Blog | Raise Your Voice

Choirs Vocal Program launched!

Back in June 2022 I asked the question, "Can choir members be trained online?" My chorus normally provides face-to-face training over 6...

"You're on mute" no longer!

My own chorus, Endeavour Harmony, like all other choirs, ceased face-to-face rehearsals and went online for many months at a time during...

Five ways to improve your tuning (acappella singers)

Here are five ways to improve your tuning as an A cappella singer, summarised into 2 and a half minutes! Full lesson coming soon as part...

Can training of new chorus members be done online?

Musical Directors, like me, want to help our newest members get up to speed. At the same time, we don't want to be away from our existing...

Give me more air!

"I'm running out of air!" What's going on here? Do you sometimes struggle to have enough air to finish phrases? Or need to take more...

Want to improve your singing? How's your speaking voice?

Even for professional singers, up to 85% of their day is vocalizing for speech rather than for singing (Chapman, 2022). How we use our...

Finding the ease in higher notes

The power of silent breaths for singers

We know intuitively that silent inhalations are an optimal way of breathing, but do you know the benefits for us as singers? This 3 min...

Five things to include in your vocal warm up for maximum benefit.

"The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice". Dayananda Saraswati