My Voice Feels Trapped Is your voice locked in a room – somewhere deep inside of you? More than locked, it can feel like there are no doors or windows in this room and that your voice will never be allowed to break free. The voice is apparently inaccessible. But is it really locked? And […]
Voice Training without Sounding “Trained”
There is a revolution happening with contemporary singers. It used to be that they thought voice training was unnecessary. They would change their minds when they got vocal damage and came to me in a panic. Now contemporary singers tell me that they do realize that voice training is not only good, it’s absolutely necessary […]
Singing: What Were You Thinking?
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 […]