What Makes a Good Vocalist?

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Peter Martin

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🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, Adam.
0:00.9	Yes.
0:01.4	Do you know how to sing like Ray Charles?
0:04.0	You know I do.
0:05.0	Oh, let me hear a little bit.
0:06.0	Nope.
0:06.8	Oh.
0:56.9	I'm Adam Manus. And I'm Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast. Daily jazz advice coming at you. You know the... Oh, sorry. I was going to go right into it. I was going to go right into it. I was going to say, why are you getting so shy you were singing before we went on? You're busting out a little Ray Charles. Ray Charles gets me amped. Ray Charles was a master. I can't. Great pianist, keyboardists as well. Excellent piano. There's a video we shared a couple years ago on, I think it was our Open Studio Facebook page of him playing a slow blues on a roads that is just like. Lying it down. Dang. Yeah. So anyway, we're not talking about, well, we're not talking about Ray Charles.
1:01.5	Well, we kind of are, because the subject today is what makes a good vocalist, although he would be a great voice.
1:05.9	Did you name this good vocalist on purpose as opposed to great?
1:06.9	Are you trying to say something?
1:09.3	Are you trying to say good, better, best?
1:11.4	Are you trying to say average good and great?
1:12.7	It wasn't really even thinking about it like that. You weren't thinking about it. Okay. We're going to leave it the same.
1:14.9	This is from Suzanne in Taiwan, a premium member.
1:18.4	Hey, open studio. Hello, Peter and Adam. This is Suzanne from Taiwan. First of all, thank you so
1:25.6	much for this wonderful podcast.
1:28.0	It's the only reason that I use the podcast app on my phone.
1:32.0	I was wondering if you could do one episode on vocalists in jazz.
1:37.4	What skills do instrumentalists expect from a vocalist?
1:41.6	What makes a singer fun to work with?
1:43.8	And what are some things that
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