One of the most common questions I get asked regarding voice training is “how long does it take?” Now generally what people THINK they mean is “how long does it take to train a voice/learn to sing“, but often what is really going on, is that a given singer has the beginnings of their sound […]
Once again, we visit five songs (and a bonus track!) that featured in some way in the studio and my week just gone. Have a listen and you can be a virtual ‘fly on the wall’ in others lessons! 1. You can go your own way – Fleetwood Mac Absolute classic, been revisiting Fleetwood Mac
This should only take you 2-3 minutes to read, and only about 10-30 seconds to apply each time you use it. What’s the problem? When you’re singing a song and you get to that difficult passage/line, you ever noticed how it’s sometimes harder than doing that difficult passage just by itself? Or perhaps you are
Yet another instalment of the very popular ‘Five songs from this week’… 1. Rolling Down to Old Maui – The Longest Johns One of my longer term students sings in an old folk group that sings a lot of sea shantys. This is one of their current songs and he’s working on this – reeeeally
I ended up having a fairly long Facebook chat with a few students today on a variety of songs, and five songs came up that I recommended they have a listen to… and they just hadn’t heard them before! So I figured I’d share the five right here for your listening pleasure! #1 – Bonnie
Those of you who are in for lessons regularly know about my love for a songwriting guru called Ralph Murphy, but I’m also a big fan of Brett Domino and his hilarious satire on hit songwriting. While this is not quite the same sort of intellectual level of that sort of songwriting advice, this video
Quick one this time! I was working with one of my favourite students (Mike) on some guitar-y songs, and how to meld singing and guitar playing together, and we got talking about songwriters who do this really well. John Mayer is a great one, Chris Cornell is pretty cool too, and there many others too
What are your favourite lyrics? Now, despite loving singing and songs, and as well as having a near photographic memory, I do find it difficult to pick apart lyrics for an entire song in a first listen – finding favourite lyrics can be tough. So when a lyric really sticks in my mind on first listen
