[Dixielandjazz] Vocalists

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

I record performances fairly often and hand everyone a CD of the tunes.  I 
call them the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

I'm handing out some CD's tonight for that very purpose.

I picked that up from the AF band.  Every rehearsal was recorded and the 
NCOIC would take the recording and listen to it and quite a few mornings 
there would be a critique session.  Brutal but it has a purpose.

I tell my students that the only way you can get better is to record 
yourself and then listen to it at least 10 times.  You will start hearing 
every little problem like intonation or timing and missed notes.  If you can 
stand to listen to it that many times and still think it's ok one of two 
things has happened.  You have a tin ear or it's pretty good.

Mistakes happen so fast that they can be missed in a live performance but 
the recorder misses nothing.

I have two visions of hell.  The first is being a salesman in a guitar / 
drum shop and the other is a bartender at a Karaoke bar.
Larry
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To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
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Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 4:30 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Vocalists


> What really ticks me off about so-so vocalists, let alone bad wannabes, is
> their insistence on imposing their egos on the rest of the band and the
> public. Many so-sos are ok for doing a couple of tunes with fun lyrics in
> a live situation as a changeup from instrumentals. But most of 'em are a
> negative value doing more than that, let alone singing any on a CD. And
> their colleagues don't have the courage to record them, make them listen
> to themselves repeatedly, and then tell 'em they [suck] and can't be on
> the CD!
>
> Bill and Larry are quite correct in saying that good style, schtick, 
> panache
> can go along way toward saving bad singing.
>
> --Sheik
>
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