No pain, no gain. You have to want it more than anything. You need to have some serious drive to be an artist. You can’t just do this for fun.…
Tag: psychology
Hello singing colleagues! I’m back from some time off and refreshed, ready for new beginnings after a nationally horrible first half of the winter. Powerful singing is a topic that…
“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…
My Myers-Briggs personality type is ENFJ so I’m a people person. I get a little down and weird if I’m alone for days on end. However, I save time every…
Let’s pretend that, in order to be a voice teacher, there are 100,000 possible facts to know. Let’s say that there are five kinds of these facts, divided into groups…
There is a lot of hypersensitive rhetoric in online discussion groups, and it has gotten worse over the years. Human beings were never meant to have so much stimulation. The…
My good friend Justin Petersen recently published a beautiful blog post titled Bells Cannot be Unrung. It reminded me of my study with David Christopher, who was always emphasizing that…
Forget “fair”. Most of life is not fair. Everyone does not get the same opportunities, have the same talent, or have the same luck. Most singers will eventually find a…
Marisa Gray Atha, wrote this beautiful piece on showing up, being present. Step up and be willing to start. That is a big deal.
The performing space, the ear, and the feedback – the acoustic experience can theoretically be considered on its own, but is tied closely to the psychological. Experienced singers agree that…
In the first of the “environment” series, I referred to one aspect of the environment in which singing happens – the shape of the vocal tract. Then for Part 2,…
An inquisitive and articulate colleague of mine recently brought up some great questions about how we frame our experiences. It was a pretty interesting angle. She asked this question: If…