How To Ad-Lib, Or Improvise There are mainly two ways to approach a freer form of expression in a song. These are “ad-libbing”, and improvising. More details on those distinctions later. You can develop both of these methods by either: 1. Hearing it in your head and just diving in.…
Performing
Tips on giving a great performance and how to deal with stage fright.
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Good voice bad voice
It’s very tempting, when singing, to want to only show our best side to an audience. Actually, it would probably be more accurate to say “imperative “as far as the ego is concerned. Making an ass of ourselves is our greatest fear and the tripwire that we’re aware of a…
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Throat Problems
I had a ghastly flu virus a couple of years ago that quickly went down to my throat and vocal cords, making them behave very strangely indeed. A couple of my students had exactly the same reaction from the same virus, and it took more than a year to slowly…
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Stage Fright: my own journey
It feels important to tell my own stage fright journey. I made Levels 1 and 2 in 2010 and it’s now 2026. Circling back I can see the arc of my own learning path. When I was in it, not so much, and now, very much so. Theres’s an old…
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Focusing the note
Here’s a quick, easy way to think of focusing the note in the mouth: Imagine there’s a beam of energy going through the tongue, pulling it down, and that the air is coming up from the diaphragm, traveling over the top of the roof of the mouth and then hitting…