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. :-} 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. (The play button on that player should play the first item by default, and then cycle through all the others in order.)
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. They include "Losing My Mind" from Follies, "When You're Good To Mama" from Chicago, "For Good", "No Good Deed", "Defying Gravity" and "Popular" from Wicked, "Take Me Or Leave Me" from Rent (no harmonies on this one yet) and "Small World" from Gypsy. 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'm happy to share them. I don't plan to ever record them to sell, just share with family and friends with whom I sing musical theatre tunes. 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 Adobe moviemaking / YouTube Experiment 
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? Anyway, I put the video on YouTube for my family to look at, and you can too, if you like, The splash graphic is of my brother Greg when he was in high school.: MP3s from Angry Housewives, some of which I'm in...
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