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What to Focus on While Warming Up for a Musical Performance
Warming up for a musical performance is a crucial step in ensuring that you deliver your best on stage. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a novice, the warm-up process is essential for preparing your mind, body, and instrument to meet the demands of a live performance. In this article, we will explore the key…
Continue readingVirtual Open Mic Highlights
Enjoy some performances from our first 2 virtual open mics of 2020!
Continue readingOnline Music Lesson Guide
Whether it's out of convenience or necessity, the use of video lessons is increasingly becoming a part of music education. In this guide we will explain how to get started if you're a student, parent, or teacher as well as some useful tips to ensure success through online music lessons!
Continue reading5 Tips for Creating a Unique Cover Song – How To Make It Your Own
If you’re singing live, in the studio, in your bedroom, or preparing for a music lesson - cover songs are an important part of musical growth as well as an awesome way to bring some attention to your sound! Our voice teacher, Sienna Averett, breaks down 5 ways to make a cover song unique to you!
Continue readingAudition Tips to Help You Book the Role
Finding the song that perfectly showcases your voice while still being in a similar style to the show, or finding the perfect 16-32 bar cut, can prove to be difficult. When auditioning for a musical, whether a community theatre production, school production, or a larger company, there are many ways to make the audition process easier!
Continue readingTeacher Spotlight: Sienna Averett
You can find Sienna performing with her band, Sienna Celeste, throughout Philadelphia venues. Sienna’s a highly rated teacher at Collingswood Sound - read on to find about her thoughts on teaching, life and performing!
Continue readingPractice Routines: The Key to Succeeding On Any Musical Instrument
Professional musicians and novices, alike, can run into the same issues while trying to polish off a new skill. The difficulty in practicing lies not in what we are practicing, but how we are practicing. In order to understand how we should be practicing, we should be thinking about how we learn in general.
Continue reading4 Quick Tips for Singing Healthy Even When You’re Sick
As a vocalist with performances lined up throughout the fall season, I can not afford to be sick, so I have some helpful tips and tricks to keep you healthy, and of course, help you kick that cold if you do happen to catch it.
Continue readingWhy “Collingswood” Sound? Teaching Music Lessons In South Jersey
…one of the most common questions I’ve gotten is “Why Collingswood?” Being an Upstate New Yorker at heart who traveled to Philadelphia for school, now living in South Jersey, I understand the confusion.
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