<p>Hello! Spring Awakening is my fall musical this year, and for vocal auditions the department head gave us a list of artists to choose an upbeat and a ballad.
I am very unfamiliar with most of these artists. So if you could help it would surely be appreciated!</p>
<p>The Presidents of the United States<br>
Reliant K
The Black Keys<br>
Red Hot Chili Peppers<br>
Sublime<br>
Green Day<br>
Blink 182<br>
Bad Religion<br>
Pennywise<br>
Avril Lavigne<br>
Simple Plan<br>
The Strokes<br>
Fiona Apple
Nirvana
Jane's Addiction
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
The Ramones
Howie Day
Shawn Colvin
Duncan Shiek (composed Spring Awakening)
Lisa Hannigan</p>
<p>If it is “how do you go about finding a song.” I would suggest creating a Pandora station with these artists. You will get to hear songs by these and similar artists.</p>
<p>Once you find a song you like go on musicnotes, sheetmusicplus, or another online site that allows you to purchase the downloadable sheet music. </p>
<p>Great suggestion. There are similar services to Pandora if that doesn’t work for you for some reason. I like Spotify myself but any of them should do it.</p>
<p>Well I should have said that these were suggestions pushing us into the alternative rock genre. I’ve listened to the soundtrack of Spring Awakening and have gotten a feel for it.
I think I’ve decided for my ballad: While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles</p>
<p>For my Spring Awakening audition this time last year, I cottoned more to the folk side of the score and sang River by Joni Mitchell. Though I don’t know what the creative team thought of it, I did get cast!</p>