From the course: Singing Lessons: 4 Singing Tools
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Working with an accompanist
From the course: Singing Lessons: 4 Singing Tools
Working with an accompanist
- In this lesson and the next lesson, we're going to be talking about working with other musicians. The situation where as a singer, you aren't playing an instrument, you are just there singing, and you're working with someone who's going to play with you. A piano player who's playing for an audition for you. Or a guitar player who's playing a gig with you, and you are singing with their accompaniment. A lot of these principles apply if you are also playing, and just working with an additional musician. But I especially want to talk about the leadership role that you play as the singer when you are working with side-men, that's the kind of generic term, side-men or side-women, that we use to refer to the musicians that a singer would hire or collaborate with on a job, on a show, or in a rehearsal. So many of you are already familiar with this situation, you work with musicians and you do rehearsals, and you do gigs already. For some singers, this is kind of an intimidating prospect…
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