If you’re genuinely serious about working on your voice and hearing BIG improvements, then we’d love to get you booked in to work one-on-one with Mark. We are pleased to say that in-person sessions are very much available. The studio is set-up to allow completely normal and comfortable in-person sessions. Online sessions are also always …
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I often talk about tessitura, and how we can increase range and develop comfort over that range to cultivate a new tessitura. This is possible for both male and female voices, but there are definite differences between the male and female instruments that are worth talking about. In particular, many women who join choirs, or …
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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 …
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People looking for help with their voice regularly ask me “tips and tricks” so they can try to DIY fix a specific issue or to improve their voice. But here’s the money shot up-front: Without having worked with someone’s voice, there are no tips or tricks one can give that can guarantee improvement This is …
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Recently I wrote an article about reasons why so many singers are just yelling. This was not aimed as a rant about performers who are just bellowing on-stage in lieu of actual singing, but a frank and honest look at various reasons why. I hinted in one passage that there’s also cultural reasons for this, …
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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 …
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