I have an audition coming up, but am having serious trouble getting one of the songs up to tempo. It has no name, but it's in the key of Eb and is all sixteenth notes there are lots of octave jumps and I'm struggling to keep it clean at 70 bpm and need to get it up to 110 in about 1 and 1/2 weeks. If anyone can help I'd love it.

Auditions and tempos.
Trying to make something come together at the last minute can be frustrating. Here is what I do with my students:

Find a tempo you CAN play the whole piece in. You mentioned it was hard at 70bpm. So try it at 66bpm. I know you are anxious to get it up to tempo, but if you play at 70bpm and make mistakes you are just teaching yourself the same mistakes. So stay calm and do it at a tempo you can do all the phrases in (68bpm). When you find the tempo you can play it at then in the morning play the piece through two times and put it away. when you get home from school take it out and play the piece through again two times. If you do it without mistakes then move the tempo up one notch on the old type metronome and 5bpm on a digital metronome. play the piece one time and put it away. (don't play it twice even if you play it correctly).

Each day do the same thing. play it twice in the morning at one tempo and put it away, twice in the evening, then once more at the new tempo if you played it correctly. Then at the auditions play it at the tempo you can. Auditions are used for two reasons usually. One to see if you can work a piece of music up. Two to see what you sound like. If you sound good and you only played it at 99bpm you might impress them enough that they make an "exception" to the 110bpm rule (depending who else auditions).

For future reference:: most etudes and pieces are based on scales. If you play your scales twice each day everyday all audition pieces in the future will be easier because of the muscle memory your fingers have.

Do your best and feel comfortable showing the panel what you can do. Good sound is always better than fast fingers.

John