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.
There were a few lessons this week that reminded me of the importance of intentionality in vocal arrangement. It’s very easy, as one gains technical facility, to want to do various things with our voice just because we can. And why not! Doing exciting things with our voice is fun. The problem is, with increasing […]
I was talking with a client this week about how we get our voices going each day, and I thought it might be worth sharing my morning routine for getting my voice warm. If you struggle to get your voice going in the morning, then this is for you. Maybe you’re not singing everyday, but
Very quick thought today, with the intent of helping you to think a bit more critically and with neutrality about your singing. Believing the wrong thing Many people convince themselves that they can or cannot do something based on incorrect or incomplete information. For example, just because you can squeeze out (say) a particular note
I was doing some reading about strength training the other day, and came across this excellent article about the Two-Factor Model in the world of strength training. As I was reading it, it struck me how similar this model was to the philosophy we have in our vocal coaching system, and also how we effectively
I was having a chat with a local artist recently about developing vocal style and development of artistry. One of the topics that came up was about learning new things and expanding one’s palette of available musical ideas, genres, musical phrasing etc. The whole point of doing so is to expand and grow one’s musical
This is a simple tip this week, and that is the power of putting in the reps. As a vocal coach of many years, this is something I have observed makes an enormous difference in people’s singing – the results are unavoidable if you do this. What do I mean by this? So often people
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
In the last article we talked about how to start creating a song list to help build your voice. This week – assuming you’ve got your list finalised and to hand – I want to give some further advice on how to shape and continually work with ordering your song list to improve your voice.
