Mark JW Graham: Singing Lessons Nottingham
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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 …
In one of our more recent voice intensives, an important question was raised around the challenge of “trying to find my own sound“. Finding your sound It’s an all too common experience. Experienced and inexperienced singers alike, in a search for their sound, go on a mammoth journey trying on different vocal “fashions“. They try …
For most people, singing (at first) tends to involve unnecessary tension. Sometimes this is extremely obvious, e.g. veins and tendons popping on their neck. Sometimes it’s moderately obvious, e.g. the vocal tone sounds strained. And sometimes it’s downright invisible. Unnecessary tension This typically occurs when *something* isn’t working quite right. This then means that other …
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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 and be able to dance back and forth without difficulty. To be even more precise, we must learn to transition across multiple passagio/bridges, and to tonally match the bottom to the top and vice versa. Although there is a particular pathway …
One of the things I do whenever I’m learning a new song, is I 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’s at least 2-3 versions of a given song out there for general consumption. The reason …
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