From the course: Singing Lessons: 4 Singing Tools
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Acting for singers: Emotional mechanics
From the course: Singing Lessons: 4 Singing Tools
Acting for singers: Emotional mechanics
- In this lesson, we're going to dig into a little bit of the emotional mechanics of singing. I know that when I first moved to Nashville back in 1988, I was trying to get a record deal, trying to get a publishing deal and become a famous singer and musician but I actually made my living as an actor because I was lucky enough to get into an acting studio run by Ruth Sweet. Fantastic acting coach. And it was only in the study of acting that I felt like I really started to connect as a performer with a deeper emotional sense and it also made me a better songwriter. I just learned so much from the study of acting and I want to share a few of those little tips with you and I've got a really fun exercise that I like to do to really highlight how we use our emotional tools and how as a a singer, you can apply those emotional tools to really breathing life into a lyric when you're singing a song. Just like you apply your bends and scoops or the use of a yodel or a cry, your technical tools…
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