Learning how to sing better means knowing about your voice, and all the elements that can affect your sound. The tongue can be a major player in sound production. It can help you make beautiful sounding tones, or it can cause your voice lots of grief. The root of the tongue starts in the same … Read more
Getting fit as a singer means learning how to sing through all your vocal breaks–your entire vocal register. Ladies, the average range for you is approximately F or G below middle C (C4) to G above high C (C5). This is the average…..good female singers may sing through to high high C (C6) and even … Read more
I get many emails and audio files from singers asking how they know if they are mixing. They want to know how to sing in a mixed voice. The #1 tell-tale sign that you are NOT mixing well is if your larynx is rising too high and you feel like you have hit a ceiling. … Read more
Now that you have learned what good breathing technique should feel like in your body, it’s time to actually sing. I suggest practising on easy notes within your range. As you sing higher, the effort and the amount of air you take in, will need to increase down yonder…..so start easy and focus on the … Read more
So now that you are “belly breathing” we need to take you into the sensation of breath support. This is a biggy. What is actually happening is the muscles all around your body (back, ribs, stomach) are engaging to “hold back”, “suspend” and control your breath. Again, this can be very tricky because I don’t … Read more
Most of you have heard of “sing from the diaphragm” or diaphragmatic breathing during the singing. Basically this simply means that the ideal way to control your breath is to engage the diaphragm more fully. Well, we can’t simply tell our diaphragms to work harder, or better, or more efficiently. This usually just causes the … Read more
Breath support is such an interesting feeling. When you tap into the exactness of this coordination with your body, your ability to sing better can explode. The ability to control your voice is what we are talking about here. The ability to manage volume changes, vibrato variations, and change tonal colors are under this umbrella … Read more
When you understand what is going on in the larynx and at the vocal cords, then it’s much easier to make changes and get the results you are looking for. Knowing what your vocal cords are doing when you speak is a great place to start. I have a somewhat breathy, but resonant speaking voice, … Read more
Why is it that “your” music stirs up such a strong “sense” within you, but not necessarily in the person beside you. Is it the lyrics? Is it the beat? Is it the volume and speed? Is it the singer? Why is it that what rocks one person’s music world doesn’t do the same for … Read more
Why do we love to sing and listen to ourselves in the shower? There are a number of reasons. The echo reverberation generated by the hard surfaces is reason enough. We hear our voice as big, loud and “easy”. And, we are completely naked! We have no inhibitions! No one is watching, and no one … Read more