Dive into real-world reflections and behind‑the‑scenes learnings from voice teaching sessions. This section reveals practical tips, technique breakthroughs, rehearsal strategies, and common challenges singers face—straight from the studio. Whether you’re preparing for a first lesson, overcoming a vocal hurdle, or curious about coaching methods, these insights give you a clear, expert lens on singing lessons in action.
“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 […]
Today I want to talk about descriptive vs prescriptive teaching methods We had a workshop recently, and one of the participants commented on how they had once been told by a singing teacher to “put the sound in THIS cavity” accompanied with a finger pointing to somewhere in the head. The main reason he brought
I’ve got an analogy I use a lot in lessons, and I want to share it with you: namely, why singing is like clothing. Building your singing voice and establishing your style takes time. It involves capitalising on the things you like about your voice, fixing things you don’t like whilst accepting the things that
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
Can Singing Lessons Help a Bad Singer? “I think I’m tone deaf, can singing lessons help a bad singer like me?” “I can’t sing—will singing lessons help?” “I’m awful at singing. My tone is bad and I struggle to even finish songs—can anything be done?” If you’ve asked any of these questions, you’re not alone.
We all have good and bad voice days, and we all beat ourselves up from time to time. The following list is not exhaustive, but represents some cross-genre vocal fails that show how we ALL have to accept some vocal fails from time to time. It’s an organic instrument, and things don’t always go to
As a professional vocal coach here in Nottingham, I regularly attend industry conferences and professional development events. At one such voice conference, a speaker made the claim that, generally speaking, “women make better singers than men.” That statement has stayed with me for a long time. Is it actually true? And if so, why might
Reading time: 3 minutes I had a coaching session last week, and the topic of vocal science came up. Now I am ALL for further understanding of science: it is an incredibly helpful tool. However, whenever I see a new idea presented in vocal science, or some aspect that is preached heavily by various teaching
