From the category archives:
Taking care of your voice is a practice that you might not think about in the same way as you think about overall health, but there are a lot of similarities. Choosing well-being over excess physical and emotional stress has a powerful effect on your body and your voice. If you’ve ever had vocal fatigue [...]
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Yesterday I had plans to have lunch with a friend who is almost always bubbly and flowing over with enthusiasm. But when we met yesterday I could tell that all was not well with her, mostly by the sound of her voice. No bubbles, no enthusiasm.
As we were sitting at one of my favourite restaurants [...]
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To sing well there are two important attributes to cultivate.
How You Sing
First there are the technical aspects of your singing. You want your voice to have the physical attributes of freedom and strength. Freedom is essential in order to have your voice move throughout your range comfortably. Strength is mainly in the body when singing [...]
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Your voice acts like a radio transmitter for what you’re thinking and feeling. Someone’s antenna will start to twitch if they sense something in the sound of your voice that doesn’t match the words you’re saying. Although it may be at a subconscious level, they are constantly picking up and rapidly interpreting internal messages as [...]
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For Singers and Speakers
A creative pleasurable approach will go a long way to building good vocal habits. Here are seven days of activities that will activate multiple levels of your voice. Some of them you can do while doing other activities. Some of them required all your attention. Nonetheless, they will take just a little [...]
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When it comes to voice training for either a singer or speaker, questions often arise about how long to practise, and what exercises to use every day to build the voice.
The answers for both depend on what purpose you have for voice practice. Let’s deal with how long first.
Professional opera singers sometimes practise several hours [...]
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An answer to that kind of question will never remain static. Your voice is always expanding, always changing. As it changes, so do your perceptions and so how you answer the question today will be different than your answer next week.
However, to begin to articulate for yourself what voice power means, here is one definition [...]
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Recently I was interviewed by Kate Sanner of VivacityNow on how voice coaching could help the clients in her confidence-building program, designed to help them jump to the next level of their career and life. These are the three main questions we covered during the interview.
Q. If you could only convey to people one vital [...]
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To have an authentic voice it’s essential that the sound of your voice and the words you say align with who you are. Think for a moment what that means. Your voice is a huge part of your identity. It’s the words you speak and the sound you make. It’s a big part of how [...]
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