I hear you already: “It’s only music?! Is she kidding? How can she say that? What does she mean? As a musician, I’m offended!” Okay, okay. Before you indignantly click away to some other web page, here is my very personal explanation… In deciding what to write about this week, I am highly-influenced by my…
I get asked if you can really teach someone to sing, or if you have to be “born with it”, fairly frequently. This is the $64,000 dollar question, or with today’s inflation, make it more like the $1,000,000 question! The last time it happened, I was judging a vocal competition at a high school, where…
There probably isn’t a singer alive who doesn’t know the feeling of auditioning for something— a solo, that choir you love, a part in a musical or opera, a fabulous band, or some other vocal opportunity—and then not getting it! Disappointing, discouraging, and frustrating, to say the least. If it’s a professional paid gig, it…
Have you always wanted to learn to sing– really sing? But deep down inside, you worry that you should have started earlier, that you’re too old, that life, and your opportunity to sing, may have passed you by? Did somebody tell you once that you “couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket”, or to…