance I did two years ago and cringed, I can't imagine looking back ten years!

Shame that you don't love performing the dutilleux because of that experience it's a stunning piece I love it! Great video Katie

Why are you worried about this ?, forget about it, it was too long ago; you’re the new improved quarter-life Katie 😉 Forget the drama, forget how many shoes you have worn down, just relax, do your best, and enjoy your current journey. I’m sure you’ve had many accomplishments, and will continue to do so.. Cheers!

Love your channel Katie - it's like TwoSet Violin for the flute 😂😂

I loved this video wow

Thanks so much for another video!! I look up to you so much and everything you do is so helpful!!!

I'm learning the mozart right now for upper division! I cannot double tongue and it's a real struggle

I wish I could play flute as good as you and the other flautists I watch someday...... yeah that's not gonna happen

As a junior trumpet player stressing about college auditions already, this makes me even more nervous

What do you think are the most important things you’ve learned that have taken your playing from then to now?

Hey Katie! I don't know if you'll see this, but I love your channel and want to go onto college on flute. I'm now a junior and have been playing since midway through my freshman year, but even after practicing to death to close that gap, this video has had me thinking a lot. What tips could you give for improvement that a lot of people (maybe including you) made at that stage of playing, or how can we better our chances for college? And thank you so much for your super helpful uploads and being a role model! 💗

I feel the same exact way about the Dutilleux. It gives me so much anxiety playing the beginning. *sighs*

7:13 I’m actually playing this piece this for NYSSMA 💀. 7/8 my ass, I can barely count to ten.

I’ve been playing 5 years and I wish I was as good as you where in those videos

Hmm, I had the same problem at that age. The Church’ Choir leader put in a lot of work on my timing. It paid off

3:02 is know one going to discuss this???? hehe

Before home computers and digital recording at home, owning a good tape recorder and mic was something many students couldn't afford. They were expensive. I grew up in a lower middle class family in the 1950s and 60s , didn't have a private lesson on any instrument until I went to college, but I was obsessed with tape recorders, and it was an integral tool for my self-teaching, which I did on several instruments. Growing up, I rarely played scales or exercises. I just played music of all kinds, and when I started flute, one of the first things I ordered was the Dutilleux Sonatine and Ibert Concerto. I loved the Dutilleux, but like Katie, found the rhythms confusing, until years later had a recording to study. But growing up, I would record and listen to myself play, especially in pieces before auditions and contests, but also just as a tool in my daily development. I compared my sax playing to records (from the library) of Sigurd Raschèr, clarinet playing to Kell or de Payer, piano to Horowitz, and flute to Rampal etc. Cognitive dissonance is the phenomenon musicians have that affects nearly everyone, where we filter out mistakes in our minds while we're playing, and it isn't at play while listening to others play, where we hear every little mistake. The result is a lot of kids thinking they're better than their peers, when sometimes, really, they're not. It's also something which allows beginners to go on, with instruments like violin, that you really don't realize how horrendous your playing is until you hear a recording of it -- all the out of tune notes, the scratches and scrapes. I remember playing my $3 violin I got in the 7th grade (best Christmas gift I got in my life) for a month or so, and I could play a lively tune, and then recording myself. I was shocked at how completely awful it sounded, like such playing could be used to torture someone. I started flute when I was sixteen, and after two weeks my flute playing was better than my clarinet playing, and I went to All-State on clarinet in a highly competitive state that year, but had scored in the evaluation much higher on flute. You could only apply on one instrument. Listening to recordings of my clarinet playing vs. flute playing just confirmed what I suspected. I sounded only vaguely or remotely like any professional clarinet player, let alone a great one. In fact, I remember listening to the concertmaster (clarinet) of the All-State band showing off during a break, and his playing was unbelievable, and I was glad I discovered the flute. To this day, I consider the flute to be opposite of the violin. The flute is completely natural, whereas the violin is not natural. Example, on flute, if you sing with vibrato, you can play with vibrato on the flute. On violin, it doesn't matter if you can sing with vibrato, you're still going to have to learn a new skill. On flute, I got Music Minus One records of a few flute concertos, and orchestral excerpts, recorded myself, and I thought I sounded pretty close to Rampal, but I could also hear flaws. And that was after just a month of playing flute. But I knew within a week of picking up the flute that it was the instrument for me. There were no barriers. Tonguing was so much easier than clarinet, the keys so simple to operate, no reeds to fuss with (reeds drove me crazy), and I like the flute literature, including all the baroque that clarinet doesn't have. While in Europe at conservatory, I quit flute though. I found something else I wanted to pursue, and today I do not play the flute, and haven't touched it for years. But through the decades, I'd pick up the flute for a few months, and then put it down for years. I just played it for fun. But back to recording...I liked a story I read about a successful principal flutist with a pretty good orchestra, New Orleans , and how he went to Oberlin, and in one of his first lessons -- he knew he was hot stuff -- his teacher cut him down to size by bringing out the reel-to-reel tape recorder, recording him, and made him listen to it. How I wish my first flute teacher did that with me in college! Instead, my teacher knew that I was talented, but undisciplined, but was very critical of me in a way that made me feel rebellious. One smart thing he did though was had me memorize daily exercises and my solo piece, because he could tell I practiced the boring stuff only right before the lesson, and on my own in the practice room was doing the Paganini transcriptions, playing through violin literature on the flute, and other things he didn't want me to be doing with all the time I practiced. I actually liked the daily exercises more when I had to memorize them. Most teachers try to train students to listen to themselves, so that they are never dropping note endings, playing things out of tune or rhythm, taking breaths in the right places. I just think recording is a tool that can be invaluable for that, because so many students do not recognize what they're doing wrong. The guy who went to Oberlin became successful because in that first month of lessons, he realized all the things he needed to change about his playing. But there are things that can't be taught in music, and some people just sing out on their flutes directly, as if it were their own voice, which is something Marcel Moyse wanted all flutists to do. I got quite a lot from my first teacher though, because I learned all the Kincaidisms, which included some strange things like placement of the right thumb behind the flute barrel instead of under it. My first flute teacher graduated from Eastman, said he learned nothing from his teacher there, and then went to Kincaid afterward and studied privately with him for a couple years, where he learned everything. Kincaid produced well over half the students who would later take the principal position in major US orchestras at one point. Today, there are so many people offering teaching tips and good advice on the Internet, on many instruments, I think there are probably kids who can learn a lot without a teacher. They just need a sensitive musician, a friend their age who plays music, to guide them, the Internet, and the ability to record themselves. And for beginners, the key to recording on a computer is having a USB mic. Otherwise, you get hum or feedback sounds. Have I written everything I wanted to write here? I think so. Hope it inspires or helps someone to use recording as a tool, also, because it is fun.

I grew up with tape players, and I still have them lol 😂

Katie: To all of you young people who don't know what is a CD is... Me: XDDDDDDDDDDDD I know what it is!

You should make a video of you retrying them

Team Paula!

Sound awesome, great work, New sub here 👍✌

Great video! I am starting to audition and play for uni, do you have any tips for preparing, or how to deal with stress?

Hey Katie, I'm a senior in high school, and my dream is to become a professional flutist...I'm just not quite sure how to get there. I think it would be awesome if you could make a video on your flute journey! And some questions I have for you...if you could talk to your past self, what is some advice you'd give? And what is something you wish you would've done differently?

Where did you audition for undergrad and where did you end up going?

As much as you’re cringing, your dedication and talent are obvious

I would like to see how do you play one of this pieces, today. Can be just a movemment. You could show the past and the present in a Future video :)

you played this in HS????? (the first one blew me away) i only know of one person that was in HS school that could possibly have played this at that time!!! you are wonderful!!!

you should react to lizzo playing flute

what song was this? I need help for my college flute audition haha:)

I feel the need to introduce you to cassette tapes.

CD starts playing at 4:30

To be honest I play horn and don't know I'd this is amazing or average

Sorry if I’m being stupid but how old where you in these recordings

What is the name of the second song you played?

YASSS BEETHOVEN FOR LIFE

Omg! I know someone that is a senior, at my highschool, they are 18, and they are not as good as you! They're not even close lol

How does that work? I’m in high school and I don’t have access to any mic or accompanist, would I have to buy a mic to audition? I want to go to Manhattan school of music so I’m trying to learn as much as I can about it before I apply. I play contrabassoon, so I don’t think I’ll have much in common with anyone but I think I’m good enough to get in, I definitely play better then you did in that video but I’m stressed out about it.

9:24 Weebs: *suprised pikachu*

I lagit paused the video to play this kn my clarinet

What is the mozart piece

I'm gonna learn the flute because Its a school thing that i picked and have a question.. is it as hard as it seems?

HELLOO

fun vid! jst curious... people say "if u will" all the time (0:25) and i dont kno y? i wish i knew wat it meant

I think that anyone who plays an instrument and is somewhat talented has had it happen that he played it wrong but it sounded good so he stuck with it. No shame with that, you play music with emotion and sometimes it gets the better of you if you don't pay attention. It is another sign of talent, but not the desired one while doing auditioning. :)

I’m 16 and I have money to buy either a 6,000 flute or anything below that price obviously. The $6,000 is really really good but my parents want me to get maybe a 3,000 flute and put the test towards a car. Especially because I’m not entirely sure if I want to go into music or not, and if I do go into music will it be performance or education? Or will I go into voice or flute since I do both. I’m really stressing which flute to get because if I don’t do music I probably don’t need an expensive one. But I also am stressing because I need to start preparing auditions if I do want to go into music. So I’m stressed 😂

I think musicians are naturally self-critical

My audition tapes from 20 years ago (yeah, tapes) would make me cringe if I found them. Tuba can be brutal when you don't breathe well, and I didn't.

Hi hi hi hi hi hi its me

The fact that I'm in college and can't even play that fast compared to high schooler you

Okay, a split e. Mistake not model of flute. The rushed notes are just nerves.you are such a great musician.

tHoSe BoRn iN ThE NiNtiEs

Second

Just wanted to note, that the College Masters CD looks like it's been degrading for a while. I see a slight change of color on the outer edge.

You were standing much too close to the mic, distorting the tone quality. Did you ever play a cd with James Galway and try to duplicate that?

you are too hard on yourself.......you were VERY good when you were younger......and you MORE than made up for it.....you are fantastic now!!!! you were young......what did you expect??? I don't think you could have done better back then.....i would have loved to hear you play!!! (still do) but that song you said you don't like to play still to this day....don't blame you....it isn't a very good song!!!

Southern Music is a great publisher

Katy, if you played those pieces perfectly, why would you need a school to teach you how? The school is looking for professional musicians that don't need a school, that will take the credit for the difficult work it takes to become a professional musician. You know the saying, 'those that can't DO, TEACH.

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Me: OMG Katie is a genius 🤩 Katie: “yEsTeRyEaR” Me: 😳😶 Edit: to make it clear, THIS IS A JOKE, and I do think that Katie is extremely smart and I really look up to her because she is very inspirational🙂

You play so good. The piano guy not so much...

Honestly, you didn't play badly. I could nit-pick all day about the little things, about your mistakes, like how at points the pitch would squeak and some transitions were not smooth, rhythm, but, it wasn't extremely bad bad. Granted, a preforming arts school with hundreds of applicants would've rejected you, I still don't think it was that bad. Good job. You played well then and you've improved to where you are now.

Dear Katie, If you wish to progress from being a just another Julliard School of Music graduate onto being a principal flautist in a major world symphony orchestra or an internationally famous flute soloist like James Galway, Jasmin Choi or Denis Bouriakov then you will need to demonstrate your memory skills to us all. Therefore, I challenge you to learn and play from memory the first movement of any famous flute concerto in two weeks. Also, to show us as your viewers the process you went through to achieve this result.

Imagine should getting rejected to perform for a Popular show for RU-vid flutist just because you spelt life wrong. (I searched it up just for all of you who criticized)

Dude look. We know about CDs. Even the younger ones. CDs are still a thing. It's not like VCRs. I'm 13, and I still listen to music on CDs. I know people who are like 9 who know what CDs are. CDs are NOT a 90s kids thing.

Katie, remember, if you divide your time among other obligations, such as marriage, then ya wasted your time becoming a musician. From what the evidence shows that those that make a career of classical music, better be JEWS or sexually active with them, being they own the whole goddamn shabang of the music industry, Ya ready to FACE HARVEY WEINSTEIN? Joe Magnets.

Katie if you played perfectly, why bother to pay MONEY, to some JEWS, to 'learn' what you already know how to do. You were going there to LEARN, not just give MONEY to JEWS.

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