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Dr Gillyanne Kayes & Jeremy Fisher dive deep into breathing techniques for singers & speakers.

And we share

• What MDs really shouldn’t do to their singers
• Why one of the classical “rules” really doesn’t serve the singer (and you still hear it on recordings)
• When you don’t need much breath
• Why rhythm is so important for easy singing (and it may not be what you think)
• Why Rib Reserve and Accent Method are opposite breathing techniques and how you might use them together (or not)
• How you can maintain “pressure” in long notes
• Jeremy demonstrates what happens to his voice following an old breathing technique
• And you hear us fact-checking each other on physiology (because after all, we’re humans)

RESOURCES
The Vocal Process Learning Lounge - 550 resources on singing, speaking and breathing techniques for less than the price of one singing lesson https://vocal-process-hub.teachable.com/p/the-vocal-technique-learning-lounge

SOVT 1 streaming course https://www.rayvox.co.uk/?ref=VOCALPROCESS

SOVT 2 live online course https://store.vocalprocess.co.uk/sovt-workshop

Online Singing Teacher Training Weeks 1 & 2 https://store.vocalprocess.co.uk/singing-teacher-training-online

This Is A Voice: 99 exercises to train, project and harness the power of your voice https://amzn.to/3iEXQ7Z 

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We're talking business, singing and marketing with founder of the Speakeasy Cooperative (SECO) Michelle Markwart Deveaux

We share what happened when Michelle coached us in our own business (Vocal Process), and the two MAJOR decisions we made that have turned our lives around.

We find out

• The main reason why it's difficult to make your singing studio work financially
• Why marketing yourself is essential in these days of the internet and the Pandemic
• Why "nicheing" is better than "all genres, all ages, all levels" to get more (and better) students
• Why being on the internet DOESN'T mean you have to go global
• The difference between local and global, and which "brand" we are and why

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Impostor Syndrome is real.
We're chatting about Jeremy's recent blog post Seven Ways to Deal With Impostor Syndrome, and sharing our own journeys feeling like impostors. 
Jeremy describes the five types of impostor: 

1. Perfectionist
2. Expert
3. Natural Genius
4. Soloist
5. Superman/woman

Discover which ones we are (and which ones we think each other might be).  
And we go into more detail about the seven Impostor Buster techniques that we've used to deal with Impostor Syndrome, and how we help our singing teacher clients to deal with their own impostor syndrome: 

• Dealing with the loneliness
• Working with criticism
• Getting guidance
• Validating feelings
• Teaching someone else
• Discovering your FOAL area
• How good is good?

The original article from Jeremy https://vocalprocess.co.uk/7-ways-to-deal-with-imposter-syndrome/

Gillyanne's live on "Don't be in the dark, there are no silly questions"
https://www.instagram.com/p/CThc5xHIrCY/

Dr Marisa Lee Naismith's podcast "A Voice And Beyond" https://drmarisaleenaismith.com/podcast/

The Vocal Process Learning Lounge, where you can access over 500 videos and downloadable resources instantly, including the full recordings of the day-courses "Mastering Musical Theatre" and "Best Practice Update". Watch how we tackle questions and challenges from the audience on vocal and performance techniques!
https://vocal-process-hub.teachable.com/p/the-vocal-technique-learning-lounge

Share your thoughts on this podcast and ask us anything on https://speakpipe.com/Vocalprocess 

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Gillyanne and Jeremy riff about life after lockdown, the Accreditation programme, and different ways of working with us (the Ziggurat)
How life has changed since our first podcast episode a year ago
Finding an envelope for your creativity
Working with us offline, online and live
The Vocal Process Teacher Accreditation Programme (launching 4th July)
The Learning Lounge
Our new Circle Community, and so much more

Mentioned in this episode:
https://instagram.com/Vocalprocess
https://youtube.com/vocalprocess

Choice For Voice, the British Voice Association https://www.britishvoiceassociation.org.uk/events_choice-for-voice_2021.htm#KeynotesMasterclasses 

Some of our books on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jeremy-Fisher/e/B00FUB8WNQ/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

The Online Singing Teacher Training https://store.vocalprocess.co.uk/singing-teacher-training-online

The Vocal Process Learning Lounge https://bit.ly/VocalProcessLearningLounge

Oren Boder and the SOVT Singer Straw at Rayvox https://www.rayvox.co.uk/

Download your free paper larynx (Click the red box "Send me your larynx and feed me more") https://vocalprocess.co.uk/build-your-own-tilting-larynx/

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Our special guest prizewinning jazz singer Georgia Mancio talks frankly about

• becoming a lyricist almost by accident
• collaboration as a song-writer
• the layers of a song including melody, lyrics, story and social conscience
• dealing with a vocal cyst as a recording artist
• working with Gillyanne on voice habilitation after surgery
• the difference between experiencing a performance, organising a festival, creating an album and writing song lyrics
• winning a best album award in 2020
• influences in lyric writing including bereavement
• and why sometimes the show mustn’t go on 

There’s a voicenerd moment when we talk about why Jeremy admires Georgia’s diphthongs!

And we play songs from her latest collaboration with Grammy-winning pianist/composer Alan Broadbent, and Quiet Is The Star

Find out more about Georgia here: https://georgiamancio.com 

Social media handles:
Bandcamp https://georgiamancio.bandcamp.com/
Instagram @GeorgiaMancio https://www.instagram.com/georgiamancio/ (click on Linktree in her bio to buy the album)
Facebook GeorgiaMancioMusic https://www.facebook.com/GeorgiaMancioMusic
Twitter GeorgiaMancio https://twitter.com/GeorgiaMancio
YouTube GeorgiaMancio https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJPZqK-hvQS_eaJt39NB64Q

Georgia’s chosen charity is https://SafePassage.org.uk, supporting unaccompanied child refugees to find safety and a new start

 
BTW Jeremy's recording equipment stopped working halfway through the interview, so the 2nd half of the podcast is taken from the zoom recording - don't judge us!

If you want to find out more about Gillyanne and Jeremy's training resources, check out the brand new Vocal Process Learning Lounge - over 500 training videos and vocal resources for less than the price of one singing lesson

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Gillyanne & Jeremy tackle two controversial AMAs in this episode:
What they REALLY think about "thick and thin folds", and why the topic of vocal fold hydration is so confusing.

Gillyanne and Jeremy go in depth into vocal fold behaviour, why the terms thick and thin are misleading, how we can change pitch and volume while singing, and which words they now use in their teaching.
And in answer to four people's questions on hydration, Jeremy shares some of the research findings on hydration (systemic and topical), why the answer to "how long does it take to hydrate" isn't as straightforward as it sounds, the different types of dehydration, and why you can drink too much water.

Mentioned in the show:

My supporting article on hydration and the vocal folds is here:
https://vocalprocess.co.uk/hydration-vocal-folds/

The Voice Clinic Handbook (2nd edition, Harris et al) https://amzn.to/3ch17HN

Verdolini-Abbott et al papers
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7823546/ Dependence of phonatory effort on hydration level
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12003510/ Biological mechanisms underlying voice changes due to dehydration

Sivasankar & Leydon The Role of Hydration in vocal fold physiology 2010 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2925668/ 
 

Hartley & Thibeault Systemic hydration: relating science to clinical practice in vocal health 2014 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157110/

Leydon, Wroblewski, Eichorn & Sivasankar A meta-analysis of outcomes of hydration intervention on phonation threshold pressure 2010 https://www.jvoice.org/article/S0892-1997(09)00074-5/fulltext

Marshall et al Systemic but not local rehydration restores dehydration-induced changes in pulmonary function in healthy adults https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00311.2020

Hydration video tutorial from the European Federation of the Association of Dieticians http://www.efad.org/en-us/euhhac-hydration-resource-center/tutorial-on-hydration/

US National Athletic Trainers’ Association Position Statement “Fluid Replacement for the Physically Active” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5634236/ 

MORE ABOUT US
Find out more about our work in the Vocal Process Learning Lounge - 15 years of voice training resources in one place, for less than the price of one singing lesson
https://bit.ly/VocalProcessLearningLounge

Log in to our instantly available online course on SOVT with Oren Boder here https://www.rayvox.co.uk/products/sovt-streaming-course

Join us on a live Popup workshop - 2 hours of practical techniques, solid information and helpful activities - https://store.vocalprocess.co.uk/Singingcoursesandretreats

AMA - ask me anything. Go to https://speakpipe.com/Vocalprocess and record your question for us to answer on the podcast

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Gillyanne and I have some more best bits we'd like to share with you, this time from Series 1 Episodes 6-9 and Series 2 Episodes 1, 3 & 5.

• Episode 6 - The Singer in the Room. Industry sounds, why my belt isn't your belt, and at what point a singer needs to be "fixed" in their technique. And we answer Joanna's question about students and "when do you give up?"
• Episode 7 - Stories Behind the Stories Part 2. Behind the scenes on the Oxford Handbook of Singing, Jeremy's transcriptions of classic recordings, and the sometimes tricky business of collaborative writing.
• Episode 8 - Turning Points. How we've changed what Vocal Process does for us over the last 21 years, what it's like to create voice training resources in different formats, and how the biggest turning point of all changed the way we teach for good.
• Episode 9 - Making it work. The two things that help us create new resources for entirely different audiences - context and purpose.
  
  
• Series 2 Episode 1 - What's in Your Mug? Gillyanne explains what sparked the idea, and Jeremy describes two staples of every course we teach - the WOW Card and the Lionel Card.
• Series 2 Episode 3 - Analysing Voices and Relationships. What we listen for, how we use reverse engineering, how to sound the same as someone else without "cloning", and Jeremy demonstrates one of our signature vocal techniques in a line from "South Pacific".
• Series 2 Episode 5 - Registers, What's in a Name? We tackle one of the biggest cans of worms in vocal training,  Vocal Registers. M1/M2, Chest/Head, Modal/Falsetto. We talk about Mixing, and Jeremy demonstrates a whole heap of mixes in M1 and M2, featuring and disguising his primary gearchange.

Mentioned in this episode:

Our brand new Vocal Process Learning Lounge: 15 years of groundbreaking voice training resources (over 500 training videos) available in full for less than the price of one singing lesson https://vocal-process-hub.teachable.com/p/the-vocal-technique-learning-lounge

The Online Singing Teacher Training https://store.vocalprocess.co.uk/singing-teacher-training-online
How to Accompany Your Singing Students ebook https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-accompany-your-singing-students-ebook/dp/B07DPTDWHX
Oxford Handbook of Singing https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Handbook-Singing-Library-Psychology/dp/0199660778
Why Do I Need A Vocal Coach https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B084QDLT7C/

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Gillyanne and I have some best bits we'd like to share with you. Here are the best bits from Series 1, episodes 1-5

• Episode 1 - How our online teaching changed during Lockdown, and does a singing teacher need keyboard skills?
• Episode 2 - What's the difference between a vocal coach and a singing teacher, and when we might swap clients
• Episode 3 - How Jeremy teaches songs to "customer not present" singers and how learning the notes is not the only way to tackle a song
• Episode 4 - The full 10-minute answer to our first recorded AMA - how much time should you spend in a lesson practising?
• Episode 5 - Buzz saws, chickens, book writing in a tiny 1-bedroom council flat and THOSE reviews

Mentioned in this episode:
 

The Online Singing Teacher Training https://store.vocalprocess.co.uk/singing-teacher-training-online
How to Accompany Your Singing Students ebook https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-accompany-your-singing-students-ebook/dp/B07DPTDWHX
Singing and the Actor https://www.amazon.co.uk/Singing-Actor-Gillyanne-Kayes/dp/0713668237/
Why Do I Need A Vocal Coach https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B084QDLT7C/

And a shoutout to our brand new Vocal Process Learning Lounge: 15 years of groundbreaking voice training resources available in full for less than the price of one singing lesson https://vocal-process-hub.teachable.com/p/the-vocal-technique-learning-lounge

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The theme for World Voice Day 2021 (April 16th) is One World, Many Voices.
To celebrate being part of that One World of voice, we thought it would be great to hear the best bits from our vocal expert guests.

We start with the first of our #LockdownHeroes, our SOVT expert Oren Boder
Oren made four appearances altogether on Podcasts 10, 11, 13 and 14 answering your SOVT questions and sharing so many insights.

James Sills, author of Do Sing and creator of The Sofa Singers, shared some moving thoughts in Season 1, Episode 12 on community, singing in a group, and the Sofa Singers manifesto.

Season 2 Episode 2 was a fun podcast with VOSocial leaders and voiceover experts Nic Redman and Leah Marks. We had a hoot arguing about tea, butter and being a bit lentilly.

And we finish with Phoene Cave in Season 2 Episode 4 on breathing, lung health and Covid. Check out Phoene's heartfelt and challenging thoughts at the beginning of her episode.

We're giving a special World Voice Day shoutout to Dr Marisa Lee Naismith and her new podcast A Voice And Beyond. We were guests ourselves on her podcast this month, and our chat is spread out over two episodes for World Voice Day (really, once we get going you can't get a word in edgeways...) https://drmarisaleenaismith.com/podcast/

The SOVT Course we talk about with Oren is now available immediately as a streaming course. Click on https://www.rayvox.co.uk/?ref=VOCALPROCESS and scroll down!

Gillyanne reads out a section of James's book Do Sing - here's a link to the book itself https://www.amazon.co.uk/Do-Sing-Reclaim-Voice-Singing/dp/1907974709

Check out the excellent VOSocial podcast for everything to do with spoken voice and voiceovers https://www.thevosocial.com/the-vo-social-podcast, and a quick mention to Nic's new podcast The Voice Coach Podcast - look for it on your favourite podcast player.

Phoene Cave's website http://www.themusicalbreath.com/ has details of her training courses on Singing for Lung Health with a host of resources for you to enjoy
 

If you want to find out more about Gillyanne and Jeremy's training resources, check out the brand new Vocal Process Learning Lounge - over 500 training videos and vocal resources for less than the price of one singing lesson

https://bit.ly/VocalProcessLearningLounge

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Gillyanne and Jeremy tackle the controversial topic of vocal registers

• M1 and M2 - what the M words actually mean
• The difference between M1 and chest voice
• The only way to find out where the mechanisms change (according to the research)
• Why registers help us navigate our pitch range (with examples)
• Why key is vital to registers in different genres
• Why mixing is not about the vocal folds!
• And Jeremy makes a sweeping statement about THE MIX

With live demonstrations of M1 and M2 singing from both Gillyanne and Jeremy

The original article from Jeremy https://vocalprocess.co.uk/modal-falsetto-everything-between/
The M1/M2 popup Workshop https://store.vocalprocess.co.uk/m1-m2-workshop
Teacher Other Genders popup Workshop https://store.vocalprocess.co.uk/teach-gender

The Vocal Process Hub with all our published training resources for the last 15 years will be available from World Voice Day (April 16th) 2021