Review #2 of 5 best blogs found in my area of interest:
Check out Guy Babusek’s blog at http://speechlevel.blogspot.com/ where he gives his opinions, lessons, tips and musings on vocal technique and good singing. Guy also has a YouTube account that you can subscribe to and learn so much from! Here’s one of his videos interviewing his teacher Seth Riggs, the founder of ‘Speech Level Singing’.
Review #1 of 5 best blogs found in my area of interest:
eHow is a blogging site that provides instructions on numerous topics written by eHow contributors, one of which being ‘how to become a studio musician & singer’ by Carl Hose, as well as more along the lines of this topic with the titles ‘how to become a backup singer in a recording session’, ‘how to become a backup studio singer’, and ‘about backup singers”. This site is great as it has great tips and also provides links to jobs and auditions that we can apply for!
Instructions given by Carl Hose on ‘how to become a studio musician & singer’ are as follows:
1. Study your craft. Attend a music school if you can afford it—demonstrated knowledge and ability, not a degree, will get you the jobs. This means learning the skills a studio musician needs, in whatever way you learn best. These skills include the ability to sight-read music, compose, improvise and play a variety of instruments.
2. Visit recording studios and talk to the producers and engineers. Leave a demo CD that showcases your proficiency on a variety of musical instruments. Include several different musical styles to showcase your diversity. As a studio musician, you can be called upon to play everything from country to rock. Ask to be placed on the studio call list.
3. Play in public as often as you can. Build a name for yourself and keep your skills sharp by playing with local bands, filling in for musicians when needed and networking on the music scene.
4. Build a portfolio and keep it updated with every new gig (job) you play, whether it’s a live performance or a studio recording job.
5. Consider moving to the closest major city to you, or major music city. Making a move such as this can be a big deal, but realistically, you want to go where the jobs are. If there isn’t a studio where you live, your chance of getting work drops.
Click on this link to read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_5765217_become-studio-musician-singer.html
Hi! My name’s Jhoanna, middle name Marie, and this is my very first post! Yay!! =)
Here’s a few things I’d like to let you all know…
I’m doing this blog as part of my last Advertising subject at UWS. With this being my final semester of uni, this subject – Advertising Campaign – gives us students taking up the unit, the opportunity to create a campaign of ourselves. The purpose of this campaign is to promote ourselves in our areas of interests and passions that we will one day, hopefully, be able to work in.
So what exactly are you into and where would you like your career to go? (you may be asking… I hear you). Well, what I really love to do is…………..SING! While growing up, I was forced to sing at every family gathering, sunday school performances for church, and even forced by my friends at high school to sing randomly for them. But although I was ‘forced’ into doing them all, I have learnt to love the gift. I have sung at events such as school concerts, uni gigs, fundraising concerts, community reach programs, 18th’ and 21st’ parties, weddings, and at West Sydney Community Church. If I ‘dare to dream’ of doing absolutely any job in the world, it would be to work with a famous singer such as Alicia Keys as a back up vocalist, or to go even more local, do backup vocals for Guy Sebastian or record a song with Rai from Thirsty Merc. However a more realistic goal that I would also be just as pleased with is to be a wedding singer and/or backup vocalist, as well as using my voice to help out with community outreaching events where possible. All of which I can use my advertising skills and knowledge to promote myself likewise. So through this blog, I will post things relevant to what will help me (and those reading this blog with similar goals) make my (our) way into this future career, as well as updates on how I’m progressing with it all.
Keep visiting as I will be posting more! Also feel free to visit the links of other social media sites of mine provided =).
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