Well, that's certainly what it's felt like over the past year and a half! I think that part of me went down a rabbit hole there for a...

Well, what I can say except that I was so pleased to read this article and feel vindicated for refusing to teach singing in the way I was...

Years ago, I had an email from a prospective student asking me if I could help with the “shouting side of singing”. I replied saying that...

Why are we disguising the fact that singers mime by instead calling it “lip-syncing” (which suggests it’s a skill of some sort) and...

I was watching the news today and there was an item which mentioned that Adele has had to cancel her concerts this weekend because of...

It’s a dilemma, isn’t it? The fact that what you like singing isn’t always what you should be singing. By that I mean that what you...

People are always coming into singing lessons asking if I can teach them to sing in tune. In singing, we call this having “pitch”. I...

A lovely bunch of flowers and this wonderful picture that my student Issy gave me today as it was her last lesson (she's been coming for...

so....one of my (and many musicians') musical heroes, following on from my post on expression, if you want to hear expression that hits...

When I ask new students about their breathing, they often say something like “Well, I think you’re supposed to breathe from here”...

I know I’ve talked around this before, but so many people who come to me for singing lessons don’t understand some basic things about...

I just had to share this video! Eleanore, my daughter had posted it on her page and is now thinking about learning it herself (and I...

Most students come to me to learn vocal technique, but I always have to point out the importance of expression (which is, after all,...

Over the years, I’ve noticed that during the time students are learning how to sing, they usually develop unwanted habits along the way...

(for those new to my blog, it’s probably helpful to read this post in conjunction with Blog post no. 2 on voice types) The tenor voice is...

I’ve probably seen all of the unconscious avoidance “techniques” that students apply when singing (I probably did them myself before I...

Lots of children love singing and some of them are really keen to have singing lessons. The desire for actual lessons has probably been...

Well, it’s a bit of a dilemma, isn’t it? Today, more than at any other time over the past century, we celebrate people who aren’t singing...

A study published in Australia in 2008 identified that generally, choral singers felt happier with their lives than the rest of the...

Where do I start? One artist today epitomises bad diction and that is Sia. Now don’t get me wrong, I like some of her songs,...