EXPERIENTIALÂ VOCAL LEARNING – HOW TO TEACH YOURSELF TO SING
Even if you’re working with a teacher, you’re always teaching yourself to sing! And of course, you can teach yourself to sing well… if you know how!
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!
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…
REVISIONIST FUTURE: Why do we need to recover after recovering?
Why is it that we seem to have to recover vocally long after we’ve already recovered from some other impactful event – grief, surgery, break-up, move? Why is there often a second recovery after the first? There could be lots of reasons, but for sure there’s one sure-fire way to recover and keep recovering and it’s… PLAY!
The Two Main Obstacles to Vocal Learning
We humans are so sneaky: we make problems where there aren’t any and we even find ways to make the fact that something isn’t a problem a problem!
Stop getting in the way of your own learning and start celebrating small improvements.