Performance
Your audition book – Smart Advice for Singers
Successful music theatre auditions require preparation and a great audition book. In this blog post, I tell you how to build your audition book, where
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Voice
Coping with vocally-demanding jobs
Are you a professional voice user? According to Lions Voice Clinic (Minneapolis), a professional voice user is anyone who relies on their voice to carry out their job.
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How to improve your singing voice
Do you want real vocal change or just vocal enlightenment? Do you want to build your instrument, or just be entertained by learning things about
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How to Find a Great Singing Teacher
Almost anyone can call themselves a voice coach or singing teacher. It is a completely unregulated industry. Doctors, lawyers and tax accountants all require
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Light singing can be powerful singing
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been studying the singing of the great RnB artists, Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye. Both these singers take a
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Semi-Occluded Vocal Sounds and Exercises
Do you have a favorite technique for warming up your voice? Have you ever used exercises such as the lip-bubble or tongue trill? These are
Mind
So You Want to Be a Star: Role Models
Which artists do you really admire and want to sing like? A student recently asked me, “how does Adam Lambert sing so amazingly? Is he a
Body
Your Larynx – simple voice anatomy for singers
Singers often know little about the anatomy of their instrument. This blog describes the larynx – commonly called voicebox – which houses your vocal folds,
Breathing for singing
We all breathe every minute of our lives! It seems crazy that someone has to learn to breath all over again when they learn to
