When you go to track the vocal are you reading the lyrics or living the lyrics?
Are you reading lyrics or feeling them?
Reading or immersing?
Reading or channeling?
It’s the art of SINGING, not the art of reading.
No wonder so many bands’ first albums have an extra special thing. It’s because the singer has already sung those songs a million times on the road before making the record…and has all they lyrics memorized to the point of not even having to think about them.
It’s more than simply memorization. It goes beyond that.
If you don’t even have to think about the lyrics, that’s when the subconscious and feel can really take over and do something special in the studio.
Do you think Freddie Mercury was using a lyric sheet for Another One Bites The Dust?
Can’t you just see Adele constantly referencing the lyrics on a Mac screen propped up in front of her when she cut the vocal for Someone Like You?
You deserve better than reading your lyrics.
Stop reading lyrics.
Sing them.
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