ICCA Auditions!

Today in rehearsal we filmed our audition videos for the International Championship of Collegiate A Capella (ICCA). I think we have to submit three songs, but we recorded multiple takes of four songs just in case one of the songs doesn't come out as well. It was actually really fun, we reserved a larger room and someone brought in a camera and we had a pretty cool set up. We recorded "Satisfaction", "Problem", "Thinking About You", and "Evolution of Justin Timberlake". I was a little nervous for "Evolution of JT" because one of our members Jared couldn't be there, and he has two solos in that song so the alternates had to sing them. I'm the alternate for the "What Goes Around Comes Around" solo that he has, so I had to sing it for this video. It's funny how nervous I was because it wasn't like it was a performance or anything, but of course the first time I have to semi-perform this solo is when we're submitting a video that determines whether or not we make the cut and get asked back to compete at the ICCA competition in February. So just a little stressful. I sang it the octave up because the octave it's written in is a little low for me, and the first rehearsal that I tried singing it Devin freaked out. She was like, "You sang it the octave up, I worship the ground you live on". So I guess it worked? It took us about two hours to film everything and we took multiple takes of each song to make sure we got a good one. It seemed like everyone had the plague though, because Devin was sick and couldn't sing so her solos were covered by people (I covered a little mini one right before the one I was already covering) and Tom was sick as well as Jerry. Time to start taking Airbourne religiously, I suppose!