How to Build a Successful Singing Career

Jul 6th, 2008 by Addy | 0

Are you a young hopeful singer looking to make your mark in the music businesse

Whether you are a solo singer/songwriter , rehearsing your first band, singing karaoke, or just wondering about how to get it all going here is some advice that you might find useful.

Let’s start with the central issue. How good you sound is much more important than how good you look. This will sound like crazy talk to some but it’s essentially true. Singing is an aural art form and your success as an artist will rest mostly on how well you communicate with your listener. The best visual presentation in the business will not help you if you sound like crap. Or put another way, a blind person will not think you are a great singer no matter how well you are dressed!


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Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Helps Opera Singers Overcome Performance Anxiety And Hit The High Notes.

May 15th, 2008 by Addy | 0

In our New York NLP Practice I work with a number of clients to help them overcome performance anxiety. Stage fright shows up in many ways that can negatively affect performance, but by using Neurolinguistic Programming techniques it can be conquered.

I worked with a client this past week who shared her concerned about hitting the high notes while performing (and has given permission for me to post this here).

Chrissy is a coloutura soprano, and easily reaches those high D\’s and E\’s in voice lessons and while practicing at home and yet was nervous about \”going for them\” in auditions or in performance.


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