Here’s another instalment of songs from the last week that have been brought in! 1. Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me – Elton John + George Michael This is a GREAT song, both lyrically and melodically. The way it builds and crescendoes is fantastic, and it’s a wonderful song for building the voice.
Watching time: ~5 minutes This video where Michael Buble impersonates Sinatra and other singers came up in a lesson this week, and I wanted to share it with you. Primarily because this shows just how much attention to detail great singers like Buble have for those they wish to learn from. They don’t just learn
Reading time: 4 minutes Before we go any further, let’s recap some of the material I’ve covered from the workshop with Rhonda Carlson. In part 1 we established the importance of a specific backstory. This enables you to inhabit the story the song is already telling, and give it nuance and a personal connection.
Reading time: 3 minutes In the first performance article we talked about Rhonda Carlson’s advice on having/creating a backstory to whatever song you are going to sing. The more detailed and personally invested you can make the character singing the song, the easier it is to inhabit that story and sell it… but to sell
Reading time: 5 minutes I once went along to a weekend stage performance workshop with Rhonda Carlson, performance coach to a host of performers across Vegas, Broadway, and more. I wanted to share some of her pearls of wisdom with you regarding how to perform better, and engage more powerfully with the song, and (in
I was having a discussion of late regarding a mainstream artist and their vocal/musical style. We got round to discussing why a large number of contemporary artists are increasingly resorting to vocal gimmicks to get noticed. I wanted to share my current thinking on this topic, in the hopes it educates and informs some of
Reading time: 3.5 minutes I’ve done articles before on vocal longevity, on making sure you give yourself rest periods when practicing and singing. This week I want to expand on this in a way that most of you should find helpful – I want to discuss the idea of “micro-rests” and “macro-rests”. Think of it
Vocal fach is a topic that has been going round my mind for a while now. Vocal fach is also a topic that is rarely talked about in a helpful way. What is “vocal Fach”? I hear you cry… The ever-reliable Wikipedia definition classifies Fach as: “The German Fach (literally “compartment” or also “subject (of
