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An understanding of Bel Canto’s simple, yet difficult to master, techniques, can be of tremendous use to classical singers who crossover to popular styles of music. Crossing over to popular music, convincingly and safely, is a necessity for the majority of classical singers, both amateur and professional. At some stage, most classical singers are goingContinue reading “Head and Chest Voice for Pop Singing”

The country is overrun with inferior teachers in singing: men and women, who have failed to get before the public, turn to teaching without any practical experiences, ruining many good voices. Luisa Tetrazzini, The Art of Singing, quoted in Denes Striny, Great Singers: An Endangered Species – How to get back to Mother Nature, pageContinue reading “The importance of transparency in teaching singing”

My thoughts this week have been on how simple classical singing is and how complicated singing teachers can make it. Here are a couple of quotes on this subject. If the scale, power, quality, and compass of the human voice were established as are those of the piano, the great problem in the training ofContinue reading “Voice Placing*”

“Exercises for strengthening the low and middle notes of the voice are more important for sopranos than for voices of any other class ; first, because, in general, that part of the voice is most feeble ; and next, because the transition from the voce di petto to the voce di testa tends to deteriorateContinue reading “Voce di petto – Chest Voice”

I have never met a singer who was not looking for “ping” or what is called brightness. Most voices are hopelessly dead, and therefore lack sweetness. The voices are filled with night – black hollow gloomy night or else they are as strident as the caterwauling of a Tom Cat. The happy mean between theContinue reading “Bel Canto and the Modern Singer”

A singer who is not understood, wearies his auditors, and destroys almost all the effect of the music, by obliging them to make continual effort to catch the sense of the words. Garcia, Manuel. Treatise on The Art of Singing, page 42. 2021 marks the second year of my three year project that I haveContinue reading “Articulation in Singing”

The most important reason to study Garcia is to develop an easy way of singing. His method is common sense and natural. There is no forcing or using silly tricks. Garcia’s singing exercises, if practised with determination, provide everything that is needed for singing. His singing books are available free on the internet. Here isContinue reading “The most important reason to study Garcia”

Here are three examples of my singing. The first two examples are sustainable. I can sing for hours on end and the next day I am ready to sing again. In fact, the first example is basically sight singing and was recorded at the end of hours of practice. The voice is as fresh asContinue reading “Sustainable Operatic Singing vs Unsustainable”