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RESULTS: caitlin smith
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Finding Your Voice
23/06/2015
Finding Your Voice: Phrasing…
Fray zing... or how to get the Em-PHA-Sis right. I believe the most important element of phrasing is feeling: feeling the pulse, feeling into the 'one' to sing (swing) around it, feeling the sentiment and meaning, feeling ...
Finding Your Voice
16/12/2014
Finding Your Voice: The Importance of Honesty
"Honesty is such a lonely word, ‘cause everyone is so untrue." Amen Billy. Singing requires physical honesty – songwriting requires emotional honesty. Performance requires us to have a very clear, honest intent of why ...
Finding Your Voice
23/10/2014
Finding Your Voice: Engaging Autopilot
I learned a lot from being a Bond Girl. There I stood, in drop-dead gorgeous sequins, in front of a magnificent orchestra, belting out power ballads to an adoring audience… and yet, everything inside me wanted to run away ...
Finding Your Voice
05/09/2014
Finding Your Voice: Crossing over – Inter-genre vocal technique
I recently addressed a NEWZATS conference about teaching contemporary singing to predominantly classically-trained singing teachers. I aimed to show the commonalities of good vocal production between genres. Nevertheless, ...
Finding Your Voice
14/08/2014
Finding Your Voice: Please, Help Yourself
I've been noticing how often we performers give our power away. Rather than being personally responsible for our success, we often have a long list of excuses why we didn't learn something, improve in an area, sing or ...