Thoughts from Vocal Process
We've only gone and done it. We've tackled the big one. Vocal registers. Have you any idea how much grief there is on the internet about registers and what they are/mean/sound like? From the 1840s when Garcia put forward his ideas about vocal registers to the "free and frank exchange" at the CoMeT conferences in the [...]
I read another thought-provoking blog from Zapier this morning (https://zapier.com/blog/a-company-is-not-a-family/), and it got me thinking. Singing teachers and singers are social beings, and social beings like being part of a "family" - for some it even defines who they are. So we have facebookgroupies, twitterfiends, instamates and a whole host of “family” replacement titles. What's the [...]
Vocal technique and pedagogy have changed, even during my adult lifetime. We’ve gone from the Master/Apprentice model (“do it like me, dear”) and the personal sensation model (“feel the voice like a pink cloud, aim the sound down the elephant’s trunk, and sing from your little mary”) through to the pure physiological (“move your nasosternal muscle [...]
In the final episode of Series 2 of our This Is A Voice Podcast, we're riffing about life after Lockdown, the Vocal Process Teacher Accreditation Programme, and how many different ways there are of working with us (it's all in the Ziggurat). We're chatting about How life has changed since our first podcast episode a year [...]
Imposter Syndrome is real. The fundamental issue with Impostor Syndrome is not being able to internalize your own success. If you have it, you might believe that where you are/what you are doing is all down to luck and nothing to do with you and your abilities. It was first identified by Pauline Rose Clance and [...]
We're actually quite excited (we're British, that's as ebullient as it gets). When we uploaded the Mastering Musical Theatre workshop to the Learning Lounge earlier this year, we'd forgotten that there was an hour missing from the videos. At that time I had over 500 videos to upload, so please forgive me for the oversight! One [...]
In one of our most downloaded #ThisIsAVoice podcast episodes ever, we're talking about Covid and voice, breathing and singing. Our special guest is Phoene Cave, music therapist, singer, trainer and developer of the Singing For Lung Health sequences chats to us about her life, singing for people who have chronic lung conditions, and what she thinks [...]
Pirates! As a creative artist it's the thing you dread. At 8am last Friday morning I discovered my #1 bestselling ebook How To Sing Legato (2018) had been cloned and was being sold under six different titles by six different "authors" on Amazon, all of whom published on the same day (May 18th 2021) The pirates [...]
In this #ThisIsAVoice podcast episode we share why we don't do "vocal coach reacts to" videos, and when we might the single most important difference between a singer and a singing teacher (and the simple reason why great singers might not be great teachers) the vowel shaping techniques we use when working with voices when to [...]
In this #ThisIsAVoice podcast episode we're talking to Nic Redman and Leah Marks from the excellent podcast TheVOSocial. We find out how Leah and Nic got into voiceovers and we discuss why portfolio careers are now a thing for actors, voiceover genres and finding your niche, and dream jobs. We discover why Gillyanne and Nic are [...]
