musicalhotspot.com
Musical Hotspot: Background
http://www.musicalhotspot.com/p/background.html
Philosophies of committing, performing, and supporting as an impro musician. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Most recent Musical Hotspot articles. General how-to articles on music for improv theatre. Techniques on song construction for both musicians and actor/singers. General philosophies, and getting started. Equipment, tools, and useful keyboard patches for accompanying improv. War stories, blog news, and other ephemera. Ways you can keep up to date on new material. Smart Enough to Know Better.
musicalhotspot.com
Musical Hotspot: Songs
http://www.musicalhotspot.com/p/songs.html
Articles about constructing improvised songs, for musicians and actors. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Most recent Musical Hotspot articles. General how-to articles on music for improv theatre. Techniques on song construction for both musicians and actor/singers. General philosophies, and getting started. Equipment, tools, and useful keyboard patches for accompanying improv. War stories, blog news, and other ephemera. Ways you can keep up to date on new material. Smart Enough to Know Better.
musicalhotspot.com
Musical Hotspot: Three-Way Chorus Circle
http://www.musicalhotspot.com/2010/10/three-way-chorus-circle.html
Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Back when we were discussing counterpoint. It sure sounded like a difficult sort of technique to learn. There's an exercise that makes it all much easier. If you're teaching a workshop, or working with your group on new techniques, it's worth giving this a try. This exercise is based on another one we've covered earlier, Chorus Circle. Now that the first group has committed it to memory, keep the same vamp going and do the same exercise with a second group. The second gro...
musicalhotspot.com
Musical Hotspot: Something's Gonna Change/Extraordinary Day
http://www.musicalhotspot.com/2010/07/somethings-gonna-changeextraordinary.html
Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Something's Gonna Change/Extraordinary Day. Lovers' duets can form some of the most memorable parts of an improvised musical. We've discussed them before, in a great series by Luke Rimmelzwaan. And Bringing It All Together. All of those entries featured examples from One Bride for Seven Brothers. Impro Mafia's first themed fully-improvised musical. Our story so far. Luke's character Napkin Ring has been established as the young enthusiastic pup of the Hoity Toitys. Kiesten's cha...
musicalhotspot.com
Musical Hotspot: Workshop Games - Emotional Symphony
http://www.musicalhotspot.com/2008/12/workshop-games-emotional-symphony.html
Friday, December 12, 2008. Workshop Games - Emotional Symphony. Here's a good workshop game to warm people up and get them making noise. Divide the group up in to three or four similarly sized groups. The teacher stands in the middle, with the groups clustered around them. Each group chooses an emotion. a happy emotion for these guys, a sad one for these guys, a weird one for these guys. Then ask them to make up a sound to go with that emotion, and do it simultaneously as a group. This is heaps of fun to...
musicalhotspot.com
Musical Hotspot: You Can Never Go Home
http://www.musicalhotspot.com/2010/10/you-can-never-go-home.html
Wednesday, October 6, 2010. You Can Never Go Home. Most songs (impro or otherwise) tend to revolve around a root chord, their home chord. A song in the key of C might start with a C major chord, meander around to other places, but keep checking in back to C major. But not always. You can create a certain tension in a song by avoiding that home chord. I've become addicted to Katy Perry's song Teenage Dream. Lately. (Hear that? This reminded me of a song we did in Worst Side Story. Extraordinary Day. Was o...
musicalhotspot.com
Musical Hotspot: Misc
http://www.musicalhotspot.com/p/misc.html
News from Musical Hotspot, stories, and random odd stuff. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Most recent Musical Hotspot articles. General how-to articles on music for improv theatre. Techniques on song construction for both musicians and actor/singers. General philosophies, and getting started. Equipment, tools, and useful keyboard patches for accompanying improv. War stories, blog news, and other ephemera. Ways you can keep up to date on new material. Who we are, why we're here, contact information.
musicalhotspot.com
Musical Hotspot: Interview with Robbie Ellis
http://www.musicalhotspot.com/2010/11/interview-with-robbie-ellis.html
Wednesday, November 3, 2010. Interview with Robbie Ellis. Robbie has shorter hair now. Really. Friend of Musical Hotspot, Robbie Ellis, was interviewed recently by Renée Liang for New Zealand website The Big Idea. Robbie has a pretty varied musical background, studying, writing and performing music, as well as working on radio as a presenter and producer. He's also one of New Zealand's most experienced improv musicians. Read the article " Cultural Storytellers: Robbie Ellis. Wednesday, November 03, 2010.
musicalhotspot.com
Musical Hotspot: Subscribe
http://www.musicalhotspot.com/p/subscribe.html
There are a few ways you can be notified of new material on Musical Hotspot. Get full articles in your RSS reader by subscribing to the RSS feed. Don't know what RSS means? You know email, right? Have new articles emailed to you by signing up for emails. We won't spam you, you'll only get articles as they're posted, and you can cancel at any time. Audio clips featured on Musical Hotspot can be downloaded automatically using a podcast program. You can subscribe using iTunes. Or subscribe using RSS. Is use...
