Share The Engaging Voice
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By Tara B
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The podcast currently has 105 episodes available.
In today’s episode,Tara chats once again with her cousin Lisa Gebhard and is put in the hot seat to answer common questions about singing! Enjoy this episode part 2 as a follow up to their first time in February 2021.
Here are some of the questions and topics we deal with:
Why do some singers sound so different as their voice ages?
Why does the pitch change or the tone and timbre of the sound?
Why does it sound as if singers slide into notes or are flat?
What makes the uniqueness of a singer’s style?
What makes for a healthy and natural sound in a voice?
What are some basic things that happen in a voice lesson? What things do I focus on when I teach a lesson? How do I start with a student?
(The monotone singing episode is Episode 7)
Why can’t we sing on an inhale? We sing on exhalation but it seems impossible to sustain pitch when you are taking in air!
Please reach out to me for teaching.
My remote lessons are available online here:
https://tarabrueske.com/music-lessons
My vocal monthly subscription is called The Singer’s Feedback Zone:
https://tarab.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/21
This episode is the final episode of this podcast for now but you can binge all 104 other episodes!
You can listen on Amazon Audible music, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, PlayerFM, Spotify and more. If you are willing to rate and review this podcast, please do wherever you listen.
In today’s episode,Tara shares some of her favorite helpful apps and products that will help you be a healthy and confident singer!
Some of my favorite products, apps, singing helps:
The Singing Straw
You can use it for warmups or cool downs.
Here is a link to get 10% off: https://bit.ly/SingingStrawTara
Use code tarab10
Vocal Eze
Throat spray that has honey, echinacea, ginger, and more.
Manuka Honey drops and sticks that help keep your throat more moist and stop hacking coughing.
You can get 15% off here: http://vocaleze.refr.cc/tarabrueske
Gua Sha
A quart stone that is shaped to help massage your face and neck, or use it for acupuncture.
Here is a link on Amazon to purchase one:
https://www.amazon.com/Gua-Sha-Facial-Tool-Acupuncture/dp/B08TRGNP9F/ref=asc_df_B08TRGNP9F/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=508231731992&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14798465847751075361&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019552&hvtargid=pla-1287142188407&th=1
Voice Memos app
Or you can get another non IOS app like Recorder Plus.
Look for a voice app in your phone app store.
Practice App—Modacity
(It is a paid app)
It can keep track of your days when you practice, the actual time or amount of practicing, has a recorder, metronome and more.
Look for it in your phone’s app store.
Purchasing sheet music/chord charts online
Sheet Music Plus https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Music Notes https://www.musicnotes.com/
Musescore https://musescore.org/en
Hal Leonard Publishing https://www.halleonard.com/
JW Pepper https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/welcome.jsp
Amazon
Going to the library to utilize or find new songs
The Reader’s Digest Books
Duolingo
Great app for learning any language. Free version to paid version. But you can hear native speakers and learn grammar too! Also good for being able to sing and sound closer to the real language.
Look for it in your phone’s app store.
Please reach out to me for teaching.
My remote lessons are available online here:
https://tarabrueske.com/music-lessons
My vocal monthly subscription is called The Singer’s Feedback Zone:
https://tarab.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/21
You can listen on Amazon Audible music, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, PlayerFM, Spotify and more. If you are willing to rate and review this podcast, please do wherever you listen. Or share it to social media and tag me.
Instagram: @tarabrueskemusic
Facebook: @tarabmusician
In today’s episode,Tara chats about an alternate way of educating yourself to become a professional musician that doesn’t include the college route of a music degree. Tara herself, having a Music degree and yet being in the music biz for over 30 years, gives the listener her take on why college might not be the best way in today’s world of music performing.
What you can do:
Partake of free podcasts, free challenges and bootcamps on social media and getting fans to an email list, read books on the different subjects. Seek out mentors in the music biz—coaches who help you in biz, coaches who help you learn your instrument, coaches who teach you how to be a great performer. Purchases online courses for marketing, writing, songwriting, booking gigs, auditioning, podcasting, how to do social media, and how to find other music producing income, and more.
If you want further help, please reach out to me for a Zoom meeting through Premier Performer VIP. Link here: https://tarab.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/22
You can listen on Amazon Audible music, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, PlayerFM, Spotify and more. If you are willing to rate and review this podcast, please do wherever you listen. Or share it to social media and tag me.
Instagram: @tarabrueskemusic
Facebook: @tarabmusician
In today’s episode,Tara chats about the challenges and strengths of being a singer/performer who is introverted. She chats from her own experience of being an introvert, as well as from working with other introverts.
These might be things introverts struggle with:
Being introverted can also include these strengths:
The Introvert Advantage book is a great resource to understand what it means to be introverted.
Check out The Singer’s Feedback Zone here:
https://tarab.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/21
You can listen on Amazon Audible music, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, PlayerFM, Spotify and more. If you are willing to rate and review this podcast, please do wherever you listen. Or share it to social media and tag me.
Instagram: @tarabrueskemusic
Facebook: @tarabmusician
In today’s episode,Tara gives you steps that can help you teach a voice lesson. Practical tips to help you know what to do in a weekly lesson with a voice student.
You can grab your free template for teaching a voice lesson at the Singing Hub:
https://tarab.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/4
You can listen on Amazon Audible music, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, PlayerFM, Spotify and more. If you are willing to rate and review this podcast, please do wherever you listen. Or share it to social media and tag me.
Instagram: @tarabrueskemusic
Facebook: @tarabmusician
In today’s episode,Tara talks to music fitness coach Angela McCuiston, the founder of Music Strong LLC, a business that specializes in personal fitness training for musicians! We explore her own personal journey of a music related injury and her healing as well as how she helps musicians get healthy in their body and stay healthy!
Angela developed an injury from playing the flute (which was her instrument of study) She had strain and imbalance of certain muscles and needed to find a way to get her body healthy again without just quitting her instrument.
“You don’t throw out a soccer player when they pull a hamstring… or tell them to quit their sport…you just rehab them.”
Angela didn’t find enough resources to help her heal properly so she looked into becoming a personal trainer.
“Up to 90% of musicians will either experience pain related playing or will have injuries.”
During a convention of flutists in Florida, people started asking Angela for help and someone asked if she would do a workshop and she did and started traveling around to universities to give them.
“Rest is NOT rehab.”
Angela sees a lot of shoulder, low back pain as well as weak core muscles. When people come to her, she starts with a movement assessment—upper and lower body— to help personalize what each individual needs.
One thing Angela uses is NeuroKinetic Therapy: This uses manual muscle testing to address the cause of pain It’s a corrective movement system that addresses dysfunctional movement patterns stored in the brain.
Musicares—a division of the Grammy’s that helps musicians.
You can get ahold of Angela here:
https://musicstrong.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicstrongfitness/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicstrong/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MusicStrongFitnessTraining
You can grab more free helps at the Singing Hub:
https://tarab.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/4
You can listen on Amazon Audible music, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, PlayerFM, Spotify and more. If you are willing to rate and review this podcast, please do wherever you listen. Or share it to social media and tag me.
Instagram: @tarabrueskemusic
Facebook: @tarabmusician
In today’s episode,Tara talks gives some very practical exercises for your warmups that will help with engaging and maintaining breath. She focuses on specific exercises to help with breath pressure and the speed of the airflow!
Vocal warmups to help you get and maintain great breath:
Use warmups to pay attention to what is going on with many parts of your singing from your breath to your mouth to your tongue to your jaw and more…
You can get The Singing Straw here:
https://singingstraw.com/discount/tarab10?ref=tarab10
Use code for 10 % discount: tarab10
You can listen on Amazon Audible music, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, PlayerFM Stitcher, Spotify and more. If you are willing to rate and review this podcast, please do wherever you listen. Or share it to social media and tag me.
Instagram: @tarabrueskemusic
Facebook: @tarabmusician
In today’s episode,Tara talks gives some very solid and practical tips to help you memorize songs for your shows, whether a few songs or many!
You can get the singing straw here:
https://singingstraw.com/discount/tarab10?ref=tarab10
Use code for discount: tarab10
The article on people’s capability to memorize:
https://www.lpm.org/news/2018-01-25/how-many-songs-can-our-brains-actually-remember#:~:text=The%20short%20answer%3A%20no.,at%20the%20University%20of%20Louisville.
“Your brain has an almost unlimited capacity for memory. It can actually store about 2.5 petabytes of memory…which is a million gigabytes!”
“If your brain was a smartphone on which you downloaded TV shows, it could record 300 years of continuous TV before running out of space.”
Dr. Emily Mason (University of Louisville)
Some practical tips to memorize songs:
You can listen on Amazon Audible music, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, PlayerFM Stitcher, Spotify and more. If you are willing to rate and review this podcast, please do wherever you listen. Or share it to social media and tag me.
Instagram: @tarabrueskemusic
Facebook: @tarabmusician
In today’s episode,Tara talks about the difficulties of doing followups and ways to make them easier to do so that you actually book the gig!
You can get the singing straw here:
https://singingstraw.com/discount/tarab10?ref=tarab10
Use code for discount: tarab10
“When people do a follow up one time and they don’t hear back from somebody, they assume they are already being rejected. They assume it’s a ‘no’.”
Mistakes often made:
Tips to help the followup process:
“The biggest thing in doing followups is to be consistent and persevering.”
For more booking helps:
https://tarab.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/10
You can listen on Amazon Audible music, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, PlayerFM Stitcher, Spotify and more. If you are willing to rate and review this podcast, please do wherever you listen. Or share it to social media and tag me.
Instagram: @tarabrueskemusic
Facebook: @tarabmusician
In today’s episode, Tara interviews two long time professional singers and gets the low down on the ups and downs of being a professional singer!
Both Lisa and Jana grew up in musical families and had singers they looked up to like Linda Ronstadt, Chaka Khan, Sheena Easton, Donny and Marie Osmond and more!
They met each other through the Rupert’s Orchestra in town in Minneapolis. With mutual respect between both of them, they went on to work with other amazing professionals like Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, as well as Fleetwood Mac, Don Henley, Prince and more!
(In response to nerves before a show.)
As pro singers, we have all faced at one time or another of someone asking us if we have “real jobs”. There is so much we have to do to educate others as professional musicians.
“As musicians, we definitely have to wear many hats!” Lisa Keith Bernard
Lisa Keith Bernard:
https://www.facebook.com/LisaKeithMusic
https://www.facebook.com/spencerandlisa
Better Than You song: https://youtu.be/gYPwiW4huNc
Jana Anderson: https://www.janaandersonmusic.com/
I Honestly Love You Tribute show: https://www.facebook.com/ONJAMHITS
River Tribute show: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057579875823
Crooners: https://croonersloungemn.com/
Chanhassen Dinner Theater: https://chanhassendt.com/concertseries/
Chart House Live: https://www.charthouserestaurant.com/?view=calendar&month=11-2023
The Freight House: https://www.thefreighthouse.com/events
You can get the singing straw here:
https://singingstraw.com/discount/tarab10?ref=tarab10
Use code for discount: tarab10
You can listen on Amazon Audible music, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, PlayerFM Stitcher, Spotify and more. If you are willing to rate and review this podcast, please do where you listen. Or share it to social media and tag me.
Instagram: @tarabrueskemusic
Facebook: @tarabmusician
The podcast currently has 105 episodes available.