Understanding how your vocal range works—and how to transition smoothly between registers—is a key part of developing flexibility and control.
This section covers topics like head voice vs. chest voice, mixed coordination, range extension, and the science behind register shifts.
Whether you’re looking to sing higher, blend more evenly, or reduce breaks, these articles give you the tools to unlock your full vocal potential.
To illustrate this topic of sensory confusion in singers, I want to reference a story I read a few years ago. Braille readers Blind people read using Braille – a system of raised dots to indicate letters and words. They do this using the tips of their index, middle and ring fingers. Their brains 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,
If any of you have studied anything to a high level, you’ll know just how deceptively complex almost any given subject can be. This seems self-evident for subjects like quantum physics, philosophy, economics, brain surgery, microcomputers, etc. Even their subject titles require some explanation to most lay-people, and almost every word used within that subject
I once wrote an article called 5 Reasons: Why singing is like clothing…. While the article is not especially the most read article on my site, it is (in my opinion) one of the most relevant and important articles I’ve written for understanding your own voice. This topic is critically overlooked by far too many
This topic has been coming up a lot recently, and also came up in yesterdays voice intensive, so I wanted to talk about it this week. As an aside, I’ve been trying to write this article for several months. It’s a difficult and somewhat abstract/subjective topic to discuss. What makes a song “feel high”? If
A great coach once said to me “to be a student of singing, you must be a student of the HISTORY of singing”. My first reaction wasn’t necessarily positive At first hearing of this, I was initially dismissive to some extent – why does it matter what people 20, 50, 100+ years ago were doing?
“Why can’t I sing as high as I used to?” THIS is a question I get asked a lot. I’ve extensively covered the effects of aging on the voice in this article I previously wrote, but in this article I want to use some actual examples of voices that are golden voices in their own
What is vocal tessitura? This comes up a lot, with clients who are just starting to figure out their voice, all the way up to experienced professionals. Wikipedia defines vocal tessitura as: “… the most aesthetically acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a given singer” While this is a factually correct summation, it overlooks critical
