Lindsay Halladay Writing and Copywriting Portfolio

lindsayhalladay@yahoo.com323 443 5591

Web Copy

www.FunnyFruitFarm.com www.TheSingingZone.com www.PerBristow.com

Blog Writing

www.PerBristow.com/mental-vs-physical-in-voice-training www.PerBristow.com/are-singers-extroverted/ www.PerBristow.com/how-to-excel-in-singing-and-life/

Links to Videos

Longerday Productions - Funny Fruit Farm Wrote scripts for all videos:

www.FunnyFruitFarm.com/pages/videos

Per Bristow - Sing with Freedom Instructional/Marketing Videos Wrote scripts and produced film shoot:

Vocal Vibrato - Can You Learn to Sing with Vibrato? www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHMrnL0amjE 1,252,198 views

Sing High Notes - How Rock Singers Do It (the good ones) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vbKjySV5Ko 728,423 views

How to Sing Long Notes - with Horrible Posture! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj49ScSsg4M 263,500 views

How to Sing Better: Develop Rhythm and Timing www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5S5j9DfzgI 175,402 views

Learn How to Sing: Can Anyone? Really? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_BOFvcLIc 134,532 views

Writing Sample # 1 Pitch Bible for The Super Happy Opie Show - Longerday Productions / Create Nice! * Sections of this sample have been removed for privacy reasons

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Writing Sample #2 Excerpt of script for The Super Happy Opie Show - Longerday Prods./Create Nice!

Link to Animation: www.YouTube.com/watch?v=FWPQkeyG-KM

Writing Sample #3 Excerpt of Free Report - Marketing Materials - Per Bristow

Unlocking the Powerful Voice Within The Secrets to Rapidly and Dramatically Developing Your Voice so You Can Sing with Greater Range, Power,

Richness, Confidence and Freedom

The desire to express in song is a natural instinct for all of us. I don’t think there are many people who deep inside wouldn’t want to sing better. However, many feel they aren’t good enough. Many feel uncomfortable with their voice, and even more don’t know what to do to improve their voice.

If you are here, reading this report, it not only means that you have watched and been inspired by my video, but also that you are ready for more. You are ready to release the powerful, magnetic voice within you. You are ready to free yourself from the strain and stress and fatigue. You are ready to feel the freedom of effortless range and depth. You are ready to feel confident and let go of not being “good enough.” It means you have within you, the deep desire to learn and improve and reach that greater version of yourself through your singing.

I want to congratulate you. I think there is no nobler search than the one for self-improvement, which is why I love coaching so much. I have been coaching for over two decades, working with singers of all ages, backgrounds, and levels from teenagers to 94 year olds, beginners and hobby singers to highly seasoned professionals and from all over the world! They come to me because they know that my coaching is more than just improving the physical voice. My work also includes igniting a person’s ability for rapid learning, helping a person to communicate with greater confidence, to become healthier, to be able to perform at their peak when it matters.

I am so passionate about helping others learn and reach their potential and unlock that powerful voice inside that I am going to give you these keys, these secrets for free. What I discuss in my video and what I am about to reveal to you now is going to change your singing, and it is going to literally change your life...if you let it.

I am going to reveal to you

● How singing is a physical activity and requires a deep physical awareness

● Why it is that singing scales actually prevents your development.

● How to go from inability to ability in one easy step

● How the widely used expressions "sing from your stomach", "feel as if you’re yawning", "sing through your mask", etc. become completely counter productive

● The exciting secret that heals and releases restrictions (it’s simpler than you think)

● The #1 trait to turn you into an effective learner, a high achiever and a peak performer

● How you can apply all of this and see dramatic improvements in your voice in as little as 45 minutes

So let’s get going!

Writing Sample #4 Press Release for Per Bristow

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: April 26, 2012 Per Bristow

Popular Online Singing Program Draws Parallel to Olympic Training

The Singing Zone, known as world’s the most popular online voice training program, utilizes methods based in kinesthetic awareness and peak performance, drawing a parallel to training and preparation used by Olympic athletes.http://www.TheSingingZone.com

Los Angeles based vocal coach Per Bristow, who is the creator of The Bristow Voice Method, The Sing with Freedom and The Singing Zone home study program draws upon his experience as a top athlete in shaping his training for singers. It may be hard to see how traditional modes of singing training, such as singing scales, has anything to do with how Olympic athletes train. This, is precisely the point Bristow makes. The methods within The Sing with Freedom program are based on developing both a deep kinesthetic awareness as well as the mental capacity for peak performance, and goes beyond the more traditional modes of singing training.

Creator Per Bristow remarks, “Singing is very much a physical activity and often that is not recognized. There are so many muscles involved beyond the vocal cords. Singers perform with their whole body, their minds, their spirit, as do Olympic athletes. If we do not develop a deep awareness of the state of each of these, and how to isolate and develop each aspect it becomes very hard to perform at the highest level.”

High performing athletes know they must train specific muscles to help them in their specific sport. They must relieve tension in order to increase their functionality. They must fuel their bodies and muscles appropriately. The vocal techniques within the Sing with Freedom program, help you to create this same level of awareness. You learn precisely where your muscles may be holding tension, how to isolate those muscles in order to both release tension and develop functionality. Athletes know that training on top of tension creates injury and that has to be nipped in the bud. Bristow argues that singers need to learn exactly the same.

“Singing scales, and many of the more traditional portions of singing advice such as ‘standup straight,’ or ‘sing through your mask,’ do little to actually address and relieve muscle tension,” says Bristow, “Athletes would not engage in activity that did not progress their abilities. My program really helps singers on this level and shows how they can improve dramatically from having an athlete’s mindset.”

If you are watching the 2012 London Olympics, or any from the past, you can see the level of calm and concentration and joy present while performing and competing. Just watch the female gymnasts right before they take a pass across the balance beam. Developing the mental aspects, the confidence and concentration, the joy and passion, needs to be an equal part of the training. Singers can absolutely benefit from learning how to be at their best mentally while under the most pressure in this way. Professional singers know they must train themselves mentally to deal with the nerves and complications of singing in front of large audiences. Bristow’s Sing with Freedom online singing training, in addition to developing a singer’s range and resonance, helps to draw out this inner

confidence and power in its students. It clearly adds something vital to a singer’s training. Hopefully singers can watch this year’s London Olympics and be inspired to improve themselves in much the same way.

Per Bristow is a vocal and performance coach based in Los Angeles, California. He is the creator of The Singing with Freedom program and The Bristow Voice Method the method that for more than 15 years, has empowered thousands of singers and speakers from over 100 nations to repair, build and free their voices. “The Bristow Voice Method is designed to bring the individual to significantly greater levels of well-being, self-confidence, creativity and health, in addition to dramatically and rapidly improve communication, presentation and performance skills.” For more information on any of these programs, please visit www.TheSingingZone.com or www.PerBristow.com.

Writing Sample #5 Spoken Word Poetry

Zen

I am so zen My heart needs to beat only every now and then And my chest may be heavin, doc But you best believin I ain’t heart bro-ken

I am so zen My heart needs to beat only every now and then And my chest may be heavin, doc But you best believin I ain’t heart bro-ken

My aorta speaks in dyslexic syncopated beats More variable than Savion’s feet Or Thelonious’ fingertips on them ivory keys Please. You think you know jazz better than me? When I breathe trip il ets in my sleep like… m m m ha ha ha m m m ha ha ha

My capillaries scream to flow extremely free from my hair follicles to my feet til my body’s packin heat settin flames ablaze on these LA city streets I’m irregular.Like thriftstore jeans Like bathroom visits after brown rice and beans Like a scantron bubble halfway erased My heart can be detected at any rate cuz

I’m so zen My heart needs to beat only every now and then And my chest may be heavin doc But you best believin I ain’t heart bro-ken

I don’t think you know what’s up doc. See, my heart ain’t arrhythmic, It’s learnin to beat box. Yeah, sometimes it might let the beat drop And in the middle of the night it might just …. But it keeps rocking Keeps jazz scat be-boppin Flippin hip-hop with no political flip-floppin So put your cotton away Cuz I’m caught up in a way no chest test set-up could ever say I am the ultra sound your ultrasound could never find my heart divides time in its own time - A rhythm divine See it ain’t four-four or even three-two I’m unique . Secretly seeking a new pace through life And I’ll keep creepin til I get this rate right cuz

I’m so zen My heart needs to beat only every now and then And my chest may be heavin doc But you best believin I ain’t heart bro-ken

Hook me up yo. C’mon and test me out. Let’s find out what it’s all about - Let’s get to the heart of it. C’mon doc and tell me the worst part of it. I gotta whole lotta love so it’d be hard to harden it And if my blood type’s too positive than you’ll have to pardon it Cuz it’s my heart and I’m not parting with it Cuz my heart is it.

When was the last time you put on a stethoscope and heard music in it?

I’m so zen My heart needs to beat only ever now and then And my chest may be heavin doc But you best believin I ain’t heart bro-ken