r&b

New School R&B: Creating toplines with Kelsey Vaz

R&B singer/songwriter talks about how to work with beats supplied by producers and performing live.

AND we announce the RocketMan contest: Win 2 free tickets to the invite only advanced screening of the Elton John biopic, Rocketman, Wednesday, June 29th in Toronto. The special email address is given out at the end of the podcast!

Listen to the show!

What We Talked About:

Put You On Lyrics
Focus Lyrics – K Vaz + M Moore
https://www.instagram.com/kelseyvaz/
https://www.youtube.com/KelsVaz
https://www.facebook.com/KelseyVazMusic/

Writing blue-eyed soul with Jeremy Voltz

by Neel Modi

Crazy talented Jeremy Voltz joined us with his Stevie Wonder inspired, but totally original songs, In the Clear and Wrong With Me.

We talked about:

CounterMeasure
the advantages of regularly performing at open mics
getting inspiration for your songs from life situations
how to make subtle changes between sections of your song
how to write lyrics sheets that don’t suck
how to make AAAA rhyme schemes work
working with cliches
101 Songwriting Wrongs and How to Right Them
working that one line until it works

Listen to the show

Download the lyrics

In the Clear

Wrong with Me

Watch the live performances

Connect with Jeremy

Artist website:
http://jeremyvoltz.com

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/jervoltz

Facebook:
http://facebook.com/jeremyvoltzmusic

YouTube:
http://youtube.com/user/yardapeJV

SoundCloud / MySpace:
http://soundcloud.com/jeremy-voltz