Balanced Singing — The Singer’s Pyramid If you want to sing well, I suggest you learn balanced singing. I find it useful to think of balanced singing as being in four parts. Together, I call these The Singer’s Pyramid: 1. Build your core sound You build a core of sound using many tools, including coupe […]

Powerful Singing: Volume Vs. Intensity One thing that seems to cause confusion in singing is the difference between intensity and volume. Often a singer will try to get an intense tone by pulling their chest voice higher and higher through their range. This, over the short term, can cause vocal strain; and over the long term it can cause vocal […]

Nasal Resonance vs. Nasality In Singing When a car pulls up next to you at a traffic light, and the driver has their in-car sound system blaring (full-blast, with the bass turned way up), your own car window might buzz or rattle. What you are experiencing when this happens are sympathetic vibrations. Even though the sound is not […]