Berklee Online is the only fully accredited school in the world that offers an online Bachelor’s degree in Songwriting. Learn how to enhance your craft and write fearlessly with esteemed Berklee instructors who have taught Grammy Award winners such as John Mayer and Gillian Welch.
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Want to try new singing tech tools, tighten up your technique and watch explosive singing and vocal sets at the world’s biggest DJing and electronic music production event? Well, we’re offering you £5 off all advance tickets for BPM 2015, which means you can book a general admission...
Don’t panic about your tax return in January! Get your questions answered by tax experts at The Musicians Union Head Quarters in London. Join them for a workshop with Andy Levett and Ajay Jassal from accountants HW Fisher, looking at: Setting yourself up in business, Income, Allowable...
Last week we where doing vocal production for a pop project, and had to guide 3 singers to record their voices for a song written to for that lesson. 2 of the singers had pitching issues, and could not hold their own pitch whenever they heard another singer’s voice singing in the background.
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This is a useful Musical Terms resource for singers as well as musicians to refer to. It is not an exhaustive list, but it is still quite comprehensive. To know more about the musical terms you would need to know as a singer, download the PDF file below. The musical terms in this list are arranged...
Sadly we lost these talented people from the music world recently. Cilla Black, 72, British singer (“Anyone Who Had a Heart”, “You’re My World”, “Step Inside Love”) and TV presenter (Blind Date, Surprise Surprise, The Moment of Truth), stroke following a...
London-based café and live music venue The Troubadour has been saved from closure by an existing shareholder, according to The Standard. The Earls Court venue, which hosted the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Adele over the years, was put in administration last month but has since been taken...
The Vibrato intrigues many listeners, singers as well as singing students, and is usually a rather advanced singing technique to acquire and train for! It usually refers to how a singer produces rapid pitch variations in his or her voice when sustaining a single note or word. Most vocal instructors...
We know at My Singing Lessons that singing exercises are very important for us to develop a great singing voice. The many scales and drills that we have in our teacher lessons will provide an introduction to basic vocal training, and the various aspects of our singing voice that we would wish to...
With their first English festival appearance in more than a 10 years, The Dandy Warhols recently headlined Standon Calling in what was a great return for the band. Lead singer Courtney Taylor, talks about how the recording industry has changed over the past 20 years and why physical music stores...
As a singing teacher, we get asked some pretty weird questions about singing. In fact, we get so many that we decided to write an article about it! Here are the weirdest questions students ask voice teachers – and the answers you may have been wondering about yourself — that can help you become...
Try our great free singing exercise to help you sing more efficiently and for longer. Here we look at ways to control breathing and stopping straining in your voice to make it more effective without placing undue stress on your throat. Download the full lesson sheet for teaching students here. There...
At My Singing Lessons, we don’t think there is such a thing as a semi-semitone, but we are sure you get what we mean. we’re talking about those pitches that just don’t fall nicely into semitones or tones. Those in-between pitches. Sometimes when we listen to singers sing, and the...
So many different ‘techniques/methods’ are being propounded that students must feel very confused by all that they are told by so many different teachers. I do not say that my way is the only way, and that they should listen only to me, but they should by trial and error (and good heavens there...
We have been able to confirm that rumours about the death of singing star Cilla Black are true. Cilla Black (real name Presila White) came to fame in the 60’s after being signed by The Beatles manager Brian Eipstein. She worked at the Cavern Club on Matthew Street in Liverpool where The Beatles...
