 okay well i love to write, sing, and play music. so i want to write a song. but i need some help getting started, i want to write a song about like a cinderella fairytale, does anyone have any ideas??(: thanks -http://www.rhymezone.com/ is a website to help you find rhymes (if you want them) and think about rhyming patterns - Think about syllables in your song instead of amount of words because it will flow more - Use alliteration, repetition, similes etc - Think about the shape of it all. Do you want the lines all the same length? Do you want a pattern? - Remind yourself it’s all about love -Think of what genre (Pop, Rock, Metal etc) - Get inspired, or use something that has happened in your life - Symbolism - It is all about emotions, so express the emotion in the song, so in your case, it would be love - Since you’re doing fairytale, think of the storyline in it
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I am a female singer taking voice lessons and i need a new song to sing. Please try for something relatively new and modern.
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Is being in a couple plays and a couple acting classes enough? and being able to sing, dance, and play the guitar, if that even matters?? please help!! At this level agents merely poach up and coming talent from smaller agencies and other large agencies. That means actors who’ve already done a few films, a few tv shows etc. It takes years, not a few classes.
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im good at singing but my throat really hurts because i think i sing from my throat and not my stomach, i think if i sang from my stomach i would be able to sing even better and reach higher notes without hurting my voice, any ideas? The best way to learn is to place your hand on the centre of your chest just below your rib cage. When you breath in, make sure your hand is lifted up away from your body as your lungs fill with air. Then as you breath out your hand should go back down again. Do this a few times, making sure each time that your stomach expands as you breath in, and contracts as you breath out. Now choose a note that’s in the middle of your range. Breath in using the technique above then sing that note for as long as you can until it feels like there’s no more breath in your stomach. Repeat this a few times. Then see if you can sing a scale upwards using one breath to the top, then another to sing down again. You will be exhausted after this and you should feel your stomach muscles having had a work out. Hope that helps. If you want to hear me singing, have a listen to http://www.myspace.com/howardalansinclair. H.
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I’m a pretty good singer, but I’ve been trying to sing "100 Years" by five for fighting, but I just can’t get that high, my voice keeps cracking (I’m a guy). But I’m really determined to get it, is there anything I can practice? Thanks in advance!
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I have a audition tommorow and i would like to learn some short/easy anime songs to learn! It’s meant for people with high voices and it’s relatively easy to sing. also a good one is Mermaid Melody – Legend of Mermaid
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I have really bad anger and its getting worse. My boyfriend is convinced that i have an anger problem and am bipolar. im kinda worried myself and i would like to know what to do or any sings of bipolar or if i need to see a doctor.
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A school you can attend anytime of the day or night, Virtual Education will become the next reality. Will
On the advantages of virtual, text-based discussions:
“… In all my years of teaching classes, there are always some students in the class who are very hard to get to speak up. You can ask them a direct question, but basically, unless they are put on the spot, these students will not volunteer their own opinions in class, and I think that there are various reasons why people are reticent and don’t want to do that. Sometimes I think people are shy and don’t want to be put on the spot — all the conversation stops, and everyone turns to look at them. In some cases, students for whom English is not their first language, it really can be an intimidating thing to have to extemporaneously put together English sentences like that in a classroom environment. In Virtual Classrooms, that problem of students not participating in class discussions just totally disappeared. And when I thought about it, these reasons, these challenges of speaking up in a regular class went away in this environment. In Second Life, when you want to contribute something to the class discussion, you just go ahead and start typing it in your chat box, and nobody turns to look at you, even if they do notice that your avatar is doing the typing motions, they are not actually looking at you, it’s just your avatar, and your avatar is not doing anything embarrassing. When you are ready to enter your comment into the conversation, you just hit enter. And it doesn’t have that moment where everybody stops and looks at you. Your comment just goes right into the conversation, along with everybody else’s. So i think a lot of the anxiety that goes along with the public-speaking aspect of participating in class discussions, is just removed in this environment. On the flip side, we didn’t have any trouble with students who dominate the discussion. There’s always been the phenomenon of the student who ends every sentence with a conjunction in order to not stop their comment, and you can do that as much as you like in Second Life, and it doesn’t stop anybody else from participating in the discussions. What’s nice about that is very frequently people who usually speak a lot in class have a lot of very good things to contribute, and it’s hard as a teacher to shut somebody down in order to make space for other students, especially if you do feel that you want to be encouraging of their interest and enthusiasm. And this just takes away that problem as well. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. “The idea that I would actually end up almost preferring to run a class in a virtual environment to a real-based environment, that was a huge surprise.” It started in 1998 with website Groups. Students could read stories and write online, and share lessons and activities with other schools and teachers around the world. This was linked with epals. They created an extensive list of schools and teachers who were interested in connecting first for writing experiences for their students, and today in shared projects and linked forums and websites withepals, with their school and classroom links . It went ahead with websites in early 2004, using first on-line lessons and online courses and activities. Websites began offering free lesson plans and Activity sheets, and became an online source. The next step was Moodle, and student tasks on-line with journals, activities and projects. Sitepals, Virtual heads, and talk-back features started with ALICE I used my first Alice, who is still on my first English website From here the start of using the voice developed with podcasts, recordings, and news and the ‘English Voice became the English Voice in Korea, then in China and now simply, “News and Views” Suddenly the technology was there for the Online Classroom, and the start of the Virtual Classroom and the Virtual School http://Activeenglishspeaking.com Lessons are held on two platforms…wiziq and edufire Lessons take place in a Virtual Classroom which has everything a real classroom has….a teacher, students, a whiteboard, a chatline and the sharing of file, images, and any other teaching tool and teaching aide. Classes can even be run by two teachers in a team situation. Advantages: You select your class, time and teacher and study when you wish. The lesson is also available for revision and replay, which is a feature the real classroom does not have. Lessons can be one-to- one, or group. A teacher can take 100 or more students in one session. In China, the large classes often meant that students at the back do not get the same attention. Here all students get the same attention, and lessons can be replayed if needed as many times as the student wishes. The lesson becomes a students possession like a textbook. The Lesson format is the same as a normal Classroom. The text is replaced by a Power Point. The lesson is read by the teacher with the students following the words like a Presentation. After the lesson, there is interactive activities using the whiteboard and student voice through a webcam and microphone. Students who are reticent, can practise the lesson in a replay, and listen to their own voices. Student and Teacher tools…a computer with a microphone and a webcam. Cost of the lessons…bulk lessons from $2.00 a lesson, and private lessons around $20-$30 a session. No insurance, no travelling, no being late for class, ( simply replay the lesson later and catch up on the part you have missed) and no building or maintenance costs, tasks, or issues. You simply enrol and take part in the lesson…at your leisure. You can now learn anything online….free and paid lessons. I am teaching English, but I will also be teaching Social Skills, Creative Writing and later, Art and Computer Technology, extending to a full School Day of as many hours as the student wishes to take.
You are invited to view the Free Public lesson and see how the Virtual Classroom works for yourself. The first lesson is on January 5th 2009 at 9.30pm Korean time (+8hours) Will Virtual Education take over Real Schools? With so many social problems and people resorting to Home Schooling their children, Virtual Education could well become the next generation. With so much increased mobility and change of home and schools, here is one permanent security. You keep the same school and teacher, wherever you live and work, and when you travel, your school comes with you. There is no bullying, no negative influences and no teacher student dissent. You stay where you enjoy and want to learn, and you learn at your own pace and own level o ability. You attend because you want to, and you are free to repeat lessons and replay the sessions you enjoy. You can request the courses and lessons you wish to learn, at any level or stage, and you can move from class to class at your own leisure and pleasure. Learning becomes what you choose to do, and is Student Directed. Welcome to the New World of Virtual Education. It is here to stay, and can only get better. You and the Teacher is Reality in a Virtual Classroom and World. Marguerite Carstairs 2009 Activeenglishspeaking.com
Copyright © 2008 Ladymaggic Maggi Carstairs
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The 18th arrondissement of northern Paris is located on the Right Bank of the Seine River. Its land area is about 2.3 square miles (a sliver over six square kilometers). The population is one hundred eighty five thousand and the area is home to about seventy thousand jobs. The distinctive Moulin Rouge (Red Mill or windmill) is the central highlight of this historic district. It is one of the world’s best-known nightclubs or to use the French term, cabaret. The Moulin Rouge was built in 1889 by the owner of the Olympia, Paris’s oldest music hall located in the neighboring ninth district. You can’t miss this building because of the imitation red windmill on the roof. Josephine Baker, Frank Sinatra, Mistinguett, Edith Piaf, and many other famous entertainers regularly played the Moulin Rouge. The story has it that Elvis had a crush on a can-can dancer and never went to Paris without stopping at the Moulin Rouge. This cabaret’s most unusual star was undoubtedly Joseph Pujol, who performed under the name Le Petomane. His act consisted of “singing” from a rather unexpected body opening. His “songs” included the French National Anthem, La Marseillaise, and an imitation of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. I’m told Sigmund Freud used to catch his act. Believe it or not, for many years Pujol was the highest-paid entertainer in France. A present-day British comedian Mr. Methane dressed like a superhero does the same sort of thing, but to my knowledge has not played the Moulin Rouge. This historic cabaret, arguably the site where striptease was born, has been immortalized in paintings by Toulouse Lautrec and to a lesser extent by two films nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award, the 1952 version starring Jose Ferrer and Zsa-Zsa Gabor and the 2001 version starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. Butte Montmartre is a hill about four hundred feet (one hundred thirty meters) high not very much more than a hop, skip, and a jump away from the Moulin Rouge. Its height and natural beauty have attracted religious ceremonies since time immemorial. Montmartre was probably used for druid ceremonies in the distant past. It once hosted a temple to the Roman god of war Mars. Saint Denis, the Bishop of Paris and the patron saint of France, founded a church there before he was martyred in the mid-Third Century. His church, the relatively unknown Saint Pierre de Montmartre, claims to be the founding location of the Jesuit order of priests. You are more likely to visit the hill’s other church, the Basilica du Sacre Coeur (Basilica of the Sacred Heart) described below. The area itself was the site of the first Paris Commune insurrection in 1870-1871 and its former gypsum mines serve as unmarked tombs for many partisans of this French revolution. The whole affair was pretty bloody and the Archbishop of Paris was one of its many martyrs. When Paris was reconstructed in the Eighteenth Century by Napoleon III and his minion Baron Hausmann, the poor people of Paris were driven out of the city center to Montmartre and other parts of the outskirts. From the late Nineteenth Century until the end of World War One Montmartre was home to the artists and their milieu. Among those who hung their hats in Montmartre were Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh. The list goes on and on. In later years the artistic center of Paris, and in fact the world, switched from Montmartre to Montparnasse located in the south of Paris. In 1965 in his famous song La Boheme the popular French singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour tells the story of a painter reminiscing about his youth in a Montmartre that has ceased to exist: Je ne reconnais plus/Ni les murs, ni les rues/Qui ont vu ma jeunesse/En haut d’un escalier/Je cherche l’atelier/Dont plus rien ne subsiste/Dans son nouveau decor/Montmartre semble triste/Et les lilas sont morts (’I no longer recognize/Neither the walls nor the streets/That had seen my youth/At the top of a staircase/I look for an atelier/Of which nothing survives/In its new decor/Montmartre seems sad/And the lilacs are dead’). Montmartre is no longer bohemian. But what is? If you stroll around the Place du Tertre you won’t have any trouble finding artists, some of whom are struggling. Many renowned artists and other cultural figures such as Jacques Offenbach and Francois Truffault are buried in the Cimetiere de Montmartre (Montmartre Cemetery). In 1873 Paris city council expropriated land at the summit of Montmartre for the construction of the Basilica. The foundation stone was laid in 1875 and the church was opened for services in 1891. The Basilica was only completed in 1914, and formally dedicated after the end of World War I. Go to top of the dome for a spectacular panoramic view of Paris, which lies mostly to the south. The church and its surroundings have often starred in films, most recently the 2001 movie Amelie. You may want to take the funicular (cable-car) to get to the top of the hill. Among Montmartre’s museums you will find the Musee de Montmartre, the house where the painter Maurice Utrillo lived and worked in a second-floor studio. Several other well-known artists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir lived here. In 1990 his painting Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre featuring local people sold for more than $78 million. You might also want to stop by the Espace Dalí, a museum devoted to the famous Spanish painter Salavdor Dalí. More extensive collections of his work are found in Figueres, Spain and Saint Petersburg, Florida. Another museum is the Musee de l’erotisme in the nearby Pigalle section of the district. Do you need a translation? When we launched this series we promised you a Paris vineyard. The fifteenth arrondissement in southern Paris also hosts a vineyard. But Montmartre’s vineyard is much more famous. Local intellectuals planted the vineyard in 1934. They chose a northern exposure (is Paris really that hot, temperature wise?) and organized the first grape picking a year after the planting, about three years too early. This ceremony attracted both the President of the French Republic and the Minister of Agriculture. With the exception of the World War II years, every October the grapes are picked and wine is made in the cellar of the Mairie (the local City Hall). Local artists paint labels for the bottles, sold in April at a charity auction. Yet one more reason to visit Paris and Montmartre in the spring. Of course you don’t want to tour Paris without sampling fine French wine and food. Let me suggest a sample menu: Start with Foie Gras avec Gelee de Viognier (Goose Liver Pate with Viognier Jelly). For your second course savor Chevreau a l’Ail et Herbes Sauvages (Baby Goat with Garlic and Wild Herbs). And as dessert indulge yourself with Granite aux Pommes et Calvados (Apple and Calvados Ice). Your Parisian sommelier (wine steward) will be happy to suggest appropriate wines to accompany each course. Levi Reiss
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No matter what type of music you fancy, all you have to do is listen to the radio and you’ll find beautiful singing voices. People like Patsy Cline and Josh Groban immediately come to mind as two of the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard. And let’s face it, we’d all love to be able to sing like those two velvet throated virtuosos. Well, believe it or not, it’s not as hard as you might thing. In this article, I’m going to share 3 killer tips that will improve your singing 100%.
Probably the most important part of singing is the breathing. Most people who sing, even some professional pop singers, do NOT breathe correctly. The correct way to breathe is from your diaphragm, which is just below your rib cage. By doing this, and slowly exhaling as you let out the tone, you will get a fuller and rounder tone, as opposed to singing from your throat, which is what most people do.
The next tip has to do with hitting those high notes. The problem with most people when they sing is that they try to hit that high C exactly. What you actually need to do is reach for slightly above high C, then in actuality what happens is that you hit the note that you were trying to hit. It’s more of a psychological trick than a physical one, but it does work very well.
The final tip has to do with your vocal chords. You need to think of them the same way that you would think of the strings of a piano. The lower notes are longer and the strings are thicker. The higher notes are shorter and the strings are thinner. Thus, when you are singing, you need to shorten the vocal chords when you sing your higher notes, otherwise, the sound will not come out.
Well, it sounds very easy doesn’t it? If only you had a tutor. Well, not a problem. Below in my signature is a review of a great resource that will have you singing like a pro in no time at all.
You may not sing like the next American Idol, but you’ll sound darn good. Jill Sprouse
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