Best Practices
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Best Practices
How to Develop The Skill of Listening, Another Best Practice for Singers
Listen… If you want to get the voice of your dreams, you need to move beyond only singing, although you should certainly do that and do it all the time! To gain an objective perspective of your voice, you must listen to yourself singing in both practice and performance situations. You must Read more…
Tips
One Small Physical “Tweak” with Huge Impact to Help You Feel and Show That You Belong as a Singer! From: The “Keep Singing!” Program’s “What’s In Your Way?” Fourth Week Training
Welcome to “What’s in your way?” week! For those who are not members of the program I’m piloting this year, called “Keep Singing!” Online Singing Instruction and Group Vocal Coaching Program [for more info on the Keep Singing! program, go here], this is a presentation I made for our 4th-week-of-the-month Read more…
Tips
Watch “Annie” Live Online for Free!
This post explains how you can watch NBC’s production of “Annie” the musical live (ok, recorded from live) for fr’ee online! Bah-BOOM! Happy new year! Read my letter here for step-by-step instructions. It explains how to watch it, step by step. (Hints: it’s pretty easy. You do have to log Read more…
Girls with Guitars
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Off-the-charts Guitar & Praise
JUST FOR FUN: Sister Rosetta Tharpe Let It Shine!!! Hello! If the Christian faith is in your wheelhouse, GET ON UP and praise the Lord!!!! Even if it’s not, you’ll be swinging in your seat and getting to your feet with the rhythms this ahead-of-her-time bluesy, swinging sister brought to Read more…
Tips
Strange Musical Experiences that Are Definitely Spiritual, or at least Serendipitous, and Most Certainly Satisfying
Stick with me on this one. It’s circuitous, perhaps slightly educational, and (most likely) somewhat entertaining. Enjoy. Have you ever had a string of random musical experiences that leave you so completely wrung-out-but-satisfied that you need to tell someone about it? Well, welcome to my past ninety minutes. First Movement: Read more…
Christmas
We Three (Masked & Tested) Kings Are Six Feet Apart
R.G. Huff’s Christmas carol: a traditional carol rewritten 2020 pandemic-style! Offered to you as a moment to laugh, to laugh at the pandemic, to laugh at ourselves, and to release some endorphins to lift the struggle and mood of this year!
Practice Inspiration
What’s your one thing?
Today’s tip is a rather motivational, helpful tidbit, prompted by a letter from a mastermind colleague of mine, Dr. Bruce Hoag. This will help you learn to think differently – more strategically, more fully, more creatively…better – when it comes to prioritizing and GETTING YOUR BEST VOICE.
Practicing
The Motivation Summit – Your Reflections
Are you attending the Motivation Summit I told you about? I hope so. That’s where more than 20 experts have come together to create an amazing collection of interviews and training that will inspire you for the rest of the year …and beyond. This page is for our A Higher Read more…
Just for Fun!
Just For Fun ☞ Tubas!
I hear it’s going to rain for a few days, so maybe this will give you something fun to do. 🙂 Tubas are really cool-sounding instruments – they make the really, really low sounds in brass bands, orchestras, and other musical ensembles (groups). Here’s a demonstration:https://youtu.be/yTnhDFxEfwQ Here’s how a tuba is Read more…