Improv Karaoke
What is the Improv Karaoke cd?
Improv Karaoke is a two cd set of tracks in eleven popular styles, especially designed for song improv. Disc 1 starts with a tutorial with lots of tips and pointers, then demo versions of each track, improvised by bunch of my friends, based on suggestions they’ve gotten on the spot.
Disc 2 has all the same tracks, but without any talking or demos. This is your chance to jump in and give song improv a try. It’s just like karaoke, except you can make up your own song!
You can use Improv Karaoke as a tool for theater and improv classes and workshops; as a way for improv groups to practice when they don’t have a live musician; for improv performances; or just for fun at a party, camp or special event. You can host an Improv Karaoke Night, and have teams compete. You can even use the tracks to write your own song for a special event like an anniversary or birthday.
Even if you’ve been
scared to try song improv, Improv Karaoke will get you started and
having fun.
And if you’re an old hand, you can use the cd to
sharpen your skills and try it with your friends.
Improv Karaoke is
a whole new way to do song improv!
– Chip Esten (Whose Line is it Anyway)
"Improv Karaoke is the best thing to happen to music games since Name That Tune.
A workout for the mind and the funny bone!" - Keegan-Michael Key (MADtv, Key & Peele)
Have Rick and Laura Hall teach a Music Improv Workshop
for your School, Theater or Improv Group
games we used to do on "Whose Line is it Anyway". Even if improvising with song seems scary to you, we'll get you doing it and having fun!
We create a supportive, fun environment where you can grow, explore and stretch out of your comfort zone, starting with warmups and games to help ease into singing. You'll build vocal confidence and learn to listen to each other and the accompaniment. Then we'll move on to creating improvised songs that are a natural extension of scenic work, using character, location and story to create rich and interesting songs. We'll work with various musical styles and focus on group singing and improvised choreography.
Here's what people who've taken our workshop have to say:
What a great teaching team. Within the first two hours we learned how to advance scenes with song; we built confidence and had fun…lots of it.”
- Gerry O.
Send me an email at laura@laurahall.com if you have any questions or are interested in booking us.
It's a fun, open-mic music improv show, hosted by Rick & Laura Hall. Improvisers sign up to play, and get called up to create songs to fully produced karaoke style tracks in various popular styles. It's a great way for improvisers from different levels, teams, classes or groups to mix and have fun doing song improv. It's great at improv clubs and theaters, colleges, and festivals. Often times we'll do the Jam in conjunction with a workshop, so participants can show off their new skills. We'd love to come host one for you! Just send me an email at: laura@laurahall.com
“It was SO fun. I loved watching it and I loved doing it. And who wouldn't want to have the amazing
Laura Hall to play your make-a-song?! Can't wait to do it again and again!” - Ruthie Rudnick (The Second City)
