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March 2010

Breath Control

by thomas on March 31, 2010

Today we are going to be talking about breath control. This post about breath control will correlate to my previous post about how to breathe properly. Breath control is a pretty self explanatory term. When we talk about breath control, we are talking about the ability to manipulate your breath in order to have greater [...]

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How To Breathe Properly

by thomas on March 28, 2010

Learning how to breathe properly is a very important factor in learning how to sing better. Some people put great emphasis on breath support. Other people put little emphasis on breath support. I just want to put breath support in its proper place. If learning how to breathe properly was all we needed in order [...]

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How To Sing With Emotion

by thomas on March 25, 2010

This question is asked by many singers: “How can I sing with more emotion?” To this question I answer: “Add more emotion!” …but oh, if it were only that easy. For the majority of us singers (myself included), we struggle with bringing emotion into our songs. We strive to sing with passion and presence, but [...]

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Collecting My Thoughts

by thomas on March 24, 2010

It has been just over one month since Forever Singing came into existence. Thank you for all of your comments and feedback! I could not have asked for more as far as the reports and results go. I keep hearing over and over again about how nice it is to have a website dedicated to [...]

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The Vocal Weight Factor

by thomas on March 21, 2010

Oh how I wish I would’ve know about vocal weight when I first started singing… I wrote an article about vocal weight a while back, but I wanted to come back to this subject again because it has such a dramatic effect on the voice. The vocal weight factor can radically alter your voice if [...]

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Chest Voice

by thomas on March 18, 2010

Let’s unpack chest voice today. Although there are many technical definitions of what chest voice actually is, it is most widely known and understood as our normal speaking and/or singing voice. For our purposes, chest voice is the range in which we feel completely comfortable singing and speaking. It is marked by the majority of [...]

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