The importance of learning all this vocal technique stuff is seeing the bigger picture.

I know lots of new singers are frustrated by vocal technique. In a PDF guide linked beneath my YouTube video, I outline 5 essential vocal tools that really matter in the long haul for vocal health. Muscle-memory-building tools that you rely on the most in the basic use and care of your unique voice. Go grab your free PDF copy and learn more.

Getting to grips with the basic vocal roadmap is paramount ie the scientific reasons why/how the vocal process works so you can work out what is going wrong or RIGHT at any time.

Of course, it isn’t as simple as that … well, it IS actually. In part. 

A paradox!

I love to teach my students to self-scrutinise.  I give them enough vocal instruction and learning to enable them to feel confident as they experiment along the way. It’s like watching a tight bud unfurl and come into bloom. It’s wonderful.

What’s of the greatest value is the discussion and...

By ‘yodel’, singers, I don’t mean ‘a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or “chest voice”) and the high-pitch head register or falsetto.’

No no. This is different. Yet there are similarities …

The infographic alludes to those moments when you’re singing, everything is going smoothly until suddenly your voice does something weird. A ‘yodel’ or a ‘blip’ - a fluctuation in pitch/sound. It can feel embarrassing.

(A good analogy would be: when you’re driving - perhaps negotiating a speed change or a tricky corner - and you don’t quite change gear smoothly enough and the gearbox complains.)

Often when learning a craft or skill, (at any stage of development) there are moments when new muscle memories wrestle with the old, and the result can often mean a spot of spontaneous ‘yodelling’ happens.

There’s an imbalance going on somewhere in the mix.

The remedy lies in reapplication of very basic vocal technique principles a...