All Things Vocal Podcast

Act As If and Ye Shall Be In Great Voice - Or Not!

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Today's topic is how 'acting as it' can affect your voice. Listen to this episode to learn how 'fake it til you make it' can actually create vocal ability, and how acting on negative mindsets will sabotage your voice.
 
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Links mentioned in this podcast include:
Vanderbilt Voice Center
The Voice Keeps The Score
How To Beat Your Lizard Brain

Chat with Kevin McCarty of 'We Should Write Sometime' App

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Today I interview Kevin McCarty… co-founder of 'We Should Write Sometime' app for songwriters. Listen in to see how you can, in a virtual setting, safely and securely investigate and connect with cowriters from across the US, Canada and Australia... with more locations to come! 
 
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Subjects covered in this episode include:
Kevin explains what this app does.
How using this app for meeting new songwriters saves time and energy (you can cut way down on the bar and club hopping!)
How the app helps you investigate potential collaborators before reaching out to connect.
The development of the app (they developed it before Covid!) and how timely it is now.
How virtual co-writing can actually be better, safer, and freer for creating songs.
Ways this app can benefit not only new songwriters but also veteran pro writers who want to reach the new wave of artists as well as different collaborators for fresh fire.
The incognito aspect of using the app.
Where the app is live now (US, Canada, Australia and more to come).
Some of the added benefits of co-writing (instead of writing solo).
Things songwriters don't know about the business (PROs, licensing, publishing, etc) and how that information could be a future feature in the app.
Ways the app can be used safely and securely.
How to get on this app. By the way, it's free! Future premium tiers will be eventually be developed, but Kevin says they want to keep the highly functional basic version free. 
Links mentioned in this episode include:
We Should Write Sometime

How Crying Affects the Voice

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Today's topic is Crying. Listen to this podcast episode to learn how crying tears affects the voice, and how you can manage better when tears come. My special thanks to international theater star Sidonie Smith for her quote on this subject. Look for our full interview on an upcoming episode!
 
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If you’d like help with managing emotions when you have to sing or speak, or any other vocal matter, try Power, Path and Performance vocal training, available at www.JudyRodman.com in vocal lessons and on CD courses.
 
Subjects covered in this episode include:
Categories of tears
How crying creates vocal problems
Ways to control crying
The wisdom of protecting your voice
Links mentioned in this podcast include:
Sidonie Smith

Interview with Speaker Michael Arterberry - Got Dirt? Use it!

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Today I interview Michael Arterberry - motivational speaker, author and youth mentor.
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If you want the best vocal training proven to maximize vocal ability and conquer strain, try Power, Path and Performance vocal training, available at www.JudyRodman.com in vocal lessons and on CD courses.
Subjects covered in this episode include:
Michael’s backstory.
Michael’s powerful parable of the Donkey in the Hole.
We get the why behind Michael’s tagline ‘be encouraged’ and his challenge to ‘shake the dirt’.
Michael’s understanding of faith and how it affects his life and work.
How Michael works to encourage and empower kids.
The importance of changing the systems around dysfunction.
The power of reflection to go forward in times of frightening change (like this Covid era).
Mentors & teachers that helped Michael; the importance of being one.
How side interests & diversity create the well-rounded life.
Funny stories, serious success stories
The mind/body/voice connection.
About Michael:
Michael is a public speaker, author and mentor with a non-profit devoted to working with youth. Childhood dysfuntion and spinal surgery have only served to inform and shape his life's work... successfully and deeply motivating and encouraging others. As he states in his website, 
As a Motivational Speaker, my life is dedicated to moving people from an uneasy time in their lives to a place of peace. I don’t change their circumstances, but I help change their perspective. - Michael Arterberry 
His many career achievements include:
2010 USA Network’s Characters Unite Award for exceptional commitment to combating prejudice and discrimination while increasing tolerance and acceptance within the community, 
2014 100 Men of Color Award for leadership in education, government, mentorship, entrepreneurial success and community service,
2016 Educator of the year award from Y-Cop in Mount Vernon, NY. as well as a proclamation from the Mayor, Certificate of Merit from the Board of Legislators, and a Citation from the Mount Vernon City Council.
Find him on the web:
Shakethedirtexperience.com
MichaelArterberry.com
YouthVoicesCenter.org
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelarterberry
https://www.facebook.com/michael.arterberry

How to Have Unforgettable Songwriter Rounds

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Today's topic is Songwriter Rounds. Listen to this podcast episode for ways to put magic in these special Nashville-origin unplugged shows where songwriters perform their own material 'in the round'.
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If you’d like help with acing your next songwriter round or any other vocal matter, try Power, Path and Performance vocal training, available at www.JudyRodman.com in vocal lessons and on CD courses.
Subjects covered in this episode include:
The definition of a songwriter round
Goals for this kind of show
Hosting tips
Performer tips
3 songwriter fails
Creating special virtual songwriter rounds
Links mentioned in this podcast include:
Canva
Square
Paypal Here
Buy Me A Coffee
Be.Live
Cyberlink Director video editor

The Multi-Creative Soul - Interview with Mark Elliott

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Today I interview Mark Elliott… singer, songwriter, performer, musician,  audio engineer, studio producer, novelist, poet, outdoorsman, and airplane pilot. I'm sure there's more:) Listen for inspiration to go forward, from someone who has a big to-do list and knows how to use it!
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If you want the best vocal training proven to maximize vocal ability and conquer strain, try Power, Path and Performance vocal training, available at www.JudyRodman.com in vocal lessons and on CD courses.
Some quotes from the interview:
Discipline is connected to inspiration
Protecting forward momentum energizes the next thing
The legs of your forward momentum are upon content
Some of our discussion trails:
Integrating multiple creative and technical sides of oneself.
How you can start out in classical voice and end up in bluegrass - loving them both!
The value of both nature and nurture, parents and environment, to Mark's journey.
Brick walls and turning points
The difference between writing songs and writing novels.
Mark recites his latest poem ‘Where Did You Go’ 
Thinking outside the box for the promotional video series to launch his single 'Craziest Thing'. We play a snippet!
Mark's experience with a vocal polyp.
Guitar strings and microphones... including how he cleans his mics.
Mark's future gazing; encouragement for others to move forward, too.
About Mark Elliot:
To quote Devon O'Day; 
As a singer-songwriter, Mark Elliott is a ‘lifer.’ He lives and breathes the poetry of existence.
Mark started his singer-songwriter career in Washington, DC. Tom Paxton discovered him and led him to Nashville. He has won songwriting awards including the Kerrville New Folk Award, has written for publishing houses including Bluewater Music, Maypop Music group, and Sony Music/ATV, and has had his songs cut by indie and major-label artists. Billboard Magazine called Mark’s Neal McCoy hit, Every Man for Himself, “a song with rare lyrical and musical edge and the best cut on the album.” Other publications have praised his work including Martin Guitar Company’s Sounding Board Magazine, UK’s Maverick Magazine and Music Row Magazine which said Mark was "Almost too good”.  
 
He tours live with his band, Runaway Home, and has a new solo EP due out summer 2020, with the first single called "Craziest Thing". Mark writes books, blogs, and essays. Kirkus Reviews said of Mark’s first full-length book, The Sons of Starmount: Memoir of a Ten-Year-Old Boy, “Cheerful, more thoughtful than most reminiscences, and quite enjoyable.” Mark is a regular contributor to Songbones Magazine. 
Find Mark's blog at www.imacre8tivesoul.com. 
Find Mark’s music and books at  www.markelliottcreative.com 
Find him on Instagram: @imacre8tivesoul
 

11 Surprising Causes of Vocal Problems

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Today's topic is causes of vocal problems. Listen to this podcast episode to discover surprising things that affect your voice, and some workarounds for each of them.
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If you’d like help with a frustrating vocal issue, or improving your singing and speaking voice in general, try Power, Path and Performance vocal training, available at www.JudyRodman.com in vocal lessons and on CD courses.
Subjects covered in this episode include:
Clothes
Shoes
Exercise
Pain
Emotions
Hormones
Negative Feedback
Humidity
Congested lymph nodes
Spinal condition
Missing face & heart
Links mentioned in this podcast include:
How you lift free weights
Anxiety & the vagal-vocal connection
The effect of hormones on the voice
Singing in the Studio book
How to get mucus off vocal cords
Focusing communication to one heart
Ryan Stewart aka RyRobio

Rehearsal VS Performance Voice - Why The Difference Matters

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Today's topic is Rehearsal and Performance vocal modes. Listen to this podcast episode to learn the differences between these two modes, why you need both, and how to make sure you're in the right voice for what you're doing.
 
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If you’d like help with rehearsing and performing at the top of your game, or any other vocal matter, try Power, Path and Performance vocal training, available at www.JudyRodman.com in vocal lessons and on CD courses.
 
Subjects covered in this episode include:
Definitions of rehearsal and performance voice
Getting them counter-productive mixed up
How and when to rehearse your performance mode
Demonstrations of the differences for singing voice
Demonstrations of the differences for speaking voice