I sat in a vocal teacher training seminar and our guest lecturer, Jennifer Hamady, certified vocal coach and therapist, simply asked the question. Before this moment, I donāt think Iāve ever heard a group of vocalists go so silent. Yet, it seemed in a single instant, she drained the room of itsā identity....
[sc name="blog-post-hero-oval-horizontal"] [/sc] I am a competitor. I am an artist, but I am also a competitor. I do not believe these two things to be mutually exclusive. However, oneās desire and oneās development are two different things all together. Everyone wants to know if they have what it takes, but the better question is, do you have what it takes to take it on. Who cares about the music. Really! Who cares!ā¦I say as I try to grow my own vocal studio. Rewind to my senior year of high school. I sit down with my high school chorus director and I want to know, ādo I have what it takes to be a vocalist.ā Be kind he says, that is your gift and you would do well to find a profession where you can use your gift. I walk away. Defeated. I canāt do it, I think. He says my gift...
[sc name="blog-post-hero"] Your voice is the only instrument you canāt see. This is what makes the voice so magical. Singing is a journey of self-exploration and why. [/sc] Mind. Your voice is the only instrument you canāt see. This is what makes the voice so magical and also so complicated to āplayā as a musician. As musicians, we often rely on a full sensory experience. Guitarists, for instance, rely on the sound of the notes and feel under their hands. Vocal mastery is hard for this reason. When one sense is cut, such as sight, we have to rely more heavily on others such as sound and feel to forge those neuro pathways as learners. Many students come in seeking āvoice controlā, and really what they are lacking is not the muscular control of the folds themselves, but the discipline to visualize the voice in their minds. There is a conceptualization component...