by thomas on August 18, 2010
While I still have been singing a ton, I have been MIA from writing posts. I hope to get back to that sometime soon. In the meantime, I wanted to write a post and let everyone know that Singing Success is having a 20% off sale on their flagship singing product, Brett Manning’s Singing Success. [...]
by thomas on April 25, 2010
I’m coming back to the topic of vocal cord closure once again because it is so relevant to learning how to sing better. Vocal cord closure is the idea of having your vocal cords come together correctly in order to produce that strong brassy tone and ring in your voice. Vocal cord closure also helps [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]