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.
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 […]
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?
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
A question was asked relatively recently in a voice forum by someone who had picked up on recent trends for voice teachers to dive heavily into voice research as opposed to practical vocal development. “Has voice pedagogy become study ABOUT the voice rather than how to TEACH singing?” This is a fascinating question, and one
As a professional vocal coach here in Nottingham, I regularly attend industry conferences and professional development events. At one such voice conference, a speaker made the claim that, generally speaking, “women make better singers than men.” That statement has stayed with me for a long time. Is it actually true? And if so, why might
While we predominantly talk about the ‘mixed voice’, in the classical world this is most closely related to the idea of the “covered” sound. In this video I’ve linked below, Pavarotti demonstrates exactly this covered sound. What this broadly translates to is a sound where the brashness of chest voice is rounded off as the
Let’s talk about something important – speech level singing. One of the comments that comes up a lot in voice training is the discussion of volume. What is the optimal volume for singing at, how loud/soft should one sing etc? While that is far too broad a topic to cover in one post, one aspect
Something that comes up time and time again with voice training is “when will my vocal tone be thicker?” or “deeper?” or “fuller?” or “more powerful?”, “how do I get better vocal tone?” or words to that effect. Well, there’s no easy answer to that. There’s so many factors that go into development of tone,
