As a vocal coach something I often run into is singers or people just talking about voice production that mistakenly believe that you should, “sing from the diaphragm.”   That is that when you sing you should fill your abdomen with a lot of air and then burst it out with sudden, “ha, ha, ha,” types […]

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I just got over a short cold myself.  So, I am reminded of how being sick can really screw with a singers voice and their performance schedule.

It only lasted a week.  It started as a dry slight cough and then went up into my head and clogged my nasal passages. 
The cold is gone now, but […]

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Often time I get into the argument with people that think to be good at singing you have to be born with it.  True some people have more natural ability, but you can learn to sing exceptionally even if you have never done so in your life.   That is, provided that you learn the right […]

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I pose the title question of this post after seeing a Kelly Clarkson performance where her voice sounded strained, and lacked her normal beautiful effortless delivery.

I think it was probably because it was difficult for her to hear her own voice properly.  I could be wrong, but football stadiums have notoriously bad acoustics for music.
Even if this is not […]

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As a vocal coach one of the things I hear quite often is, “I just want a good voice,” or, “A voice that people really like.”

Often times singers, in an effort, to develop a, “good voice,” will obsess over things like hitting high notes or singing with a lot of power, or singing licks.
All of […]

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  Hello, I’m Eric Frey.  If you are into singing or want to learn to sing you may have come across another site of mine www.vocalrelease.com or www.singersbible.com
I happen to be a vocal coach.  I’ve been doing that as my main gig for over fifteen years. The two sites mentioned above offer a program I […]

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