Great singing starts with great vocal technique. This resource guide explores the key skills every singer needs — including breath control, resonance, vocal strength, tone, and efficiency.
Whether you’re aiming to sing with more power, reduce strain, or simply understand how your voice works, the articles below offer clear, expert guidance built on years of hands-on teaching.
Start with the topic that resonates with you, or explore the full series to deepen your technical foundation and unlock your voice’s full potential.
Look, we’ve all been there. We all want to sing higher notes. We notice that if we can get to note X, X+1 seems somewhat achievable if we just force it a little bit more. Just hit it a bit harder. I’ve done it, you’ve done it, it happens. But this approach is not harmless
Over the years I’ve noticed that some singers seem to progress much faster than others. Sometimes this is down to the variations between individuals bodies/voices, and their practice routine. But often I’ve noticed this is down to the kind of material they spend most of their time singing and the bad vocal habits these encourage.
I like whisky. But I didn’t always like whisky. In fact, I thought it tasted pretty damn foul for most of my life. It’s only been in the last few years that I’ve got into that whole world. What’s interesting about whisky, is that it takes YEARS to even get a “first draft”. After getting
In our prospectus, I give a very basic overview of what we are trying to achieve with training a voice. The third step can be loosely described as clustering vowels. What follows is a brief preamble to outline this process in the context of voice, to lead you in to a very helpful video on
I regularly have conversations with clients and singers about vocal robustness, i.e. being able to sing for long periods, and for sustained gigging/touring schedules. I’ve written numerous articles on the primary causes why people lose their voice on a regular basis, through overuse, misuse, and abuse. I’ve got a full listing of related articles at
Maybe you’re not singing everyday, but you find that most mornings you’d like to be able to speak on the phone without constant throat clearing, or avoid feeling like you’ve been a chainsmoker for the whole night, or maybe you just regularly feel a bit heavy in the throat. Cultivating this kind of routine for
Vocal Relaxation and Resonance: Why Forcing the Voice Doesn’t Work I often talk about the importance of ‘balance’ in the voice. But what exactly does this entail? What we want is broadly this: that the various parameters/variables of the voice are present in appropriate measure, both relative to themselves, to each other, and for a
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
