PODCAST - Episode 3 - So does the journey end here?
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Welcome to episode 3, it's the last one with Mum and Matthew. Next week we have two new guests, more on who they are at the end of this episode.
In this episode 3 our chats range from cowboy hats at Nashville's, Grand Ole Opry to the stage at London's equally iconic Royal Albert Hall!
We even cover how some 'Empty Chairs' can lead to 'Country Roads' ....... when we share with you how we choose the songs I sing and how I prepare for recording them as well.
The most difficult part of when my voice changed is in this episode too. The sound I made when I sang was far from pleasant and singing in public during this stage is not something I wanted to do.
You guys all get a mention too 🤗
As we chat about the pull to listen to a young singer, Martin explains just why this can be so appealing to hear. We also touch on, the teenage singer phase that I'm in now, when I'm not so cute and I don't sing so high any more and the challenges that throws up too.
With lots more topics touched on too, please do share this with any young singers grappling with their own changing voice. Our hope is we can help them make sense of it all.
Songs featured this week
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver, cover by Cormac (youtube.com) ( • Take Me Home, Country ... )
'Empty Chairs At Empty Tables' from 'Les Miserables' (Cormac Thompson Cover) Charity single (youtube.com) ( • 'Empty Chairs At Empty... )
Useful Links
Cormac Thompson - Homepage (www.cormacthompson.com/)
Vocal Stages | Martin Ashley (martin-ashley.com) (www.martin-ashley.com/vocal-s...)
Matthew Todd - Scottish Tenor (matthew-todd.co.uk) (www.matthew-todd.co.uk/) 
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Cormac you're a truly exceptional singer and a wonderful young man and I feel honored to follow your journey through all your amazing voices!!🤗🎼⭐💖
all this is fantastic, I listened to it again today very willingly and it's always exciting to hear you tell what you experience! you are exceptional
Oh Cormac, that song Empty Chairs.. touches me every time. You sing it with so much emotion. I am glad you are enjoying your new voice, and I know you will sing with even more richness and passion. I also think you could sing lightly as well, much as you did with Country Roads, if you were to sing a faster song which calls for it. I look forward to next week’s podcast.
I am so impressed and I know that where ever your
voice lands, you will certainly land on your feet. The music industry will embrace you.
Another grate episode I really love your version of country roads, it's a fun song to sing. I liked the trebble stuff however I agree with you I think the stuff your doing now suits you a lot better as like you it's the kind of music I like. WIll be interesting to here you do songs like empty chairs and similar songs again when your voice has started to settle as musical theater is a grate Jonra of music.
Dear Cormac, I am an already not young woman from Poland, but I am your fan. I don't understand clearly the words of this podcast and I don't understand the texts of songs you sing - one song I knows and sing - "Amazing grace". But, as you sing, your voice, your singing steals my heart!!! So, keep singing, please! Be healthy and happy!! Rule the world!!!👍😀
Thank you🤗🤗
Cormac 💚you are a gift ✨🎶✨
Cormac, I loved this episode and it was good to hear a professional say you make great choices with your songs. You know how strongly I agree with that - and your songs are not predictable! I don't know how you go about choosing your next songs, but they are always amazing and beautifully done! Which leaves all your fans waiting for the next one with great anticipation! Thank for these podcasts - I am grateful for all of this inside info as to how it's all put together. Great work!🥰🥰🥰
I don’t really know either 🤗🤗 I’ve done a few more as you know and I think I’d just like to keep singing songs that work for my voice and that I enjoy to sing and I’ll let that be my guide next too but I don’t think I’ll head back in a classical direction for recording even though I am still singing and learning this in school 😃😃 thanks a million for all your support and I can wait to share the new ones with you soon too 🎶
@@CormacThompson ♥♥♥You bring your personal magic to every single song you choose and in the process, you perhaps introduce your followers to something new. Se, from Cinema Paradiso is such a gorgeous piece of music that even without seeing the movie, people love it. I like that you are stretching out in your choices and it helps all of us grow with you at the same time. Bless you!
I loved this episode, I am impressed by so much wisdom and perspective on your part, dear Cormac. It's a real gift that you have. Your career is just beginning and it is very promising. The main thing is that you don't lose sight of what you like and what you don't like. This will inevitably evolve in parallel with your life, your tastes will necessarily evolve. You instinctively know how to transmit emotions through your voice because you are an empath and you feel them. When your voice aligns with the gestures of your whole body, something that at your age, you cannot yet do, and that is normal... You do not yet imagine the dimension that your art will take. .. I hope to always be there to witness it and support you 🙏🏼😁🤗💗
Will I ever be able to write short sentences? 🤔🤔🤔😂 This is the problem with passionate people 😅❤️
@@CricriTelle Beautifully said! ❤
@@criselis602 thank you very much🥰🙏🏼🎁
Both of your voices are so great 😊 👍
the lower one is definitely getting there which is a big relief thats for sure 🤗🤗 thank you 😀😀
Here's to you, Cormac. International Young Singer of the Year!!
Thank you Tim 😄😄it wasnt just the international category on that one that one though, it was overall, including USA and Canada too, the international one was the other category I was nominated in, definitely not winning it this year though .... we didn't enter this time round too much school!
@@CormacThompson Keep following your heart and soul Cormac! Always do what brings YOU joy! The world will always draw near to hear that joy in your beautiful voice! We love you Cormac!
@@mary-ue4ir thank you Mary that is very very kind and i really appreciate it 😊😊
Cormac, At your surprising (for you, not for your followers) 1st prize, you went on stage to give a speech. I asked you if you had something prepared or you winged it. I sooo winged it, you answered. So, stage fright? You? No way!
When I've played 'Empty Chairs...' to friends and they've really listened, they all have been surprised that you at twelve could sing it with such feeling and compassion. As Alison says, it has to be listened to from the CD on a proper stereo. Tons of small details will be revealed.
Back to now: Even more details about your past, your presssent, and your expectations to your future with focus on your voice and its development. I'm privileged to know how your voice sounds now, that is, a month ago, and it's amazing!!!
Thank you, Cormac, and all participants for yet another brilliant episode🙏🥰
The music world is eagerly waiting for Cormac's own composition "🔵🟣🟤⚪️Ode To The Snozzberry 🔴🟠🟡🟢"
one day for sure 🤗🤗
So glad you are allowing your voice to mature, and choosing songs that do not stress your developing range. It will be interesting to watch (isten) as you continue your journey to whatever your final “voice” is. Eager to hear it!
Thank you 😊😊 I'm very lucky to be so well guided in this the temptation before was to maybe not be so careful but I understand better now why it's so important and I'll definitely not be pushing it any time soon
This was quite illuminating and fun as well. It’s wonderful that people that work with you give us a different glimpse into the performer and young man. You are truly an inspiration to many young boys and to me as well!
Enjoying this immensely, I am in the middle at the moment and I shall send something shortly after to your dad. Love this. Brad
Cormac, I just reviewed your last podcast and here learned even more as I intensely listened to it. I agree to some but not all. I wish the world to know just how a amazing voice you have even today. I also guess I know what you still have in your heart. I had to do research about this and found out your scales are the same as piano wise. I never wish for you to harm your voice. What I really picked up on was warm up. Like me and piano. When I told my teacher for piano told him I can not play this he informed me that I could and we will do this a different way. Who one by this my teacher and I did it. Like you Cormac it is always there. Never give up wait for the day when it is right. I hear this every time I hear you sing. I am been so blessed by your amazing voice. You got my attention. No one can replace Cormac. You have just so many talents for the world to see. May God always shed his Blessings upon you always. From your pestering old man from Maine. Brad
Cormac, talk about bloopers I just made one to you. That is what happens when you type to fast. I wrote one instead of Won. Sorry for this. Brad
Nice wrapup to the first half of the podcast. Very well done! You said you are enjoying your guitar - check out Tuck Andres of the jazz duo Tuck and Patty, and Patty's singing too.
Well done, you are briliant
Such an insight so thanks to all of you. I’ve been a fan of the treble voice since I sang in Carmina Burana
with the Edinburgh Secondary Schools Choir in 1968😄The half dozen little boys required stood right in front of me and they were lovely kids.
What I now love and appreciate about the boys who like Cormac keep singing is that they put their best into the craft and make it art. No matter which genre an adult singer prefers there is a quality in the instrument that comes from committing.
Lovely, smashing, beautiful and appreciated podcasting. 🎶
Thanks!
thank you Steve, I am really sorry, I missed this
Hi Cormac, First and foremost, GREAT podcast. Totally enjoyed it. I loved the point at 12:35 where you made the sound "Phhhh". I can see you doing that with a big smile, possibly even moving enough air to blow your bangs up for a moment.👱 "Artistic break" from piano - I can envision your mum's expression when you said that. Martin's right, you are a "happy person". And it's great when Martin was "sticking up for you"! 😃😺 Matthew's characterization of you as a competent, extraordinary and fun person is spot on!! Very much looking forward to the next three podcasts with you, Martin, Robbie and Max. It's a joy to receive the notification each Friday for your podcast series. Can you envision a podcast series "Friday's with Cormac" - I can. Well that's it for now. Have a great weekend buddy. ❤❤❤😻😺🤗🤗🤗
Love this 😀 thank you ☺️ Max and Robbie nxt wk will make it all v different again it was great to hear how it all went for them with them being older than me now too 😊
What an excellent spirit guide into your journey and lifting the lid on the often cloistered life of the treble chorister. Standing back to be it translates to a three lane motorway with junctions where you can exit at will. The traditional cathedral and church choristers start in the slow lane and progress to the middle and some the blinkered fast lane, but are then trapped in the flow to exit at voice change. Music is often choralised and traditional setting genres and progression. A range of choirs litter the lanes and also control the trebles progression. Very few break away as you have and experimented outside the norm, with a toe in the new smart motorway lane probably, dangerous but if commitment progression is in the wings. Keep treading the lane or boards as tradition says, holding on in the country lanes to the buckaroo American style. An informative listen. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐😇🎶🎵
I enjoyed your podcast. I hope I haven't made to many comments on your voice. I've enjoyed lustening to your music over the years.
Not at all Mark, we love reading peoples comments that’s what my mum meant she wanted to say thank you 🙏🏻
I love your videos!
HI Cormac, I hope you see this. Thank you for your replies to my posts on other videos you've done. As you may recall, I am American and also sang in a junior choir in an Anglican (Episcopalian here in the US) church. And we were taught to enunciate clearly and that included pronouncing our "R"s more like you do in the UK. I am also a linguist at heart. I find accents and other languages extremely fascinating and this has led me to a question from listening to your videos of "Close Every Door" and "Empty Chairs" and comparing them with your more recent (changed voice) videos where you sing "The Joker and the Queen" and "Time in a Bottle." It seems to me that in the first two, where you were singing with your treble voice, you were using a distinctly RP pronunciation as well as having the ends of your words very sharp and clear. I have a hearing deficit and if I don't hear consonants well, I often don't understand what someone is saying. I know both "Close Every Door" and "Empty Chairs" very well and have for years. So, putting all those factors together, the way you sang those really stood out to me - and in a positive way. Your singing of "The Joker and the Queen" and Time in a Bottle, seems much more like your natural speaking Lancashire accent. That's not a criticism! I still understand you just fine and the way you sing those songs fits them. ! I am asking about this purely from intellectual curiosity, noticing differences. So, my question is, where you taught as a boy chorister to specifically use RP pronunciation? If so, is it something you are consciously choosing to not do when singing pop music? Again, to emphasise, I am not meaning even the slightest criticism. You mentioned in this video the change in what music you're singing now, which naturally goes with your age and what music is popular among others your age and a wider world than people sitting in pews in church so it crossed my mind that you the difference in your pronunciation (which maybe I'm imagining or not hearing correctly because I'm American?) might be a conscious choice. I'm hoping I haven't made this an uncomfortable query. If I have, please feel free to ignore my post with no concern about me taking offence. No matter what, I am definitely a fan. In fact, I rather especially like your changed voice, both its range and the emotion you express with it. Anyways, this post is getting too long. Thank you always for sharing your gift of singing!
Hello 😃 thank you for taking the time to listen to Cormac’s singing and to consider it in such a way too, we are very grateful 🙏🏻 we have had a chat about this and thought it might be easier if I reply for him, I hope you don’t mind, he’s a lot on at the moment, Cormac has said that yes when he’s singing songs like The Joker and The Queen the way the song is written and it being a pop song does give it a different style and that changes how he delivers it and any pop song really over all but it really is still something he’s working out for himself too, he’s not sung many pop songs and he’s finding that they’re much harder to sing well to give the words the colour he wants to give them so we’d say for now it’s all v much a work in progress as no matter how much you might ‘have to’ to deliver a pop song in a pop style actually making that happen when you’ve been trained to sing the way he has has a bit more to it and it’s not something he’ll master overnight that’s for sure 😀 thank you very much again and really glad you’re enjoying listening 😃
Alison (mum)
Have you covered the John Denver-Song "Country roads, take me home"?
Yes I did 😀 released it in October last yr
Voice has changed but still a good singer so why should the road end? It's just another journey
Hi Cathal, making the move from a young singer like Cormac has been into a teen singer and then potentially beyond that again is not an easy path to tread in many ways. As we talk about this episode audiences listen to music for different reasons and they listen to different sorts of music at different times in their own lives too. There is a great deal to navigate in the next few years not just with his singing but for him growing up and doing school exams and things like this too and it is a very competitive world out there, it is the wider question we have asked here rather than just from 14 yrs old to 15. Hope that helps explain the title. Thank you for your support as always, Alison (aka the mothership!)
Cormac. I am sure that you are able to write your own songs that will be become huge hits. Go for it! If you are looking for help with lyrics, try using Chat GPT or any AI platform., but try to keep it original. You are very intelligent,vso I'm sure you are also very creative. ( Tip: how about a song about peace in this current crazy world)..😢
Just out of curiosity, Cormac, after listening to the section of age-appropriate songs, what kind of songs/music do you see yourself singing in your adult life? Would you try hip-hop or heavy metal (not that I like those kinds of music).
I listen to hip hop but I don’t see me ever doing it, no plans for heavy metal or rock either 😃 at this point I’d just like to try some new things to see what works well with my voice and keep doing lots of fun things 😀
@@CormacThompson Do you find anything noble, elevating, inspiring or beautiful in hip-hop? Anything redeeming at all?
No just the first step, give it time just look at the others focus and work hard.
Thank you. I'll definitely be giving it time, I'm still only 15 but we know this is a very hard part lots of boys who have done what I've done do seem to stop now I'd love to look up the ones you mean, see if we can learn anything, that would really help, what are their names?
@@CormacThompson Well follow Cai Thomas a fantastic young singer watch him work hard and grow, he has a very good mentor, have chat Cormac.
and Aksel Rykkvin, both work hard and focus good luck.
@@kennethbowry1521 Thank you Kenneth, yes we know of Aksel, I don't think there is a treble in the world that doesn't ☺☺ Aksel has though very much gone down a classical route. Never say never as Cormac is still singing classically at school, it is not the route that currently inspires him for a future in music though. Only time will tell on all of this and as you say work hard is all he can do for now, no matter what style of singing or music that interests him and we will see. Thank you for your support, Alison (mum)
@@CormacThompson No big deal Cormac, I have no talent but can spot it in others, So I, help them, focus and work Hard.
you were lucky the piano bench broke
Was I?
@@CormacThompson you said that you were going to the loo?
@@user-bq5sw2jo2v it was not me doing that it was one of the judges
@@CormacThompson oh sorry I see it now