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Slow down, ya move too fast...

Slow down, ya move too fast...

Singers! Most often in audition, rehearsal, performance, or even practice we are barreling through, and not allowing the instrument to shift, and also not allowing our optimal best to release. Most situations, except when one is alone in the car with the windows firmly closed, singers are rushing! There are several ways to ease away from this, and fully enjoy and even love the moment you are in, and what you are doing! We work, train, and practice diligently on our techni

Is that all you blighters can do?

Is that all you blighters can do?

Singers/Actors! You are learning a new monologue set to music, (which is a monologue, yes, but the energy and attention is more successfully conducted when it is about the other person i.e. the scene partner, the higher or lower self, the audience, or the story, etc.) in other words - a song! In life we rarely allow a person to monopolize a conversation, and have 2-3 minutes full of just them talking. If this happens it must be very important. What prevents or hinders the

Touch me in the morning, then just walk away...

Singers/Actors! This is an important perspective to perpetrate: Every one gesture is actually two gestures. For example, when you hug someone you wrap your arms around your loved one and embrace them, then you determine when and if you will stop the hug, and take your arms and body away. This could be said about close to every gesture. A shrug of the shoulder can be a fast jerk, and then release, or that shrug could sustain and linger before the shoulder is released back to

Feels like the first time...

Singers/Actors! When you sing a text is it a poem, a lyric, or a monologue? Is it really even a text? Any singer is saying words on pitch, and those words are a vehicle of expression, narrative, emotion, etc. The words must be as if that singer is talking, forming, engaging the words for the first time, to express what is needed, but more importantly to aid, educate, deepen, and progress the scene partner (whoever that may be), and the audience. Even the best Shakespeare

Necking is good for kissing, not singing...

Singers! When the neck is tight while singing most often times we are baring down to create stability, and often a darker color, or manufactured vibrato. Also tension in the neck will “crush” the larynx and also trap the sound without allowing true resonance. Tension of the neck is using muscles to engage, (frequently the head voice, sometimes chest), without truly releasing the larynx and getting to a smaller edge of the cord while in the spinning head voice behind the eye

Together we stand...

Singers/Actors! You cannot cast (but you do greatly assist) the show, that is the job of your colleagues (and colleague is a beneficial perspective to endorse - you are working together; there is equality that most actor/singers do not recognize, and that truly does not make sense!) who comprise “the panel”. You research, prepare, bring, do your optimal best (not perfection), and give. Yes, you need "to get" a job - that is you but the actor/singer you is there to give. Know

If your voice is a mess, then Messa Di Voce!

Singers! The next time you are using the sink to refill your water bottle, or to fill a pot to make some pasta - do this exercise! Grab your large pot and put it under the faucet, now turn the water on so that it is a very slow-low-pressure flow, now turn it up slowly all the way to full release, and then turn it back down slowly to slow-low-pressure-flow. Now, you are going to sing in that same way. Start by singing very quietly but not whispered - just piano, soft but stil

Home on the range...

Mmm Mmm Good!

Singers! MMMing (as opposed to Humming - we will leave off the H for now) for greater instrument connection, freeing jaw and tongue tension, and greater range. First off I want to say, try to not confuse the feeling of resonance going up and down with manipulating your throat/larynx to go up and down. Working with a closed mouth you will feel a lot of shifting buzz (exploit and bring out as much buzz available!)- that is wonderful! - let it shift but try to keep the larynx re

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