First Audition Ready Formula

An introductory Showbiz course which includes both vocal training and acting coaching.

Stephen's Tap Into Your Artistry (TIYA) client's have booked lead roles on Broadway, TV, Independent Films, National Commercials, become Social Influencers and both Music and Film Producers creating their own content.

Hi, I’m Stephen Horst and welcome to The First Audition Ready Formula.

Over the next 30 days together we will be diving deep into both your
voice and emotions at the same time.—so you can sing freely and create
compelling stories to nail your first audition and begin attracting
representation.

Master Your Voice as you Sing with Stephen learning some simple but highly effective vocal training and conditioning exercises.

Begin your first vocal exercise here, and remember to always record
yourself and refine your technique.

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's female vocal guide humming "3 blind mice."

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's male vocal guide humming "3 blind mice."

The key is to practice correctly and consistently.
Maintain a light, dopey sound.
Always release the voice and shape the tone.
Allow your voice to find you, and float the note.

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's female vocal guide on the lip roll "3 blind mice."

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's male vocal guide on the lip roll "3 blind mice."

To begin your journey to vocal freedom you need a morning vocal warm-up and you must practice everyday, minimum 10 minutes, ideally 1 hour.

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's female vocal guide singing Ooo on "3 blind mice." --like medicine for the voice.

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's male vocal guide singing Ooo on "3 blind mice." --like medicine for the voice.

Tone quality and Vocal agility —those are the 2 most important things.

You always want to stay on the breath and at the same time shave off the weight as you climb higher.

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's female vocal guide on the lip roll descending 5 tone scale

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's male vocal guide lip roll descending 5 tone scale

Your vocal timbre is rapidly transforming!

Remember the 80-20 rule...
Focus 80% on your technique and 20%, enjoy singing songs.

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's female vocal guide singing Ooo on the major 3rd, a tricky interval for the ear.

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's male vocal guide singing Ooo on the major 3rd, a tricky interval for the ear.

The blues scale is lots of fun and a great workout for your ear!
Keep the sound light and dopey, remember “Hoot.”
The trigger word is: Mum.
When you sing remember to do so with the ease, attitude, and approach of a strong resonant hum.

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's female vocal guide singing Mum on the 5 tone blues scale -perfect for expanding range by releasing and flipping your voice over.

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's male vocal guide singing Mum on the 5 tone blues scale -perfect for expanding range by releasing and flipping your voice over.

Now we come full circle.

We are attacking into our Mask, making the nose itch and eyes buzz.

The voice is in the nose, but the nose is not in the voice.

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's female vocal guide on Mum 5 tone blues scale -perfect for building your Mix, a great workout for the ear, and fun!

A daily vocal training MP3 with Stephen's male vocal guide on Mum 5 tone blues scale" -perfect for building your Mix, a great workout for the ear, and fun!

A bonus MP3, working on all your vowels. Stephen leads the way, you take over!

A bonus MP3, working on all your vowels. Stephen leads the way, you take over!

An instrumental track (no guide) on the female 3 blind mice to build, strengthen, and condition your voice.

An instrumental track (no guide) on the male 3 blind mice to build, strengthen, and condition your voice.

An instrumental track (no guide) on the female descending 5 tone scale to build, strengthen, and condition your voice.

An instrumental track (no guide) on the male descending 5 tone scale to build, strengthen, and condition your voice.

An instrumental track (no guide) on the female major 3rd for to build, strengthen, and condition your voice.

An instrumental track (no guide) on the male major 3rd for to build, strengthen, and condition your voice.

An instrumental track (no guide) on the female Blues 5 tone scale to build, strengthen, and condition your voice.

An instrumental track (no guide) on the male Blues 5 tone scale to build, strengthen, and condition your voice.

In this Module you will learn about some TIYA tools and concepts
including:

Vocal health and care
Importance of sleep, ease, and relaxation
Lip Roll
Daily Practice, 15-20 min every day
Tone quality and Vocal agility
4 guide tracks

Tap Into Your Artistry's top 10 Ear Training apps checklist

Find a monologue that is under 2 minutes from either a theatrical play or TV/Film scene.

Choose something that resonates deeply with you.

It should be a character you can relate to and see yourself playing.
You should be comfortable with the themes, language, and style.

Script analysis is all about paying attention to every detail in order to serve the writer’s intention.

Once you understand the intention then you must infuse your personality, imagination, and life experiences into the character and the scene.

There are numerous ways to memorize.

The one that almost all beginning actors choose is rote memorization.
However, this is a mistake.

What happens is you end up memorizing how you say the lines but you don’t really know the lines and you are not malleable.

EFFORTLESS ACTING WORKSHEET
1. My monologue is: __________________________________________
2. It is from: __________________________________________________
3. Written by: _________________________________________________
4. The style, tone and genre is:
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

Find a monologue that is under 2 minutes from either a theatrical play or
TV/Film scene. Choose something that resonates deeply with you. It
should be a character you can relate to and see yourself playing. You
should be comfortable with the themes, language, and style. If the
monologue is from a play, please read the entire play. If it is from a TV
show or Film, feel free to find the script online or even transcribe it, but a
word of warning—do not just copy what you saw the actor do. It won’t
work!

To connect quickly with flowing emotion to any material you must be prepared first.
That means, for a monologue you are off book.

For a Broadway musical theatre song, you can hit all the notes easily and you treat it as a monologue.

For a demo in the Music Industry, you have found your “sound” as an artist, it is conversational, natural, spoken, emotive, full of vibe, and you have very strong musicianship.

Flowing emotion is not the same as emoting.

So now, let’s take a look at a pro doing exactly this.

Let’s watch a Video Breakdown of Anna Kendrick performing “Still Hurting” in the film version of “The Last 5 years.”

https://youtu.be/fpI_Y0ZGkk8

Here are 8 exercises to help you find Fast Emotional Connection.
You need to warm-up!

1) First, read your monologue to yourself right off the page, even though
you now have it memorized, pretend you don’t. We are just getting the
lines fresh in your brain/body.

Be sure to pay attention to all punctuation, thoughts, images and keep
trying to find new things in order to serve the writer’s intention.

To connect quickly with flowing emotion to any material
you must be prepared first.
That means, for a monologue you are off book.
For a Broadway musical theatre song, you can hit all the
notes easily and you treat it as a monologue.
For a demo in the Music Industry, you have found your
“sound” as an artist, it is conversational, natural, spoken,
emotive, full of vibe, and you have very strong
musicianship.
Flowing emotion is not the same as emoting.

A self-tape means you film your own audition.

You need good lighting, sound, a simple background, and a strong scene partner (reader).

A few things to note…

1) Usually in a self tape, you are going to have a scene, not just a monologue, and more of an exchange of lines back and forth. I did this because we can kill two birds with one stone.

You can see an example of a professional self tape and also I want you to start looking for the TIYA concepts we’ve been exploring —like flowing emotion and truth and spontaneity in the performance.

Here is a self-tape I made of Kevin’s monologue from This Is Us.

HOW TO SELF TAPE LIKE A PRO

A self-tape means you film your own audition.
You need good lighting, sound, a simple background, and
a strong scene partner (reader).

If you would like to learn more about how TIYA can
continue to help you sing, act, and perform like a pro to
rapidly transform your life and fast track your Showbiz
career…

Be sure to sign up for your FREE 1.5 hour Webinar,
YOUR VOCAL TRUTH.
https://tapintoyourartistry.com/webinar