This week I had a client in touch about preparing a set of songs for a wedding they were singing at. Amongst other things, they wanted to know how best to prepare themselves for singing through a lengthy set of songs at a wedding. This is a great question, so I thought I’d share my general thoughts here. Continue reading “How to prepare a set of songs”
Performance Tip #2: Have a specific WHERE and a WHO (Rhonda Carlson Workshop)
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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 it, you can’t sell it to a blank wall, or even an arbitrary personality. You’ve got to sing the song to an ACTUAL person, ideally in an actual place.
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