I’ve had half a dozen calls and inquiries for voice
training today, but this ONE caller who asked if I could assist with their
songwriting and recording project triggered this blog post. Now here's the
question. Do you need help with your vocal production in the recording studio?
I do help my students all the time. Especially those signed to my record label
like boy band Level One (in picture) and 3G before them. But I'm oftentimes
asked to help out by people who aren't my students. Let me say this: I'm a very
busy man but whenever possible, I'm always more than willing to help--providing
you get the voice training prior to your recording session to take you to the
next level; and we work on your composition in my voice studio before we even
set foot inside a recording studio. Sounds complicated? Well, it isn't. I will
explain.
I'm a stickler for high standards and if
I'm going to have a hand in your project I'd really want your production to be
the best that it CAN be. And with my help to prepare your voice, trust me, your
success in delivering the best you possibly can is very much achievable. If
that sounds like a challenge you'd like to take on, feel free to contact me.
I'd be happy to assist you with vocal training AND your recording project.
For more information please contact me on +255 787 364 045 / +255 715 364 045
Mr Moore writes of her delight when her nickname Mr Moore writes of her delight when her nickname'The Iron Lady' was coined in 1979 by the Soviet Red Army newspaper Red Star.
It was the chance meeting that proved to be a vital turning point in the rise of Britain's most powerful post-war Prime Minister.
Prior to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, her adviser Gordon Reece was traveling by train from Brighton and bumped into the legendary actor Laurence Olivier.
Mr Reece, a former journalist and television producer, had been tasked with overhauling Mrs Thatcher's dowdy image – and asked Olivier's advice about the problem of her voice, which critics considered too shrill.
The actor arranged for her to have lessons with the speech coach at the Royal National Theatre, which helped lower her pitch and develop a calm, authoritative tone.
Margaret Thatcher underwent a training programme which included special humming exercises aimed at lowering the pitch level at which she formerly spoke.
From tape recordings of speeches made before and after receiving tuition, a marked difference can be very clearly heard.
When they are played through an electronic pitch analyzer, it emerges that she achieved a reduction in pitch of 46 Hz, a figure which is almost half the average difference in pitch between male and female voices.
Listen to the Margaret Thatcher voice before and after voice training below. You'll be amazed at her transformation.
Such is the POWER of voice training, whether you're a politician, business executive or telemarketer, your number one asset is your voice. If voice lessons worked for Margaret Thatcher, voice lessons can work for you too.
Over the years, in addition to training singers, I have also trained lawyers and corporate executives—the latter groups had one thing in common—they wanted to sound better, more assertive and confident when they spoke.
And the feedback from my clients was that people had noticed the difference in their voice.
They'd acquired a tone that people actually wanted to listen to.
It’s really quite remarkable how your voice can make a world of difference to your persona.
I worked in telemarketing in the UK for a while, where, the first criterion for getting hired was your voice. If you sounded good over the phone, you’re hired! And needless to say, trained singers and actors oftentimes landed the job.
The reason is obvious.
Singers and actors knew how to use their voice to grab the attention of the person on the other end of the line, because somewhere down the line, they’d been through voice training.
Well, in the developed world if you want to become a professional singer or actor, the competition is SO stiff, for anybody to take you seriously you'll need to have had voice training.
My corporate voice training programs, therefore, are tailored to individual needs.
I offer the flexibility of voice training in my studio in Oysterbay... as well as over the phone to clients residing in Dar es salaam; and exclusively via SKYPE for clients based abroad.
What to Expect in Training Sessions
The purpose for undergoing corporate voice training is to develop a better and more articulate speaking voice when you make your presentations, and on business calls conducted over the phone... and so on.
And what better way is there, than to actually show you how I work.
In the following set of audio video clips 1, 2 & 3, one of my corporate clients, Mpoki, an employee of Deloitte & Touche, is going through voice training with a series of vocal exercises to rebalance the voice (Audio 1), in which you'll notice that he is partially tone deaf and I am trying to help him grasp each note so he can do the scales in key.
In Audio 2 we begin to work on his presentation script, and in Audio 3 we work on rounding all of that up. It is a rather interesting Case Study which will help you to better understand the process of training the corporate voice, and hopefully you'll get a rough idea of the things I do to help you improve your speaking voice.
Diary Of A Vocal Coach:
Corporate Voice Training (Audio 1)
Diary Of A Vocal Coach:
Corporate Voice Training (Audio 2)
Diary Of A Vocal Coach:
Corporate Voice Training (Audio 3)
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Wishing you all the succes in the world, JOETT -- Voice Coach & Author
I'm asked from time to time WHAT I would recommend to preserve the
voice? A hard question. And there's never one answer to this question
either. I've always focused on what you SHOULDN'T do (like don't smoke,
don't take cold drinks and so on). But in this article I will focus more on
quite the opposite...what you SHOULD do to preserve your voice.
SO:
What then would aid in keeping your voice supple and healthy for a
better singing voice? Well, I'm going to be completely honest with you. I
take a lot of vitamins. And here's my nutritional story. And be sure to check out all
the links I've included in this short article.
I'm sure
you're aware of the importance of taking vitamins. Your body needs
them, badly. And if you are to maintain healthy cells inside your body,
the same automatically applies to your voice. The benefits are all
round. I use Advanced Liquid Nutrition to give my body all the nutrients it needs in the quickest time possible. Why take a liquid vitamins? One word--ABSORPTION!!! The nutrients in TripleClicks's Advanced Liquid Nutrition are up to 98% absorbable. Compare that to the less effective 5-10% absorption rate for capsules or hard-to-swallow compressed "horse pills" with unfavorable vitamin aftertastes. And if that wasn't good enough reason (for me) to go liquid, the berry flavored formula with Acai Berry Extract, Grape Seed Extract, Omegas 3 & 6, and Calcium sure is!
If you've never taken antioxidants to fight free radicals invading your body from all sources the elements throw at you, then it's time you did. If you take this special vitamin, a very powerful Super Antioxidant Formula, it does the job. It basically neutralizes the free radicals and helps to reverse the aging process as well; and if you can achieve that, the healthier your voice will become. Let's look at it this way. When your body ages, so does your voice. And what's more, with this in your diet you are less likely to catch the flu and catarrh. Another good reason for a singer to take antioxidants--to keep throat infections at bay. And this powerful formula will not only boost your energy levels and destroy free radicals ... it will promote a healthy lifestyle.
And last but not least, are you concerned about your weight? If you're in the music business, especially, I'm going to be very honest with you: how you look is critical to your success. Sorry, but that's just how the world of show business works. I didn't invent this, it's been there for generation. How you look matters. Period. Now the first problem area is the weight issue. It's easy to put on weight but very difficult to lose the weight once you've gained it...well, unless you exercise a lot and really watch what you eat (counting calories, how boring!). To throw away this tedious way of keeping your weight in check, I take Ultra Slim Down meal replacement shakes to replace up to two regular meals a day. (To make them more interesting and delicious, throw in some fruit like papaw, banana, strawberry etc. into a blender). This helps with weight management, and because I do weight training I would also take Supreme Whey Protein as a pre-workout or post-workout shake. Not only does it build muscle, it helps my muscles to quickly recover from training. And I'm going to ask you a quick question. Would you like to have smooth, flawless skin? Well, Super Seven Skin Support works for me! Honest. You only need a couple of drops in water per day. So there you have it. All my little behind-the-scenes secrets to a healthy body and singing voice REVEALED!
Thanks for dropping by, catch you in the next blog post!
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As my pop single Color Me Beautiful continues to get radio airplay across the United States and top US A&R and record executives continue to take interest, I thought it would be the perfect time to talk about the art of writing good songs. Because that's what it really is. It's an art.
Grammy Award Winning songwriter Diane Warren once said, "I just love writing a great ballad, something so essential that it reaches across genres. You could almost say that the best songs are 'genre-transcendent' - they translate well into a variety of styles sung by different artists."
A couple of things I want to point out to you from the outset. There is no formula to writing a good song. You don't have to adhere to a specific format, because then it becomes too rigid. Because at the back of your mind you're trying to conform to what you think is the way it SHOULD be done. What that will do is stifle your creativity like you wouldn't believe. So don't go there! Just allow your creative juices to flow and WRITE.
INSPIRATION comes from all around us. It's from the variety of music we listen to; the experiences that we go through; the source of your inspiration therefore can be quite diverse. That said, I implore you, PLEASE don't go writing a song by someone
else and try to pass it off as your own. I've seen people write this way and the astonishing thing is they were completely unaware that their inspiration was basically a copy and paste job from another artist's song. Get real! Do something that YOU create yourself. There's nothing wrong with drawing inspiration from another song, or a set of ideas but DON'T copy lick for lick.
RECORD your ideas onto your phone as you go along. When an idea hits you, record it! Even if it's just a couple of lines or a lick, make sure you tape it. Ideas tend to vanish from your mind if you don't record them. I recorded all of Color Me Beautiful in bits and pieces on my phone over an extended period of time long before I even pieced the song together. So record your ideas. You'll be glad you did.
And one more thing. A song needs a memorable hook. Something that people can remember about the song if they didn't remember anything else. Imagine the note "Saving all my love for you" in the Whitney Houston song. Now, if you don't remember the song, that part you WILL remember. And on that note, I wish you all the best with your songwriting.
Thanks for dropping by, catch you in the next blog post!
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According to Digital Radio Tracker also known as DRT, a premier radio airplay broadcast monitoring service which tracks radio airplay of songs on more than 5000 plus radio stations worldwide (These stations include Major FM Terrestrial, College, Commercial and Non-Commercial as well as thousands of streaming Internet radio stations); in the past week from July 20th to July 26th 2014, Color Me Beautiful by Joett has been on rotation in the United States, on: KDGR - Dominion Hits Los Angeles, CA. KDOM - DJ Matrixx Tampa, FL. Party 105.2 Greensboro, NC. Power 99 Jamzz Houston, TX. Star 95.7 FM San Francisco, CA. V-100 FM Richmond, VA. and Wild 98 Dallas, TX.
I am delighted and very excited that Color Me Beautiful, in a slow but steady fashion, continues to grow an audience around the world. Thanks to all of you who've given me your support since the release of the single on December 10th 2012. I think this is testament to the fact that a good song CAN grow legs and potentially garner the longevity it deserves. I will keep you posted on developments.
I also want to thank my production team: Max Rioba
(Authentic Records, Tanzania),
Patrick Jonsson and
Toby Warren (Ignition Sound, UK) who've all been an integral part of the creation process of Color Me
Beautiful; and Meja (Sean Entertainment/Prime Films, Tanzania) for an absolutely outstanding video production. I couldn't have done it without you guys. Once again, a million
thanks. You ROCK!
Thanks for dropping by, catch you in the next blog post!
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My updated version of the Learn to Sing with Joett vocal training CD expands your use and benefits from using the program. The new version will be available on CD around mid August 2014. Hereunder are the variations of vocal exercises you can do with the program.
ALTERNATIVE VOCAL WORKOUT
The alternative to the VAAAGH scales is a piano recording with no vocals, that allows to switch your training to a hum (Mm), NA and also NO (pronounced NOU).
Arpeggios vocal exercises on track 7 hereunder are your
alternatives. Note all vowels have been isolated. And I’ve also added the lip
bubble, tongue trills and humming (mm/nn/ng) to this as well. Remember, to find
video demonstrations of these variations run a quick search on my blog or go
straight to youtube to locate my illustration videos.
a)Mm
b)I (eee)
c)A (uh)
d)Lip Bubble
e)Tongue Trill
f)Aah
g)Oh
h)U
i)Ng
j)Nn
k)Eh
Octaves alternative are as follows:
a)Mm
b)I
c)UIU
d)Tongue Trill
e)Lip Bubble
Chromatic Scales alternative exercises
are as follows:
a)Mm
b)Lip Bubble
c)Tongue Trill
d)UIU (with extended Uu in places)
e)Na
f)Mum
g)Ney
Descending Scales alternative exercises
are as follows:
a)Mm
b)Lip Buble
c)Tongue Trill
d)Ng
e)N
f)I
g)U
Vowels and Lyrics
A O I E U … “I Could Never Live”
Arpeggios
Rose petals {fall} upon your feet
Octaves
I {could} never live
Chromatic Scales
I’m on my knees and I r-e-a-ll-y do want your love
→ I am on my knees and I r-e-a-ll-y do want your love
Descending Scales
I could never {live} without your love
Articulation Exercise
Exercise 1: I could never live, I could never live, without
your love
Exercise 2: I could never never live X 2 without your love
Exercise 3: I could never never never live X 2 without your
love
Vijana wakitanzania watatu wajulikanao kama 3G, wakombioni kuachia singo yao ya kwanza, Mrembo wa Kiafrika. Vijana hawa, ambao wali rekodi singo hiyo mwaka jana ni G Fullah, Frankie G na Oz Bitala. Wimbo huo, ambao pamoja na harmony na kuchana, unamandahari ya zilipendwa kama za Miriam Makeba na Abeti Masikini. Wimbo unaladha tofauti kidogo, na ni mziki ulioyotulia ukiambatana na acoustic guitar pekee.
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