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Recently, someone asked me on Quora whether people with loud voices are using their larynx differently than people with soft voices. In other words, if you have a loud voice, are you doing anything different with your voice box (that protrusion on your neck that houses your vocal folds). Or is something else going on? […]

One of the most common questions vocal students ask me is how they can make their voice louder. The truth is that there isn’t just one right answer. There are a wide variety of ways to make your voice carry more–some ways that take years to develop (and if you love singing, I encourage you […]

One of the vocal myths that gets under my skin the most is that idea that singing is a natural talent and that if you aren’t born with it that you’ll never be good at it. I guess that opener gave away the answer to the question posed in the post title, but I have […]

There’s a persistent myth floating around the vocal world suggesting that singing should be effortless. I can’t tell you how many new students I get telling me that they were told that singing would just “feel free” and that if they had to put physical work into it, they were somehow doing it wrong and […]

Last year, we talked about what the term twang means in singing. In short, twang is brightness, forward resonance, or that little laser-focused crying point you hear in a wide variety of vocal genres. It’s not the same as country twang, but it’s related because both use that little cry and a high degree of […]

Christina Aguilera Singing Beautiful to the Breakthrough Prize Scientists, by Melketon, under CC BY 2.0 A few months ago, I got a request for a Hard Songs to Sing tutorial on “Beautiful,” by Christina Aguilera. “Beautiful” is one of those rare pop songs that has a ton of staying power and is widely requested by […]

Barry White tijdens het Grand Gala du Disque Populaire 1974, by Clausule, under CC BY-SA 3.0 NL To some degree, your vocal tone is already part of your vocal anatomy. If you’re a soprano, no amount of vocal training will give you the tone of Barry White. And conversely, Barry White would never have been […]