A free list of all the important things to teach your singing students if your a singing teacher. Look out for things like Glotal, Inferior, Jaw Stop and Kinaesthetic. Here we take a letter and explain a vocal coach technique for each. Have fun explaining each of the 26 to your singing students.
Read More >At My Singing Lessons taking an online choral rehearsal is very different from rehearsing in a venue with singers when you can see and hear their interactions. The variety of online meeting sites offer many things, but do not enable singers to hear themselves singing at the same time, owing to the...
Stand feet shoulder width apart. Without your shoulders rising breath in through the nose and out through the
mouth. Tummy should expand as you breath in. Breath in through the nose with your tummy expanding and hold for 5 seconds, then slowly breath out of the mouth. Breath in through...
We have been in contact with the Musicians Union who have let us know that they are able to offer our members and their students a joining fee of just £1 for the first 6 Months of joining their service. The terms & conditions of this offer are as follows: You join for £1 offer is only available...
We have a singing student who comes into class and is always too afraid to sing out loud. She has anxiety problems, and she gets very stressed out whenever she is asked to do something, or to show me what she has been practising at home, or even just to sing a simple major scale.
As such, she...
We had the honour of teaching a group of talented singers and singing teachers. Their voices were suffering after every long day of teaching and coaching at schools, and the worst case was when some of their coaches had hoarse voices for weeks on end, after their busy or intensive teaching stints!...
How do you sing without any tension in your voice? Now it is true that some styles of singing require less stamina than others and therefore can be accomplished with less strength training. In other words, singing a light pop song requires very little “strength” in the sound, whereas singing...
There are many ways to help chill out before singing. For example you can stretch down on the floor and put an object on top of your stomach. The goal here is to make the object jump up and down as you breathe in and out. Achieving this means your diaphragm is descending. It is important to do an...
We get asked this question from singers all of the time – I want to sing higher, or how do I sing lower? This is the gauge of the extent of pitches that a human voice can vocalize. It is used as one of the major elements involved in determining a person’s voice type. Voice types for females...
If you’re a singer, there’s a big chance you’ve heard and/or practised a scale or two in your time. A random word spoken/shouted/sung along with a colourful succession of notes, over and over, and over and over, and over and over, again. Just in case clarity is needed for the last sentence:...
Great singers not only know how to sing well, but they are even better listeners than you would think! This is because when we sing, we need to also listen closely to and monitor our singing pitch, making sure that our vocals are in tune with the key of the music or song accompaniment.
Basic...
Pitch is certainly one of the Basics of Singing, and these pitching tips will help you to correct your pitching through the use of a variety of techniques involving some aural training as well as actual singing! When we sing in pitch, we are usually employing 3 kinds of techniques:
1. Knowing...
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...
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...
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...
