As a singer and vocal coach of many years, I’ve spent a lot of time learning how to sing live, and record singing well in the studio. There are stark differences between the two, both in terms of challenges and also assessing the result. In this article I want to go over these differences, and […]
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
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
One of the key principles that our technique is built on is using the natural calibration of your speaking voice (i.e. chest voice) as a roadmap to build our singing voice. The greater the deviation from our speaking voice co-ordination/calibration (evidenced by a different sound), the greater the level of issues singers tend to encounter.
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
I received an email this week asking about how to sing when recording. I’ve re-parsed the sentences in the email so that the questions flow for the purposes of this article. “Hi Mark, Do you have any articles [or advice] on how to sing when recording? I feel like my recorded voice sounds both harsh
To sing well, we must learn to move from chest voice into head voice. We need to be able to dance back and forth without difficulty – this requires cultivation of different bridging strategies. To be even more precise, we must learn to transition across multiple passagio/bridges, and to tonally match the bottom to the
