My Singing Lessons has been made aware of an increase of instances in which record companies and record producers attempt to persuade singers and musicians to sign unofficial and unregulated paperwork for contracts. In most cases this involves the musician in granting an all rights “buyout”...
Here your about to become a more sort after singer. At least in terms of having your singing work great in movies and TV shows. Have you ever heard a song in a movie or television show and exclaimed, “I could have sung that!”?
Well, you probably can, but as you’ll find, singing for movies...
Great singers are always aware that the most beautiful aspects of the written and spoken word is how it lends itself to interpretation. When writing and singing songs, the title, melody, harmony, and lyrics are all going to contribute to the impression that will be with whoever is listening....
We singers are constantly striving to find great song material. We’re also looking to express our ideas with an artistic voice that is as unique as we are. Furthermore, most us want to simplify the process and expand our marketability. One important key to marketability in the hit song market is,...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
Dame Shirley Bassey said in an interview:’”belt” is disrespectful of the music’. I think what she means is that if the singer is not capable of controlling the sound it will come out without resonance, just be a shout, and that is harmful to the vocal chords. My driving force in teaching singing...
We picked up on something our A&R Manager said last week, which the rest of his team also agreed with. When he said “When I’m A&Ring and I’ve narrowed 60 pitches down to 5 or 6 great songs, I am probably guilty of being swayed when I can really hear the sound coming together in terms...
