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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...

Meredith Colby
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What Does PLACEMENT Mean? And should we teach it?
Meredith Colby Neuro-Vocal blog for voice teachers and vocal coaches about voice, singing, popular styles.

Meredith Colby
6 min read
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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.

Meredith Colby
5 min read
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What Am I? A Microphone Singer's Definition of Voice Types
This article references specific pitches. The labels assume that middle C is C4. The labels assume that octaves are from C to C; with C5...
meredith
6 min read
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Why Singers are Stupid
Now that I have your attention, an alternative title would be: How to Feel Musically Confident in Any Situation, and Why You Sometimes...
meredith
4 min read
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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
meredith
5 min read
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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...
meredith
6 min read
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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
meredith
3 min read
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Handle With Care: How Young Voices are Connected to Young Singers
This video is posted a dozen times on YouTube (the picture is a link): It’s a video of a little girl trying to sing I Will Always Love You...
meredith
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