Vocal Cool Down
If you go to bed straight after a big singing day/evening, then find yourself waking up the next day with a tired throat, husky voice, and take a long time to warm up…doing a vocal…
If you go to bed straight after a big singing day/evening, then find yourself waking up the next day with a tired throat, husky voice, and take a long time to warm up…doing a vocal…
Have you ever stopped listening to your own recording, shocked it was YOU? Transform this moment by planning: evaluate your equipment, goals, and language to celebrate progress and inform your practice choices. (4-minute read time)…
There is a silent battle going on in each of us. The battle between our muscle memory and our conscious, discerning choices. This battle exists in thousands of areas of our lives – such as…
Do you ever have trouble getting started on your singing practice? Or maybe you feel like you arrive at a lesson, rehearsal or gig with your brain still firmly lodged in that last activity at…
Two and a half years after writing my first (ever) blog on Reset, with the world in the grip of the Coronavirus pandemic, my mind has turned to another type of reset. I find myself…
“No one move, no one speak Please don’t say that it’s just me It’s not just me And even though I won’t forget Just don’t want this to end just yet, not just yet But…
“Learning how to make the delivery of every song full of detail and excitement is vital if you want to consistently capture your audience’s attention.” Matthew Edwards Welcome to a blog that is chock-full of…
Context Why does it feel like sometimes our own mind and body are working against us? “In many ways singers face a ‘double whammy’ when they perform. Assuming mastery of the instrument and mastery of…
Why write another blog on auditioning? It’s certainly a much-covered topic already! And yet…it is a type of performance that strikes equal parts of exhilaration and trepidation in us. So, it is worth considering what we do that…
Bring on tomorrow Let it shine Like the sun coming up on a beautiful day It’s yours and mine. “Bring on Tomorrow”, from Fame, by Steve Margoshes & Jacques Levy It’s Sunday morning…no, wait,…
If you have already read Part 1 of this blog, you’ll have a clear understanding of what Production Week is likely to throw at you. This blog gives you some ideas on how to plan for…
“If anything makes a show jump from good to great, it is clarity.” Rachael Beck, Director & Performer And the time when that clarity arrives for an amateur musical theatre company is during…
This amazing image makes me think about preparing for a sporting adventure – one that is extreme and physical. A lot of people might not think of singing in public as an extreme sport or adventure,…
Human brains love to have patterns, formulae, methods for working stuff out. We search for reliable ways of making decisions for our own welfare and to enable us to live the life in front of us. But…
Is your self-talk a friend or an enemy? It’s time to be curious about the power of your communication with yourself and how it can positively shape your singing and performing in the future. You have more…