Tag: vocal technique

  • High Notes Shouldn’t Hurt: Sing Powerfully Without Damaging Your Instrument

    High Notes Shouldn’t Hurt: Sing Powerfully Without Damaging Your Instrument

    + Improve your songwriting with Soundfly! Explore our range of courses on emotional chord progressions, basic songwriting technique, songwriting for producers, and many more. Subscribe for unlimited access here. By Hannah Sumner I had finally reached a point in my career where I was recording at least five sessions a week, teaching regularly, and performing several times a week. For…

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  • How to Find Your Vocal Range and Write It on a Résumé

    How to Find Your Vocal Range and Write It on a Résumé

    Your vocal range: It’s present at the top of all your résumés, and is so basic that it’s right there next to your name, height, and contact information. But unlike the URL to your website, your vocal range can be subjective, and tough to describe accurately. And if you’re interested in working in musical theater,…

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  • Why Singing Is Just as Psychological as It Is Physical

    Why Singing Is Just as Psychological as It Is Physical

    When singers start learning about how to be better singers, there is a huge focus on achieving proper technique. In the beginning, all the advice you hear is about how to breathe and how to stand, how to warm up, and how to work a microphone. Singing is a complex physical act, but it also requires huge…

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  • It Only Takes 5 Minutes to Master These 3 Simple Vocal Warm-Ups

    It Only Takes 5 Minutes to Master These 3 Simple Vocal Warm-Ups

    In the spirit of the Summer Olympics, here’s a metaphor: Athletes would never dream of competing without warming up first, so why is it that singers so often skip this vital step? Sure, we may not risk seriously injuring our bodies if we don’t warm up, but we can seriously injure our vocal cords! One of…

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  • How to Achieve the Perfect Country Twang: Southern Accents

    How to Achieve the Perfect Country Twang: Southern Accents

    Welcome to part 2 in How to Achieve the Perfect Country Twang! In part 1, you learned what the heck “vocal twang” is and how it differentiates from twang in a colloquial sense. Just to recap — vocal twang is a useful vocal technique. It has very little to do with the cat-like, nasal quality that we…

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  • How to Achieve the Perfect Country Twang: What Is Twang?

    How to Achieve the Perfect Country Twang: What Is Twang?

    We usually think of “twang” as a quintessentially southern quality in country singing. But it’s a vocal technique for all kinds of singers.

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