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Singing and Playing Solo, Episode 3: Tempo

May 3, 2020

Once I’ve chosen a song, I decide how I’m going to deliver it to the audience.

Episode 3: Tempo

Episode 3 is the third in a series for the solo singing guitarist, both professional and hobbyist, who’d like to know how another soloist goes about his work in rehearsal.

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Episode 2, The Set-up

Singing and Playing Solo, Episode 2: The Set-up

Once I’ve chosen a song, I decide how I’m going to deliver it to the audience.

Episode 2: The Set-up

The second of a series for the solo singing guitarist, both professional and hobbyist, who’d like to know how another soloist goes about his work in rehearsal.

Listen to my brand new Space City Funtet album, BLAST-OFF!

Just click on this ROCKETSHIP!

Also on iTunes:

Whinin’ and Complainin’: Classic Nashville Out-of-Love Songs

The Last Whoop-dee-doo

Richie Kaye’s Music & Mirth

A New York City Subway Christmas

PREVIOUS EPISODE

Episode 1, Intro and choice of key

Singing and Playing Solo, Episode 1: Intro and Choice of Key

April 22, 2020

Ever wonder how I go about deciding what to play?

Once I’ve chosen a song, I decide how I’m going to deliver it to the audience. That involves a number of considerations: the key, for example.

This is the first of a series for the solo singing guitarist, both professional and hobbyist, who’d like to know how another soloist goes about his work in rehearsal.

In addition to key choice, I’ll cover: how I understand and deliver a melody, the considerations regarding the meaning of the song and writer/composer intent, knowing one’s own abilities, the different way to play to a live audience as opposed to a studio recording and the equal importance of technical mastery and in-the-moment joyfulness.

I hope you enjoy it!

Listen to my brand new Space City Funtet album, BLAST-OFF!

Just click on this ROCKETSHIP!

Also on iTunes:

Whinin’ and Complainin’: Classic Nashville Out-of-Love Songs

The Last Whoop-dee-doo

Richie Kaye’s Music & Mirth

A New York City Subway Christmas

Waylon Sings the Wrong Lyric and Nobody Would Notice

February 27, 2018

This is a lot of fun. Demonstrates (to me at least) just how accomplished a performer Waylon was. The song is “Loving Her Was Easier” (Kris Kristofferson).

At about 1:32, he sings “Healing as the colors in the sunshine and the shadows of her eyes.” In the middle of the phrase, you’ll notice a very very tiny smile that comes to his lips and a curious split-second look in his eye. PROBABLY because he just realized he repeated the fourth line by mistake! But covered beautifully, unnoticeably on national television with all that pressure.

The lyric that should have been sung is: “Talking of tomorrow and the money, love and time we had to spend.” Instead, he naturally went with another “ea” sound that started the previous line.