Happy New Year with Wersja Karaoke

As we're stepping into 2015, we wanted to thank you for being with us year after year.

Last year was very successful, for we added over 2,500 songs on Wersja Karaoke, which now tops 42,500 studio-quality instrumentals. Thanks to your suggestions, we're projected to reach 45,000 tracks this year!

Traditionally, we would wish you all a year filled with health, but this year we want to do things a little bit differently! Instead, we've made a list showing 10 proven benefits of music (especially singing) on your health. So, it's time to get back to the mic, grab the instruments and begin the year with some singing to help recover from all of the holiday celebrations.

We wish you a lot of music!

Unexpected benefits of music for your body

Popular wisdom teaches us that music is good for your soul, but it can also help you in many other surprising ways. Listening, and all the more practicing music, are supposed to have immediate benefits on your body. All good reasons to have a field day and add singing to your list of resolutions for 2015.

Discover this Holiday Season's karaoke charts

Christmas and New Year's Eve are at the door. These are two great occasions for spending time with your friends and family around a nice dinner...and some singing! To assist, we've compiled a selection of the best songs for the Holiday Season to help you create the perfect soundtrack for your singing nights!

Feel free to make your selection in the Christmas and New Year's top!

We hope this will be a great opportunity to enjoy some quality moments with your loved ones!

Singing tips: the jaw

Among other parts of your body that are used when singing, the jaw is not the first one we usually think about.

It's usually when not working properly that we become conscious of how important it is. Indeed, when stressed or under pressure, like before starting a karaoke or on stage for a concert, we can feel the resistance due to the tension in the muscles.

As well as a tight throat, tight jaw...

5 tips for playing along with a backing track

Our team has put together several best practices for mastering the art of playing along with a backing track.

These tips are applicable to any instrument, and come from years of experience playing along with backing tracks (that's what happens when you work at Wersja Karaoke with thousands of backing tracks around!).

You too can master play-along!

Feel free to comment and share your secret techniques for playing along with Wersja Karaoke backing tracks with our other customers.

Learn the techniques behind Vocal Harmony

In case you missed it, we have released a very helpful article explaining the theory behind Vocal Harmony (used very often by Simon & Garfunkel or The Beach Boys for instance).

This arrives just in time for some practicing after the holidays. A little bit of music theory and practice will allow you to quickly master vocal harmonies.

Feel free to pick a duet in our catalog to get started with Vocal Harmony, and you'll soon be able to create your very own harmonies with almost any song!