Bobby McFerrin is a genius! Every time I see or hear him I’m blown away by something… usually it’s his vocal prowess and the command of his vocal chords that he has fine tuned to make a wide range of sounds along with beautiful singing. Here is a cool video that guitarists / vocalists will [...]
Ambassadors of Harmony blew the audience away with this contest winning performance at the International convention in Anaheim, CA. Unfortunately, I was not there in person but watching the webcast performance I couldn’t believe what I was seeing! I’m so glad to see they paid for the rights to post the video online. This performance [...]
I must confess, I love to watch Idol shows – both for the crash and burn aspect of the ones who are delusional in their abilities but also for the couple of times you hear mind-expanding performances that really connect with the audience. With a couple of folks around the office asking me about this [...]
You’ve seen it many times – and probably been part of it yourself. You, your quartet, chorus or band work for weeks on a plan that you are sure will blow your audience away – only to hit the stage for your first performance or even during practice before a smattering of observers and notice [...]
I have a pet peeve (well actually a bunch of them but this one is first on my list). My pet peeve is that as singers or performers we often think that what we think is entertaining or satisfying for us is what our audience would enjoy hearing. Unfortunately, our human nature easily gets in [...]
OK, it has nothing to do with singing but I thought it was funny! Speaking of Ironic – isn’t it ironic that Alanis Morissette’s "Isn’t It Ironic" contains no irony? Well, almost none. However, I did see a couple of singers yesterday that demonstrated irony. Lyrics about the joy, peace and love they had in [...]
I’m often asked how to record a Multitrack vocal – be it a song, tag, etc. I’ve tried a number of the cheaper video screen capture programs on the market at always less than acceptable results. Over the weekend I finally broke down and purchased Camtasia and have been playing with it ever since trying [...]
I’ve become a big fan of Tom Metzger’s ‘Owning The Stage ‘ articles and have really begun a quest to study and improve this area of my singing and you should too. Technical proficiency really is an element that will only get you to a certain point. Until you can truly connect with the audience [...]
I’ve enjoyed the recent discussion about comedy in relation to competition choruses and quartets on the barbershop yahoo discussion group and offshoots on various forums. I’m not even going to begin to touch on the competition scene and scoring since I don’t even pretend to know all the intricacies of judging. One thing I do [...]
Several months ago I heard a business coach give the following advice – "Make your mistakes in a hurry" – the basic premise being that there is time value in our actions much like the time value of money. Many of our best laid plans fall by the wayside because we stay in the planning [...]
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