Another vocal coach shared this (older) article this week regarding singers needing voice surgery (embedded below), and a paragraph in the middle jumped out at me: “Soul singer John Legend, 33, said he has grown mindful of the importance of looking after his voice. “I’ve certainly been no stranger to having issues with my voice,” […]
This week I want to ask you ‘what is your musical diet?’ A Youtube creator I follow called Rick Beato put this great video out last week on ‘Has every song been written?’ commenting on the fleet of lawsuits that artists are firing at each other over copying songs. Now while he sets out to
This week I’ve been enjoying some old classics by Michael McDonald and the Doobie Brothers. Michael has been churning out hits for years, and is a singer that I wish more modern singers would emulate. What is particularly impressive is how well he delivers so many of his songs whilst simultaneously nailing quite tricky piano
As I’ve mentioned recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the recording realm and inherently comparing live vs recorded vocals. I have pretty good pitch, but even I notice how unforgiving it is to hear your own recorded vocal back. We might only be talking about just one or two notes in a
I’ve been doing a lot of recording the last few weeks, getting back into that world of getting good takes, mixing the voice with tracks… and vocal comping, which is the subject of this weeks article. I’m by no means a fully fledged expert, but it’s something that is good to have some competency at
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.
I was watching an interview a little while ago, with a famous fight trainer. The interviewer asked him who the most dangerous/incredible fighter he’d ever seen was, and he told this story about a guy called Steve Rusk. Steve was just an outdoors-y kind of guy in the US (hunting, fishing, etc), but he’d come
One of the things I do whenever I’m learning a new song is try to find multiple versions to listen to. In this case, it’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me”. Sometimes this isn’t possible, but generally there are at least two or three versions of a given song out there for general consumption. The
