This is the 3rd in a series of posts on Stage Fright. If you haven’t read the previous posts, they are: Stage Fright – What Is it? Stage Fright – Changing Stinking Thinking Extreme stage fright can be a truly debilitating condition. Sometimes knowing that your thinking stinks is not enough to conquer it. To… Read More » about Stage Fright… extreme condition
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Stage Fright – Changing stinking thinking
This is the 2nd in a series of blogposts I’ve created on Stage Fright. Here are links to the other two: 1. Stage Fright – What Is It? 3. Stage Fright – Extreme Conditions One huge and most usual form of stage fright comes from stinking thinking. The good news is, we can change that…. Read More » about Stage Fright – Changing stinking thinking
Stage Fright – What is it?
I get a lot of people needing help with stage fright. So here is the first of my series of posts on the subject. Here are links for the following ones: 2. Stage Fright – Changing Stinking Thinking 3. Stage Fright – Extreme Conditions First, let’s define the problem. What is stage fright? Wikipedia says it’s… Read More » about Stage Fright – What is it?
Intention and Expectation – Bookends of Vocal Magic
Just as in any athletic endeavor (and yes, using your voice optimally IS an athletic endeavor), it makes all the difference to get your thinking right. If you intend to do it, and then expect to be able to do it, you are going to be a lot closer to actually DOING IT. If you… Read More » about Intention and Expectation – Bookends of Vocal Magic
Singing and Eating Disorders – Part Two
Jenni and me This is the second of two posts on eating disorders and the voice. We’ll continue where we left off with the story of Judy and her student, Jenni Schaefer… Judy… Little by little, as Jenni got help, she got stronger. However, voice lessons became even harder. She developed a diaphragmatic spasm of… Read More » about Singing and Eating Disorders – Part Two
Singing and Eating Disorders – Part One
Jenni Schaefer and me This is the first of two posts on eating disorders and the voice. You can now listen to the audio version of these posts on All Things Vocal Podcast. Eating disorders are now epidemic. Singers and others in the entertainment business with its requisite media exposure are, I believe, especially vulnerable… Read More » about Singing and Eating Disorders – Part One
Keep the Critic out of the Vocal Booth!
When you are in the vocal booth in the process of recording, there is a part of you that you must keep out: Your inner critique. This is the part of you that says things like: I’m flat on that note… no, I’m sharp… I’m not feeling it right now I got this track in… Read More » about Keep the Critic out of the Vocal Booth!