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When I was a small child, my parents both sang at home for fun, mostly, as I recall, while cooking. Both had nice voices and I remember the sounds of my dad singing as he made his homemade spaghetti sauce (legendary!) with a combination of fond sensory memories – music and food. When I sang as ...

What kind of a sound is this person singing? What does the sound tell me about what is going on in the throat of the singer during that sound? What is going on in the body? That is all you can work with. The vocal production has to be adjusted after it is over, so the ...

I have encountered many many students with degrees in voice performance of various kinds who do not understand the process of breathing for singing. It is RARE to find someone who both understands and executes a way of breathing that makes sense within their own body, and who can also explain that behavior in clear ...

I have been called (to my face and behind my back) a “control freak”. I do deeply care about what I teach and the quality of the materials I use which I wrote. I care that the courses we teach are run efficiently, graciously, and in a way that allows people to feel well taken ...

Sadly, a good number of today’s most popular voice training methods use imitation as the basis for what they teach. They ask singers to “do this” and then sing, and it inevitably is the case that the singers are holding on to a particular vocal behavior while singing in order to get the “right” kind ...

At times, the gulf between the voice disciplines is large. A medical doctor is going to look at a vocal problem from a strictly medical perspective. That is what her training tells her to do, that is what her experience is about and that is what the law requires of her as well. A speech language pathologist ...

In speech pathology there is frequently “non-compliance” with what the therapist recommends. Patients report back to the SLP that they can’t find a way to integrate the information they have been given into their daily lives easily, so the guidance falls away, and after a while, the person goes back to speaking the way they ...

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If you found something wonderful, and you were a good generous person, would you keep it to yourself or would you share it with others? This profound principle is underneath all spiritual teaching. Generosity is a key ingredient in spirituality, regardless of whether or not one is religious. It is very hard to be a truly ...

While in Prague for the PEVOC 10 conference, Jeanie had a chance to get out and enjoy some of the sights and sounds of this beautiful old city.

I have been away, as those of you who read this blog regularly must have figured out. While I was at the PEVOC 10 conference in Prague, attending presentations of all sorts by people from all over the world, I noticed that there is a great deal more diversity than there once was in what people ...

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If you have a career as a performer for 20, 30 or even 40 years, you gain experience that cannot be gained in any other way. You live singing, every day, you are a singer and you deal with whatever music you do, but you deal with traveling, with other performers, with musicians, with your ...

I am in the midst of doing a presentation for the PEVOC 10 conference upcoming in Prague, The Czech Republic in two weeks. In searching YouTube for belters, going back to the beginning of the 20th Century, it has been amazing to see how many of the posts have belters of all sorts doing their ...

There are several new books out that herald functional vocal training. They offer exercises aimed at specific issues or criteria and are based in science, in reality and in usefulness. Well, Halleluiah! It’s about time. On the other hand, there are still plenty of loose screw teachers out there who, even with a great book full ...