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Freedom of Movement
As a singer, you likely know how important being in touch with your body awareness is. Perhaps you've noticed the effects of jaw or tongue tension on your sound, or know that you have a habit of slumping and impeding your ability to take in a full, comfortable breath....
Voice Teacher vs. Vocal Coach: What’s the Difference?
What’s the difference between a voice teacher and a vocal coach? What each one does, which you need, and how lessons and video coaching work together.
Musicianship for Singers
Singers, let's face some ugly truths. Within the music industry, singers get a bad rap. Too many beautiful voices are running amok and not realizing the musical errors they're making (and thereby how hard they are to work with). Singers that get ahead are often those...
Musical Collaboration
Musicians must learn to play well with others! From being pleasant and easy to work with, to reading musical cues and responding accordingly, a musician's ability to collaborate successfully-- in life and in music-- will hugely influence their success. Like any other...
Practicing: How vs. How Much
"Practice makes Perfect." "You are what you repeatedly do." While there is some truth within both of these popular adages, we would argue that Practice makes Permanent, and how WELL you repeatedly do something is the more interesting factor. Singers who wish to...
Gig Guide
Getting your first gig may seem like a difficult task, but if you look closely enough in your area, it can be a lot simpler than you may think. Perhaps just asking the owner of a restaurant that you regularly frequent, or emailing a couple of businesses in the area...
Emotional Baggage
As singers, we are both musicians and actors. We have a responsibility both to the music itself, and also to the lyrics and emotional truth of the story each song sets out to tell. While singers are generally expressive people naturally, putting your feelings on...
Warming Up
Because the anatomy of our voices is effectively invisible to us, it can be easy to dismiss as some mysterious thing that just sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Of course, the reality of keeping your singing voice in optimal shape is that caring for the vocal...
Performing Experience Matters
Everything you've ever done in life, you were once bad at. The fact of the matter is that the task doesn't change-- you just get better at it! Think back to something you were once afraid to do: from running a mile to taking that reach interview. Whatever it was, the...
How to Record Yourself Singing (and Why It Helps)
Why your voice sounds different on a recording, how to record yourself singing with just your phone, and what to listen for so every take moves you forward.
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