Hormone Harmony: The invisible force voice pros need to understand
Most of us have dealt with the effects of hormones on our voices, either personally or vicariously. Why do hormones affect our voices? ...
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Meredith Colby
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I Just Need To Learn How To Teach BELT
I'm privileged to work with voice teachers and vocal coaches. I teach an amazing, professional-level class for voice pros who want to...
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Meredith Colby
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The Power of Prediction: How Your Singing Brain Predicts
Your brain sings before you do. That’s essentially what my work, NeuroVocal for Popular Styles, is based on. Any motor action has to...
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Meredith Colby
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SINGING & THE BRAIN: Neuro-Vocal Explained
Your brain sings before you do. As singers, voice teachers, and vocal coaches, understanding how our brains work in relation to singing...
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Meredith Colby
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Pentatonic Warm-Ups for Singers
💖✨ Includes Free Styles Guide + Penatonic Warm-ups Download! ⬇️ You have singers in your studio who are singing jazz, R&B, pop, rock,...
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Meredith Colby
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Vocal Warm-Ups: The How & Why
As a singer, you might think warm-ups are tedious or unnecessary. As a voice coach, you might treat warm-ups as just another exercise....
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Meredith Colby
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Free Download, Tech Edition
The Online Student's Wish List Are you taking lessons online? Are you giving lessons online? Did you know that there are some simple...
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Meredith Colby
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What Does PLACEMENT Mean? And should we teach it?
Meredith Colby Neuro-Vocal blog for voice teachers and vocal coaches about voice, singing, popular styles.
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Meredith Colby
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Voice Teacher vs. Vocal Coach: Which One Are You?
The choice of which moniker to use, Voice Teacher or Vocal Coach, is a personal choice. Most people think of themselves one way or the...
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Meredith Colby
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Time is Your Brain Container
Will you please copy this and put it somewhere you can see it? Like, tatoo it onto the back of your hand, for instance? You're not...
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Meredith Colby
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What's Your Teaching Personality?
The S-I-N-G Personality tool helps you understand how to best help each & every student You’ve seen personality charts. From your daily...
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Meredith Colby
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STUDENT RETENTION: The Do's and Don't's To Keep Them Coming Back
Here is something I know about you: You’re nice. You care about your students’ progress, and you care about them as people. As...
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Meredith Colby
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3 Secrets About Pop Singers They'll Never Tell You In College
You may have worked as a band singer. If you have, you probably already know these three things. If you have never worked regularly as...
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Meredith Colby
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The Curse of the Smart & Talented: Procedural Learning in Singing
How to Help Your Students Learn Faster & Better It’s happened to you as a teacher. It may have happened to you as a voice student...
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Meredith Colby
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How to Develop Vocal Style
Find Your Artistic Voice In Microphone Styles When it comes to style, voice teachers generally fall into one of two categories. (I'm...
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Meredith Colby
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Gigs for Singers
What's Available, and What To Know Often when singers think of gigging, they only consider bars and music theater stages. But if you’re...
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Meredith Colby
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Pop Repertoire for Teens & Tweens
Our teen singers are just like we were when we were teens. They’re in love with certain artists. They’re moved by artists whose music...
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NEAR ME: How to Show Up on Local Searches
Reprinted from the VASTA Voice, September, 2019 As an independent voice teacher, I don’t have the marketing budget of those big, national...
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What Am I? A Microphone Singer's Definition of Voice Types
New students sometimes ask me to label their voices. They want me to tell them if they’re an alto or soprano, for instance. Being...
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meredith
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5 Versions of Vocal Onset in CCM
Ever heard that a certain way to start your sound is wrong, or will hurt your voice? It may be true if you're an opera singer, but if y
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