While much of what goes into making a performance great comes down to overall talent and your ability to exude charisma, confidence and control through your vocals, never underestimate the power of hard work and experience. For example, the more experience you have, the more you will understand how your environment and the situations you…
Posts Tagged: Singing Tips
Learning to Utilize and Benefit from Performance Anxiety
The title of this blog may seem laugh-worthy to some. Performance anxiety is a real problem for so many and no laughing matter. It can hinder a performance and restrict a person’s true talents to a highly discouraging level. Getting rid of it is seemingly impossible to the many who suffer from it, and to…
What Should I Avoid as a Singer?
To avoid losing your voice or harming your vocal folds, you should consult the list below and take it seriously. It will take self-control, but in the end, like everything else, the hard work will pay off. Avoid drinking alcohol, even wine. These harmful drinks are dehydrating and may affect the mucosa of the vocal…
Singing Tips: How to Get More Edge in Your Sound
Frequently singers think they need more power in their sound, particularly in the Rock and Musical Theatre styles of singing. Often singers who complain of a lack of power in the voice actually are not lacking in power, but in edge, or squillo. Squillo can be developed in the voice by using the “voce di…
Singing Tips: How to Sing with Vibrato
Vibrato is a variation in pitch that should happen when a singer sustains or holds out a note. It makes the sound richer, fuller, and more professional sounding. A good vibrato will make the vocal quality more beautiful, while an incorrectly produced vibrato can destroy the beauty of a voice. A beautiful vibrato will occur…
Singing Tips: How to Stop Singing Through Your Nose (Correcting Nasal Singing)
Sometimes singers come in to my Sing Like a Star Vocal Studios with a very nasal and pinched vocal sound. A certain amount of what has traditionally been called mask resonance is necessary to sing with a brilliant tone, but placing the voice in the nose will result in a sound that is unpleasant to…
Singing Tips: How to Get Rid of a Voice Break
Everyone has probably experienced the embarrassment of trying to reach a high note, only to have the voice crack or break. I have even seen it happen to famous singers such as Celine Dion, and Pavarotti. What causes this embarrassing phenomenon, and how can it be prevented? Almost everyone has built-in vocal register breaks at…
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