Stephen Sondheim wrote a wonderful song, Anyone Can Whistle. The lyrics say, “What’s hard is simple, what’s natural comes hard…” Changing your singing with thoughts My last blog, Change Your Mind About Singing, you learned how changing your thoughts about your singing can actually change your voice. How? Thoughts that cause fear, cause your muscles to […]
Change Your Mind About Singing
Changing your sound with your mind Recently 2 private singing students, within 2 days of each other, when struggling to sing, said, “Wait a second, I know what to do!” Each made a mental adjustment after which their singing sounded amazing! When I asked what they did, both students used the exact same words. “I […]
Guess How Much I Spent on Voice Lessons
My quest to find the solutions to my singing challenges began when I was a teenager. Mom and Dad got me voice lessons and I rarely took a break from studying for the next many years. Then in 2005 long after I left my teens behind, I realized that I had spent over $100,000 on voice […]
Practice Makes Progress | Practice Makes Permanent
Creating Habits Through Practice Hello Singers! Every musician knows the routine. Practice, practice, practice. The old saying is that practice makes perfect. WRONG. There is no perfect there is only excellence in singing. Practice = Progress. Practice = Permanent. Practice is the process of becoming aware of habits that do not support your voice, then […]
Singer Striptease
Sometimes when I teach a group singing class, 32-Bar Audition class, the singers in the class are fairly inexperienced. And yet, magic still happens. A young woman in class sang Sondheim’s Loving You. The first time through the song it wasn’t all the much fun to listen to. My instruction to her was to sing […]