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How the Mind Affects Singing: How to Achieve “Flow” While Making Music
How to Achieve “Flow” While Making Music Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a very accomplished psychologist in the fields of creativity and positive psychology. He is known for giving the name “Flow” to a certain kind of mental state; ‘Flow is an optimal experience in which one feels at one with an activity and is motivated by […]
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Singing and the Body: How to Release Tension
Vocal music does not merely engage one’s mouth and vocal chords; it invokes a process that involves an intimacy with the entire upper body. In order to prepare one’s body for vocal production, it is important to relieve individual parts of the body of all tension. Tension that interferes with singing can be found in […]
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How to write songs for a Group (Donovan and I used this method for Peace and Love)
About Grace Music Studio NY: Grace Music Studio NY is a place where people come to take Brooklyn voice lessons, Brooklyn piano lessons and Brooklyn acting lessons, but also they come to be inspired. Every year, Brooklyn voice lesson and piano lesson students perform in February and June. It’s inspiring when a person gets up […]
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How to Write Your Own Music – When You Don’t Play an Instrument
If you are a singer you may already have a melody and lyrics for lots of songs but don’t know how to flesh them out. If you don’t have melody or lyrics see previous Blogs ‘Create a Melody’ and ‘How to Write Lyrics’. I suggest four things to folks who have a melody and lyrics […]
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The Healing Powers of Music: Repairing Brain Damage By Melanie Spanswick
We are pleased to tell you that we have a guest blogger! According to her website, Melanie Spanswick is a concert pianist and writer. She studied at the Royal College of Music in London and she also wrote her first ebook titled ‘So you want to play the piano?’ which will be available as an […]
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Getting Into Character