Renaissance Center workshop focuses on studio singing techniques

Release Date: 7/16/2004. Expired: 7/24/2004

Anyone who dreams of recording the next big hit record or wants to make a living as a studio vocalist will find a summer workshop and new fall course offered by the Music Department of The Renaissance Center extremely useful.

The Vocal Recording Techniques Workshop, taught by veteran backup vocalist and studio singer Kelli Workman, will be offered 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, July 24, in the center’s digital recording studio. Tuition is $45.

“Any singer who aspires to record, sing demos or just learn the art of recording in the studio will find this workshop very useful,” Workman said. “My goal is to help train people to go in and get work.”

The workshop will include instruction in microphone techniques, the Nashville Number System and studio etiquette.

Workman said she will cover the “different ways of cutting music with microphone techniques,” explaining that there are different techniques for singing solo or as part of a group.

“You can create different sounds depending on how you sing on the microphone,” Workman said. “Everyone will get a solo opportunity and get a feel for singing as a group.”

The Nashville Number System is a method of learning music quickly.

“You learn how to take a musical shorthand that will aid you in charting your part of a song in order to sing it back quickly and not have to memorize it,” Workman said. “It does not require that you be able to read music.”

The Nashville Number System also benefits live performers, as well, she said.

Workman worked nine years as a full-time staff vocalist at a jingle factory, where she served as music director for seven years. She has sung on hundreds of demos, jingles and radio station IDs. She is assistant director of the Music Department at The Renaissance Center where she teaches voice, Kindermusik and the Harmony Road class, a keyboard curriculum for 4-6-year-olds added this fall.

She has performed as a backup vocalist on recordings by artists varying from Tammy Wynette and Elton John’s duet, Doug Stone and Juice Newton to Al Green, Jimmy Buffet and Bill Engvall.

“Being a studio singer requires a totally different discipline than being a live performer and many aspiring singers don’t learn this until they get into the studio,” Workman said. “There are thousands more singers who make good livings with their voices than those who strike it rich as a music star. And many of those stars get their starts as studio singers. This workshop, and the class we are offering this fall, will be a good start toward learning the inside scoop on studio singing.”

Everyone attending the workshop will get the opportunity to sing a demo, a jingle, a radio ID, a country song, a rhythm and blues song and others, she said.

The Studio Singing class this fall will be offered 6-7 p.m. Tuesdays Aug. 23-Dec. 10. Tuition is $150.

“The workshop is a precursor to the class this fall,” Workman said. “Everyone participating in the class will get the opportunity to learn all kinds of different vocal styles in the studio, ending with each student receiving a CD of their work.”

Because the fall semester class will be held in The Renaissance Center’s recording studio, space is limited and an audition will be required.

To learn more about the Vocal Recording Techniques workshop on July 24 or this fall’s Studio Singing class, contact Workman at (615)740-5553 or or Music Department Senior Director Elaine Sherrill at (615)740-5545 or .

The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

Visit the Music Workshops page for more about the workshops.

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