This section is for singers who use their voice professionally—on stage, in the studio, or as part of their career. From vocal care and stamina to mindset, technique, and performance reliability, these articles share real-world strategies to help you protect your voice, refine your artistry, and sing with long-term confidence.
I’ve talked before about the worst voice I’ve ever worked with, but recently I’ve been thinking about the better voices I’ve worked with. I wanted to write about the “best” voices I’ve ever worked with, but I realised that’s not a helpful definition. So instead I wanted to discuss the singer with the biggest range […]
I’m a professional vocal coach and singing teacher. The core of my work is about building, improving and fixing issues people have in their voices. From that point, the primary and highest demanding application of this is for singers and performers using their voice in song. This involves using their voice over the widest range,
There’s a quote attributed (incorrectly) to Albert Einstein: “If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live the rest of its life thinking it’s stupid.” While Einstein appears not to have been the one to coin this phrase, and while this quote can often be misapplied, the underlying sentiment
A few months ago I recommended five of my favourite books. IIt was one of my most popular articles, with many emailing to say how helpful they found it. Ergo, I thought it worth providing a few more book recommendations. One I’ve read since that post was written, one I’d read many years ago, and
I’ve talked before about this idea of vocal tessitura. This is a very nuanced concept, so please have a read of that article. This week I wanted to talk about vocal headroom. Here is the summarised definition of tessitura from that other article: “Tessitura asks “how comfortable are you” in certain regions of your voice,
Something I encounter a lot is the phenomenon of the vocal professional who ‘all of a sudden’ finds themselves having voice problems. Here’s what normally happens… At first, the issues are usually shrugged off. Errors are discounted as “just one of those gigs” to others, but inwardly they are a little apprehensive as to why
“Amateurs practise until they get it right, a professional until he can’t do it wrong.” Extract from “Psychology for Musicians” by Percy C. Buck, circa 1944. I’ve talked before about the importance of putting in the reps. To be honest, I feel like I should have multiple articles devoted to this very topic. That way
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
