Your growth as a singer depends on HOW you practice, not just how much.
This section shares expert-backed strategies and techniques to help you get the most out of every rehearsal session.
Covering topics like warm-up routines, effective repetition, goal setting, and vocal maintenance, these articles guide you to build a practice system that drives consistent improvement and vocal health.
Last time I wrote about how some songs are more favourable than others to sing. I also mentioned the three I suggest the most for clients to help begin to figure their voice out. I’ve also written previously about unsingable songs. But this time I thought it might be helpful to give some examples of […]
When people first start, we have to start building their voice from the ground up. This is true no matter how long someone has been singing, or how advanced the material they want to sing happens to be. Once we have a reasonable technical foundation laid down, we can start to deploy that newly built
Voice Projection – Why It’s Difficult and What You Can Do I often receive messages from people having issues with their ‘voice projection’. One common instance is people who require their voice to be strong for their work. This week, I thought I’d talk about one such case so you can understand what they were
In this article I want to talk about what it takes to build a singing voice to have for the rest of your life. Clients of all ages ask about this, and so I thought it was worth going into a few fundamental precepts that I think are relevant to voices at all stages. If
I wanted to talk in this article about the unparalleled importance of consistency when practicing. I’m not just talking about the regularity of when you practice, but consistency in the QUALITY and essence of your practice. Let me explain. In a book I’ve recommended before, author and table tennis champion Matthew Syed tells this story
In a practice session of my own a while ago, I was cogitating on something I had been figuring out (mentioned in point 2 below). It struck me how I wish I could have gone back in time to tell my younger self this. There’d be no guarantee my younger, more arrogant self would listen,
Recently, someone brought in the song Seasons by Chris Cornell. Now I’ve written before about how much my younger self loved the sound of Cornell’s voice. While discussing the range of Cornell’s voice, his tone, etc, we got to discussing how achievable it would be to sing his songs. And that’s how we got onto
Many years ago, I had a client who gave me the most insane excuse I’ve ever heard. Brace yourselves, because it’s a doozy. They had started voice training with me whilst they were working a normal job. At some point they had decided to change career, but for a period of time chose not to
