Here’s a great question from my email… Question: I usually don’t have pitch issues when recording, but on occasion I do. I’ve tried using just one ear piece on the headphones, but on this particular song, still had trouble. Can you explain the science behind finding pitch when using headphones? Thanks! Answer: First of all,… Read More » about Singing With Headphones: Pitch Issues
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Voice-Over Career: How to get started
I get questions from time to time about a specialty vocal career: Voice-Over. If you work in this area, you are known as “voice-over talent”. It entails speaking over multimedia platforms like radio, TV, movies, Internet. It includes such things as commercials, news casting, narrating documentaries, reading books-on-tape, and even voices over animated movies. To… Read More » about Voice-Over Career: How to get started
Taming Tongue Tension
Tongue tension equals soft palate tension, equals… throat tension! It happens when you use the wrong end of the tongue too much! The tongue is said by some to be the strongest muscle in the body for it’s size. It is literally connected by the hyoid bone to the top of your larynx. Tensing the… Read More » about Taming Tongue Tension
Vocal Control For Studio Singing
A large part of vocal training involves learning vocal control. Without vocal control, any vocal recording will suffer dreadfully. With it, you can do things you can only dream about without it. Another problem with lack of control is that if you are singing with any degree of power, you are going to experience a… Read More » about Vocal Control For Studio Singing
Vocal Health: The Most Important Nutrient For Your Voice
As singers, we can buy throat sprays, suck on lozenges, drink special teas that are supposed to coat the throat. We can drink peppermint to calm jittery stomachs, or have a beer because we think it will relax our throats. We take vitamin and mineral suppliments and avoid dairy to keep from coating our throats…. Read More » about Vocal Health: The Most Important Nutrient For Your Voice
Vocal Training: Should We Train the Intellect or the Senses?
There is a point and counterpoint dancing among teachers of voice. Some say it’s best to teach the intellect, using facts, logic, the left brain, so to speak. Others say the way to go is to teach the sensory system… with imagery and subjective “feeling” of concepts. Like many, I think the answer lies in… Read More » about Vocal Training: Should We Train the Intellect or the Senses?
Singers: What To Do When The Flu Is After You
OK, admit it (check title)… I’m a poet! H1N1, H3H4H5abcdefxy, whatever the name of the dang flu bug trying to jump on you, if you need to use your voice, your fear and justified paranoia is the same. I have it this week; you don’t want it. (Don’t worry, you can’t catch it from a… Read More » about Singers: What To Do When The Flu Is After You
Vocal Training: Change Habits, Then Strengthen Weaknesses
It’s so much fun – for both of us – when a student comes to me for the first Power, Path & Performance vocal lesson. There is such an amazing leap in vocal ability that can be made by some simple changes I can suggest from watching a student do “their thing”. The first plateau… Read More » about Vocal Training: Change Habits, Then Strengthen Weaknesses
Vocal Range… What It Is, How Much Of It You Need To Sing Great
How can you increase your vocal range? It’s a question I hear all the time. Many times, this question is uninformed. There’s no need to sing in whistle register if you’re not doing Maria Carey style vocal runs, or singing the part of “Tony The Tiger” in those commercials. Why people have contests over this… Read More » about Vocal Range… What It Is, How Much Of It You Need To Sing Great
Affirmations For Professional Musician & Songwriter – Nancy Moran
This guest post is a list of wisdom offered by singer/songwriter/music biz guru Nancy Moran. I wholeheartedly agree that if we practice and act on the following affirmations, we would be miles ahead of most, in fact, there is no telling what will be possible. So here goes… and THANK YOU, NANCY! Affirmations For The… Read More » about Affirmations For Professional Musician & Songwriter – Nancy Moran