by Michael Mayer | Feb 24, 2009 | Breathing, Singing
Wondering if you could help me with my understanding of how the breath works? In the last lesson when I had some vocal co-ordination success by thinking of replicating the feeling of playing sax with the mouthpiece being at the base of the neck, would it be right to...
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 | Aug 8, 2007 | Q&A, Range, Singing
Hi, I am 19 and I have been taking singing lessons for two years from 16 to 18 and then, sadly, had to stop. I have a range of three octaves and a bit going from Db below middle C to around top E. I can sing with a powerful tone and vibrato through most of my soprano...
by Michael Mayer | Jun 7, 2007 | Singing, Teaching
I’ve always wondered – would you be known as a voice -teacher- or a voice -coach-? Or vocal coach, vocal teacher? What would the proper “title,” from your perspective. Yours is a common question. The answer is it depends on what...
