In this time of quarantines, it makes sense to make use of online venues for teaching. There is a large subset of the activities of an in-person lesson that can…
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I have dared to enter the fray in yet another social media discussion on the value of voice science in the teaching of singing. It gets so heated, but my…
If you are a singer or teacher who has been exposed to lots of the current research on voice science, you may find it fascinating or boring, useful or irrelevant,…
A recording is not the same as a live performance. Specifically, the sound you hear on a recording is not the sound you would hear if you were in the…
“I don’t like Skype.” “You have to see it in person to understand it.” “You can’t learn how to sing from a video.” “People won’t understand what I’m doing if…
Regardless of the genre of music you sing, you will need to have sheet music easily available for yourself and those with whom you collaborate. I would suggest that you…
There are so many ways to distract oneself, to fill every moment with some activity. We wait in line at a retail establishment, out comes the phone, checking for something…
Some classical singers are using audio spectrogram programs to see if they are producing the “singer’s formant”, which is a band of harmonics in roughly the 3000 Hz range. In…
I have a writing project in which there will be paragraphs of text intermingled with musical notation. My hopes were to find free software that would let me do this.…
When I record myself in practice sessions, I find that I have to beware of the tendency to want to record the same thing over and over, trying to fix…