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Vocal Lesson with Ms. Agnes
Lip Trills will help you warm up your vocal cord as well as expanding your vocal range!
Awesome show tonight!
Tonight’s awesome showcase at Balconi! Everyone sounded amazingly, beyond my imagination! I’m so inspired by all of my students and the supportive parents, I am very very lucky! Thanks to Diana for coaching, and the wisdom homework party in disappearing my stuff so the show can happen smoothly! Thanks to Jason, Kaz and John for making us sound good! We rocked because of you, thank you!
Awesome show tonight!
Tonight’s awesome showcase at Balconi! Everyone sounded amazingly, beyond my imagination! I’m so inspired by all of my students and the supportive parents, I am very very lucky! Thanks to Diana for coaching, and the wisdom homework party in disappearing my stuff so the show can happen smoothly! Thanks to Jason, Kaz and John for making us sound good! We rocked because of you, thank you!
Singer transforming the world!
My favorite singer on tour transforming the world!!!!
Jason Mraz is a landmark graduate, also is featured in my friends Rebecca & Josh Tickell’s film!!!! He is just so inspiring and dedicated in making a better world, he gets you understand and accept who we are as human and also inspire us to leave the place more clean than you got there!!!!
Wisdom for Singers/Musicians:Love it, so true! It’s so
Wisdom for Singers/Musicians:
Love it, so true! It’s so sad when kids comes to me and says I want to be a singer because of what they saw on tv and think it’s real from watching the voice or american idols and they don’t even sing or take lessons to expand their voice or be active in school’s musicals or bands. Most of the singers are already picked to get fan base or the tv shows, tv shows already know they wanna to market these singers, and they promote them through the show, most is all fake way to look real by having real live auditions, so they get to turn away people, making people believe that they have a chance. A singer will always sing, and you can’t shut them up!!!! Go sing, get trained, and jam with musicians!!!!
pre-gig nerves is often beneficial
Knowing the difference between nerves & fear will change your next performance –says Daniel Borch
Being nervous before a gig is natural.
In fact, the adrenalin surge that accompanies pre-gig nerves is often beneficial,
heightening your awareness and focus, sharpening your senses and improving your reaction times.
So far, so good.
But what happens when your nerves take over to the point where you become paralysed with fear?
We become nervous because we are afraid of not being able to live up to the expectations we believe other people have of us.
I think we need to distinguish between nerves and fear.
Nerves: Where our adrenaline leads to positive consequences including enhanced performance.
Fear: Where our energy spills over into negative consequences, including less effective performance.
Where Your Fear Comes From
Fear is a primal reaction inherited from our cavemen ancestors, developed in response to the daily threat of winding up on some predator’s menu.
The body responds to being nervous and being afraid in the same way. The only difference is the amount of the chemicals secreted and our ability to control our reactions.
These reactions include a dry mouth, tense muscles, hyperventilation or butterflies in your stomach.
In addition to these, vital muscles in the larynx contract affecting our vocal control.
This results in fatigue that prevents your voice from reaching its full potential.
So what can we do to stop our thoughts running away with us so that we only experience the positive effects of nerves?
The answer will vary from person to person but I want to give you one technique that I’ve seen help singers I work with.
A Solution to Fear: Visualising Your Performance
Visualise the entire situation on the morning of the day of your next performance.
First, sit comfortably, make sure things are quiet around you and close
your eyes!
Now, run through the whole gig in real time including the time in between your songs. As you do so, ask yourself these questions.
– What does the gig venue look like?
– Who do you think will be there?
– Where will the people you know in the audience sit?
Imagine the ideal performance where everything you do works perfectly!
Finally if you aren’t feeling totally fantastic about things, accept this and trust that your performance will still be good enough!
Daniel Zangger Borch is one of Sweden’s most recognised vocal coaches. He has been a regular on adjudicating panels for popular TV shows such as ‘Idol’, ‘True Talent’ and ‘X-Factor’. He is also a professional singer, recording artist (with seven albums) and songwriter. Daniel holds a PhD in Music performance and is Head of the Voice Centre, Stockholm. His book “The Ultimate Vocal Voyage” has been released internationally.
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