Making Guide Tracks for Musical Theatre Singers: Shout! (Concept Players)
Having just finished week one of a two week production of Shout! (last week in The Paget Rooms, Penarth, this week in the Borough Theatre, Abergavenny), I wanted to talk a little about some of my background workings as a Musical Director. While during show week my job comprises of running vocal warmups, leading the band from the keyboard and trying to cue things correctly, there’s a lot of work that gets us to that point. In a show as vocally rich as Shout!, a production where we’re using nine singers to cover five lines of vocal parts, I wanted to share how I went about making personalised rehearsal recordings for each member of the cast, using Google Sheets, Dorico, Cubase, DaVinci Resolve and YouTube.
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