by Michael Mayer | Feb 14, 2015 | Articles, Career Development, Mental-Physical Relation, Performance Anxiety, Singing Success Tips
There is a great benefit to using a mirror in your practice. Actually, there are benefits on more than one level. You might be familiar with using a mirror in your practice to observe various aspects of yourself while you sing. The obvious things we can use this for...
by Michael Mayer | Dec 16, 2009 | Articles, breath, Breathing
A reader of this blog wrote in response to the posts about breathing exercises. She gave a wonderful explanation of the exercise referenced as the “Farinelli Exercise”. I asked her if I could post it and she agreed. So hear it is....
by Michael Mayer | Jan 1, 2008 | Articles, Jussi, Natural Singing, Singing
A conference With Jussi Björling Internationally Distinguished Tenor. Leading Tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Secured expressly for The Etude by Myles Fellowes (October, 1940, Vol LVIII, No. 10, p. 655) Each year new groups of young people find that they have voices...
by Michael Mayer | Dec 30, 2007 | Articles, Posture
Posture Setting up the structure of our instrument By Michael J. Mayer In this installment of the Fundamentals of Singing series I would like to address the topic of posture. Not limiting this concept to just the posture of the body, we will apply it to each aspect of...
by Michael Mayer | Dec 12, 2007 | Articles, Coup de Glotte, Manuel Garcia, Perfect Attack, Phonation
This is the Appendix from the book A Guide to Good Singing and Speech by Julian Gardiner. It explains the meaning behind this often confused concept in the most complete manner that I have found. The book is out of print so I am copying it in its entirety. It should...
by Michael Mayer | Dec 1, 2007 | Articles
EmotionsThe Well from which Flows the Spring of SongIt is generally accepted that the Human Being consists of three parts, the Mind, Body, and Emotion. Often, Emotion is referred to as the spirit, soul, or heart. For the purpose of this article these terms will be...
