To us at My Singing Lessons, a strong and powerful voice is one that is clearly audible and not strained, and is also bright and clear in tone. And so, how do we achieve a voice that has such qualities? Certainly, pushing with more breath is not an option. What that does is to make our voices more...
We where delighted to speak to Andy Gleadhill (World renowned music teacher) at the Music Education Expo 2016. Andy has written our new teacher training course. This is what he said about how the course is and how to apply for it. To take the course just go to
Read More >So why should you take a certified music teacher training course? Well for a start, you’ll attract more students when they know your approved to teach with ‘Become A Music Teacher‘. You will...
Speaking and singing with dry vocal folds often results in vocal problems such as voice breaks, excessive throat clearing (which further irritates your vocal folds), loss of volume control or range, vocal fatigue, and voice loss. A person who doesn’t make a lot of demands on his or her voice might...
Owning a vocal teaching business can be a fantastic opportunity to make money and do what you love all day – SINGING. There are lost of reasons why you should follow your dream of becoming your own boss and start a singing teaching franchise. The following reasons to buy a piano franchise...
One of the basic musical skills that a singer must have, is the ability to sing musical intervals. So what are musical intervals? Well these intervals are actually derived from the musical scales that most singers, if not all, know about. For example, the major scale, minor scale, pentatonic scale...
My Singing Lessons are delighted to announce that Nikoo Sadr from Music Ally digital music and media strategy consultants is to deliver a new 2-part seminar. The seminar will take a comprehensive look at the world of social media and how it can be best exploited to maximise opportunities in digital...
My Singing Lessons tutor Sara recently had a lesson with a regular individual student and this student of ours really knows how to analyze the voices of various singers. He could describe to us how these singers sang, and also could tell us what techniques they were using in order to achieve...
Spread over five days throughout the academic year and led by Sally Cathcart, the Voices Foundation’s Essential Musicianship for Teachers aims to help delegates to develop the musicianship skills needed to deliver a singing-based music curriculum. Suitable for those with an interest in or responsibility...
Singing in harmony is one of singings most profound dimensions. Harmony is a background player, supporting the
rest of the sonic cast. While melody articulates the conscious narrative, harmony gives shape to a song’s subconscious emotional message or subtext.
From building suspense...
How do the best singers and songwriters do it? Why does a Lennon or a MacCartney song capture a listener’s attention the way they do? What is their secret, what’s the formula? If all of us songwriters had the answers to these
questions, we would all be a lot richer! While there’s...
At My Singing Lessons we know that a solid foundation in the basics of vocalizing is absolutely essential towards achieving a great singing voice. This is why we have decided to break down the basics of singing into simple and concise...
Here is is a simple and very effective trick to help you make really strong passwords for your user account on My Singing Lessons. There are two things that make a logon pass phrase difficult to crack. The first is that it must not contain any actual words...
This vocal warm-up lip trill exercise, or what we affectionately call, the ‘Bubble’ exercise. For those who have tried the Lip Trill and have problems doing it, the following tips might be able to help you out. Just download the free lesson below for singing tips and help.
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Getting the right microphone for singing and then applying the appropriate microphone technique to get rid of unwanted background noise or feedback is a real skill. Fortunately, it’s a skill that can be learnt, firstly by understanding microphone directionality. See our FREE guide below.
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