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Playing's much the same. Myself & a friend recorded a number at a live venue for a mutual friend who we havn't met. She has a quadraplegic son who's 27 and is dying of cancer. Both of us had a heck of a hard job fighting the tears. I played a song for her on my gospel show last month and had to give myself a break as the emotions were too strong. I'm only happy it wasn't live radio. Emotion to me really helps when you're playing a ballad, when you're feeling happy, it'll come out playing a happy tune. I guess you need to play from the heart to feel it properly
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My aunt Bessie (Elizabeth) would always request that I play/sing this one from the Everly's album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" then she'd sob like a baby. My Dad called it a "two hanky" song. My Mom would sob in unison. http://youtu.be/ozOAasuG164Some other of Bessie's favorites were: 1. The Baggage Coach Ahead. 2. Hobo Bill's Last Ride. 3. Put My Little Shoes Away. 4. Shackles And Chains. 5. The Prisoner Song. 6. The Wreck Of Old 97. 7. The Wreck Of #9. etc. All of which moved my audience to tears. At least I hope it was the emotion of the songs and not my singing. Another tearjerker, tear-duct flusher I'd sing/play was Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair http://youtu.be/MH_2fUcvbEU
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As far as "singing through emotion", it's always amazed me that Eric Clapton could sing "Tears In Heaven" in a live setting. I don't think I could have pulled that off considering the background for the song. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_Heaven
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Many years ago I recorded a track which was being sung by a girl session singer. She was very good and had done sessions for lots of big names. The song was about a relationship break-up.
She sang beautifully, but I felt the song was lacking the emotion it needed, so I asked her if she could immerse herself in the lyrics and imagine she was the one who'd written the song.
She asked if we would turn out the lights in the studio, so she could see us in the control room, but we couldn't see her and then she sang it again. As soon as she started it sent shivers down my back and when we brought the lights up again the tears were streaming down her face. Only then did she say that her boyfriend had walked out the week before after five years together.
Now, some thirty years on, it's still the best thing I ever recorded. Sometimes it just works like that.
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What impressed me was Elton John singing Goodbye English Rose at Lady Diana's funeral. I know he's a pro, but it still sent shivers down my spine when I heard it live on the radio.
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IMO Emotion really comes out when you're playing or singing your own material. When I recorded Farewell to Kintail ( The first tune I composed after getting into band in a box 7 years ago ) I had tears in my eyes. I was picturing the area as I was playing it and thoughts of holidays in my childhood were coming back. It's also the area we were in when myself & my wife did our first gig together. It's the same area where I played my first gig in public as a 17 yr old.
The only one that came close was a song I wrote years before I stopped playing. It's on you tube called The Highlands is the place for me. The singer is the Late Sylvia Marie Barber from California. A dear friend and one of the finest accordionists in the USA. Sylvia fell in love with the song after I sent her a copy from an old tape I'd recorded. She asked if she could record it with me. We had a load of laughs getting it done as she kspt getting her pronounciations wrong. Lots of good natured ribbing took place before she finished it. Sadly she died before she could hear the finished version, so I got a professional musician friend of mine to help out with the backing, along with our own Keith Scott on piano. The end result was brilliant and I must confess to having an eyes full of tears when I was recording my part.
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Conveying emotion to my audience through performance and feeling emotion myself from my own playing have always been two completely different things to me.
Over the years I have found that if I'm able to remove myself and my feelings from the situation that my audience feels the intended emotion more when I am feeling it less.
Therefore the goal here is to do whatever it takes to put my feelings aside when performing.
And that grinds down to the same old thing - PRACTICE - the repetition that breeds absolute familiarity with the performance.
In my experience, the repetition of good practice brings the desensitization required that makes the great performance where your audience's emotions are touched.
Unfortunately, it is all too often the case these days that the performer is all about their own feelings during performance.
I think that it is far more important to be all about your audience.
This means leaving yourself out of the performance in that sense.
When the musical performer allows their own emotions to come to the fore during a performance, I have noticed that the first musical aspect to suffer is their timing.
And timing is everything.
I type this with a bit of intrepidation, for I know that there will be many who will either misinterpret these words, take offense where none is intended, or otherwise respond to them emotionally.
But this is my way of solving the problem and experience has shown it to work very well indeed.
I think it is my job to entertain my audience.
The goal is not to entertain myself.
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I usually just try to remember the lyrics. 
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Instead of giving you a pat on the back I will be constructively critical: 1 You need to use dynamics -right now it is all basically flat some parts need to be much softer others louder. 2 Same goes for tempo - need to slow down some parts. You might want to start with customizing here. Basically there are very few variables with which a musician can bring emotional expression to a perfomance and chief among these are dynamics and tempo variation. A lot of commercial performances fall flat because they sound fail to use these means of expression and therefore sound mechanical-monotonous. I hate to hear comments other than praise, but now and then someone says something useful and once I understand and learn from it I'm grateful. You get points for staying in tune mostly and for excellent enunciation - all of the lyrics are clear (singers often are impossible to understand) ! Dan
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points understand and appreciated, thanks. 
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