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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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 a...
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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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The Secret Cure for the Perpetual Sloucher
Physiology Is In Your Corner! At some point early in the relationship between a voice teacher or coach and their student/client, the...
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Meredith Colby
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How To Give Yourself a Raise
Voice teachers are nice. Entirely too nice, really. By necessity, we have intimate relationships with our clients. We're also artists,...
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Meredith Colby
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Reimagining Your Studio post-COVID
By this time most of us have adjusted to the new normal and have found a way to move our teaching and coaching online. Some voice teachers r
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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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meredith
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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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meredith
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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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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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meredith
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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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meredith
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You've Been Boondoggled: How Colleges Set Up Voice Majors for Pedagogical Failure
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/xjBBJRc/MakingThemStick This article is reprinted from the VASTA Voice, May 2018 Many graduates of...
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meredith
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What is Muscle Tension Dysphonia, and Can it be Treated? (A Crib Sheet)
MTD is especially bad for singers. We’ll only notice it when our voices are “cold.” Once we’re warmed up it seems to go away. That makes it
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