by Kristin Henry I was recently engaged in the annual joyful task of preparing my band’s tax forms – whoever decided to hand the financial responsibilities over to me was clearly a lunatic – and as I proudly penned a whopping “$1,000.00” on line 7 (Nonemployee compensation) of my own 1099-MISC, the person I was […]
I received an email a couple days ago from a drummer in the UK. He had emailed because he watched a video I made a few years ago about how to get over stage fright. He wanted to buy my Zen of the Stage DVDs but was having trouble with the purchase process. “I just watched a clip of […]
EVERYBODY KNOWS 1. Most tweets go unread. Just because you tweet, don’t expect your followers to see it. Few view their feed comprehensively. They check in and check out. Catching only bits and pieces. Even forgetting your fake and dormant followers, which are voluminous, far fewer than fifty percent of your followers see one of […]
Here are notes from Ronan Chris Murphy’s seminar “Production Tricks for Maximum Impact.” These are quick and dirty, maybe I’ll expand and clean them up a bit later. But just wanted to get them out. First, credit where credit’s due – Here are two links to learn more about him, and contact him if you […]
OK. Yes. It’s been FOREVER since my last newsletter. First reason: I asked a question in the last newsletter that I had to ponder myself a lot over the last few weeks. It took me a while to be able to answer my own question, even though honestly, I’ve been thinking about it for years. […]
Hello Friends, My name is Christian Sanders. I am the newest addition to the team at Performance High. I would consider myself an opera singer, and I love to incorporate classical techniques used by opera singers to help inform popular music, jazz, and musical theatre singers. I think every singer, no matter what music they […]
Do you think you have an accent? Probably not. You are so used to the way you and the people around you speak, that you don’t think you do. It’s people from the Midwest / the East Coast / Spain / Brazil / Africa / you name it that have the accent. Check out this […]
Wondering about differences in technique between classical and popular singing? Here’s a specific real-life example. I’m a pop singer by nature. Yes, I still take voice lessons. In fact, among others, I take lessons from some of the other teachers at Performance High, Kristin Henry She is a more classically oriented teacher than I am […]
Sometimes people get confused about the difference between nasal resonance and singing with a nasal tone. You DO want some nasal resonance. Your sinuses are some of your vocal resonators. But you DON’T want to sound like you’re singing through your nose. Here’s a very quick tip to tell if you’re singing through your nose: […]
I worked all last month with an artist preparing for an industry showcase in L.A. At the end of the month, we did a dress rehearsal on a large stage, running the whole set straight through a few times. There were still some “mistakes” which kind of freaked him out at first, because he was […]
