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The Engaging Performer

Being a great performer isn"t just about talent — it"s about connecting, inspiring, and leaving a lasting imprint on every heart in the room. On The Engaging Performer, Tara B (host and music pro) shares a deeper look at what it really takes to build a meaningful, successful career. You"ll find guidance on booking gigs with confidence, keeping your voice healthy for the long journey, and growing into the performer you"re truly meant to be. Through stories, lessons, and honest reflections, this

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Episode 044 | Tara B | How To Improvise in Singing

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/08/03

Do you wish that it was easier for you to improvise while you sing? Do you wish you had the tools to know what to do to make up parts for your singing? Are you a classical singer who isn’t sure how to do cadenzas? In this episode, Tara breaks down improvisation and makes it simple even for the beginner. Improvisation for singing can really be broken down to two different types of music—classical and popular. Classical Music: There is ornamentation such as grace notes, turn arounds, trills, or a

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Episode 043 | Tara B | How to Pick a Song for Your Voice

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2020/07/20

Today’s show is all about figuring out how to pick songs that best fit your voice. Sometimes we sing a song that doesn’t match what our voice can do. Tara shows you 7 ways to get it right so you can thrive in your performing. Resources for you for getting sheet music online: sheetmusicplus.com and musicnotes.com Resources for apps that can be for accompanying you sing: Appcompanist iRealPro Helps for picking songs: Look at the range of the total song. Tessitura—the pitch range that

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Episode 042 | Tara B | What is Resonance?

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/07/06

In today’s episode, we focus on the concept of resonance in singing. Does everyone have it? What is it and why is it needed in singing? What does it do for the singer? How can we find it? Tara gives you the low down and some exercises to boot for getting resonance! Definition of Resonance (according to the dictionary) “(of sound) "deep, clear and continuing to sound or ring” Also “the quality in a sound of being deep, full and reverberating”. Why is resonance important? The ability to bring

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Episode 041 | Anne-Sofie Søby Jensen | A Singer’s...

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/06/22

In today’s episode, Tara chats with Anne-Sofie Søby Jensen—a Danish singer. They speak about how Anne-Sofie’s musical trek took her from Denmark to the UK and the journey of really learning to own and love who she is as a singer. Her story may inspire any singer who struggles with comparison and trying to find their own niche in singing. Anne-Sofie grew up in a small village in Denmark in a family where piano music was often hear. Her parents were both pianist and she took piano lessons first

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Episode 040 | Tara B | 10 tips to Help With Nerves...

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/06/08

Please go to Apple Podcast and click on RATINGS AND REVIEWS to rate this podcast. I would be so grateful! Thank you! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-engaging-voice/id1448497465 On today’s show, Tara dives into something that probably every singer has faced at some point of their career—being nervous right before you sing! She gives 10 solid and practical helps for what to do to overcome those pesky nerves! “Nerves can be a combo of fear and excitement.” Getting nervous often starts in

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Episode 039 | Tara B | Keeping Our Voice Healthy...

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/05/25

We’ve talked often on this show about the health of our voice and the technique behind it. Today, Tara dives into the other parts of our life that can affect our vocal health and what to do about it. This includes foods to eat, those to avoid and other practices that we can add to our lives to keep our voices going strong. Building our immune system through: Exercise Good sleep A relaxed mindset Supplements Finding foods that don’t cause extra or thick mucus to our voices. Mucus can be heathy

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Episode 038 | Tara B | Teaching Voice Online

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/05/11

Tara pivots this week to chat specifically to voice teachers who have been affected by this COVID-19 time. She looks at different ways to help teachers transition into online teaching smoothly and with practical helps to get started. Online teaching can be a blessing to students who need the consistency and structure. It’s a way to continue that and the continuity with “seeing” your student and feeling connected to them. But it also can more time consuming for the teachers themselves. Platforms that

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Episode 037 | Whitney Cytryn | The Singing Straw and...

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/04/27

Music Artist and Voice teacher Whitney Cytryn shares today all about the company she founded called The Singing Straw. She show us how this tiny straw tool can change the ways that we take care of our voices—both for singers and for speakers. Whitney teachers us how a straw/straws can help our singing be easier, more efficient and very healthy! In her early years, Whitney had no interest in being a teacher—she just wanted to be a singer. In her 20’s she found a teacher she connected with in

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Episode 036 | Sandra Holten | A Music Therapist...

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2020/04/13

Music Therapist, Sandra Holten, talks with Tara about the use of auditory tools that help with some of life’s physical disabilities, including the voice. The brain is used to bypass some of these ailments and therefore create change for those who struggle daily. “The brain is our big motherboard”, she says. This approach is educating the brain but melds the traits in music with physical action. Listen to this eye-opening revelation! Music Therapy (MT) has biblical history with David calming

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Episode 035 | Tara B | Handy Exercises for the...

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/03/30

Today is an episode where YOU get to sing. Whether you are on your way to audition, warming up to sing in a choir, or doing cool downs after singing at a gig, this episode will be perfect for your voice to keep up optimum health! Tara includes SOVT’s, vocalises for flexibility, and a special blend of exercises for maximum effect on maintaining a strong, rich, sonorous voice. Exercises that are SOVT: Straw exercise: 1-3-5-4-2-7-1-3-5-4-2-7-1 Lip buzz or rolled r’s: 1-5-1 (slides) Hums:

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Episode 034 | Tara B | Opera 101: A Singer's Guide

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/03/16

What comes to your mind with the word opera? For many people, it can be a negative thought or at best neutral. Tara shares with you today some history and snippets on what opera is really about and why it can be a very likable entertainment option. She also talks about the singers and what makes them so amazing! Tara didn’t really grow up with opera and had somewhat of a a distaste for it—in her lack of knowledge and experience. Opera started in the 16th century. Dafni was the first drama

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Episode 033 | Tara B | What Voice Type Are You?

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/03/02

Think of your own voice – how it sounds and how it comes across in your performing. There is such uniqueness in it because you are, YOU! In this episode you will find help to narrow down your very own niche. It may lead you into more assurance of your style and possibly may launch you into even other genres of music that fit your voice and lead to our goal of ease, health and pure singing enjoyment! Why classify a voice? For comfort and ease. Adriana Festeu writes on the online article Voice

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Episode 032 | Tara B | How to Sing Harmony Part 2

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/02/17

To continue with the subject of harmony, Tara takes us deeper into the different ways it can be put together. If you know what is happening in a musical piece, it will help you to hear individual parts and then be able to make it up. She breaks down the components that you hear in everyday songs – the complexity is inviting and a delightful challenge. "Harmony is much about training our ears to hear a musical part that is different from the regular melody" Intervals - a measurement of the

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Episode 031 | Tara B | How to Sing Harmony Part 1

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/02/03

Today's episode explores that wonder called Harmony. It takes some practice, but to the active listener or performer, harmony bursts out of its "shadow" and is found. Tara gives example sound bites to help aid the listener to find that sometime-hidden harmony in so many songs. You will learn the beginnings of harmony and that it really is an attainable goal - step by step. Tara’s own definition of Harmony - "Musical harmony works well together - it fits and makes sense." The Beginnings:

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Episode 030 | Bree Noble | The Music Biz Expert as a...

The Engaging Performer ·

2020/01/20

Bree Noble is a well known name in the music business industry in mentoring other singers and artists. In today’s show, Tara chats with Bree about her own singing journey and how she still stays healthy and motivated in continuing to be a performer alongside being a marketing and biz expert. Bree’s first public outlet for singing was in a kid’s church choir in some musicals where she soloed. Her introduction to choral music was in her 8th grade English class where some older choir members visited

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Episode 029 | Fiona Flyte | The Singerpreneur Mindset

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2020/01/06

In continuing the journey of wholistic health for our voice and body, Tara chats with a pro musician who takes us on a little different journey of the singing voice. This episode features Fiona Flyte, the Singer’s Biz Coach. Fiona shares her story about how she became a singer and entrepreneur and how her journey has led her to help other singers. She delves into the mindset behind being a Singerpreneur and gives singers some ways that they can start a vocal studio. If you are a singer and want to

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Episode 028 | Tara B | My Singing Journey

The Engaging Performer ·

2019/12/23

Today, Tara shares her journey of singing—how it started when she was a wee little girl and how it was woven through the years of being raised in a Minnesota pastor’s family. Her growing up years gave her a love for singing that eventually solidified to became her passion. She shares how she got into teaching and the journey from teen pop singer to adult classical and jazz singer. Music was all around Tara growing up—in church, at home through records and the radio and gathering around the

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Episode 027 | Katie Zaccardi | Mental Health Wellness...

The Engaging Performer ·

2019/12/09

In this episode, Katie Zaccardi helps us look at what it means to have wellness in our life as a musician. She talks about how mindset and beliefs can affect our physical health and cause anxiety or stress. In singing, this can exacerbate having tension in the voice or the voice not working properly. Join us for this discussion about our life as musicians being balanced in wellness. (3:31) Katie started as a musical theater nerd and quickly morphed into taking non-traditional piano lessons.

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Episode 026 | Tara B | SOVT Vocalises

The Engaging Performer ·

2019/11/25

In today’s episode, Tara explains what SOVT exercises are and then gives the listener a sampling of these type of exercises to sing along with at home. Singers can use these vocalises for warmups or cool downs on a daily basis. (1:02) SOVT—semi-occluded vocal tract exercises Semi-occluded = partially blocked (2:23) Voice Science Works says without the back pressure of singing, our vocal folds couldn’t maintain vibration. (3:10) Positive air pressure pulls vocal folds apart—abduction

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Episode 025 | Micheal Trimble | The Power of Breath

The Engaging Performer ·

2019/11/11

At 81, Micheal Trimble is still helping the vocal world with his great knowledge of the voice and singing in operas through the years. He reiterates time and again how breath is the core of the everything in singing—how the way you take the breath and where you take it affects everything! (2:30) MIchael didn’t sing until he was 19. He had been on a football scholarship to college at the time. (3:45) “The bigger the drum, the bigger the sound” (6:39) The secret for MIchael in staying vocally

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