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Singing in the Age of Evidence: Balancing Science and Art

When you can’t find an objective criterion to compute accuracy and are left with consensus, this is a clue that you are dealing with...

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READING PEOPLE: Insights & Tools for Knowing What Your Students Are Thinking

For an independent voice pro, relationships are a big deal. They’re the foundation of what we do. If we aren’t confident and adept at...

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Registration in Popular Styles: Alternatives to Belting?

While stage singing, like opera or music theater, has prescribed norms for how it should sound, microphone singing does not.

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How To Keep Your Students: Cause & Effect In Your Studio

A couple of decades ago, my roommate Shirley didn’t like to deal with things she didn’t like to deal with. For some people that...

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How to Take Time Off When the Wolf's at the Door

The bad news was that I was broke. The idea of taking time off from teaching was very scary, financially. The good news was that I had a ye

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How To COLLECT! Getting Paid as an Indy Teacher

When I first jumped the day job ship to be a full-time musician, teaching during the week and gigging on the weekends, I was living...