Crave vocal freedom? … Discover a new sense of vocal space. Once you bring awareness to the space you are creating in your posture, breath, resonators, and articulators, experiment creating the space BEFORE you sing the note. Every note is set up in the moment before the note is sung.
Don’t miss this podcast interview with singer, director, and instructor Doug Nagel. He shares valuable performing and career tools to help you create the thriving singer’s life you deserve!
Creating a yawning space while singing has long been a part of vocal pedagogy. Today let’s learn the benefits of this natural and simple yawn action and see what big pay-offs it has for your voice.
Change Your Singing By Changing Your Perspective In my voice studio, I often use words like play, experiment, feel, and imagine. I incorporate untraditional movements into the lesson time; the goal being to override vocal muscle-memory and allow a space for the student to see their potential in a new light. This […]
Do you struggle with a breathy tone, laryngal fatigue, or vocal placement that feels too far back?
Then this “kəniiiii” vocal warm-up is your “ninja” move to master… it is quick, focused, and gets the job done!
Does a bird, teetering on his branch, think about how his voice may be criticized, judged, or analyzed? Does he get nervous or tense hoping he will please those that hear him? Does he wonder if his voice would be beautiful? Nope. A bird’s voice is conjured from pure instinct… divine genetics… a melodic destiny… and so is yours.
Music connects the memories of our life and for those of us whose calling is to hold the silence and fill it with our song know all too well the vulnerability necessary to transcend the body to reach another person on a heart level. We are the storytellers, the torchbearers that draw people out and into the beauty of wholeness… embracing shadow and light – death and life, love and hate. Music gives us permission and space to feel the entirely of our human experience.
– Does your voice sound or feel breathy? Use the Zzz-uuuu-iii warm-up.
– Do you feel you placement is too far back? Try the Zzz-uuuu-iii warm-up.
– Do you want to get your air moving while gently waking-up your voice? Use the Zzz-uuuu-iiii warm-up.
Click above on the video to watch my Open Mouth Hum Vocal Warm-up demonstration Welcome to my complete warm-up series… Over the last few weeks, I have shared with you two body warm-ups, a mind warm-up, and a popular vocal warm-up…today, I am giving you another valuable vocal warm-up #2. Let’s […]
Used by professional singers worldwide – this popular warm-up… the Lip Trill will help you sing your best!