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Singing and Science: Busting Myths with Allan Hubert-Wright Today we’re joined by Allan Hubert-Wright, the founder of Le Chanteur Moderne, one of the most respected voice training institutes in France, and one which is remarkable for using modern voice science to help singers and singing teachers be more effective by leveraging what we actually know about the human voice. http://musicalitypodcast.com/86 He is also the director of the voice department at the prestigious IFPRO performing arts school in Paris and conducts ongoing research into vocal function. We recently had the chance to see Allan give a presentation, and we came away determined to have him on the show, because he shares the kinds of thing that can save years of frustration, confusion and wasted effort. So whether you don’t sing at all yet, you’re at the beginning of learning to sing, or you’ve been singing for years, you’re going to want to pay attention! In this conversation we talk about: - Why being tol...

3 TIps You REALLY Need to Know about How to Be a Composer TODAY Part 1 Recently I have been thinking about why I chose the profession that I have, that of being a composer. Now I wear many hats, like many composers do today. On any day I could be a composer, a teacher, a writer, a sound engineer, a video editor, an animator, or...like most days...a parent and provider of questionably nutritious and strangely orange Mac-N-Cheese. And I suppose that I am wondering about my role as a composer more and more each day as I realize that really composing is only a small part of the media universe that I occupy. I have been writing music since high school, yet my career took off when I decided to mix my classical training with bizarre animation and electroacoustic music. Maybe it was the kid inside of me that still gets excited when she hears the familiar melody from Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind  or has her heart skip a beat when she hears John William 's soaring b...

You just enrolled for your first semester as a music major or minor . After being slammed with half a dozen ensembles , requirements to practice over six hours a day, hundreds of hours studying music history and music theory , you begin to wonder why you decided to study music in the first place. Then you remember: Music is fun! It is? To Survive Music Schools you must learn to HATE MUSIC, the fall in LOVE with it all over again! You heard me. Music school makes you hate, absolutely hate music. Why? Chances are, when you first starting playing your instrument, singing, or wrote your first song, you were overjoyed with the incredible fulfillment that only a good concert, successful practice, or good composition could bring.  NEED HELP WITH YOUR MUSIC? LET ME LISTEN! You didn't sit after a concert thinking, "Hmm, I really enjoyed how that deceptive cadence truly brought out the incredible timbre in the woodwinds" or "I knew I should have used a ...