With the name 'Crafty Music Tips', it's overstating the obvious that giving you advice for your music is what we do here. But as the year draws to a close, it's the perfect time to highlight some gems from the last 12 months in case you missed them. I know for me, it was a great reminder going th...

Picture this: You’re onstage. The song begins. You realize quickly that you can’t hear yourself enough. You stay composed but internally you’re screaming: “nooo!”

You desperately want the problem fixed but don’t want to disrupt the flow of the performance by saying to the sound person “more foldba...

Don’t tell the younger hipster me that I actually enjoyed playing this boy band classic 😱

Lead vocalist Shaun Holton and I chat all things Backstreet Boys and more in this Sing It Live Behind The Sound video for ‘I Want It That Way’.

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'I Want It That Way' (Backstreet Boys) By Sing It Liv...

I was having trouble remembering what happened on the day Sing It Live recorded this Celine Dion song, but thankfully it's all coming back to me now...

Thanks to vocalist Chloe and producer Darren I was able to get an insight into their perspective of the song itself as well as the day of the reco...

Ok, I’ll admit it, I didn’t really know of Hall & Oates until a few years ago. I guess you could say that I was outta touch. See what I did there… 🤣

In this Sing It Live Behind The Sound video I get the scoop from the guy who not only sang the lead vocal, he produced the damn thing too! Many thank...

Having the pleasure of being asked to learn/perform classic gems of songs with great musicians/people you could say is heaven on earth. All puns aside, it really is great, and this video looks at the great Belinda Carlisle and her classic hit song in addition to a visit with Sing It Live lead voc...

You don’t need to be the best, just be memorable. With so many freakin’ things out there competing for people’s attention, if you can tap into someone’s mind/brain/memory thingy so that amongst all of the clutter out there, they remember YOU, then you’re doing something right…

In this quick-ish vi...

So… If I want 'The Look' I have to be 'Dressed For Success' otherwise if I don’t I might end up ‘Fading Like A Flower’ or wind up 'Sleeping In My Car'... See what I did there?

Swedish Pop Rock duo, Roxette, hold a special place in my musical upbringing, so being able to provide guitar and the male...

With the recent sad passing of the man behind many important music moments of the 20th century, Quincy Jones, I decided to put together a video where I look back on his career and focus on some takeaways of what made him so successful.

RIP Quincy Jones (1933 - 2024)

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With a name like ‘Sing It Live’ you’d expect all of the glory to go to the singers. However, we cannot overlook the unsung heroes of the rhythm section! In this BEHIND THE SOUND I catch up and chat with not one, but two legends: the dynamic Father and Son duo Mario and Michael Marino. We chat all...

What were you doing in 1998 when the young Britney Spears had her first hit “…Baby One More Time”? Little did we know what type of superstar was in the making.

Saying “Oops we did it again” naturally refers to Sing It Live rendition of her debut single, and this BTS video discusses what went into ...

Did video kill the radio star? Did we go to far? Should we put the blame on VCR or was the technology just an innocent bystander? So many questions... 🤔

Perhaps Darren, Nikki and myself can help get to the bottom of this mystery. We chat about the latest Sing It Live recording of 'Video Killed The...