T-Shirt Voice Lessons

This very short episode as a follow-up to the don’t quit episode. In this one we are talking about how it’s better to have steady progress and grow like an oak tree without battling or fighting and really without much resistance. When we grow this way resistance is steady just like our progress. When we continually stop and start we have a growth that’s marked by more massive resistance and more intense pushback. Sometimes we have to do either or both but let’s learn to opt for steady

March is the time of year when New Year’s resolutions start to fade away because the resistance of life has pushed on us. Whether you want to be a singer, public speaker, actor, anything else in life this is the time to double down and push forward. But we’re not pushing forward in an aggressive sense. We’re pushing forward with a sense of eagerness and alacrity and fun. This episode is about how to re-orient ourselves so that we are successful.

Rap is a style of singing. It is important to treat rap the same way you treat singing. If you are a rapper, respect yourself as a vocal artist. It’s time for you to sing with power and drive and phrasing and all the things that singers do. This episode will tell you about how to take care of your voice, how to open up the voice so that it has the right resonance and how to find your style without compromising yourself.

Our discussion of singing opera will also involve talking about singing and concepts of singing and concepts of opera singing. It’s a wonderful art form, and it’s important that we start to have more connection to our true nature when we sing it so that more people will appreciate this beautiful art form. I hope you enjoy this one if you are an opera singer or want to be an opera singer or if you just would like to appreciate opera more.

While my music theater is not quite a style, there is a specific approach on how to sing it. Musically there are many styles in music theater, but there are some main principles to follow for all music theater. Remember, the goal of music theater is for a character to present a message, to tell their story, and to develop in the course of the show. In many modern musicals, There is a mini story inside of the song itself. In the end there are both musical and phrasing things that need to be done and there are also expression things that need to be done. We will talk about it all in this episode!

Continuing our series on styles of music, today we are talking about how to sing Pop music. This is a style that requires a unique combination of singer forward mentality, specific vocal color that matches your persona, and extreme expressiveness. In this particular style of Music, we are actually going to spend quite a bit of time on style itself and establishing a persona because so much of pop requires that. In this podcast we will talk about things that you almost never hear from voice teachers. These are secrets generally reserved as conversations between a talent manager and their client or a music producer in their client. Other aspects are particular to the voice and how to approach pop music vocally so that it meets all the elements that audiences want.

This episode in our series of music styles is all about country music! There are several unique things about country music and in this podcast we are going to talk about how your voice will best fit this style. Country music is very lyric forward and people listen to country music because they want to know the message that you’re trying to sing about. To many people, country music sounds like a very natural style of music and it doesn’t have a lot of vocal affectation.And country music singing can fit a wide range of voice types. I will talk about some of the problem areas that people sometimes have in country music and some of the ways you can open your voice without losing your great country sound.

This episode is the first of a series on how to sing in different genre of music. Today we are starting with rock music because that’s where I started, so it’s an appropriate place to start. We will learn how to sing in the style, what to watch out for, and how to find your place.

What do you do if you have to sing when you are sick? In this podcast, we will address how to continue practicing and how to handle performances when your voice is not at its best. We will also talk about what types of sickness Requires vocal rest and which ones we can sing through with some awareness. This is a longer podcast but it has a lot of good information that I’m sure you’ll benefit from. This is a continuation of our discussion “Face the Weather Face the Music” (episode 14)

Performers, I know a secret about you. You easily get fixated on things. These fixations can cause distractions and can cause you to get sidetracked and can cause you to lose your relationships and so much more. Fixations can stop you from succeeding. Fixations can stop you from getting an audition. They can cause you to treat people badly. It’s time to lose the fixations and, instead, to start concentrating, aware of where you are and who you are and where you are going but fixated on nothing