Canadian Musician Magazine Blog Posts

Quote Of The Day: “She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love” -Van Morrison Have you ever thought about how many times the word “love” is sung in popular music? In the above quoted Van Morrison song, “Crazy Love”, the word “love”, or a derivative [...]

A few weeks ago I wrote about getting out there and finally finding a vocal coach to help you sing they way you have always dreamed you could. Always remember that you are the one who is paying for the lessons. This gives you the right to ask pertinent questions of the potential vocal coach [...]

Quote Of The Day: Most chick singers say “if you hurt me, I’ll die”… I say, “if you hurt me, I’ll kick your ass” – Pat Benetar And she sings it like she means it. Don’t we all want to be that kind of confident singer who can sell a song with great emotion, bang [...]

Quote Of The Day: Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won’t get a lot done in the mornings, but we’ll work late and be honest. -Kinky Friedman It’s no mystery that due to our night owl lifestyle and nightly performance schedules, that singers and musicians aren’t crazy about early morning gigs. However, [...]

Quote Of The Day: “I don’t sing because I think I’m good, I sing because it feels good” Jann Arden I may not have quoted that exactly how it was said, but I remember driving in my car about 15 years ago and heard Jann Arden say that on a radio interview with Peter Gzowski. [...]

  Quote Of The Day “Billie Jean is not my lover, she’s just a girl who claims that I am the one” Michael Jackson If you have read some of my past blogs and know how important diaphragm support is for singers, this is an excellent exercise to find out exactly how your diaphragm works. [...]

For the last four years I have had the privilege of being the vocal coach on faculty for the Peak Performance Project in BC. It is with bittersweet emotion I say farewell to this amazing program for up and coming bands as this was the last year of seven. The Peak Performance Project was the [...]

Quote of the Day I think that people who have “Vegas throat” are people who sing from their throats only. Robert Goulet Don’t worry if you don’t have a clue who Robert Goulet is. He was best known for his role as Lancelot in the Broadway production of Camelot in the 1950’s and had an [...]

I’m not the biggest fan of a lot of a capella singing, HOWEVER, in the last few years my students have enlightened me to some amazingly cool groups. I was blown away with this evolution of music vignette from the group, PENTATONIX. This group is a testament to great pop vocal technique. Breathing, blending, pitch, [...]

Quote Of The Day: “I throw my hands up in the air sometimes sayin’ EH-OH, gotta let go” Taio Cruz Hands… they are most interesting appendages. They give us humans an advantage over other species in the animal kingdom because they are so dexterous and can do so many things. You think that would be [...]