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TLC for your R&B Cover
3/5/2014

TLC for your R&B

The best part of my job as an instructor at New York Vocal Coaching is helping varied singers gain control over their voices. In this article, I want to share a few thoughts on the R&B style and one of my artists who is working to master her R&B sound.

Tagged: Belting How To Keep Your Voice Healthy Vocal Damage Vocal Exercises Vocal Strain
Negotiating Styles: Classical To Pop Cover
1/21/2014

Negotiating Styles: Classical To Pop

Even if you’re an amateur pop music aficionado, you recognize the absurdity of approaching every style with the same technique.  Imagine for a moment a world in which classical technique is applied to pop music, and pop technique is applied to...

Tagged: How To Find Your Singing Voice Singing Styles Vocal Exercises
Finding The Right Voice Teacher Cover
11/10/2013

Finding The Right Voice Teacher

Finding the right voice teacher is one of the most crucial steps you’ll ever take in your singing life, and finding a perfect match can take years of trial and error.  On the way to finding your match, you’re bound...

Tagged: How To Find a Vocal Teacher Singing Lessons Voice Lessons For Beginners
Ego Reads. Humility breeds. Cover
11/3/2013

Ego Reads. Humility breeds.

In my absence from chronicling my thoughts from a music director/coach perspective, I have seen some brilliant performances that have given me pause; performances that made me stop and think, “How is something so...

Tagged: Acting Tips Audition Tips New York Acting Coaching Performance Tips
Mixed Voice Cover
9/4/2013

Mixed Voice

The mixed voice is one of the most discussed, debated, and researched topics of vocal pedagogy.  Almost every singer is working on her or his ‘mix,’ or trying to ‘mix’ that high note, or wanting to...

Tagged: Belting How To Sing High Notes Mix Voice Vocal Registers
The Opposite(s) Of Singing Cover
5/19/2013

The Opposite(s) Of Singing

Every singer has a goal. For some, it’s being able to sing exciting, strong high notes. For others it’s singing the most difficult songs with ease; others long to sing lightning fast riffs. Clients come...

Tagged: How To Sing High Notes Vocal Exercises Vocal Registers
Singing With Pure EEase Cover
4/15/2013

Singing With Pure EEase

It’s time we had a talk about EE. Though it takes second place in the accepted listing of vowels, we use the EE to form the diphthongs of fourteen letters of our alphabet, making it one of the most...

Tagged: How To Sing Vowels Nasal Resonance Tongue Position For Singing Vowel Modification
The "Sound" And The Voice Cover
4/9/2013

The "Sound" And The Voice

As actor/singers prepare for auditions, there tends to be a great deal of concern about the “sound” that’s required to accurately portray (or at least, land) the role that is being cast.  Aside from the...

Tagged: Audition Tips Belting How To Find Your Singing Voice Singing Styles
Practice Makes Permanent! Cover
3/11/2013

Practice Makes Permanent!

"Practice Makes Permanent!" Mrs. Marilyn shouted from behind the piano after, yet again, someone forgot to cut off with the rest of the ensemble.  The rehearsal room immediately froze, save for the darting...

Tagged: Belting Performance Tips Singing Practice Tips Vocal Warm Ups
“Don’t You Dare Lift Your Soft Palate!” -or- “Tar And Feathers” Cover
3/7/2013

“Don’t You Dare Lift Your Soft Palate!” -or- “Tar And Feathers”

“Justin, I hate the sound of my voice. It always sounds so whiny and nasal!” “Justin, I’d like to get my daughter into...

Tagged: Belting How To Sing High Notes Nasal Resonance Nasality Tongue Position For Singing