Learning to sing isn’t just about hitting the right notes—it’s about building technique, confidence, and vocal health from the ground up.
In this section, you’ll find beginner-friendly articles that cover everything from finding your natural voice and improving tone to structuring your practice sessions.
Whether you’re just starting out or picking up where someone else left off, these guides will help you sing smarter—and stronger.
Who is your favourite singer of all time? I’m sure you can think of a few — and feel free to contemplate the following about each of them, but today we’ll be looking at George Michael. To understand why, let’s reframe the question. If you could only listen to ONE singer’s music for the rest […]
Another Vocal Coaching Success Story from Michaela This week’s vocal coaching success story is from a fantastic client called Michaela. Michaela and I have been working together in my Nottingham vocal coaching studio since she got in touch towards the end of a previous year. Her story and vocal development through our vocal coaching sessions
This week I wanted to share a few singing secrets I think more singers could do with knowing about. And one of the things that I think underpins being a good teacher, is NOT trying to “teach” people per se, but trying to change lynchpins in the way people think. If you just try to
I often get asked ‘How Long Does it Take To Learn To Sing Well?’… the answer is not just simply ‘how long is a piece of string?’, but it is dependent on your goals and many other factors. So rather than answer the question of ‘how long does it take to learn to sing well’,
A lip bubble looks a bit like blowing a raspberry. But you also make a sound under it, and generally, we have our fingers in our cheeks to lift the weight of our cheeks off of our vibrating lips. Here’s a short video I put together explaining: a) what lip bubbles are; b) how to
If you find your voice inconsistent one day to the next… I wanted to talk about this topic given how many bugs are going round at the moment, just to help you understand why these things can affect our voices so significantly. I’ve talked before about students who find their voice inconsistent from day to
How to get high notes? This is possibly THE most common question I get asked ‘Mark, how do I get to those high notes? can you make it easy for me?’ The answer is ‘I’ll show you’ and ‘yes’, but I want to talk a little about a common culprit and little known issue that
