The holiday season is a time for numerous music events, late nights, and celebrations. Here are 9 tips to avoid a hoarse voice during the holidays:
Category: Vocal
Fan Photos Make Album Cover
Have you ever dreamed of being on an album cover? Many of Melissa Etheridge’s fans made her latest album cover.
The Transformative Power of Group Vocal Improvisation
Benmeleh explains that group vocal improvisation can have a great effect on one’s emotional balance, feelings about life, and relationships with others
Singer Timing Tip
You have two choices: sing at the tempo the rest of your band is currently playing, or force the band to change their tempo. The video below will give you a singer timing tip that is a very simple solution to fix the band’s tempo.
Vocal Warm-Ups
Vocal Warm-Ups contains 25 warm-ups to prepare your voice and body for everyday habits and routines, from broad, large-muscle relaxation techniques and breathing work, to techniques for strengthening your vocal skills.
Monitor Speakers for Hearing Yourself Onstage
For any performer, there’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to hear yourself on stage. How can you make your best music, if you don’t even know what you sound like? Monitors address this problem by giving musicians their own speaker to hear and react to their sound as they perform.
Holiday Gift Ideas for Every Kind of Musician
Gift ideas for musicians, from guitarists to keyboardists, drummers, wind musicians, and everyone in between.
How to Develop A Better Sense of Pitch
This is probably why Autotune infuriates so many serious musicians: those variations in pitch aren’t mistakes in the performance; they are the performance. If you clean up those “errors” and quantize everything to the “correct” pitches, all you’re left with is dry, robotic music.
Facts You Need to Know About Vocal Health
Most singers at the recreational level have had little or no training. But, according to speech pathologist and voice consultant Joanna Cazden, this can put them at risk for vocal strain. “Who would run a half-marathon without learning a bit about running technique and pacing? Singing is equally athletic, just with tinier muscles! But people are […]
Tips for Singers
There aren’t too many hard and fast rules when it comes to singing. Most singers can feel and hear their problem spots. “If your voice feels good and sounds good, it probably is good. If it feels bad and sounds good, something is wrong,” says Jeannette LoVetri, director of The Voice Workshop in New York […]
