How To Sing Harmonies – Part 3
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcastfiles.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SFS-Episode3-How-To-Sing-Harmonies.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWelcome back to final part in a 3 part series on How To Sing Harmonies. As I go over in...
How To Sing Harmonies Part 2
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcastfiles.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SFS-Episode10-Harmonies-Part-2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSOddly enough, even some professional singers have a problem learning how to sing harmonies....
The Biggest Lie And The Tone Deaf Test
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcastfiles.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SFS-Episode9-ToneDeafness.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode I wanted to dispel one the most, if the not the most, blatant lies about singing....
Tension and Emotional Expression
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcastfiles.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SFS-Episode8-Tension-Emotional-Expression.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this weeks episode, I dive into the professional end of singing, and go over...
Questions and Answers
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcastfiles.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SFS-Episode7-Q-and-A.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode I take common Quora questions that are requested of me about singing and performance...
Why Are Podcasts On The Rise?
Facebook’s Decline Somehow between giving lessons and doing everything else this week, I did some research into podcasts. And MAN are they really exploding. Oddly enough FB usage is declining slightly and podcast usage is growing. Check out this graph from...
You Own A Vocal Booth..Yeah you do!
I got a question the other day on the best place to practice singing privately where no one could hear. Funny thing is, just about everyone owns their own private vocal booth without even realizing it. Your car! Think Solo Carpool Karaoke. Cars/trucks/SUV’s are...
Basic Pitch Lesson Part 2 – Transitional Notes
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcastfiles.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SFS-Episode6-Basic-Frequency-Matchin-Part-2-Transitional-Notes.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThis episode is a continuation of Basic Pitch Lesson Part 1...
Basic Pitch Lesson Part 1 – Sing Along
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcastfiles.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SFS-Episode5-How-To-Sing-In-Tune-Frequency-Matching.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode we want to concentrate on basic pitch matching. ...
How To Sing Like Freddie Mercury
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcastfiles.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/freddiemercuryfinal.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThis episode would be better titled how to use the 6th Element of Singing – Dynamics to convey...
How To Sing Harmonies
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcast.s3.amazonaws.com/SFS-Episode3-How-To-Sing-Harmonies.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThis one should actually be called How To Learn How To Sing Harmonies, but that’s a bit long for...
How To Sing In Tune
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcastfiles.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SFS-Episode2-How-To-Sing-In-Tune.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this episode I go over the basic elements of how to sing in tune. What is Pitch? What...
6 Elements of Singing
https://media.blubrry.com/singing_from_scratch/sfspodcastfiles.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SFS-Episode1-6Elements.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHello and welcome to the Singing From Scratch Podcast! This being the first Episode, it is of...
What Is Pitch In Music?
When it comes to learning how to sing or learning music in general for that matter, there tends to be some confusion around the word ‘pitch’ and what pitch is in music. In music and singing there are way too many words that are dropped in front of you for...
How To Be A Successful Artist
Not to long ago I had had enough of running across artistic failure. I got tired of hearing about it or seeing it and feeling like there was nothing I could do to help. I can not even fathom trying to remember the number of times I have met someone who was...
What is the difference between Falsetto and Head Voice?
I get the this question a lot actually. And it’s like asking ‘What is the difference between a cardiac muscle and a heart?’ Two names for the same thing. Conventionally speaking, ‘falsetto’ and ‘head voice’ are two names for the same vocal...
High Notes Need Room To Grow
First off, a simple explanation of the word resonance is, sound building with echos. Sound bounces around and combines with its echos to change and grow. That’s the simple version. Now that we have established that, let me get controversial. There is no such thing as...
Head Voice vs Falsetto and Why They Are Both Wrong
A student asked me what the difference was between the ‘head voice’ and ‘falsetto and how to use the ‘head voice’ to sing high notes like Freddie Mercury. Well the question is a two-parter. Difference between head and Falsetto, and how to...
To Copy a Singers Style or Not
I was asked to answer a singing question on Quora today by a follower. In the question, he had a friend who was a great pop musician that told him “do not emulate the original singer closely, but sing it in your style regardless [of] whether people will like it...
Why Learning How To Sing Sucks and What To Do About It
I want to go over my take on the world of learning how to sing and vocal training methods, my summary of what I’ve found to be true, and then my approach for a solution. The world of vocal training and vocal education is too subjective, opinionated, and...
2nd Element of Singing
Have you ever heard the phrase “You either have it or you don’t.”? Well it’s a load of crap. This is what ‘It’ is. The idea of the ‘Mind’s Eye’ has been around philosophically and spiritually for ages. It is the...
Singing From Scratch – The New Plan
The world of vocal training and vocal education is too subjective, opinionated, and confusing. And that sucks. When you want to learn how to sing, I mean really learn how to sing, where do you start? Who is right? What are the basics? Why is one coaches opinion better...
How To Sing In Time With Music Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of How To Sing In Time With Music we touched on the difference between having rhythm and singing in time with rhythm. We also went over some basic informal exercises to help understand what singing in time with music or rhythm is. Now lets get in...
How To Sing In Time With Music Part 2
In Part 1 of How To Sing In Time With Music we discussed having rhythm. But singing in time or singing with rhythm is a whole other level of complexity. Technically speaking it is the ability to recognize patterns within patterns and distinguish between...
How To Sing In Time With Music Part 1
How to sing with rhythm or how to sing in time with music is a more common question than one would think. The first thing to realize is that having rhythm and singing in time, are not the same thing. You can have rhythm and not be able to sing in time. What? Let me...
How to sing with harmonies
How to sing the melody while others sing harmonies was a question I received recently. I have this question posed a lot actually. Students sometimes have a hard time holding their own and singing the melody with the harmonies blaring in their ears at the same time....
Congenital Amusia Disorder? Really?? Please….
As you probably know, I do not believe in the permanency of tone deafness. I believe that it is a low level of proficiency that can be overcome, not a condition. In a response to a mother’s question on Quora, I went over that in regards to her daughter. Well...
Learn How To Sing Video Course Available Now!!
After long wait, the first Singing From Scratch Video course is finally here! Singing From Scratch, The Basics is all about learning how to sing and sing in tune. If you or anyone you know has been told you are ‘tone deaf’, this course will give you that...
The Problem With The Entertainment Industry Today
Yes this may be a matter of opinion, but this my blog. My opinion (he said in a petulant manner). The degradation of the cultural climate today is a direct result of the the degraded, low quality, mass produced, insidious creations being propagated throughout our...
What do harmonies look like?
Here’s a video I put together to visually demonstrate harmonies. It is best to watch this with headphones so you can hear the separation of voices. The Me’s above me are singing the harmonies that are higher than me. The Me’s below me are singing...
A Mother Asked, I Answered…
I had a mother ask me if it was OK for her 8 year old daughter to be singing and humming all the time. “Does this help train or hurt her voice?”. Then she proceeded to tell me that her daughters voice was high and squeaky and can be annoying, so...
One Difference Between Amateur and Pro Singers
Albeit there are many various little correctable factors when learning how to sing, but there are two main things that separate the amateurs from the pros. Pitch and Resonance. If you have Pitch covered, but can’t seem to get past sounding like an amateur, then...
Natural born singers and the “It” factor
I was asked a question recently about what are naturally good singers born with that makes them “good” and others not so much. I said, “Oh! You’re talking about the ‘it’ factor.” Then I went on to explain that the fact is,...
How To Overcome Stage Fright!
Stage fright is a curious thing really. It is probably one of the most common public displays of irrational emotions outside of televised war or conflict footage, as it takes place in front of large groups of people. And there really are only three barriers to...
What is your Natural Singing Note?
In singing, everyone has a limit to how high a note they can sing or how low a note they can sing. Understand I’m not talking about pitch or being in tune here. I’m simply saying that everyone has vocal limits, high or low. Your highest note, your...
The Secret to Singing in Tune
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThis one trick can get you singing in tune or get you singing more in tune. There are many other tools that can assist in singing in tune and singing well, but underlying all is one secret mind trick. And that...
And the winner is….?
After designing and surveying six different designs for the cover of Singing From Scratch, the winner is the silver mic with the black background. Oddly enough it was the easiest to design. The crowd scene cover took me the longest. It was close race actually...
The Conceptual Singing Method ™- and the science behind it.
Learning how to sing, or even to sing better, is something that I venture to say, has crossed the mind of everyone at one time or another. Think about that. Every single person on the planet at one time or another has thought about learning how to sing or how to sing...
Sound Layers
A while back I posted a video entitled “What is Sound?”. Obviously the title speaks for the content of the video. A student, although finding the information very useful, did have a question though. She wanted to know if I could expound on the second...
Power Head Voice
I took a video clip of one of my performances to demonstrate the power head voice. Now, the head voice we cover in the how to sing book Singing From Scratch. The ‘Power’ part of the power head voice is an advanced technique. Therefore this is actually a...
Opera in seconds
Here’s a fun little experiment. When you get a chance, whether in your office, or in the shower, or at work in the middle of a board meeting, I don’t care – Sing the word LA and hold it. Doesn’t matter if you sound good or not. Then, pretend...
What is sound?
Here is a simple and actually soothing video that explains what sound is. Believe it or not, knowing this information will actually help you to be a better singer. Not only that you will have a completely different outlook, or outhear, on sound.
So I wrote this book on how to sing
What about the guy or gal who wants to simply learn how to sing? For a long time I thought about writing a book on how to sing, but simply couldn’t figure out how I was going to get it out. It really was a big mystery to me on how to write a book that could...YouTube
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