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Jeannette LoVetri
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Kinda Sorta Tight
How many times have I encountered a student who has been told something that isn’t harmful, and isn’t even really wrong, it’s just useless? “Leave...

No Method Makes Sense If It Violates The Body
There are a lot of “methods” out there. There are lots of people who teach singing using a method. (I have one). If the method...

“Natural” Singing
What is natural singing? Think you know? Ask any two singing teachers and you will absolutely get two different answers. Ask 100 singing teachers and...

What Good Are Vocal Exercises?
Many times in a lesson I ask a singer to describe something. In fact, generally, I ask a lot of questions in lessons. I want to...

The Extremes of Knowledge
The further you delve into something the more you understand it broadly and in detail. It’s as if everything has a counterpart to the universe...

Multi-disciplinary Interchange II
The other side of multi-disciplinary interchange is that speech language pathologists (who don’t sing), medical doctors, and voice researchers need to be willing to learn...

Somatic Voicework™ and Classical Singing
For a very long time I stayed away from talking about classical singing using my method, Somatic Voicework™, because I had had so much trouble...

“Don’t Act On The High Notes”
I recently attended yet another “operatic” master class lead by a noted Metropolitan opera mezzo. At one point she told a young soprano “Don’t act...

Shrieking Versus Singing
It used to be that singing was easy to recognize. Not so much anymore. It used to be that we knew when someone was singing...