Posts Tagged: Learn to Sing

How to get on The Voice, American Idol, or The X-Factor

In today’s media culture, talent shows like American Idol, The Voice, the X Factor and many more, make it appear to an audience as if anyone can become a star, if they can just get on the show.  With many thousands of applicants in every major American city auditioning for the show, how can you…

How to Become A Professional Singer

At Sing Like a Star Studios, we specialize in the health and maintenance of the professional singer’s voice.  We also help students who are just beginning their path toward professional careers with every step of their vocal and professional development. How does a beginning singer get from the first step- deciding they want to sing…

Singing and the Larynx

When new students come in for voice lessons at my Sing Like a Star Studios, they sometimes wonder where their voice actually comes from- where the sounds that they hear as singing are actually produced. What we refer to as “the voice” starts as air coming up from the lungs through the trachea, or windpipe. …

How to Sing Stronger and Project Your Voice

How to Sing Stronger and Project Your Voice Singers who are weak and cannot project their voices usually sing with a very breathy tone quality as well.  Sometimes this is due to general timidity about being heard.  I try to convince these timid souls that projecting the voice is a good thing in singing, and…

How to Correct Nasal Singing

How to Correct Nasal Singing Sometimes singers come to my studio with a pronounced nasal quality to their speaking voice, resembling Fran Drescher of “The Nanny”.  These students usually also show pronounced nasality in their singing voices as well.   Other students speak normally, but sing through the nose, sometimes as a result of techniques that…

Learning to Sing- the Three Step Process

Singers who come to my Sing Like a Star vocal studios who are interested in  learning to sing are helped by knowing that there is a basic 3 step process to creating  new and correct vocal functioning.  Each of the three steps requires different exercises and training, and are designed to create  different results.  Each…

Learn How to Sing- Chest Voice

In this blog I will discuss how a singer can learn how to sing better in the chest voice, and why the chest register is so important for singing. In my blog posted on June 12, 2012 you will see a chart that I created called “Your Path to Vocal Development”.  You should refer to…

Learn How to Sing- What Voice Type are You?

Learn How to Sing- What Voice Type Are You? This blog is to discuss some basic vocal habits or tendencies so you, the singer, can have some idea about what category you might fall into, or what voice type you are. When students who want to learn how to sing, the first step is that…

Learn How to Sing with Mix

This blog will discuss how to learn how to sing, by understanding how to mix into the upper register. In my previous blog, I concluded by saying that the best and healthiest method of vocal production is the ability to mix registration when ascending in pitch from the chest register to the upper register.  In…