Breath cannot be seen as independent or causal within the vocal system. Doing so can have detrimental effects.
Harmonizing Breath and Integration in Vocal Training: A Comprehensive Approach
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HOW TO BE A BETTER VOICE TEACHER FOR YOUR SINGING STUDENTS
Voice teaching is complicated, but with simple guiding principles you can go from average instructor to great somatic vocal learning facilitator in no time.
EXPRESSING VOCAL UNITY – BIG BODY, BIG VOICE, BIG YOU
We think that vocal training should limit possibilities from unwanted to wanted. Another way: expand, integrate and unify ALL possibilities with choice!
UNTANGLING THE TONGUE – The Tongue at Rest and Resting in Action
We think of the tongue as one thing, but really it’s a complex organ made of many structures and connects, locally and globally, to many other parts of the self/body. Learning to release and coordinate the tongue in integrated action is key to optimal vocal function and expressivity!
VOICE TEACHERS – What is good teaching?
We think we know what teaching is, we think we know how to teach well, but is it possible that the whole premise of teaching is in need of some questioning? I think so. Here’s a whole case for learning to “teach” without teaching at all!
SINGING IN SYSTEMS – Is your diaphragm supporting your voice or your voice supporting your diaphragm – or BOTH?
Most singing approaches out there are futzing around with the “parts and pieces” of the system as if that were enough to organize and coordinate the entire system for complex actions. It’s insane. But, there is another way…
PHONEMES – Like having hundreds of Voice Teachers Living in Your Own Mouth!
Most of us aren’t aware of phonemes and their incredible power to bring about vocal awareness and learning. And if we are aware of phonemes it’s usually related to diction. But there’s so much more and in this blog I’ll let you in on a few of those phonemic secrets…
VOCAL CONTROL – A new way to look at it! (aka You’ve got it all wrong!)
We all want vocal control, but 99% of you out there are going about it ALL WRONG! When you learn to educate your system – the larger, more powerful part of yourself – and discover the CONTROL OF NO CONTROL, you’ll never go back to the old way. Here’s what I mean…
Re-Imagining Vocal Imagery… For Better Vocal Learning
We have the old artsy, creative and metaphorical way of vocal imagery for singers. Then there’s the other cold, hard, reality based approach to imagery for voice. How could we re-imagine vocal imagery for better vocal learning? Well, I have a wonderful solution… It’s what I call a “physical image.”
TEACHERS: What is Voice Training?
I’ve been running a course for the last few years, TEACH WITHOUT TEACHING, which has become the heart of my TEACHER TRACK Program. And, the idea that that course centers around is that it is possible to teach a student whatever it is you feel you could teach them...