Dana's MediaThis is a random collection of audio and video material that I've either created or performed in over the years. Thanks again to friends who asked for this page to exist. You so rock. :-} This page contains:
My GarageBand / ReverbNation / Voice123 Experiments I ripped my voiceover demo to MP3! It's now on my ReverbNation player - the big box below this paragraph. I still have some Musical theatre tunes - scratch trax I'm using to learn them. The newest ones are with a better mic and conditions - see explanation below the player box for more info. To use the box below, one can push the big play button and it'll just start playing through all 14 trax I have up there now, in alphabetical order. Or, you can scroll through the song list to pick one that you know or have sung with me. :-} My voiceover demo is the 3rd track on the list. For my techie friends helping me out with software and recording hardware issues, you can tell the difference between the new trax and the older ones - if the word "scratchtrax" is in the title, these are the new trax with the SM58 and Lightsnake USB cable. The older trax have the word "rehearsal" in the title, they were recorded with the built-in iSight mic, sitting on the floor at 2am after learning the words and notes just enough to rough it out. I'll eventually re-do them all with the new mic and other criteria. (Yes, I know I need to re-do "Lady is A Tramp", it was the first try with the new mic setup, and I was learning the new deal with enunciation and the pop filter on the SM58 unidirectional mic. Apparently, the lady is a "tram" most of the way through. ::chuckle:: I'm also discovering that this tune sits right on my break. Mercy.) "What's a Street Team?", I've been asked. It's a list of folks who are willing to promote a show or album or someone's ReverbNation profile on their web site or Facebook or Myspace or blog. In the old days, a Street Team was a list of folks willing to take paper flyers around and put them up in strategic locations to promote a gig. The mailing list is simply a notification list of events and whatnot, the Street Team list might ask you to participate somehow in promoting an event or recordings. Since so far I'm just testing how to use all the features of ReverbNation, you are free to sign up for either or both, I may end up using these features or not... :-} My commercial voiceover demo was produced by Steve Mitchell and Veronica Weikel. It's also available on my Voice123 home page.
Aside from the voiceover demo, the music snippets on my ReverbNation player are rehearsal tracks for learning purposes. They're what my buddy Bruce calls "scratch tracks" - something to practice by and learn the song, to tweak and correct and tweak again to make sure you have the notes and lyrics correct, and the singing and recording technique as best you can get it, before you decide which songs to take into a better-quality studio and record for your portfolio / repertoire demo reel. (Provided you can get rights to record it and so forth.) Or just to use for auditioning purposes. So some of these songs are for fun, others to practice with for musical theatre auditioning preparation. I ave 14 trax total, 13 rehearsal trax of show tunes, plus my voiceover demo track. The songs include some new trax as of August 2008 - "By the Sea" from Sweeney Todd, "A Cockeyed Optimist" from South Pacific, "Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music, and "The Lady is a Tramp" from Babes in Arms. Still around from July and before are "With One Look" from Sunset Boulevard, "Small World" from Gypsy, "Losing My Mind" from Follies, "When You're Good To Mama" from Chicago, "For Good", "No Good Deed", "Defying Gravity" and "Popular" from Wicked, and "Take Me Or Leave Me" from Rent (no harmonies on this one yet). Yes, there are a lot of Wicked tunes so far. I have a lot of friends who like to sing that show, so I've taken advantage of that to create backtracks with the different voices on them for friends to practice one or the other part of the duet with a recording. The one-voice-only versions are not in the player above, but I happily share them via email with fellow sing-along enthusiasts. My most popular tune, according to my stats on ReverbNation, is, ironically, "Popular" from Wicked. Yes, I do love Glinda, I could never play her for real, but I do love singing her songs, they allow me a vent for my perky, southern side. Who knew that when someone suggested I learn "Popular", they would create a perkifying monster! :-} I love that tune, actually, because it reminds me of the training I give people at work who are learning how to improve their search engine results for their web sites - make them more "popular". Ha! Pop-you-who-lar. I really like the little yodel, and all. My second most listened-to song, and top most downloaded, is "Defying Gravity". I do love Elphaba just as much as Glinda, although Elphie brings out my darker, more cynical side. It's all good. Speaking of which, "For Good", one of the first tunes I test-recorded back in February, is now third. I guess Wicked is really in these days, eh? Lucky someone clued me in and made me learn some of their tunes. You know who you are, thank you! I really wish Madame Morrible had a solo tune in Wicked, but no such luck. I did finally find a backtrack of "The Wizard and I" that begins with her solo, though, so I'll be adding that someday. Being over 30 years old, she's probably the most likely character for me to be able to play. :-} These recordings are being done as tests of how to create them on a macbook with GarageBand with the built-in and external mic options. Using dialogue and songs with different ranges and character types, I am singing and speaking all the melodies, harmonies and dialogue in these test tracks (yes, that really is me as Glinda, Elphaba and the entire chorus), but not playing the instruments. The backtracks are from the Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology (SMTA) - Mezzo/Belter editions (volumes 1 through 5) and PocketSongs. The sheet music I use is from the SMTA series. My iMovie / YouTube Experiment 
Sing with me! On "For Good" from Wicked My Adobe moviemaking / YouTube Experiment 
A tribute to my dad - with childhood pics of me and my siblings.Well, about this time last year, we had several rounds of dying computers around the house, but in the middle of all that, I scanned old childhood photos and got just enough time on one computer before it died to try out making a little video of photos set to music. It's only the third edit, so it's a little rough, but it ended up being a tribute to my dad - I missed him when I was growing up and he was off flying his Air Force missions, and I miss him now, since he passed away over a decade ago. Also in it are lots of childhood photos of me, my brothers and my little sister, and one near the beginning of my mom with me as a baby, then one with my mom and dad with my baby brother Steve. I love that photo... I'm such a smarmy ol' lady, eh? MP3s from Angry Housewives, some of which I'm in...
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