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Forgetting Muscle Memory Cover
8/10/2016

Forgetting Muscle Memory

Whether you’re working to improve your voice, learning how to play a new instrument, or striving to make the world’s greatest grilled-cheese sandwich, it’s going to take practice...and practice means repetition. The natural human instinct, however, is to move on once something’s been accomplished, and an artist can’t stand being stagnant or still. Yet, the fact remains: improvement requires the diligent and repetitive motions of practicing.

Challenge: What can you do in 8 bars? Cover
7/18/2016

Challenge: What can you do in 8 bars?

What can you possibly do in eight bars? The answer is A LOT.

Stomach Out or Stomach In: The Skinny on Breathing Cover
5/20/2016

Stomach Out or Stomach In: The Skinny on Breathing

Transform Your Struggle Into Your Strength! Cover
4/17/2016

Transform Your Struggle Into Your Strength!

My personal goal is to help prepare my students so well that they feel confident about every audition - no matter what.

The Money's in the Middle: Why your lower and middle range deserves more love Cover
3/18/2016

The Money's in the Middle: Why your lower and middle range deserves more love

Everyone is always worried about the “money notes”: the high notes in a song. What about all the other notes?! Low and middle notes deserve much more love and respect than they usually get.

Body Mapping for Singers Cover
1/25/2016

Body Mapping for Singers

An overview of the systems in the body that contribute to vocal sound!

Preparing For Your Best Audition: An Actor’s Checklist Cover
10/20/2015

Preparing For Your Best Audition: An Actor’s Checklist

Auditioning. The word strikes fear in every actor, seasoned and amateur alike. However, this doesn't have to be the case!

Signs That You Might Be Vocally Fatigued Cover
5/9/2015

Signs That You Might Be Vocally Fatigued

The voice is the only instrument that is apart the human body (unless you count clapping your hands as percussion!!). So it makes sense that the instrument is the entire body, not just the larynx alone. Everything from body alignment, respiratory system, the larynx, vocal tract, not to mention the brain are involved in this high level athletic coordination! 

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3/2/2015

Setting SMART Goals

We all want something in this business. But what you want is different from what your best friend might want, even if it is the very same goal.

Why Am I Doing This Again? Cover
7/24/2014

Why Am I Doing This Again?

I had a one hour break in which to eat, go to the bank, respond to client emails, and be ready to start the second half of a lengthy teaching day. I raced out of the studio past the slow walkers to the bank...