Watch Matthew Edwards take two musical theatre singers through pop-rock audition cuts — stripping out the theatre-isms and rebuilding the sound in real time.

This is the hands-on companion to Matthew Edwards' style lecture: two musical theatre performers, two pop-rock audition cuts, one hour of live coaching. With Colter on 'Head Above Water' you'll see him sort storytelling from groove and mood songs, speak the lyric for inflection, free locked airflow with his 'blowfish' exercise, and open the 'back room' of the vocal tract to unhook a climbing larynx. With Sam on 'Firework' he beefs up chest in the mix, drills nee and nay for a narrower pop twang, and gets the belt by having her call across an imaginary football field. Q&A covers scooping, and using acting adjustments and psychological gesture to get technical results.