Speaker 1: Pushkin. In my hometown Pennsylvania. I would always go to
Speaker 1: this restaurant and it was this way just named Patty,
Speaker 1: and she was very sweet. I was six years old
Speaker 1: and I remember she was like, it's my birthday and
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll sing you happy birthday, and I
Speaker 1: sang her Happy birthday. And then she would bring me
Speaker 1: around to tables every time we would go eat and
Speaker 1: be like is this person's birthday? Like we do you
Speaker 1: see them every birthday? And I was like sure. And
Speaker 1: then like people would like give me money and I'd
Speaker 1: be like thank you. My parents were like you can't
Speaker 1: take that, Sabrina, what are you doing? You're six? And
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm trying to build a career. What
Speaker 1: do you mean. I gotta start somewhere. That's the ambitious
Speaker 1: Sabrina Carpenter that I know and love, and she did
Speaker 1: turn those childhood dreams into a real career. She started
Speaker 1: multiple movies and TV shows, including Girl Meets World. She
Speaker 1: even played the lead in Broadways Mean Girls. You might
Speaker 1: know from her popular songs on My Way, Skin and
Speaker 1: Thumbs and so keep Death Dumb. The fact that I
Speaker 1: knew at such a young age like this is what
Speaker 1: I want to do for the rest of my life,
Speaker 1: and then I've been able to do it, Like I
Speaker 1: just don't know what else I would ever want to do,
Speaker 1: and so I am very grateful and very lucky. Do
Speaker 1: you remember what age where you actually thought this is
Speaker 1: what I want to do. I was six. It was
Speaker 1: so vivid. I remember watching the pilot episode of Hannah Montana.
Speaker 1: You know, it was Disney's first sort of like show
Speaker 1: about a pop star, like a singer, and I was
Speaker 1: just like, oh my gosh, like I want to do that.
Speaker 1: And so I think after that it kind of was
Speaker 1: essentially just like my goal and I just would always
Speaker 1: draw little pictures of myself like performing for arenas, And
Speaker 1: I was very much like a person that liked to
Speaker 1: down my manifestations and goals and write songs about wanting
Speaker 1: to do that and just always putting it out into
Speaker 1: the universe. So I think the universe listened slightly. I'm
Speaker 1: still listening, but I mean it's it's very powerful that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. This is backstage pass and I'm Eric Betrow.
Speaker 1: I'm a vocal coach to some pretty successful singers on
Speaker 1: this show. I talked to my students about their lives,
Speaker 1: their biggest insecurities, and how they keep building their careers.
Speaker 1: People think the great singers only rely on their natural talents,
Speaker 1: but finding your voice takes a lot of work. Together
Speaker 1: will explore what it really takes to make it big.
Speaker 1: Do you remember one of the first songs you would
Speaker 1: sing when you were younger, like a go to song?
Speaker 1: My mom and dad had such a different music taste.
Speaker 1: My mom was Edda James and Patsy Klein and Maretha Franklin,
Speaker 1: and my dad was like Rush and Ozzie Osbourne and
Speaker 1: Paul McCartney, So they were they were very diverse. But
Speaker 1: I think one of the first songs I ever learned
Speaker 1: was Crazy by Patsy Klein. I was like six or seven,
Speaker 1: and did you sing it a lot? I sang it
Speaker 1: a lot, and it would be that kind of song.
Speaker 1: It would be that or like a Christina agulara song
Speaker 1: that I would take into like auditions because everyone's always like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you sing by the way, and then expecting me
Speaker 1: to sing a Disney song or something, and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: it's like what you probably thought, like, why is she
Speaker 1: a grown man in a small small body? Well, I
Speaker 1: think I did think that I think you sang at last,
Speaker 1: and I was or maybe crazy, and I was like, God,
Speaker 1: she's twelve years old and she's singing this song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've known you since I was twelve. It's amazing to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, if that time flew by. It's been such
Speaker 1: a roller coaster, and I feel like you've you've seen
Speaker 1: me in such interesting like phases of my life now,
Speaker 1: which is wild, and I'm very grateful for it. You know,
Speaker 1: when I met you, you were a bit of a mystery.
Speaker 1: I've told you this before. You were such a combination
Speaker 1: of so many different things. You looked so young. I
Speaker 1: could barely see your face because you had all this blond,
Speaker 1: curly hair. But then when you started talking, you were
Speaker 1: very confident and kind of growing up. But then the
Speaker 1: next minute you would laugh, and I go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: she is really young. Then the next minute you'd say
Speaker 1: something very bold. And I remember when Bill, your managers, said, so,
Speaker 1: how is the session with Sabrina? What do you think?
Speaker 1: I was like, I have no idea whatsoever. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let me do another lesson with her, then I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you were so many elements and what's
Speaker 1: been so great through the years is see all of
Speaker 1: those different elements progress a person almost into a person.
Speaker 1: But also I think that's what makes you so charismatic
Speaker 1: on stage. I think that when people have a lot
Speaker 1: of different elements to them, they are much more watchable
Speaker 1: and interesting on stage. So it's a big compliment from you, well,
Speaker 1: twelve years old, I mean, it's amazing, but you're only
Speaker 1: twenty two, so you're saying only, well, it is only
Speaker 1: you've done a lot. I started at an age where
Speaker 1: I was fearless and I was so excited and curious that,
Speaker 1: like I would go into these rooms with these adults
Speaker 1: that normally now that I go into and I'm terrified
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I gotta do a good job. They
Speaker 1: expect a lot from me. I'm twenty two, and back
Speaker 1: then I was ten, and I was like, I'm cute,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what happens, like they're gonna like me. And
Speaker 1: I think that that's something that I'm very grateful that
Speaker 1: I got to do. I got to experience those things
Speaker 1: at a time where I wasn't overthinking and I wasn't
Speaker 1: boxing myself into what I thought I should be or
Speaker 1: what I thought other people think I should be. I
Speaker 1: had not really thought about that. I mean, I do
Speaker 1: think about young kids when I work with them, that
Speaker 1: they're just not jaded. They don't know how hard or
Speaker 1: how difficult things are going to be. But you saying
Speaker 1: you were fearless at that age, that's a really great observation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I see it now, and it's only because
Speaker 1: I know what I'm capable of now. I think back then,
Speaker 1: you're sort of still learning what you're capable of. You're
Speaker 1: not even thinking about limitations. You're just doing it because
Speaker 1: you're like, this is fun. I love making people smile,
Speaker 1: I love making people laugh. And then as you get older,
Speaker 1: you start to see like, oh, people expect certain things
Speaker 1: from me. I am a brand, I'm a corporation, which
Speaker 1: is not true, but you start to get those things
Speaker 1: in your head as you hear people say them. But
Speaker 1: you know, I always try to remind people, try to
Speaker 1: reconnect with that feeling, try to reconnect with that person
Speaker 1: that you were, and that'll free you from all of that.
Speaker 1: People say so much like you need to go back
Speaker 1: to your roots and remind yourself why you did this
Speaker 1: in the first place. And for me, it's always very
Speaker 1: comforting to go back to the basics of like, oh,
Speaker 1: I just I love singing, I love performing being on
Speaker 1: a stage, I feel the most comfortable and that's why
Speaker 1: I do and that's why I continue to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: would you say that that is the most helpful thing
Speaker 1: with you having anxiety or whenever you do have anxiety,
Speaker 1: or is there any other tips you have. I'm still
Speaker 1: navigating it, to be quite honest, so I don't really
Speaker 1: have like the go to this is what I do
Speaker 1: to cure it. I think it's always different. I think
Speaker 1: sometimes you just need to listen to yourself because you
Speaker 1: will be able to tell what you need, whether that's
Speaker 1: space and time to yourself, whether that's just a big
Speaker 1: deep breath and to relax your shoulders, drop your jaw
Speaker 1: and bend forward and hang loose like a rag doll.
Speaker 1: Like I don't my favorite genuinely though, like I do
Speaker 1: that I shake everything out. I just like I get
Speaker 1: it all out of my system. That's sometimes what I
Speaker 1: need and other times, like I need to go on
Speaker 1: a walk, and other times I need to like call
Speaker 1: a friend and you know, decompress it. Just it always depends.
Speaker 1: But when it's like crunch time and you're about to
Speaker 1: go on stage. I think the deep breath is the
Speaker 1: biggest A deep breath inside exactly. Let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about preparation, like prepping your voice for a tour,
Speaker 1: because that is a big thing. It takes a lot
Speaker 1: of stamina. It's gonna be hard to just get on
Speaker 1: stage and be able to have the control and breath
Speaker 1: and long capacity to be able to be bopping all
Speaker 1: over the place and singing and have control. And you're
Speaker 1: talking before the show. We've talked about this so many times,
Speaker 1: you know, meet and greets and how much that can
Speaker 1: take your voice away depending on how many people you're
Speaker 1: meeting before a show, and trying to preserve that in
Speaker 1: the smartest way possible. So I think for me, it's
Speaker 1: a combination of working out. Maybe it's doing my warm
Speaker 1: ups like on the treadmill, just so I'm moving and
Speaker 1: singing at the same time. Obviously, it's singing and warming
Speaker 1: up every single day, practicing the songs, getting them in
Speaker 1: your body. I think we underestimate like repetition as far
Speaker 1: as like the more that you get a song in
Speaker 1: your system and your voice is comfortable with singing that
Speaker 1: and it's in your body, and it's in your bones,
Speaker 1: you don't have to think about it so much. Then
Speaker 1: the rest kind of comes naturally, which is why we
Speaker 1: do like sing these songs over and over again. I
Speaker 1: want to get into a little bit how we did
Speaker 1: prep for a big show. Yeah, you only got a
Speaker 1: few performance this because that gosh darn pandemic closed everything down,
Speaker 1: which was devastating. But did you feel like your prep
Speaker 1: for Mean Girls on Broadway felt different than prepping for
Speaker 1: a tour? And how was it different? Immensely different in
Speaker 1: a great way. I felt like I was ready for
Speaker 1: the Olympics. I was in dance rehearsals, I was in
Speaker 1: scene rehearsals, I was in vocal rehearsals every single day.
Speaker 1: It was the craziest schedule, but I was constantly working
Speaker 1: out my voice and really working on my mixed register
Speaker 1: that I don't use a lot when I'm singing these
Speaker 1: pop songs, because these songs were in a very different
Speaker 1: place for me that I normally used my voice. It
Speaker 1: was a lot more enunciated, it was a lot more open.
Speaker 1: There was a lot more theatrics and personality in some
Speaker 1: of these songs than I would ever have to use
Speaker 1: on a record where I'm close to a microphone in
Speaker 1: the studio and I'm whispering something and you can kind
Speaker 1: of take it easy. Yeah, well, it's interesting. I think
Speaker 1: for people listening if they don't really know a lot
Speaker 1: about voices and singing, they might go, what is she
Speaker 1: talking about with the mix? And you know a lot
Speaker 1: of pop singers, especially when you write your own music,
Speaker 1: you can kind of tailor the music around your voice,
Speaker 1: so you can be in your lower chess voice or
Speaker 1: your upper head voice, you know, falsetto sound, and you
Speaker 1: don't really have to blend them together because you're working
Speaker 1: around it the way you write the music. Whereas in
Speaker 1: Mean Girls you had to sound like you were belting,
Speaker 1: but you couldn't really belt that high in full chess
Speaker 1: voice every single night. Yeah, eight shows a week, especially
Speaker 1: the notes that were really high. So I remember being
Speaker 1: it concerned and excited all at the same time when
Speaker 1: you told me you were going to do it, because
Speaker 1: I thought, well, we've got to make sure to do
Speaker 1: it right in order to maintain your voice so you
Speaker 1: never lose it, but also to work at it. So
Speaker 1: how exciting that you're going to work at this part
Speaker 1: of your voice, which you never really had to do before,
Speaker 1: and now you're going to walk away with a new
Speaker 1: skill and using your voice definitely, And it was so
Speaker 1: exciting to see how much it did grow stronger over
Speaker 1: that time period. And I was hitting notes that maybe
Speaker 1: before I would have taken quite a bit more effort
Speaker 1: because I knew exactly where to place them. I got
Speaker 1: to step into shoes that I don't necessarily get to
Speaker 1: be in all the time, and really stretch myself and
Speaker 1: push myself in a way that I don't always get
Speaker 1: to do when I'm just you know, writing songs for
Speaker 1: Sabrina um my alter ego, right exactly. One of the
Speaker 1: exercises we did to blend the voices was sliding up
Speaker 1: and down. I love my slides and now and you
Speaker 1: told me once that was your favorite. Can you give
Speaker 1: the audience an example of what a slide would sound like?
Speaker 1: And I love the woozy woozy Like doing slides automatically
Speaker 1: like releases a lot of tension because like in that
Speaker 1: short time span, you're using a pretty wide part of
Speaker 1: your register. So yeah, I'm always doing that. Well, I
Speaker 1: love that you said the woozy woozy, do that again,
Speaker 1: so people whoozoo love that because I feel like that
Speaker 1: really grounds people and it calms them because you're you're
Speaker 1: not trying for a specific no, you're not holding a note,
Speaker 1: or you're just letting go. You're loosening up and letting
Speaker 1: it flow. My other favorite thing is when we're doing
Speaker 1: warm ups and you're like, just lose all feeling in
Speaker 1: your mouth and just do whatever exercise we're doing. Is
Speaker 1: if like your tongue is numb and you're just like
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. That to me
Speaker 1: calms down all my face muscles, which are always so
Speaker 1: tense when I'm nervous, and I think like a huge
Speaker 1: part is relaxing your jaw and dropping it and not
Speaker 1: like being like smiley and tense when you're trying to
Speaker 1: hit these notes, because they'll come out a lot more
Speaker 1: forest and maybe pitchy, Whereas when you're relaxed and you're
Speaker 1: just able to kind of let it float freely, it's amazing. Well,
Speaker 1: I always tell people they can think that before they
Speaker 1: get on stage. But let's say it hits you durn
Speaker 1: a song. You can always trigger it in your mind
Speaker 1: by oh, I'm starting to feel tense and tight or whatever,
Speaker 1: just start loosening up your mouth right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the song. You know, it's not one of those things.
Speaker 1: Oh well, now I'm you know, too far in. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I'm down that road. I can't turn back. You can
Speaker 1: always feel that sigh, that feeling of loosening your mouth, relaxing,
Speaker 1: and like you said, dropping your jaw, which I think
Speaker 1: is so important when everything is getting tense. Now, don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere. When we come back. Sabrina talks about another
Speaker 1: helpful vocal practice, one that kind of confuses people. My
Speaker 1: fans always ask me why all of a sudden I'm
Speaker 1: a different person, and why I don't sound like myself
Speaker 1: or why I suddenly sound so much calmer. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to Backstage Pass. Let's get back to my conversation
Speaker 1: with Sabrina Carpenter. I wanted her to talk about what
Speaker 1: a concert day looks like for her. I mean, for me,
Speaker 1: it starts with being able to like wake up my
Speaker 1: voice early in the morning, lots of hydration, and then
Speaker 1: doing my warm ups and preserving my voice. I'm always
Speaker 1: talking up here like this. My fans always ask me
Speaker 1: why all the sudden, I'm a different person, and why
Speaker 1: I don't sound like myself or why I suddenly sound
Speaker 1: so much calmer, and why they can't hear anything I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I was like, it's because I want to sound
Speaker 1: good on stage tonight, you know. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's doing whatever it takes to take care of my
Speaker 1: voice before the show and preserve it as much as possible. Right.
Speaker 1: I remember one time saying to you, I liked it
Speaker 1: that you were keeping the dressing room pretty empty and
Speaker 1: pretty quiet, and I thought that was really smart. But
Speaker 1: I said, are you doing that to preserve your voice
Speaker 1: or because you want to be in your thoughts or whatever?
Speaker 1: And you said something that was really interesting. You said, well,
Speaker 1: if I'm having conversations with people in the dressing room,
Speaker 1: there might be unfinished conversations or thoughts that I then
Speaker 1: carry on stage with me. Yeah. I want to be
Speaker 1: as much of a blank canvas when I get on
Speaker 1: stage as possible. There's obviously going to be things happen
Speaker 1: in your life off stage, which is why I admire
Speaker 1: performers so much, for all the crazy conditions they might
Speaker 1: be going through, and then they still are able to
Speaker 1: just like ignore it all input on a show, and
Speaker 1: I think it's something that I'm still learning how to do.
Speaker 1: But if I can kind of minimize the noise as
Speaker 1: much as I can before I get on stage, even
Speaker 1: if it's just an hour, I think that's what I
Speaker 1: started to do, as I would start to ask my
Speaker 1: band and my crew just for an hour before I
Speaker 1: went on stage to be able to be with myself,
Speaker 1: you know, if I need to listen to music, or
Speaker 1: if I need to just rest my voice as much
Speaker 1: as possible and not be mid conversation, mid thought with
Speaker 1: people when I'm going on stage. I think it's really
Speaker 1: helpful for me. I know, you write a lot, and
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, like, where do you draw inspiration. It
Speaker 1: totally depends on where I'm at in my life. I
Speaker 1: think I've always always, always pulled from my real life experiences, though,
Speaker 1: even if it means it's kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: a song that not everybody can relate to, like sue me.
Speaker 1: To me, those are the songs that have translated the
Speaker 1: best to the people that have been listening because it
Speaker 1: feels really real and it feels super close to me
Speaker 1: and they feel like they're getting a part of me
Speaker 1: that they don't see all the time because I'm kind
Speaker 1: of digging into I'm tapping into a part of myself
Speaker 1: that maybe I don't share all the time that I'm
Speaker 1: able to kind of feel more comfortable to share in
Speaker 1: my music. How old were you when you wrote SUMEI?
Speaker 1: I think I had just turned eighteen, And I mean
Speaker 1: people know that you really were sued, and I know
Speaker 1: you can't really talk about the details of it nervous laughter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what I thought was so great is you took
Speaker 1: that horribly old, overdone cliche turning lemons into lemonade kind
Speaker 1: of thing. But that's really what that song was, right.
Speaker 1: It was able to kind of, you know, be formed
Speaker 1: into something that sounds like a breakup song, but in
Speaker 1: any sense of at the end of a relationship, that
Speaker 1: way that you feel when you know they see you
Speaker 1: doing well and they're upset about it. I thought that
Speaker 1: that was a really powerful way to stand up for yourself.
Speaker 1: And no matter the outcome of the lawsuit, you were saying,
Speaker 1: I'm coming out victorious because I'm I'm gonna say that
Speaker 1: it's me. I did it. I did everything, And I
Speaker 1: think that that song was, like you said, a huge
Speaker 1: one for me, no matter what happened to the song,
Speaker 1: because it just felt like I was able to really
Speaker 1: bring that situation that was kind of a negative situation
Speaker 1: and bring it full circle to a place where now
Speaker 1: I'm on stage and I hear people singing it back
Speaker 1: to me, and I'm like, oh, I can't even remember
Speaker 1: when I got sued, you know, by those people that
Speaker 1: I don't talk to or care about it anymore. When
Speaker 1: you're able to kind of use songs as a time
Speaker 1: capsule for a specific moment, I think that's the most
Speaker 1: beautiful thing because you carry it with you forever. I've
Speaker 1: never been good at keeping a diary, so I think
Speaker 1: that's why I write songs and release them publicly. Even
Speaker 1: though the circumstances are always different, we're all going through
Speaker 1: similar situations. I mean, heartbreak, loss or joy, the honeymoon, stage,
Speaker 1: all of those things. Everyone's experiencing something at some point,
Speaker 1: and I think it's really great because then people who
Speaker 1: love your music, fans, or even people who aren't who
Speaker 1: just happened to hear it, it's that really great feeling
Speaker 1: of it's almost cathartic to sing along absolutely, which is
Speaker 1: something I was going to ask you about do you
Speaker 1: feel what you've sort of answered it. I guess for you,
Speaker 1: writing is cathartic, yes, I mean writing and therapy are
Speaker 1: that through the perfect combination of why I am still
Speaker 1: able to wake up in the morning and do what
Speaker 1: I do. It's true, it's almost like I'm able to
Speaker 1: really understand what I'm feeling. It's like when I see
Speaker 1: it and when I hear it, it's different than when
Speaker 1: it's all just stuck in my head. When I get
Speaker 1: it out into the world, and especially when I sing it,
Speaker 1: it all makes a lot more sense to me, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of guiding me throughout my life. It's the
Speaker 1: thing that's been able to keep me going. And songs
Speaker 1: too that are older that I go back and listen
Speaker 1: to them, I'm like, huh, that's how I was able
Speaker 1: to get through that situation. So yeah, the most therapeutic
Speaker 1: thing I can think of in my life. That's really
Speaker 1: interesting that writing it and then performing it clarifies the situation.
Speaker 1: Sometimes by the time I perform songs, they have a
Speaker 1: completely different meaning. I'll write the song about something, and
Speaker 1: then a year later it's about something or someone completely different,
Speaker 1: and it still applies because you know, these patterns repeat
Speaker 1: themselves sometimes, and yeah, I think that that's also really incredible.
Speaker 1: I know something about patterns repeating themselves. But wait a
Speaker 1: minute that I'm going to save that for my therapy
Speaker 1: session this week. All right, let's just keep going so
Speaker 1: you don't just sing. You've also been acting in TV shows,
Speaker 1: in movies like the Netflix film Work and the Disney
Speaker 1: musical drama Clouds was really a sweet movie. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: the best compliment I can give you is that I
Speaker 1: really lost you in the movie, Like I just stopped
Speaker 1: thinking about you. Hey, you know, I really felt like
Speaker 1: that character you were was so not Sabrina. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that means the world to me. And I thought it
Speaker 1: was beautiful and I love that you're singing. Also, it
Speaker 1: wasn't your Sabrina Carpenter singing. It was a different voice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: totally different. I thought it was beautiful. That actually like
Speaker 1: makes me so excited that you, more than anybody, like
Speaker 1: recognize that and paid attention to it because I know
Speaker 1: that you know when you're singing through the lens of
Speaker 1: a different character like I was. Also, you know, Sammy
Speaker 1: Brown's a real person in life, and that's the person
Speaker 1: I was playing in clouds. She's a real person. Her
Speaker 1: voice and her tone completely different from mine. Completely, style
Speaker 1: of music, the way that she sings, the way that
Speaker 1: she is on stage is super different from me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: super different. And you can really hear the difference in
Speaker 1: the style in that song Blueberries Dandy Lions are going
Speaker 1: to see it's muscle landed to feed Tree stand so
Speaker 1: tall and there and hear I stan without of care.
Speaker 1: I love the ability to really give someone else their voice.
Speaker 1: So I'm really glad that you that you notice that. No,
Speaker 1: I loved it, and I also then I watched I
Speaker 1: was just going to watch a little bit of work
Speaker 1: it because I thought it's not really my movie, it's
Speaker 1: not my demographic and then I just got caught up
Speaker 1: in it, so I had to watch it and see
Speaker 1: what was going to happen. But I love that they
Speaker 1: were so diverse. Oh yeah, completely different roles. I'm just
Speaker 1: like dipping all my toes and all that's streaming services. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm writing my album. So I'm like, I'm doing
Speaker 1: all the things right now. When is that album going
Speaker 1: to come out? I can't tell you, okay, but um,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, my fans they think that
Speaker 1: I forget about music, when in reality, it's like I
Speaker 1: can't forget about it. I am constantly writing. I think
Speaker 1: I am a little bit more quiet about my process.
Speaker 1: I hate promising things and then not to live ring
Speaker 1: on time, but I also want to be able to
Speaker 1: give them just the best of what I'm able to
Speaker 1: give them. Right well, I can't wait to hear it.
Speaker 1: And I love you, and I'm so glad that we
Speaker 1: did meet when you were twelve. I love you so dearly.
Speaker 1: And this has been really such a pleasure to talk
Speaker 1: to you today, and it's been a pleasure to know
Speaker 1: you for these past ten years, and it'll be a
Speaker 1: pleasure to keep knowing you. Yeah, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: the future. Stay right there. If you're like Sabrina and
Speaker 1: want some more vocal techniques to help you relax your voice,
Speaker 1: I've got just the tip for you right after this.
Speaker 1: Now you've heard me say how important I think movement
Speaker 1: could be to loosen up your body and your voice
Speaker 1: while vocalizing. Sometimes it's as simple as singing an exercise
Speaker 1: with a bouncy, loose feeling. So instead of singing an
Speaker 1: exercise like this, B B B baby, you'd sing it
Speaker 1: like this, baby baby, baby, baby be If you're still
Speaker 1: feeling a little tight er tense, try moving your body around.
Speaker 1: Put your arms out in front of you, kind of
Speaker 1: like a zombie, and then bounce them and your head
Speaker 1: to the rhythm as you sing. Basses and baritones start
Speaker 1: on a sea below middle C, sing to the lowest
Speaker 1: note you can go to comfortably, and then to the
Speaker 1: highest note you can sing without straining. Sopranos and elto's
Speaker 1: start on a B flat below middle C. Same thing.
Speaker 1: Sing to the lowest note you can go do comfortably,
Speaker 1: and to the highest note you can sing without straining.
Speaker 1: And that's it. Go have some fun, bounce around, loosen up.
Speaker 1: If you want to share it, I'd love to see
Speaker 1: a video of you doing any of the exercises. Use
Speaker 1: the hashtag Backstage Pass pod on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or
Speaker 1: wherever you like to post. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: them happy singing everyone maybe may Backstage Pass with Eric
Speaker 1: Vitro is written and hosted by me Eric Vitro and
Speaker 1: produced by Morgan Jaffee. Katherine Girardou is our showrunner. Emily
Speaker 1: Rosstek is our associate producer, Kate Parkinson Morgan as our editor.
Speaker 1: The show is mixed and mastered by Ben Holliday. Additional
Speaker 1: engineering help is from Jacob Gorski, Martin Gonzalez and kay
Speaker 1: Wayne Mia Lobell as our executive producer. Our development team
Speaker 1: Lital Mulad and Justine Lange helped create the show. Thanks
Speaker 1: also to Jacob Weisberg, Heather Fame, John Schnarz, Carl Migliori,
Speaker 1: Christina Sullivan, Eric Sandler, Maggie Taylor, Nicole Morano, Daniella Lakan
Speaker 1: in Royston Baserve. The original theme music is by Jacob
Speaker 1: and Sita Steele for Premier Music Group. We record at
Speaker 1: Resonate Studios. Fred Talson does our videography and the photography
Speaker 1: is by Ken Sawyer. A very special thanks to Michael
Speaker 1: Lewis for his inspiration and the best guidance anyone could
Speaker 1: ask for. Backstage passed with Eric Vitro as a production
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Speaker 1: years as a person and as a performer and as
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