The High Performance Singer

Here are some quick, down-to-earth, immediately applicable set of singing tips today: Five vocal technique checks you can do to make sure you're singing with good technique, and not making some of the most common mistakes that beginning singers make. 1 - Is your larynx moving up and down? Check that your larynx is not moving up and down a lot as you sing higher and lower. It should stay more or less in the same place for the main comfortable part of your range. (When men

Vocalists, like cellists and trombone players, have instruments that can produce infinite gradations of pitch – unlike pianos and guitars, which produce exact pitches according to their tuning. In order to sing in tune, singers must rely on muscle memory, “in-the-zone” hearing, and an accurate mental concept of where pitches live. Sometimes a flat or sharp note can be used for emotional or artistic effect, but you want any notes you sing out of tune to be intentional choices

I’ve received a couple of requests for tips on how to warm up voice for singing, so this week we’re just going to get down to basics on a couple of the best vocal warmups to start with before you move into further exercises and warmups. Bubbling (Lip Trills) I'll be honest, there was a period of time when I thought lip trills were not very useful. But as I have learned more about the voice, I've realized their application to even hard rock singing. The most important piec