# Introducing the Gospel Music Workshop with Janice Weir

An episode of [The Gospel Music Workshop Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1747728588), 2 May 2024, 8:27.

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We will discuss musicianship, songwriting and stage presence. Can't wait to hear from our many guests and share or download episodes so you can listen on the go. Let Everything that Hath Breathe Praise the Lord. Listen to Give It Up (full version) here: Give It Up (original) by Janice Weir | ReverbNation Give it Up by Janice Weir. Please Support by purchasing the mp4 download here: Purchase Give It Up by Janice Weir Thank you Janice Weir Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-gospel-music-workshop-podcast--6162702/support. Throughout the Podcast episodes, we will be exploring Music, Voice, Professionalism on Stage and Recording Tips and Tricks along with Meta Data and You! Other topics we will explore looks at creatives, illness/injury/disability and its impact on your Praise Ministry and what adaptations and help is available. This goes hand in hand with the book titled: The Unseen Stage - How creatives step off the pedestal to heal. You can also listen to my full single I recorded and never really promoted in 1999: Listen to Give It Up (full version) here: Give It Up (original) by Janice Weir | ReverbNation Give it Up by Janice Weir. Please Support by purchasing the mp4 download here: Purchase Give It Up by Janice Weir Thank you Janice Weir

## Transcript

[0:07] Oh oh, hello, Hello, Hello, good morning, good evening,
[0:25] good afternoon. Wherever you are, let everything that have breadth praise the Lord.
[0:33] Praise ye the Lord. Let everything that hath breath do what sick.
[0:38] Praise ye the Lord. Nice to meet you. We are going to be
[0:44] looking at gospel music. We are based in the UK, but we will
[0:50] go around the globe and we will look at gospel music everywhere. We will
[0:55] look at the musicianship, some writing, and stage presence, some of the
[1:00] things that we don't often think about and sometimes we get scared about. But
[1:04] there's no reason to be frightened at all, because when you love the Lord,
[1:10] you just care keep your mouth closed, because not everything that hath bread
[1:19] we want to just praise the Lord. My name is Janie Weir Jamir.
[1:26] Most of you know me as Janis Weir. Some made me remember me from
[1:32] nineteen eighties. My very first song, actually when I was about nine years
[1:37] old, was under His Way we Are Safely Abide Him, not song like
[1:48] that, obviously I was much younger. My mom was playing the guitar.
[1:53] So hopefully one day in one of these shows, we'll do a down the
[1:57] Memory Lane and I'm actually going to do I've got some recordings of young Janis
[2:02] singing, and I'm going to do it with myself anyway. In the meantime,
[2:09] let's go back AnyWho. Right, So, nineteen eighties, many remember
[2:15] me singing let their bee praise, Yeah, let the bee joy see to
[2:25] the Lord giving the la Yes. And that was Sandy Patty. I used
[2:32] to sing all of her songs. And then moving on too the nineties,
[2:38] I started singing some of my own songs. I sang with Redemption and then
[2:46] we moved on to me having my own group called Redemption Gospel Ensemble. I
[2:52] also had a group called Testify. I've sang with the London Adventure Corral,
[3:00] I sang with the Holloway Gospel Choir, and now I sing with TFC,
[3:12] which is directed by Lassells Horton, and he is amazing, an amazing group
[3:19] of people that just love to sing and sing your heart out. And that's
[3:23] something that I've learned. You know, I've gone from being classically trained,
[3:28] yes, I was classically trained, and to now singing gospel. It's really
[3:34] interesting where you go from singing a song where you're holding and now but for
[3:42] as long as you can, to now making sure that when you sing like
[3:50] the Mississippi Mississippi Gospel Choir, you're just singing and ensure you. So text
[4:02] you anyway, I just made that that's not a song, so let that
[4:10] be said. I'll also be doing some voice training. I do it with
[4:14] people, but I realize I don't have the time to go to everybody one
[4:18] buy one, So I will be doing some voice training on here. So
[4:24] to start off, we're going to breathe in one, two, three,
[4:30] four five and hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it,
[4:33] then breathe out one two, three five. Now we're going to do the
[4:39] same thing, but we're going to breathe in, hold and then we're going
[4:42] to sing out a note. You can sing any note you want to,
[4:45] Okay, you don't have to sing as hire as me. So breathe in
[4:54] old old, Now sing lo. There we got. So every day you
[5:06] wake up, what I tend to do is I make sure I breathe in,
[5:10] breathe out, even lying down, because you find that there's less pressure
[5:14] on your spride and your diaphragm. And I'm lying on my side, I
[5:17] breathe in, breathe out. I kind of like curl up my knees behind
[5:26] me slightly. It's basically to give that kind of position that will allow me
[5:32] doesn't stress my body, just allows me to feel relaxed. And usually with
[5:38] my arms just behind my back and I can just relax. So breathe in,
[5:46] breathe out. Also in the morning, start not with a high note.
[5:51] People who sing really high train their voices really low, and then they
[5:57] build up towards it. So you don't just go straight into la la la
[6:01] la la la l. No, you start off really really low, you
[6:09] start warming up the voice, and then you build slowly. You build slowly,
[6:15] Okay, so you might start from it la la la la la,
[6:25] then in reverse. Oh no, that's a bit blue for me. But
[6:32] you get the gist. So it's really amazing spending a little bit of time
[6:38] with you. I'm going to make these snippets really short to the point so
[6:43] that you get the best out of the time with me. But as my
[6:48] song says, which you hear at the beginning and the end of my show,
[6:53] is you've got a give to the Lord. Oh you've got just gear,
[7:04] gear and so forth. But next time we meet we will be discussing
[7:17] more and going further into some of the things that as a singer as a
[7:24] musician you may have faced. No one has really discussed. But I'm going
[7:31] to be here and guess what. Nompuse your room, so peace out,
[7:42] I'll season. This is Janice Wesmir of the Gospel Music Workshop. Just let
[8:01] the save you and back yount want you saw and she back hiding your man.
[8:18] Don't you be run all the back? Don't you can be fl

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