The Naked Vocalist | Advice and Lessons on Singing Technique, Voice Care and Style - Chris Johnson and Steve Giles

We come out of hibernation for an amazing guests who teaches us about VOCAL FOLD SWELLING, how to spot it, and what to do about it! All hail, Lori Sonnenberg... you're welcome!

As we seem to be coming out of this mess, when can we expect to get back to singing together? We invite two scientists to come and give you their take on how the singing world is going to move forward. Listen to find out more!

Today we thought we would devote an entire episode to the world of voice teachers. After all, COVID has messed up A LOT of diaries and we want to help you get back to capacity in this new world of 'online coaching'. Essentially, going from in person to online coaching needs a big shift in approach, but once you understand it you can flourish again.... without a pandemic trashing things again! You can find out more about Michelle here: https://www.faithculturekiss.com

Join us as we host the brilliant vocal coach and scientist Heidi Moss Erickson. We'll be talking about the neuroscience of pitch matching and how we can use science to improve our tuning, how the brain connects to the vocal folds and what that means to our approach, aaaaaaaand the planned aspect of primal (or not so primal) sound.

Walt has trained thousands of voice professionals, speech therapists, ENTs and vocal coaches in manual therapy techniques for voice. Originally a myofascial release champion, Walt now sees the world of touch through a different lens, leaving big questions as to how and why massage REALLY works.... it's not all as it seems.  He also shares self-help tips on jaw, neck, larynx and traps that you can experiment with till your hearts content!    

It's a common thing right? Scales go well, songs go, umm, not so well. There might be some nifty ways for you to work out why that is and eventually solve it. Steve and Chris look into the ways which the brain and body learn skills and transfer them on to similar tasks. They also give you a few ideas as to how you can start to construct scales that are actually more like songs, which helps drag the benefits over from the exercises! For more, go to https://www.thenakedvocalist.com

This episode is an intro to breathing fro singers. Is it important? Why might it be irrelevant? What's with chest breathing vs belly breathing? We tackled all these questions right here.

Admittedly, these tongue strategies might be No’s 1 and 2 of 507 because there are so many way in which you can stop that tongue from being a muscular annoyance in your singing. You don’t have to do them all mind! It’s more due to the fact that the singing world are extremely creative! Plus, the root cause of tension is different from one singer to the next. Trying stuff allows you to figure out the cause for yourself and find the exercises that works best. Find more in the podcast section of your website: https://www.thenakedvocalist.com/  

This podcast is not a quick fix for high notes. The truth about quick fixes is that they only really work when there are parts of your voice that are present already. Vocal registers being one of them. So, high notes are not going to be easy if you haven't really explored your falsetto at all, yet so many singers want to know how to skip this detail. Well, you can’t. At least not without some external and unhelpful muscle getting involved, which will burn you in the long run. It doesn't matter if you're beginner or professional. Going back to basics is a great thing for any voice, so join us for the range groundwork. Tons more stuff on our website: https://www.thenakedvocalist.com/

In near enough ten minutes (LOL). In this episode we briefly cover a couple of our favourites for a more relaxed set of vocal cords: the shake and the Y-buzz. Tune in and let us know if they work for you! For more, join us at https://www.thenakedvocalist.com/