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Sing like you speak? Riddles
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Sing like you speak? Riddles

  • Posted on November 30, 2020December 1, 2020
  • by Brian Lee

“Singing and speaking use the same instrument.” Singing and speaking use the same body, but I could argue that the voice is not an instrument at all when it is…

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Genre hopping and young singers
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Genre hopping and young singers

  • Posted on October 29, 2017October 12, 2018
  • by Brian Lee

When training teen singers, I don’t encourage a specialization in repertoire. If they are going to audition for music degrees, they often have to prepare repertoire from classical, musical theatre,…

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Training the voice – genre agnostic?

  • Posted on January 5, 2017January 5, 2017
  • by Brian Lee

Brad Jenks, a Chicago area voice teacher, recently made me aware of his excellent blog post. He questions the walls that exist between “classical” and “____” voice instruction. I agree…

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Covering many artists can mess you up

  • Posted on January 8, 2016January 8, 2016
  • by Brian Lee

Let’s say that you are a young singer in a good band. You start working, playing nightclubs, BBQ joints, any place that will pay you. You cover lots of songs…

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What is the point of this weird exercise?

  • Posted on August 4, 2015
  • by Brian Lee

The human voice was designed to make a huge gamut of sounds: soft and loud, high and low pitches, many tonal qualities, many stop and start patterns, sustained tones or…

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Fancy Old Vocalises and Modern Singing

  • Posted on August 9, 2013April 27, 2015
  • by Brian Lee

The Bel Canto repertoire required singers to be able to sing high and low, loud and soft, slow and fast, including the ability to trill. The music of that genre…

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There is only one you

  • Posted on April 28, 2013April 27, 2015
  • by Brian Lee

Lately we have access to everything. We can hear singers from the past and present in almost any genre whenever we want. This affects our taste and our aspirations as…

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Why I love karaoke

  • Posted on November 19, 2010October 31, 2011
  • by Brian Lee

I did karaoke in public for the first time in August. I’ve gone back every 2 to 3 weeks since then. Although I have been primarily a musical theatre and…

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Stretching

  • Posted on July 13, 2010November 1, 2011
  • by Brian Lee

This Friday I will be going to Winchester, VA to participate in Level 1, 2, and 3 training with Jeannette Lovetri’s program. (http://www.thevoiceworkshop.com/shen.html) It is an intensive 9 days of…

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Singing and Fluting

  • Posted on May 22, 2010November 1, 2011
  • by Brian Lee

This is inspired by Craig’s comment on my previous entry. As I have dusted off my flute and played it again after very little activity in the last 7 years,…

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Legit and non-legit

  • Posted on November 22, 2009June 18, 2012
  • by Brian Lee

These are styles, not physiological phenomena. There may be common tendencies in the technical approaches to some songs in some styles, but there are not hard and fast rules. An…

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