Changing Your Voice Part 6 – Cross-Gender Vocal Techniques
This is the sixth article in my series introducing ways you can develop and change the sound of your singing voice to get the sound you want, whatever style, setting or aim you have in mind. These articles are not…
Changing Your Voice Part 5 – Hard Rock, Metal and Extreme Vocal Styles
So now you’ve sung like an angel, it’s time to scream like a demon. This is the latest in my series of articles introducing the aspects of developing a unique singing voice – if you’re new to singing and have…
Changing Your Voice part 4 – Creating A Character
Changing Your Voice part 4: Creating a Character Though this might look like a topic for actors and musical theatre types only (dahlings), any time you sing for an audience or in a particular context you will be creating a…
Changing Your Voice Part 3 – Modifying Your Tone
Please note: The purpose of these articles is to provide an introduction to some of what can be learnt from vocal studies and is in no way intended as a replacement for learning from a good teacher. If you learned…
Changing Your Voice Part 2 – Expanding your range.
One of the first things I read about singing that I knew to be false was an old book in my school library that stated in no uncertain terms that “the vocal range is fixed and cannot be extended”. While…
Changing Your Voice Part 1 – Overview
Singing and vocal teaching has changed a lot over the last fifty years or so, as popular music styles and musical theatre challenged the dominance of pure classical training. The constant of course is the instrument; whatever sound you want…