A lot of singers want to learn how to belt but often strain their voices because they’re either attempting songs that are too challenging or trying to sing outside their comfortable range. Here’s an important principle to remember: “comfort zone plus one.” If you leap from your comfort zone to something impossible, your system becomes […]

In this blog post, I answer a question that I get quite often by singers who already sing but have not trained their voice professionally: if I take singing lessons, won’t I sound like an opera singer? If I take singing lessons, won’t I sound like an opera singer? Video transcript – adapted to suit […]

How to reach high notes in singing is probably the most common question beginner or even experienced singers ask when they come to my lessons. When I’m teaching a lesson and practicing scales with my students, I can see how they start becoming anxious and stare at the notes that I play on my keyboard. […]