Canadian Musician Magazine Blog Posts

Quote Of The Day: A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts. Elvis Presley I couldn’t agree with Elvis more. This blog is about helping to create that electricity with the way the [...]

Quote Of The Day My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room. Stan Getz Saxaphone players, like singers, rely heavily on good diaphragm support to play their instrument with good pitch, projection, and tone. The [...]

Quote Of The Day: “Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.” Bill Cosby Oh my gosh, how true is that? Maybe that’s why when we are little, our names get changed to one that ends in an “ee” sound: Billy, Bobby, Timmy, Angie [...]

Sound checks are a curious thing. Often they are conducted in an empty venue that will be filled with an audience a few hours later. So, how do you prepare effectively for a performance in an environment where the variables will most likely change once the audience is seated? Here are some of the things [...]

  One of my greatest joys is teaching children to sing. Here are some great Holiday songs to sing with kids. It’s so easy to find great tracks on youtube and you can read the words as the song plays… how much easier can it be to get the whole family singing this Christmas? Have [...]

Quote Of The Day: “It’s Written All Over Your Face” Rude Boys, 1991 In the age of reality t.v. it seems that one can’t turn on the tube without seeing some kind of talent competition. As I was mindlessly surfing channels a few days ago, I caught a segment of the latest show that pits [...]

Quote Of The Day: “Clap Along If You Feel Like Happiness Is The Truth” Pharrell Williams There is no denying that it is infectious… “Happy” by Pharrell Williams is one of those songs that just puts a smile on your face. Even if you are sick of hearing it, your body will betray your opinion [...]

  Quote Of The Day “When I’m Calling You -oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo” Jeanette Macdonald from the movie Rose Marie, 1936 Okay, by now you are used to my obscure retro performer references and are aware of how much I adore 20th Century pop culture. The line from the song above is from a classic film from the [...]

Quote Of The Day: “Everybody Loves A Rollercoaster” – Pete Waterman The highs and lows of a rollercoaster ride is a great analogy of an effective way to put your set list together for a show. I like to think of a set list as an emotional rollercoaster ride: it might start off with a [...]

Every so often a singer captures my attention because they are a living, breathing (pardon the pun) example of what I try to teach my vocal students. As you may have deciphered from most of my blogs about vocal technique, breathing is the foundation on which my entire 5 Point Singing System is based. I [...]