Smart Music

So you’re going to have a party and try to choose the appropriate music.  When trying to choose party music, you must consider the age and demographic of your guests.  Most importantly you want to stick to a music based theme for your party.  For example you may decide to have a Luau, dance, kids birthday party, or a wedding party.  Each genre is going to require careful selection.

Luau Party Music

If you’re throwing a Luau party theme, then you need to be sure to have music constantly playing in the background to sync your party guests.  The best way to prepare music for a Luau is to create a premade music mix with your favorite Hawaiian theme songs.  A fun way to get your guests involved is to hand out free ukuleles, lays, and hula hoops.  This way all guests are actively enjoying the Hawaiian theme music as they dance and strum along.  Popular Hawaiian themed songs may include Elvis Presley’s “Blue Hawaii” or anything by the Beach Boys.

Dance Party Music

An ever increasing party type is the home dance party.  This party is very popular among college students and young adults who are tired of the bar scene and the costs associated with it.  To throw a dance party you may decide to hire a DJ or have a friend who is a DJ come and play music at your party.  Another way to go is to get a karaoke machine or just play CDs where everyone can sing along.  Some choose to make mix CDs with popular dance music on them, which adds diversity to the music.  This type of party is fun for all ages from teenagers to adults.

Kids Party Music

If you’re throwing a party for your kids or specifically looking for birthday party music, you may want to consider incorporating music into fun games.  For example you can play musical chairs.  In musical chairs you to set up one fewer chairs than the total number guests at the party. You start the music and the kids dance around the chairs and once the music stops everyone must grab a seat.  The last kid standing is the one that must sit out.  This is a fun way to incorporate music into a kid party.

Halloween Party Music

If you’re looking to throw a Halloween party, the music selection gets just a little bit tricky.  A lot of adults will take this to mean dark and heavy music; however, this isn’t always the best type of music.  There are a lot of fun and light types of music out there that could relate to a Halloween party.  For example the ever popular “Monster Mash” would be a fun song to dance to and would also be a hit at your party.

When throwing a party, possibly the best way to choose the music is to ask the advice of your guests.   Your friends and family should help you compile a nice party music playlists to play at your party.  This way you are creating a mix of the best party music for those who will be in attendance.  Your party music mix is vital to creating a fun atmosphere at your party.  Good party music says it all!

The big secret to having a good karaoke music CDs collection is diversity.  You want to have a good selection or collection including such things as Christian karaoke CDs, country karaoke CDs, some custom karaoke CDs, and maybe some kids karaoke CDs.  A diverse collection such as those will keep your party guests entertained no matter who they are.

Buying Karaoke CDs

You can buy karaoke CDs at music and department stores; however, if you’re looking for professional karaoke discs or a large selection the best prices are found online.  Most people nowadays are buying individual karaoke songs off of the Internet and burning them to CD.  That way you don’t necessarily have to have a large selection in your karaoke collection; however, you will have diverse karaoke music on a CD level.  This means that each CD in your collection has a diverse set of songs dependent on the age and demographic of your audience.  With technology allowing us to raise our own custom karaoke CDs, this is the best solution.

Finding Cheap Karaoke CDs

If you’re truly hung up on finding a cheap karaoke CD, you should look either online or CD outlet retail.  Another option for finding cheap karaoke CDs is to look in the used market, whether it be garage sales or as simple as shopping on eBay.  There’s loads of used karaoke CDs on the market, you just have to keep your eyes open.

Karoake CDG Software

Okay, so you decided to purchase individual karaoke songs online and burn them to CD.  By doing research on the Internet, you may be wondering what these karaoke CD G discs are all about.  CDG stands for compact disc plus graphics.  Basically this type of disk contains an additional track that displays the song lyrics on a TV.  If you require this type of karaoke CD then you must have karaoke CD G software.

Please be aware that in order to play the CDG karaoke discs your karaoke machine must be a karaoke CDG player.  The karaoke CDG player is very similar to regular CD player except it has the additional capacity to play a graphics track on a CDG.  Also the CDG karaoke player has a special place to plug in a microphone, in which there is a key controller that allows a singer to adjust the singer’s key to enhance the singer’s voice.  It’s kind of the way to go with your karaoke entertainment and something you need to be aware of when burning your own CDG karaoke discs.

That’s right I said it.  Throw away your karaoke CD collection.  I’m talking to you Mr. “I think it’s cool to get up and sing Johnny Cash every third song”.  Or how about “hey I’m a drunk college student and am going to sing the Bohemian Rhapsody with my drunk college friends”.  You know what?  Me and the rest of the bar, we don’t want to hear it. Unless you’re some cute blonde that is going to jump up there and sing Taylor Swift we don’t want to hear it.

Stop Singing and Get Help

Chances are you need professional help.  Not the kind where you are mentally insane but you need some vocal coaching.  Most of you get off on performing karaoke, getting up on stage night after night sounding horrible.  The worst part is that your goofy smile implies that you think that you are good at singing.

How To Find A Good Vocal Coach

So you think that you might need a good vocal coach?  The best thing that you could do is call your local university vocal performance department and ask if they are taking on any private students.  Chances are you can find a classically trained vocal coach that understands the physiology of singing.  The coach will help you understand how to properly use air supply and apply musicality, including pitch and vocal fluctuation.

If you’re not near a local university, the next best thing they could do a search Yahoo, Google or Ask for the term’s “private vocal coaching”.  There you will find vocal coaches in your area to help you learn to be a better singer so that the next time you go to a karaoke bar you’re not booed off the stage.  Furthermore, patrons like me who just want to enjoy a beer don’t have to sit through bad singing and witness your goopy smile, implying that you think your hot stuff.

Some People Don’t Have It

If you give the local training a chance and you still can’t sing after six months to a year, forgot it, you’re done, that’s it, you’ll never be a singer.  If this is your case, just throw out your karaoke CD collection, because we don’t want to hear it.  Don’t feel bad, don’t feel sad, we all have our own gifts and talents.  Your talent may be like mine, sipping a beer on a barstool making fun of bad karaoke singers.