by Wycombe | Jan 17, 2022 | SInging
One of the most destructive things a teacher can make you feel as a singing student is that what you are doing is wrong. Teachers sometimes will tell you that you are wrong or perhaps they just say, “That is not right.” If you knew all you need to know about singing,...
by Wycombe | Jan 11, 2022 | SInging
I believe in freedom when it comes to singing. Here is a description of truly free singing: The sound starts all on its own, seemingly even before you can finish taking a breath. You do not have to induce the sound to start by effort. You have plenty of breath to sing...
by Wycombe | Dec 16, 2021 | SInging
Some silliness I have read or heard about singing -To “get into” your high notes, you have to kinda hook it in. -To breathe correctly, you take the air in like sucking up with a vacuum cleaner. -To properly use the breath, you gradually squeeze it out. Think of...
by Wycombe | Dec 4, 2021 | SInging
No. 1 A little sense about singing Singing and speaking tones start in the throat at the site of your vocal cords. You cannot start the tone at your diaphragm or at your gut or anywhere else but your larynx. If a teacher says, “Start the tone at your pubic bone,” grab...
by Wycombe | Nov 16, 2021 | SInging
To Pop or Not to Pop That is the question. A lot depends on what pop music is to you. As an older singer, to me it is Doris Day and Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennet and Perry Como and Dean Martin and Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams. (I’m a girl. I liked the guys’...
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