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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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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...