You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 47.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

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In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips, tricks and insider information

to help you portray characters in animation, video games and beyond.

And now here's your host, voice actor Crispin Freeman.

Hi there, my name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

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This week, I continue my interview with my good friend and amazingly accomplished voice actor Steve Bloom.

In part two of our conversation, we discuss how Steve's musical background helped him improve

his acting skills. We then spend some time breaking down the acting process from a left-brain,

right-brain perspective. Afterwards, we talk about the importance of truly becoming a character and how it's

not something you can accomplish by just following a recipe. I'm sure you'll find it useful.

And now, the feature segment. You also have a music background. Yeah. As a guitarist, right? Yeah. You played in an R&B band?

R&B band, yeah. Nice. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, I tried to do my...

How long had you been playing in the R&B band before you started, did this gig with the Giverr?

I was probably playing for maybe two years. Okay. At that time. And I had played music on and off since I was seven years old.

Right.

And I never really...

Mostly guitar?

Mostly guitar, yeah.

Yeah.

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