The Engaging Performer

In today's episode,Tara gives you many fun and creative ways to contact people. Getting ahold of people to book can be a daunting task but she addresses this straight on with straight up solutions for musicians who are working hard to get gigs. Where you can find Tara: www.tarabrueske.com   Instagram : @tarabrueskemusic     Facebook: @tarabmusician   Tara's new book: 20 Must Have Booking Tips Ever...

In today's episode,Tara delves into the subject of using your speaking voice in a confident way that helps you network and build relationships with others. She talks of physical aspects of the voice that can help and then gives the listener tips on what to actually say to start and hold conversations!     Where you can find Tara: www.tarabrueske.com   Instagram : @tarabrueskemusic     Facebook: @t...

In today's episode,Tara shares the microphone with fellow musician Bree Noble—CEO of Profitable Musician and the Female Entrepreneur Music Academy. They talk about the difficulty of rejection, how they each have personally experienced it many times and some helps to face it head on!   www.tarabrueske.com   Instagram : @tarabrueskemusic     Facebook: @tarabmusician   Tara's new book: 20 Must Have B...

In today's episode,Tara talks about her new role as a choir conductor and gives you 7 reasons how being a part of choir can make you into a better singer all around!     How to get ahold of Tara: www.tarabrueske.com Instagram : @tarabrueskemusic     Facebook: @tarabmusician     Helpful tools for singing: 1.The Singing Straw: https://singingstraw.com/discount/tarab10?ref=tarab10 Use Code: tarab10  ...

In today's episode,Tara introduces listeners to what this podcast will cover and why it can be so helpful to musicians in today's world that want to be amazing performers and get gigs! www.tarabrueske.com   Instagram : @tarabrueskemusic     Facebook: @tarabmusician   Tara's new book: 20 Must Have Booking Tips Every Musician Needs: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=20+must+have+booking+tips&crid=27VFUJNXZ...

Tara gives an update of her recent musical journey and her book as well as telling about a brand new podcast show coming soon! Look for THE ENGAGING PERFORMER! www.tarabrueske.com Facebook: @tarabrueskemusic Instagram: @tarabrueskemusic

In today's episode,Tara chats once again with her cousin Lisa Gebhard and is put in the hot seat to answer common questions about singing! Enjoy this episode part 2 as a follow up to their first time in February 2021. Here are some of the questions and topics we deal with: Why do some singers sound so different as their voice ages? Why does the pitch change or the tone and timbre of the sound? Why...

In today's episode,Tara shares some of her favorite helpful apps and products that will help you be a healthy and confident singer!   Some of my favorite products, apps, singing helps: The Singing Straw   You can use it for warmups or cool downs. Here is a link to get 10% off: https://bit.ly/SingingStrawTara Use code tarab10 Vocal Eze Throat spray that has honey, echinacea, ginger, and more. Manuk...

In today's episode,Tara chats about an alternate way of educating yourself to become a professional musician that doesn't include the college route of a music degree. Tara herself, having a Music degree and yet being in the music biz for over 30 years, gives the listener her take on why college might not be the best way in today's world of music performing.   The costs of a college degree is super...

In today's episode,Tara chats about the challenges and strengths of being a singer/performer who is introverted. She chats from her own experience of being an introvert, as well as from working with other introverts. These might be things introverts struggle with: Performance anxiety Networking and self/promotion Trying to balance alone time and social engagements Collaborating with musicians in g...

In today's episode,Tara gives you steps   that can help you teach a voice lesson. Practical tips to help you know what to do in a weekly lesson with a voice student.     Get to know how your student is doing that day. Have the student do some simple stretching or massage parts of their body. (Using a Gua Sha is great for this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074SL6JNN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title...

In today's episode,Tara talks to music fitness coach Angela McCuiston, the founder of Music Strong LLC, a business that specializes in personal fitness training for musicians! We explore her own personal journey of a music related injury and her healing as well as how she helps musicians get healthy in their body and stay healthy!     Angela developed an injury from playing the flute (which was he...

In today's episode,Tara talks gives some very practical exercises for your warmups that will help with engaging and maintaining breath. She focuses on specific exercises to help with breath pressure and the speed of the airflow! Vocal warmups to help you get and maintain great breath: Put your back in a sitting position against the wall and take some nose breaths. Slow arpeggio of a lip buzz and p...

In today's episode,Tara talks gives some very solid and practical tips to help you memorize songs for your shows, whether a few songs or many!     You can get the singing straw here: https://singingstraw.com/discount/tarab10?ref=tarab10 Use code for discount: tarab10   The article on people's capability to memorize: https://www.lpm.org/news/2018-01-25/how-many-songs-can-our-brains-actually-remembe...

In today's episode,Tara talks about the difficulties of doing followups and ways to make them easier to do so that you actually book the gig!     You can get the singing straw here: https://singingstraw.com/discount/tarab10?ref=tarab10 Use code for discount: tarab10   "When people do a follow up one time and they don't hear back from somebody, they assume they are already being rejected. They assu...

In today's episode, Tara interviews two long time professional singers and gets the low down on the ups and downs of being a professional singer!   Both Lisa and Jana grew up in musical families and had singers they looked up to like Linda Ronstadt, Chaka Khan, Sheena Easton, Donny and Marie Osmond and more!   They met each other through the Rupert's Orchestra in town in Minneapolis. With mutual r...

In today's episode, Tara dives again into the biz side of singing. In this part two episode, she gives you criteria that will help you figure out what you should be charging for performances. She also shares about creating pricing tiers for different events and needs.   Criteria to set your price for performances: Your skillset as a musician Training that you have had as a musician Practice and re...

In today's episode, Tara dives into the biz side of singing. In this three part series, she covers aspects of booking gigs. Many who are studying voice also want places to share their gift and in this week's part one, Tara shares what are some of the best type of venues to sing and get paid.   There are traditional gigs and non-traditional gigs. The traditional gigs tend to be places like clubs, m...

Today's episode focuses on what it takes to be a professional singer. Pro singers possess many skillsets and Tara dives into many of these skills to help pro singers recognize and value all they know and have experience in.     Here are some of the skills that many professional singers have: Great technique to do all you need to with your voice. Being able to sightread music. Being able to improvi...

Today's episode focuses on ear training—how it's really possible for anyone no matter how they sing. Tara gives some practical tips on how to train your ear, whether you are a singer or a teacher trying to help your voice students! "Being able to match pitch is possible for almost every person".   Ways to help people get good pitch: Pick our high and low pitches in every day life. Visually draw a...

In this episode, Tara talks about how singing in a new situation can be stressful. She brings tools to help!   Things that can help you be calm singing at a brand new place: Get to the place early so you have plenty of time to deal with anything unknown Assess the situation by looking at what things you might need or what the room is like. Pay attention to details. Make sure that you ask as many q...

In this episode, Tara talks about how knowing vowels and consonants and the role they   play in our warmups   can help us!   VOWELS "All of us probably have certain vowels that are just easier to sing."   When we start with a vowel that works and then start singing from that place on other vowels, it can help train our muscle memory to sing with more freedom!   If we start with easy vowels, it wil...

In today's episode,Tara chats about our speaking voices. As singers, we need to take equal care with how we talk so that it doesn't cause problems for us when we sing.   You can Find   The Singer's Feedback Zone here:   https://tarab.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/21   Let me help get you to that next level of singing!   The Speaking Voice—Paying attention to it: You may get a hoarse voi...

In today's episode,Tara chats about the reasons that even pro singers should have some checkins with a voice professional. She also tackles reasons why people sometimes don't get coaches.   Why train if you are a pro? Think about the pro sports world. They constantly train and get better!   Reasons that people might not get training: Based on shame. Not feeling good enough. It might make you look...

In today's episode,Tara chats about some commonalities that automobiles have with singers and why you shouldn't ignore problems that come up with singing. And how to schedule maintenance of your voice!   You can still join the Singer's Feedback Zone before it goes up. Click here: https://tarab.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/21       Do we give our voice the same maintenance that we give...