My Vocal Skills

Everyone who has the urge to become a better singer strives for the same obvious things. Like… Hitting those marvelous high notez… Sing right on pitch… Develop a stunning vibrato… And so on.  Now, while all this totally makes sense…there’s one question that could immediately change your status as a singer…even if your vocal skills…

Let’s shed some sunlight on the very mysterious topic of singing principles.   Well, if you’ve already shopped around on YouTube or other vocal coaches websites you might have found out that every singing technique has it’s on principles.    With that being said… The technique Yours Shameless uses to musically express himself -aka belt…

Yesterday I watched the movie ‘Dracula Untold’.  It’s basically about Graf Vlad before he became the blood sucking Lord of Darkness.  Desperate to save his family and his tribe from the marching Ottoman army…he seeks help from an ancient vampire living in a cave carpeted in crushed bone.  After drinking some of the vampire’s blood,…

Years ago, I read probably one of the best Freddie Mercury biographies out there.  The book was written by Peter Freestone and, being a huge Queen fanboy at the time, it was a delight to get some insights into Freddie’s crazy life.  One story was about how one day Freddie woke up totally sick and…

Back in the day, I was abnormally sensitive to any wrong note that would come out of my blabbermouth. It made me sweat, blush and extremely furious. So, to avoid that, I did everything possible to gain more control over my pipes. Like… Working on my breathing technique… Dedicating 10 minutes every day to training my ears…And only picking…

Time for some disillusions, buddy. I don’t have any exact numbers, but my wild guess is that 80-90% of all singing courses flat out don’t work. No matter how hard you try, no matter how diligently you work your cords…you are doomed for failure before you even start. And here’s why… Usually it goes like…

One of the biggest mistakes I see newbie singers make is practicing too much. And by doing so they’re really sabotaging themselves. Look at me, I was a perfect example of a young gun, who thought more is more. When I started taking voice lessons, back in the day when dinosaurs still roamed the earth,…

There are probably two kinds of singers out there: The young bloods who want a shortcut to one helluva voice…then lose interest if they don’t see it happening (*surprise*) The true singers. Dedicated artists who are connected to music and singing on a deeper level …regardless of their age or skill level If you fall…

What do you think is the most important quality in your voice that makes it so people refer to you as a real singer?  It’s not what most people might believe. Not the incredible high notes… Not the free vibrato… Not the acrobatic divesque coloratura… Not the powerful volume… And not even the warm timbre that regularly gets your…

Some weeks ago I read an old, yet very interesting post on a music forum. The pal, who talked about different breathing techniques, mentioned something his professor from the reknown Royal College of Music horrified his students with about diaphragmatic breathing: “[…] Harmful because of excess pressure onto the diaphragm – as a lecturer at…