Posts Tagged With ‘ vocal training ’

  Today’s post is a VIDEO vocal exercise demonstration! Yes, it’s on my podcast as well, but I thought you might like to watch this one if you can. Quite often I find it’s the weird vocal exercise that works the best. My colleague vocal coach Mark Thress shared this scale with me (thank you, Mark!) and I ‘morphed it’ beyond recognition into this vocal glitch fix. This is the exercise I talked about in my previous post ‘How I Lost My Voice (So You Don’t Have To)’ I promised I’d demonstrate it and I finally got around to it.  Just be careful…... Continue Reading

This chat with Mat was pure joy! Listen & subscribe on iTunes … on Spotify … or anywhere else or watch video version on YouTube My guest today wasn’t a musician or songwriter in high school – he was a soccer player ! But in mid-college, he experienced a major paradigm shift in his life, stopped some pretty hard partying and started playing… guitar. Unable to play cover songs well, he began to write his own. That was 1.6 million albums sold and 2.5 billion streams ago. Woah…How did that happen? Listen up as I chat with the one and only Mat Kearney! Things... Continue Reading

Sounding crazy as this guy looks in vocal exercises? GOOD! Listen & subscribe on iTunes … on Spotify …  or anywhere else There are some very strange vocal exercises that work wonders for the voice. In fact, if someone hears you doing these, they might wonder if you’ve gone a little nuts! Not to worry… that’s a sign you’re probably doing them right.  Some of the funniest and very effective exercises I teach involve doing character voices. I find cartoon voices especially beneficial! Before we get into them, let’s explore the how and the... Continue Reading

Radney has ‘reinvent’ on his daily to-do list NOTE: The audio player should appear below, if not, please click on the title of this post and go online to hear.  Available also on iTunes, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon, Podbean, most other podcast apps     PLEASE REVIEW at ratethispodcast.com/atv I am so happy to have Radney Foster on today’s episode! I met Radney when he and I were artists signed to MTM Records. I had the honor of working with him as vocal coach when he lost his voice a few years ago. The story of how, instead of giving up, he used his... Continue Reading