Great singing and vocal confidence is largely based in solid vocal technique— this is what enables you to trust your voice under pressure.
This is a collection of our best articles on the topic. In each article, we explore how to perform with confidence, overcome stage anxiety, and develop the mindset needed to sing freely in front of others. Whether you’re preparing for a gig, audition, or recording, these articles will help you strengthen both your technical reliability and your psychological readiness.
In a recent article I mentioned how the pandemic has screwed up a lot of people’s routines and schedules, especially in relation to voice and music. For others it has introduced the space to build a vocal practice routine. Yet for many people in the modern world, carving out and sticking to a regular routine […]
There is a famous quotation attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” As it turns out, Aristotle never said these exact words. In 1926, author Will Durant gave this as a quasi-modernised summation of elements of Aristotle’s teachings. But whether
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 had a question from a client a while back, asking me what the best way was to deal with performance anxiety. I answered their query as best I could directly but wanted to flesh out my answer more here, especially as it’s something we all face, even just singing at home when we realise
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.
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
Reading time: 4 minutes Before we go any further, let’s recap some of the material I’ve covered from the workshop with Rhonda Carlson. In part 1 we established the importance of a specific backstory. This enables you to inhabit the story the song is already telling, and give it nuance and a personal connection.
Reading time: 3 minutes In the first performance article we talked about Rhonda Carlson’s advice on having/creating a backstory to whatever song you are going to sing. The more detailed and personally invested you can make the character singing the song, the easier it is to inhabit that story and sell it… but to sell
