We all like to chase after “the secret they don’t want you to know” and have the feeling that we know what others don’t. It gets people excited and compels them to make irrational buying decisions. When it comes to singing, I have come to realize this one biggest secret – “There are no secrets!”…
American Vocal Coach Cheryl Porter has become a YouTube sensation in recent years with over 3 million subscribers, which is unheard of for an online vocal coach. (Singing Success has only 174 K subscribers.) The interesting thing is that she only has a little over 100 videos on her YouTube channel and half of them…
I’ve been singing in professional singing groups for 16 years now, and I have observed a lot of singers over the years. I have noticed that there are singers who practice really hard almost every single day (Me!), striving to achieve greatness. On the other extreme, there are singers who never practice…and I have always…
I’ve done it…the unthinkable – Cracking a high C in front of an audience…loud and clear! The night before I had fought with my mom over my decision to become a professional singer. The result…it drained me completely for next day’s performance. Fortunately, the audience was forgiving for that awkward moment I created. And now,…
Online vocal coaching used to be an idea that people have doubts with. The response that comes up in people’s mind would likely be… “Come on…does it really work?” For someone who started receiving online vocal training since the late 2000s, I can honestly say a big “YES!” With online vocal coaching available these days,…
I like to keep things really simple, because that’s really how people learn the fastest, including myself. I did think about writing a post about “50 Tips and Exercises to develop a vibrato.” But I thought, other than it being a really cool title and post to rank on Google, it’s not going to help…
Recently, I have been fascinated by the concept of Voice building. I know as a veteran singer and professional voice teacher, it sounds really weird for me to say. But I sang Mix(mixed voice) for many years – when you sing Mix, you are trying to coordinate and balance the vocal muscles to get the…
I want to address one of the biggest vocal issue that is overlooked in our daily and professional lives – the training of our speaking voice! I’m not talking about training for public speaking that focuses on how to catch people’s attention while you speaking on stage or do a sales pitch. Most training programs…
I want to talk a little about hitting high notes in full voice or belting high notes. I never thought I’d ever write this post about hitting high notes. I have been trained to Mix or in the SLS tradition for many years, and I was taught to mix or transition to head voice in…
I first encountered Gary Catona’s work about roughly 10 years ago, and I was immediately intrigued by what this man has to offer to the vocal training world. My first impression about this man was that this is not an ordinary voice teacher. In fact, he calls himself a voice builder instead of voice teacher…