Expanding Vocal Range Part 3
“More vocal range” is the most frequent wish I have heard from the thousands of singers I have coached. Yes they want more control and better tone, but it is range, range, range [...]
Expanding Vocal Range Part 2
In Part 1 we began discussing vocal range expansion from the perspective of some basics such as how the voice works and breathing versus singing. If you don’t know such fundamentals, you may [...]
Expanding Vocal Range Part 1
In teaching thousands of singers around the world, I have never met one who did not have more potential range than they knew and were using. Sometimes factors such as smoking cigarettes or [...]
Pitch Control Video Lesson
This week's Blog post is a short sample video lesson from Jeannie Deva's Online Vocal School at Artistworks.com. The school features over 200 video lessons recorded by Jeannie and more. This three minute [...]
Relax Your Lips-Sing Better Fast
When you sing do you tense your lips? Are you exaggerating their movement or that of your cheeks or the opening of your mouth? Do you try to form your vowels with your [...]
Breathe Into Your Back
Breathe into your back. Have you been taught to push your stomach forward when you take a breath and then hold it still or push it in as you sing? Or perhaps you've [...]
Relax Your Tongue
Does your tongue tense as you sing? Does the back of it pull up as you go for a higher note? Does it push down into your throat? (That will cause your voice [...]
Contemporary vs Classical Voice Technique Part 3
Thank you for your comments to last week’s blog post. I hope you don’t mind me using one of them to lead into this week’s wrap-up of our discussion of Classical vs. Contemporary [...]
Contemporary vs Classical Voice Technique Part 2
Singing with a "Yawn" Some Classical techniques focus on lifting the soft palate and maintaining an open throat as you would if you were yawning. To get some idea of this, yawn and [...]