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. …
Posts Tagged: Singing Lessons
How to Sing Like Justin Bieber – Singing Lessons for Children
One of the most often asked questions I hear from parents is “How soon should I start my child in voice lessons? “ I firmly believe “the sooner the better” is the correct answer to that question. Just look at the career of superstar Justin Bieber. Once he was discovered, his career took off and…
Singing Lessons for Gospel
I spent most of my life and singing and teaching career in Los Angeles and New York before relocating to Atlanta. One thing the South is blessed with is a plethora of great Gospel singers and Gospel choirs, many of whom have come to my Sing Like a Star Studios for vocal lessons and training.…
How to Sing Like Taylor Swift
I have to admit- I was not a fan of Taylor Swift for the first few years of her remarkable career. I, like many people, felt that she was another industry-produced, pretty package with very little vocal talent. And her early performances were fairly dismal, vocally speaking. She could not seem to sing in tune,…
How to Sing like Beyoncé with “Register Balance”.
I have long admired the career path of Beyoncé Knowles, one of the most consistent vocalists performing today. While some singers seem to come and go, with the constant changes in the fickle public taste, she has had a remarkably long-lived and prosperous career, and an equally reliable voice with few vocal issues and problems. …
How to Sing better
Many people think singing is a natural gift- either you have talent, or you don’t. I disagree with that point of view. I believe talent is something that needs to be developed with training and discipline. Many times in my teaching and performing career, I have seen supposedly less talented individuals leave the so-called gifted…
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 by Connecting Vocal Registers
Learn How To Sing by Connecting Vocal Registers Once you have experienced the feeling of singing in your chest voice (a theme I discussed in my prior blog), you want to also experience the feeling of singing in the head voice, and then you want to be able to connect the two vocal registers together,…
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…
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