Who are the good? Who are the bad? Who has suffered vocal injuries due to poor singing habits? written by Contributing Author of DevelopingVoices.blog Jennifer Berroth. Pop genre is ever present in musical preferences of young people and can have a profound influence on their vocal development. That influence can be positive and inspiring—but it can […]
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The Piano Sound Board ~ The Human Voice Box
An impromptu opportunity to showcase how a piano makes sound and in comparison to how our voice box makes sound arose when we needed to re-arrange our rehearsal space. This meant our three youngest choirs in the Zhuhai Classical Children’s Choir program were able to practice with the Kawai grand piano as opposed to the […]
Breathing for Singing, Is it Different?
“Breathe to satisfy the lungs, not to overcrowd them.” G. B. Lamperti, Italian singing teacher and author. Jamea Sale, Contributing Author, DevelopingVoices.blog One of my private voice students was a former Navy SEAL who, in frustration, said that singing was leaving him light-headed unlike his practice for deep-sea diving. His years of SEAL training presented […]
Nervous about your next audition? How I got over my nerves . . .
Nervous about your next audition? How I got over my nerves . . . I hope my five thoughts below will help you. Everyone has different things going on in their mind before they audition or perform. I can only hope that something I have shared today will help your perspective on managing your audition. […]
Developing Voices: Don’t Be a Hummer, Be an Audiator
By Lynn Swanson This post launches a new Tuesday ChoralNet blog entitled Developing Voices, a team effort by Lynn Swanson, Jamea Sale, Jennifer Berroth, and Melissa Shallberg. The blog is meant to offer insight gained from research and experience on how voices should develop in a healthy manner for the whole of our lives. You […]