Sam Moore – the inimitable “soul man” – was a fantastic soul singer who most of you will have heard, often without realising. He was born October 12th 1935 and died on January 10th 2025. He was most famous for being part of the soul duo, Sam and Dave. They were active from 1961 til […]
This week I want to talk about how to use songs as exercises. Those of you who have read my vocal prospectus will know that the later stage of building a voice is to sing songs, both in vocal coaching sessions and as long-term goals. Here’s the challenge Singing songs without any consideration to the
To sing well, we must learn to move from chest voice into head voice. We need to be able to dance back and forth without difficulty – this requires cultivation of different bridging strategies. To be even more precise, we must learn to transition across multiple passagio/bridges, and to tonally match the bottom to the
This week I want to ask you ‘what is your musical diet?’ A Youtube creator I follow called Rick Beato put this great video out last week on ‘Has every song been written?’ commenting on the fleet of lawsuits that artists are firing at each other over copying songs. Now while he sets out to
As I’ve mentioned recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the recording realm and inherently comparing live vs recorded vocals. I have pretty good pitch, but even I notice how unforgiving it is to hear your own recorded vocal back. We might only be talking about just one or two notes in a
I was watching an interview a little while ago, with a famous fight trainer. The interviewer asked him who the most dangerous/incredible fighter he’d ever seen was, and he told this story about a guy called Steve Rusk. Steve was just an outdoors-y kind of guy in the US (hunting, fishing, etc), but he’d come
While we predominantly talk about the ‘mixed voice’, in the classical world this is most closely related to the idea of the “covered” sound. In this video I’ve linked below, Pavarotti demonstrates exactly this covered sound. What this broadly translates to is a sound where the brashness of chest voice is rounded off as the
One of the biggest benefits of today’s article is that it’s an easy way to improve your singing performance in just a few easy steps, so read on. Key Choice is EVERYTHING Recently, I’ve been visiting songs new and old and concocting a list of 10-15 songs that I like and are exciting, both to
