Singing Lesson & Voice Training Blog|
Jun 26
2010
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It wasn’t that long ago that I was sending for karaoke catalogues to find material for my students who wanted to sing pop. You’d look up a song and find it on a CD with 10 other songs you couldn’t care less about, so your song track ended up costing $20 plus shipping. Then some companies started advertising custom karaoke CDs. You’d send them a list of the songs you wanted and they would make up your custom CD at $5 a song, minimum 5 songs, plus shipping. Forget about getting anything that was currently popular - the tracks weren’t available yet.
Now we’re not even dealing with CDs at all. Everyone just downloads a song on itunes at .99 a pop, no shipping, and you have it instantly on your ipod. And everything is available. So here is the new protocol for working on pop music with karaoke tracks at Christina Rovics Vocal Studio: the student downloads the track on their ipod at home and we work with the I pod at the lesson, hooking it up to our sound system. It is possible for us to download the track here and make a CD for you and charge you for the download and the CD, but that wastes valuable lesson time. Also, it is important to bring printouts of the lyrics, as printing lyrics on lesson time in the studio also wastes lesson time.