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Funny Video: How To Sing TO Win The Girl…

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Check out this video for your entertainment.  Maybe this could be our next American Idol?
The Serenader - How To Sing To Win The Girl…
 

 
Ouch…
Hey, having a litle fun and taking ourselves not so seriously is okay once in a while.
This is actually a clip from a film from many years ago with the terrific actors  Michael […]

Video Example: How To Perform/Communicate and “Win” The Audience.

Monday, October 8th, 2007

What do great performers have in common? How can you improve your performances? How do you "win " an audience? Let’s watch another video clip of a wonderful "performance", and see what we might discover. 
Maybe you saw the video clip in the last blog post of Mister Rogers testifying in the US Senate? I thought I’d follow up that […]

The Reason You Don’t Want To Sound Good When You Sing - Part 3

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

After having read part 1 and part 2 of “The reason you don’t want to sound good when you sing”, you have come to realize that when we talk about not needing to sound good we are not saying that we don’t want to sound good. Of course we want to sound good when we sing. […]

Kinesthetic Awareness For Rapid Learning And Healing

Monday, September 17th, 2007

A skilled pianist has trained to be able to move two fingers with incredible speed (as in a trill) while still being able to maintain complete relaxation in the rest of the hand. If a beginner piano player attempts the same fast trill, the entire hand will undoubtedly tense up. Tension will probably even spread […]

The Reason You Don’t Want To Sound Good When You Sing – Part 2

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

In the previous post “The Reason You Don’t Want To Sound Good When You Sing – Part 1” I spoke about the mindset that enables us to experience a new level of freedom. We gain this freedom in conjunction with developing our kinesthetic awareness. Once we start experiencing how it “feels” physically to let out […]

The Reason You Don’t Want To Sound Good When You Sing - part 1

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Do you want to sound good when you sing?

A not so brilliant question it may seem. Of course you want to sound good. Sounding good is what makes singing enjoyable – both for the singer and listener, and making you sound good should be the purpose of taking singing lessons. Right?
This thinking seems reasonable and it […]