flutist with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra

that performed at Carnegie Hall

and director of artist development

for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011.

And I'm here to give you some quick tips

on how to make a great audition video.

When making your YouTube Symphony audition video,

you are allowed to play each excerpt

over and over again and then go back

and choose which one you think is your best

and submit that excerpt

for your audition.

But what you're not allowed to do is to edit your excerpt

every time you make a mistake and chop it up

so that we don't really know that you can play

the whole excerpt from beginning to end.

With video, it's pretty obvious when people stop the video,

go have a cup of coffee, come back the next day,

play it again, so I thought I would just show you

how obvious it is so that you can make sure

that you don't try to do that on your audition video.

[playing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star]

What? It's Alex Ross.

[playing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star]

So, please, no editing within excerpts.

[upbeat music]