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2025 (1)

Jan 5 - FEBRUARY 2025 LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™

2024 (2)

Apr 22 - May 2024 Webinar Series: Special Topics in Somatic Voicework™
Apr 3 - April Free Webinar Series

2023 (4)

Nov 1 - Somatic Voicework™ November 2023 Webinar Series
Mar 8 - Offending The Clueless
Mar 8 - Spotlight On Somatic Voicework™ Teacher Cate Frazier-Neely
Mar 8 - The Reluctant Performer

2021 (1)

Jul 1 - Meet the 2021 LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ Faculty

2019 (3)

Dec 25 - Happy Holidays, Everyone!
Jul 12 - Soul Ingredients® Methodology Course: When Science Meets Soul
May 10 - Spain Announcement, The LoVetri Institute, Atlas, New Online Course, and more!

2018 (5)

Jul 10 - New Book by Dr. Matthew Hoch
May 24 - What Is Underneath and Behind Somatic Voicework(tm) The LoVetri Method?
May 24 - Maria Damore demonstrates a variety of vocal styles
May 19 - Celebrations!
Jan 5 - A Downward Spiral

2017 (18)

Nov 25 - My Throat Hurts
Nov 24 - Gratitude
Nov 15 - Choosing Words Carefully
Nov 13 - Being Sold A Bill Of Goods
Aug 17 - Against Manipulation In The Throat
Aug 7 - Your Point Of View
Jul 14 - I Know What I Like
Jul 7 - Questions, Important Questions
Jul 7 - Mugging The Mentors
May 7 - Humility
May 4 - Too Much Independence
Apr 18 - The Failure of Voice Science
Apr 13 - Loud, louder and loudest
Apr 12 - Registers and Such
Mar 31 - Integrity? In 2017? Really?
Mar 10 - Registers, Vowels, Formants, Harmonics
Feb 27 - I’m Good Enough Already
Feb 25 - Branding

2016 (33)

Dec 12 - “Post-Truth” Singing
Nov 22 - Conscious Singing
Nov 15 - Never Too Late
Nov 5 - Accommodation
Oct 26 - Getting Your Voice Together For The First Time
Oct 20 - Teaching By The Numbers
Oct 20 - Integrity, Respect, Humility
Oct 10 - Respect
Oct 8 - Good Enough – Hopefully Not
Oct 5 - Boundaries and Choices
Oct 4 - Compassionate Teaching
Aug 8 - Olympic Singing – Vocal Athlete – Body Type?
Aug 6 - Positioning the Larynx, Moving the Soft Palate
Aug 4 - Coming Back After Vocal Injury
Aug 1 - No Boundaries — No Life
Jul 28 - Voice, Lies and Videotape
Jul 14 - Virtual Reality Singing Lessons
Jul 13 - Anything Can Be Demanded
May 21 - Falling On Deaf Ears
May 14 - The Many Who Are Clueless
Apr 7 - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Apr 1 - Bridging The Gap of Ignorance
Mar 26 - Excitement Not Fear
Mar 23 - None of My Business
Mar 23 - Function As A Vocal Barameter
Feb 18 - Mediocre Music
Feb 4 - Fear of Success
Feb 3 - You Can’t Win Either Way
Jan 31 - Occam’s Razor In Singing
Jan 29 - Fear of Change
Jan 23 - Parlor Tricks
Jan 7 - Fear of Training
Jan 3 - New Year, New Directions

2015 (64)

Dec 24 - Ethics
Dec 24 - Cult Following???
Nov 22 - There’s More To Talent Than Talent
Nov 13 - Leadership
Oct 21 - Point Of View
Oct 16 - Noble
Oct 14 - Half-Truths
Oct 11 - Clarity
Oct 9 - Hodge-Podge
Oct 7 - Talk Is Still Cheap
Oct 4 - Taking Responsibility
Oct 4 - A Conscience
Oct 1 - Announcement
Aug 19 - No Such Thing as “Classical Training”
Aug 19 - Middle-aged Guys With Long Hair
Aug 18 - Broadway: It’s All About The Acting
Aug 2 - Singing That Changes The World
Aug 1 - Hold On For Dear Life
Jun 28 - Beware The Slick Packaging
Jun 25 - Too Relaxed To Sing?
Jun 6 - Inaccurate Descriptions
May 22 - The Truth About Repertoire
May 16 - What is “Ego”?
May 14 - The Very Long Haul
Apr 7 - All Muscular Systems Have Limits
Apr 7 - In The Beginning Was The Sound!
Apr 5 - Inherent Conflicts
Mar 31 - It’s Too Hard
Mar 29 - Knowing Is Not Wisdom
Mar 27 - More Than Vocal Folds
Mar 26 - Are We Still in the 18th Century?
Mar 23 - Nasal Resonance
Mar 17 - “Just Trust Me”
Mar 14 - Context Really Is Everything
Mar 14 - Mindfulness and Singing
Mar 13 - Vocal Empowerment Versus Vocal Violence
Mar 12 - Really Bad Singing
Mar 10 - Singing In A Master Class
Mar 3 - Internet Popularity
Feb 26 - Appropriate Training
Feb 20 - Conscious Awareness
Feb 19 - Preconceived Notions
Feb 17 - 100% Two-Way Communication
Feb 16 - Opera Singers Who Can’t
Feb 14 - For the Love Of Singing
Feb 11 - Voice Science Tips
Feb 9 - Ridin’ High
Feb 6 - The Surface Is Just The Surface
Feb 5 - Question Everything
Feb 4 - Forward to the Past
Feb 3 - The Value of Telling the Truth
Jan 31 - Singing As A Spiritual Path
Jan 29 - The Voice As A Metaphor for the Self
Jan 27 - Throat Chakra Connection
Jan 27 - Cause Before Effect
Jan 26 - Square Peg In A Round Hole
Jan 25 - Specious Arguments
Jan 24 - The Value of Life Experience
Jan 21 - Your Own Default
Jan 14 - All The Other Folks
Jan 11 - Warm-Up Exercises
Jan 10 - American Voices
Jan 8 - Free Singing
Jan 6 - Life Experience

2014 (140)

Dec 30 - “Classical” Singing Technique
Dec 20 - Pseudo Singing
Dec 18 - Willingness To Do The Work
Dec 13 - Relying On Outside Help
Dec 10 - Too Small To Notice
Dec 9 - Re-Working An Injured Voice
Dec 8 - Recognizing A Master
Dec 7 - The Roots of Creativity
Dec 4 - The Disciplines
Dec 2 - Bad Singing As Good
Nov 30 - “Methods”
Nov 29 - Thanks
Nov 24 - Sing! Now Is The Time
Nov 23 - It’s That Time Again
Nov 3 - Singing As A Spiritual Discipline
Oct 31 - Singing With A Broken Heart
Oct 30 - Too Much Weight In The Middle
Oct 26 - Emotion in Singing
Oct 21 - Art Songs by the Beatles
Oct 20 - Choosing Dysfunction
Oct 19 - The Problem With Today’s Classical Music
Oct 17 - Coming Home To Your Voice
Oct 16 - Fear of Training
Oct 15 - What’s Fixed and What Can Change
Oct 14 - Re-Re-Re-Re-Respect
Oct 13 - The Phantom Code of Ethics
Oct 12 - Nothing New Under The Sun
Oct 11 - It’s Not In The Exercises
Oct 9 - Perspiration
Oct 6 - Grounding
Oct 3 - Older Singers
Oct 2 - Truth and Paradox
Sep 30 - Stuck
Sep 29 - Communication
Sep 25 - When Neither Way Works
Sep 23 - Fame
Sep 21 - Not A Surface Thing
Sep 21 - Electronic Mysteries
Sep 19 - Used Car Salesmen
Sep 18 - The Separation of Speech and Song
Sep 17 - Value Judgements
Sep 16 - Boundaries
Sep 15 - Holding Composers Responsible
Sep 14 - Revamping The Form
Sep 12 - Deciding Too Soon
Sep 11 - Relevance
Sep 10 - Yet Another World-Class Laryngologist
Sep 1 - Standards, Evaluation and Consensus
Aug 31 - Essence
Aug 29 - Research Parameters
Aug 29 - “Scooping”, Pitch-Matching and Accuracy
Aug 28 - What’s On The Page
Aug 12 - Don’t Know That You Don’t Know
Aug 11 - Talent Matters
Aug 4 - Control Freak
Aug 3 - The Big Divide
Aug 1 - Your Personal Skew
Jul 4 - Teaching From Doing
Jun 27 - Pretty Good
Jun 26 - Well-Aged
Jun 18 - Good Singing
Jun 17 - Repertoire Appropriate Choices
Jun 10 - Be VERY Careful
Jun 10 - Graded Development
Jun 9 - Singing For Angels’ Ears
Jun 8 - Faster and Faster
Jun 7 - Somatic
Jun 6 - Body-Based Wisdom
Jun 5 - Know Thy Body
Jun 4 - Work With What Works
Jun 2 - Frightening Instruction
May 30 - Huge Egos
May 26 - “I Don’t Need To Learn Anything Else”
May 25 - Dysfunctional Training
May 24 - Why Study Vocal Function?
May 16 - “I Am The Greatest”
May 15 - Music Ed Blues
May 13 - Very Good, OK, Not So Good, Bad
May 12 - Lasting Value
May 10 - The Unnameable
May 9 - Entering The Sublime
May 9 - Trusting the Body
Apr 27 - If You Would Repudiate Certification
Apr 27 - The Function of the Artist
Apr 21 - Those Who Are Not Easily Swayed
Apr 19 - So Many Ways To Appreciate Singing
Apr 18 - The New Gobbledegook
Apr 17 - Engaging The Expiratory Muscles
Apr 15 - Catching Up With The Past
Apr 14 - Violations of Bodily Function
Apr 13 - Humanness Is Enough
Apr 12 - What’s It Worth To You?
Apr 8 - How Singing Teachers Think
Apr 5 - Prejudice Against Singers?
Apr 1 - Loss
Mar 30 - Saying “Thank You”
Mar 30 - Boundaries, Not Limits
Mar 26 - The Love Of Money
Mar 25 - What’s Your Fuel?
Mar 24 - What It Means To Be A Real Professional
Mar 23 - Arrogance, Confidence and Courage
Mar 22 - The Intersection of Art and Intelligence
Mar 21 - Guts
Mar 18 - Subjective Terminology
Mar 16 - Fraudulent
Mar 13 - Larynx In The Sky
Mar 11 - The Extremes of Singing
Mar 9 - Everyone On Their Own
Mar 5 - Jazz Drama Program Vocal Workshop with Eli Yamin and Jeannette LoVetri
Mar 5 - Loud For Loud’s Sake
Mar 4 - Sound
Mar 2 - Defending Ignorance
Mar 1 - Quick Fix
Feb 28 - Educating the E.N.T.s
Feb 27 - Educare
Feb 25 - Coaxing An Injured Pro Back To Singing
Feb 25 - The Result of Gratitude is Generosity
Feb 23 - Your Unknown Power
Feb 21 - Olympic Singing
Feb 21 - Love
Feb 17 - What Ever Happened To Simple?
Feb 15 - The Surface of Water
Feb 13 - Getting A Throat To Do Something It Doesn’t Like
Feb 11 - Announcing Jazz Drama Program Vocal Workshop with Eli Yamin and Jeannette LoVetri
Feb 11 - Learning Curve
Feb 8 - The Medical Model
Feb 7 - Lopez Versus Connick: Really?
Feb 6 - Traditional Anarchist
Jan 30 - Entropy
Jan 25 - Sad
Jan 23 - “Freeing” the Voice
Jan 22 - Categories
Jan 21 - Feeding the term “non-classical”
Jan 14 - What Will It Take?
Jan 11 - The Only Way Out Is Through
Jan 9 - “Operacizing” CCM
Jan 9 - Specific Training for Specific Styles
Jan 7 - Audra versus Carrie
Jan 4 - Functional Training In Context
Jan 3 - Get Used To The New

2013 (130)

Dec 28 - Opera? Popera?
Dec 22 - Voice First, Everything Else After
Dec 19 - Oberlin Again
Dec 17 - Who Really Cares?
Dec 14 - Breakthrough
Dec 10 - Oberlin Symposium
Dec 9 - Stupid Casting
Dec 7 - The Sound of Money
Dec 3 - To Give Up or Not Give Up – That is the Question
Dec 2 - Holiday Music
Nov 24 - Be Yourself
Nov 23 - Listening To Students As If They Have Something To Say
Nov 22 - The Periphery
Nov 21 - Cold Case Detective
Nov 20 - Singing as Sport
Nov 18 - Breaking Through Your Own Ego
Nov 13 - In Defense of … Stupidity??
Nov 12 - Why Is It So Hard?
Nov 11 - Jeanie to be Guest Clinician at Oberlin Vocal Symposium
Nov 11 - Each Person Right Now
Nov 9 - Letting Go of Holding On
Nov 4 - Rigidity and Flexibility
Nov 1 - The Students Get “Hung Up”
Oct 17 - Progress
Oct 10 - The Mindset of Styles
Oct 9 - The Bottom Line
Oct 4 - Sophisticated Singing
Oct 3 - The Fear Factor
Oct 1 - A Singer’s Wake-Up Call
Sep 29 - The Human Condition
Sep 26 - In Love With Singing
Sep 24 - Functional Thinking
Sep 20 - Breathing
Sep 16 - My Way Or The Highway
Sep 15 - Imitation Versus Authenticity
Sep 13 - When The Experts Don’t Understand Each Other
Sep 12 - “Resonance” Therapy
Sep 6 - TSG Schedule for 2013-2014
Sep 3 - Politics As Usual
Sep 1 - Jeanie in Prague
Aug 30 - The Only Way Out Is Through
Aug 24 - October Workshop with Jeanie in NYC
Aug 12 - Career Teachers
Aug 10 - Christina Aguilera Versus Kate Smith
Aug 10 - Functional Training Goes Mainstream
Aug 6 - Tuning Formants to Harmonics
Aug 4 - A Gift From God
Aug 3 - “Just Trust Me”
Aug 2 - Becoming Your Diagnosis
Jul 26 - Confusion Reigns
Jul 8 - Hiding In Plain Sight
Jul 7 - “Popular” Music
Jul 6 - Against Certification
Jul 2 - A Little Knowledge Is A ……….
Jul 1 - Training, Talent and The Bridge Between
Jun 28 - Kinda Sorta Tight
Jun 24 - No Method Makes Sense If It Violates The Body
Jun 22 - “Natural” Singing
Jun 20 - What Good Are Vocal Exercises?
Jun 16 - The Extremes of Knowledge
Jun 15 - Multi-disciplinary Interchange II
Jun 8 - Change
Jun 8 - Somatic Voicework™ and Classical Singing
Jun 7 - “Don’t Act On The High Notes”
Jun 5 - Shrieking Versus Singing
Jun 4 - Open Mindedness
May 26 - Multi-disciplinary Interchange
May 24 - Formatting Tips for Writing about SVW™
May 20 - You Will Never Sing Again
May 17 - Difficult Music Theater Songs
May 16 - A Little Information Is A Dangerous Thing
May 13 - How Far Is Too Far?
May 11 - The Throat/Body/Mind Connection
May 11 - Connecting The Dots
May 9 - Functional Training Applied
May 3 - Mezzo Sopranos/Belters
May 1 - The People Who Care
Apr 30 - Broadway
Apr 28 - Sequences
Apr 28 - More About Sequential Learning
Apr 24 - Sequential Learning
Apr 18 - It’s Just Singing
Apr 17 - Effect as Cause Again
Apr 14 - "Supported Voice"
Apr 12 - In The Hands Of A Master
Apr 11 - Hold It
Apr 10 - The Music Is The Message
Apr 9 - What Do We Really Know?
Apr 8 - Details
Apr 6 - The Magic of Video
Apr 5 - Music From My Heart
Apr 4 - The Lost Muscles of the Throat
Mar 29 - Life Fuel
Mar 28 - Isolation of Interior Muscles
Mar 22 - The Work Belongs Inside
Mar 19 - Patterns
Mar 17 - Explaining the Obvious
Mar 16 - The Real World
Mar 13 - Awareness As A Problem
Mar 12 - Science versus Application
Mar 11 - Normal Versus Extreme
Mar 9 - Muscles and Function
Mar 9 - The Old Versus The New
Mar 8 - Old Fashioned Goodness
Mar 4 - For The Love Of Singing
Mar 1 - Every Good Singing Teacher Does Fine
Mar 1 - "’I’ve Studied Singing For X Years"
Feb 28 - Awareness
Feb 27 - Over and Over
Feb 21 - The Green-Eyed Monster
Feb 17 - Goals Versus Process
Feb 16 - The Shrinking Music Business
Feb 11 - All Roads Ought To Lead To Rome
Feb 10 - Tired
Feb 9 - No Learning, No Education, No Knowledge
Feb 8 - What’s Ethical, What’s Manditory, What’s Good
Feb 7 - "I Know What’s Best"
Feb 6 - City Mouse/Country Mouse
Jan 23 - Where The Jobs Are
Jan 22 - Letting Go Of Training
Jan 16 - "For the Good of the Profession"
Jan 14 - The Terminology Police
Jan 12 - Armchair Critics
Jan 11 - Everything Is The Same, Everything Is Different
Jan 11 - Legit, Belt, Mix
Jan 10 - Artists
Jan 9 - Contemporary Commercial Music
Jan 7 - Tenors and Female Belters
Jan 5 - Chaos
Jan 4 - "Big" Voices

2012 (121)

Dec 31 - Making It Fit, No Matter What
Dec 30 - Violence in Singing
Dec 28 - The People Who Can, Do
Dec 27 - Peace On Earth
Dec 22 - The Winter Soltice
Dec 19 - The Healing Power of Song
Dec 16 - Common Sense and Singing
Dec 15 - Transitions
Dec 12 - Talent, No Lessons
Dec 11 - Dinosaurs of the Future
Dec 8 - Music Changes, The Larynx Stays The Same
Dec 6 - Substantial Versus Surface
Dec 4 - It’s Never Finished
Nov 29 - I Can’t
Nov 28 - The Importance of Science in Vocal Pedagogy
Nov 27 - The Light In The Darkness Still Burns Bright
Nov 23 - Opera Arias and Art Songs That Aren’t
Nov 21 - Maintaining A Default
Nov 20 - The Larynx Has To Move
Nov 16 - First You Do, Then You Don’t
Nov 12 - "You Don’t Need To Understand Physiology"
Nov 10 - Too Weak To Sing
Nov 7 - Boundaries
Nov 4 - "Spinto"
Nov 2 - Functional Training in the 21st Century
Nov 1 - Coming Home To Your Own Voice
Oct 28 - Respect For All Kinds Of Music
Oct 26 - Riding the Semi-Autonomous Nervous System
Oct 25 - When You Already Know Everything You Need To
Oct 17 - The 21st Century
Oct 12 - Those Who Refuse To Learn
Oct 1 - "Good Taste"
Sep 29 - Never Too Late Never Too Early
Sep 28 - Lenny Bruce
Sep 26 - No Resources
Sep 15 - Working With A Conflicted Student
Sep 10 - Cross Training Too Early
Sep 7 - Change
Sep 3 - Holding Down The Fort
Aug 27 - Doing What You Said You Would
Aug 24 - When Economics Drives Everything
Aug 20 - Making Trouble
Aug 20 - Why I Hate Competitions
Aug 17 - Small Time – Big Time
Aug 10 - Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Aug 6 - Music As Magic
Aug 4 - Followers
Aug 2 - The World We Want
Jul 31 - Political Correctness
Jul 26 - It’s Never Too Late
Jul 10 - Empowering Your Own Voice
Jul 6 - Each Individual On His or Her Own
Jul 4 - The Song Is Over But The Melody Lingers On
Jul 3 - When It Goes
Jun 29 - Those Who Can, Can and Those Who Can’t — ?
Jun 28 - Urgent! Stop Certification and Trademarking!!!
Jun 26 - Don’t Know Much About History
Jun 26 - Saying Yes When You Should Say No
Jun 23 - Vested Interests
Jun 11 - Working With The Problematic Voice (amended)
Jun 11 - Resonance Strategies and Formant Tuning
Jun 7 - Intuition
Jun 5 - Because They Can and We Can’t Stop Them
May 25 - Everybody Sounds The Same
May 23 - Exhausting
May 13 - Danger
May 7 - Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay
May 5 - How Repertoire Effects Technique
May 4 - Perfectionists and Control Freaks
May 3 - Damaged Voices That Work
Apr 30 - Pushing and Pressing
Apr 27 - Who Decides?
Apr 25 - Recovering From Vocal Illness
Apr 24 - What’s Reasonable and What’s Possible
Apr 22 - Fach Change
Apr 21 - "Just Mozart"
Apr 18 - Winning
Apr 8 - Sensitivity
Apr 6 - Two Tiny Pieces of Gristle
Apr 4 - When Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Mar 29 - Emptiness
Mar 27 - Judging, Adjudicating, and Evaluating
Mar 25 - Judy Garland
Mar 23 - Between A Rock and A Hard Place
Mar 19 - The Gag Reflex
Mar 17 - Your Voice
Mar 13 - Contemporary Commercial Music
Mar 12 - Too Much Trouble
Mar 11 - Either You Are Part of the Problem or the Solution
Mar 7 - Internet Studies
Mar 4 - "The Rules"
Mar 3 - Forward To The Past
Mar 1 - I Can Sing — Now What?
Feb 26 - Broken Hearts
Feb 25 - More About Context
Feb 22 - How We Think About Singing
Feb 22 - Learning by Doing
Feb 21 - "For The Good Of The Profession"
Feb 17 - Not Authentic
Feb 15 - Simple Answers to Complex Problems and the Opposite
Feb 14 - The Purpose of Competitions
Feb 12 - The Voice Is Reflexive
Feb 10 - Vocal Pathology
Feb 7 - You Sound "Too Broadway"
Feb 4 - A Little Information Is A Bad Thing
Feb 4 - How The Brain Is Wired
Feb 2 - Being Willing To Be Criticized
Jan 30 - Singing Research
Jan 30 - The Other Place With Problems
Jan 28 - Really Emotional Singing
Jan 25 - Appropriate Compromise
Jan 20 - "Not In Your Body"
Jan 17 - Negative Programming and Secondary Gain
Jan 13 - Being In Touch With Your Body
Jan 11 - What’s Best For The Profession
Jan 11 - All Singing Teachers Are The Same
Jan 11 - The Voice Police
Jan 7 - Study The Successful
Jan 3 - Doctors
Jan 2 - A Plea About Terminology
Jan 2 - The Confusion About Classical Singing

2011 (75)

Dec 29 - The Confusion About Belting
Dec 28 - Any Fool Can Start Over
Dec 19 - Entitlement
Dec 17 - Psychology and Psychotherapy
Dec 11 - Discernment and "Common Sense"
Dec 2 - Introspection
Nov 30 - Muscle Memory and Conditioning
Nov 27 - Registration, Keys and Style
Nov 24 - Toward Helping the Needy
Nov 16 - Manipulation – Amended
Nov 1 - Too Much Relaxation
Oct 31 - Mix
Oct 27 - Musicality
Oct 24 - Inspiration
Oct 18 - Invisible in Plain Sight
Oct 12 - Forward to the Past
Sep 29 - The Power Of A Fully Connected Voice
Sep 25 - Referrals
Sep 24 - Muscle Tension Dysphonia
Sep 22 - Zig Zagging
Sep 16 - Lest We Forget
Sep 13 - Emotions and Breathing
Sep 9 - Mercedes Benz Versus Kia
Aug 30 - Master Classes
Aug 27 - Opera, Yes. Trash, No.
Aug 23 - The Performing Arts
Aug 19 - Gun-Tottin’ Brünnhilde
Aug 6 - Perception
Aug 5 - College
Aug 5 - Caring Too Much Is Such a Juvenile Fancy
Aug 2 - Learning to Listen
Jul 6 - "The Goal in SVW is NOT to Make Resonance"
Jul 3 - When Singing Is Not Just About Singing
Jul 3 - Live Sound
Jul 1 - Muscles Stick Together
Jun 29 - Releasing the Muscles of the Throat
Jun 27 - Still More About CCM vs Classical
Jun 25 - More Details About Why CCM Is Different Than Classical
Jun 24 - CCM and Classical Are NOT The Same
Jun 23 - Really Radical
Jun 20 - Musicality versus Musicianship
Jun 14 - Bad and Good At the Same Time
Jun 13 - The Incredible "It"
Jun 12 - Teaching Beginners
Jun 7 - Out of Touch and Proud of It
May 23 - Standardizing Mediocrity
May 17 - Songs Don’t Teach Technique
May 17 - Songs Don’t Teach Technique
May 12 - Songs Don’t Teach Technique
May 10 - Critiquing
Apr 24 - Truth is Always Expressed as a Paradox
Apr 23 - Head Down, Chest Up
Apr 18 - I Listen To Myself Too Much
Apr 11 - Repeating The Wrong Things
Apr 6 - Taking Things For Granted
Mar 29 - Natural Ability
Mar 28 - The Cosmos
Mar 27 - If You Don’t Sing Well and You Don’t Know That
Mar 22 - Head Down, Chest Up, Mix
Mar 18 - High Notes
Mar 15 - Why You Can’t Dabble
Mar 11 - Head Register
Mar 10 - Bad Choices
Mar 8 - The Purpose of Training
Feb 26 - The Basics of Somatic Voicework™ The Lo Vetri Method
Feb 19 - Caring
Feb 15 - What is "Classical" Singing?
Feb 12 - Different For Different’s Sake
Feb 11 - An Applied Degree
Feb 9 - Professional versus Academic
Jan 29 - Equals Who Really Aren’t
Jan 26 - "Operatic" Voices
Jan 20 - Behind the Times
Jan 13 - The Lost and The Deluded
Jan 3 - Stupidity

2010 (75)

Dec 27 - Sound: The Alpha and Omega
Dec 20 - It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year
Dec 17 - All of A Piece Makes Peace
Dec 14 - Partners: The Voice, The Song, The Personality
Dec 9 - Judging Your Own Function
Dec 4 - More Ways to Break Down Songs
Nov 28 - Breaking Down A Song
Nov 26 - The Default of the Muscles of the Tongue
Nov 23 - The Wisdom of Insecurity
Nov 21 - Strength in the middle
Nov 4 - Immersion or Osmosis
Nov 3 - Concentration
Oct 25 - Life Upon The Wicked Stage
Oct 15 - Talent
Oct 12 - The Meaning of Meaning
Oct 10 - Functional versus Pedagogical versus "Making It Up"
Oct 7 - Fixing Things Or Not
Oct 1 - More About Being Deliberate
Sep 30 - Too much, Too soon
Sep 29 - Too Relaxed
Sep 28 - It’s Complicated
Sep 23 - Positive Resistance
Sep 20 - Balance
Sep 17 - Undoing Stuck Throats
Sep 14 - Consciousness and Awareness
Sep 13 - Volitional Movement
Sep 10 - The Healing Power of the Voice
Sep 9 - Professional Disagreement
Sep 7 - All You Really Need Is A Good Set Of Ears
Sep 4 - The Risks of Being Visible
Sep 1 - And The Point Is…?
Aug 26 - What Makes A "Good" Teacher of Singing?
Aug 22 - "Real" Singing
Aug 17 - Real Versus Fake
Aug 8 - The Death of Poetic Imagery
Aug 5 - Fame, A Career, A Livelihood
Aug 2 - Strength and Stamina
Jul 13 - Lost
Jul 11 - Can, Should and Ought
Jul 11 - Untraining
Jul 7 - Integrity
Jul 6 - Integrity
Jul 5 - Oompha Oompha and Itchy-Scratchy
Jun 29 - Learning to Cross Over
Jun 26 - Classical Technique Layered Over CCM Singing
Jun 26 - Those Who Can Do
Jun 26 - Those Who Can Do
Jun 17 - Stretching
Jun 12 - Functional Training
Jun 9 - Science
May 29 - The Entertainer
May 20 - A Fully Functional Voice
May 13 - UNFAIR
May 8 - The Truest Tragedy
Apr 24 - All Kinds of Sounds Are Correct
Apr 18 - Letting Go
Apr 13 - Doing It All
Apr 12 - Manipulation
Apr 9 - Why Resonance Is Not An End In Itself in CCM
Apr 6 - Mind/Body/Voice
Mar 11 - It’s Never Too Late
Mar 10 - Working With or Against Your Own Default
Mar 5 - Talent
Feb 27 - You Can Never Arrive
Feb 26 - Application
Feb 25 - Individuation
Feb 23 - Repetition
Feb 21 - Deep Muscle Release
Feb 15 - The Way Out
Feb 13 - The Far Off 22nd Century Way
Feb 6 - Registers For Their Own Sake
Feb 3 - Doing Something Until You Don’t Have To
Feb 3 - Doing Until You Don’t Need To
Jan 19 - The Truly Stuck
Jan 6 - Nothing Matters

2009 (39)

Dec 30 - Tradition versus Innovation
Dec 24 - The Soltice and Ever After
Dec 19 - Competent or Not
Dec 12 - The Twelve Days of Singing
Dec 1 - The Consequences of Telling the Truth
Nov 14 - Following The Party Line or Else
Nov 6 - Swiss Cheese
Oct 22 - The Point Is Singing Very Well
Sep 21 - Doctors, Speech Language Pathologists and US
Sep 21 - Throat Specialists Who Don’t Know
Sep 19 - Going Slow
Sep 17 - Opera Versus Functional
Aug 31 - Stepping It Down
Aug 30 - Facing Yourself
Aug 26 - Unconsciousness
Aug 6 - Not Listening To Yourself
Aug 6 - Another One
Jun 22 - Going A New Way
Jun 3 - When The Student Doesn’t Improve
May 24 - It’s Never Too Late
May 23 - A Grim Fairy Tale
May 9 - Covering Your You-Know-What
May 7 - Who Cares?
Mar 30 - Training Backwards
Mar 25 - The Thing About Singing
Mar 16 - Ah, Sweet Mystery of Voice!
Mar 9 - The Unlimited Voice
Mar 1 - All There Is
Feb 28 - Fostering Artistry
Feb 27 - Communication
Feb 24 - Styles
Feb 13 - Chest Register/Belting
Feb 7 - Working Out? Working In!
Feb 6 - A Beautiful Thing
Feb 3 - Cheeseburgers A La Mode
Feb 2 - Voice and Voice Training
Jan 28 - Who Decides?
Jan 14 - Labels
Jan 14 - Not All The Same

2008 (25)

Dec 30 - The Real Deal
Dec 8 - What Does This Song Mean To YOU?
Dec 5 - From the Sublime to the Sublime
Nov 29 - Why Read This Blog?
Nov 28 - The Philosophy of Function
Nov 27 - What To Be Thankful For
Nov 22 - To Educate
Nov 19 - The Unfolding Mystery
Nov 19 - A Ray Of Hope
Nov 13 - Sooner or Later
Aug 21 - What’s Good
Aug 15 - It’s A Little Bit Funny
Jun 25 - I Don’t Know About Wine — I Just Know What I Like
Jun 24 - The Real World Versus Academia
Jun 20 - Not "Faching" Around
Jun 20 - Fachs
May 1 - It’s Not Random
Mar 28 - Deep Breathing
Mar 26 - Learning Technique Through Songs
Feb 19 - Emotional "Holding"
Feb 14 - Singing as a Spiritual Path
Feb 13 - Not Knowing That You Don’t Know
Jan 18 - The Emperor Strikes Back
Jan 13 - The War of The Singing Teachers
Jan 12 - Never Ending Undergraduate Education

2007 (55)

Dec 17 - Stealing Words
Dec 8 - It’s Impossible
Dec 3 - Those Who Can’t — Teach
Nov 29 - The Desire To Share
Nov 24 - Living in Ignorant Bliss
Nov 21 - Giving Thanks
Nov 8 - The Whole Package
Nov 6 - Pieces of Paper
Nov 5 - The Audience Matters
Nov 3 - Discouraged and Disgusted
Aug 23 - Still dangerous after all these years…
Aug 7 - Common Sense
Jun 27 - A New Day Dawning – Finally
Jun 5 - contentment versus complacency
May 20 - The Best of the Best II
May 18 - Let’s Play "I Know More Than You Do"
May 16 - Blasting Back to the Past
May 4 - The Great American Songbook
May 4 - The Lyric Voice
Apr 30 - Terminology – From the Corner Deli and From Mars
Apr 26 -
Apr 22 - Insomnia
Apr 16 - As Good As It Gets
Apr 14 - My Country, ‘Tis of Thee
Apr 13 - Flummoxed
Apr 3 - A Difficult Student
Apr 2 - Cool Vocal Video
Apr 1 - When "The Real Thing" Ain’t
Mar 26 - The Future
Mar 25 - The Not So Invisible Double Standard
Mar 19 - It’s a Man’s World
Mar 16 - What’s It All For?
Mar 14 - Limp Arms and Fourth Walls
Mar 8 - Where It Belongs
Mar 7 - Just a few lessons…
Feb 20 - The Last Piece of the Puzzle?
Feb 18 - "I Like To Squeeze My Throat"
Feb 15 - Solving Nasality with Register Balancing
Feb 12 - Do What I Don’t Do?
Feb 9 - Elite Vocal Artists
Feb 7 - Apples to Oranges? Sneakers to Wicker Baskets!
Feb 5 - Singing versus the Super Bowl
Feb 2 - Outside/Inside
Feb 1 - Damage Control
Jan 31 - American Idle
Jan 31 - Functional Versus Classical Training
Jan 30 - Bel Can’t! OH!!
Jan 29 - Half Knowledge
Jan 21 - Perfect Vocalism
Jan 19 - You Were Confused?
Jan 18 - Vibrato
Jan 17 - The Other Side of the Tract
Jan 16 - The Invisible War
Jan 12 - Respect Only Matters When You Are Being Disrepected
Jan 10 - Lost (and Found) Voice

2006 (28)

Dec 18 - Making A Sound That Doesn’t Exist
Dec 15 - Service
Dec 12 - The Profession of No Standards
Dec 6 - Brightness versus Nasality
Dec 6 - Writing? Writing!!
Dec 5 - Gratitude and Responsibility
Nov 29 - Picking Nits
Nov 28 - Some Can and Some Can’t
Nov 23 - The Price Of Speaking Out
Nov 22 - The Universe As We Want It To Be
Nov 12 - What Goes Around Comes Around
Nov 11 - Occupational Training versus Cultural Sophistication
Nov 9 - Why Sing?
Nov 8 - Vocal Training
Nov 7 - FEAR
Nov 7 - Kid Belters
Nov 5 - FEAR – Or Doing Versus Talking About Doing
Nov 4 - My Mistakes
Nov 3 - Experience Is The Best Teacher
Nov 2 - More Useless Terminology
Nov 1 - Releasing the Breath
Oct 31 - Using Exercises Effectively
Oct 30 - Understanding Mix
Oct 27 - Specialization versus Generalization
Oct 25 - It’s More than Resonance and Breath Support
Oct 24 - The Great Divide
Oct 20 - Nothing Different in 40 Years
Oct 18 - Where I Stand

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