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It’s crazy to me to look back on all the ways I used to try to reach hard-to-get-at notes all those years before I knew better. Even when I was gigging and people would remark how amazing my power notes were, I was thinking “oh yeah? THAT was a crap shoot! You and I are [...]
Click to Listen to Audio [display_podcast] Can You Learn to Sing Better on Your Own? YES: Practice and experience WILL develop the voice you have DO IT: If you have some good direction and you don’t have a need for immediate improvement NO: If you’re singing with bad vocal technique or in any way that [...]
Hidden in the depths of my blog is my personal journey of vocal damage from acid reflux. In the past three years I’ve gone from being fine to being told my voice was going to disappear forever to having surgery, almost dieing and surviving organ damage only to have them damage my right vocal cord. [...]
Click to Listen to Audio [display_podcast] The Kinds of Singing Pain That Signals Trouble Ahead We are about halfway through the summer and I just completed a long road trip. Did you notice that everyone in the world seems to be doing construction during the holiday? Everything is closed down from three lanes to [...]
God love her, Christine Aguilera took singing the national anthem to a whole new scary place recently. The response was so huge that the even Time Magazine felt compelled to dig out the worst National Anthem attempts of all time. We had already scheduled a National Anthem singing competition for our students for this 4th of July before the super bowl so my email was on fire.
You don’t need a vocal coach to tell you what’s wrong with these sad attempts, but give ‘em a listen and let’s look at how they could have all been avoided.
“The show must go on”, even when you’d rather be sucking down chicken noodle soup in your bunny slippers. And for the most part, if you have solid vocal technique, you literally can sing through almost anything. How? Good vocal technique builds a healthy, balanced voice and a strong mix. And as you’re developing healthy [...]
My fellow SLS instructors agree it’s time to get a real pro to weigh in on the vocal pain I’ve been having. And I couldn’t ask for a bigger pro than the doctor Nassari who has helped a multitude of million dollar voices.
If you’ve ever had vocal damage, this story is probably a little familiar to you. I’m really frustrated with my damaged voice. In fact, many times (a day) I want to quit altogether… a little hard since I’m a vocal coach and I make my living as a vocalist and voice talent, but lately I really really want to.
So I went in for the video laryngoscope that the throat specialist requested before operating on my right vocal cord that was damaged in my last surgery. It was confirmed that my right cord is swollen and possibly has a node or a cyst. (In the picture, the cords show up reversed so the right [...]
After my latest surgery in June I noticed pain in the right side of my throat and that I was missing almost a half an octave from my range. It became painful to speak. A throat specialist did a nasal scope and discovered a bump on my right vocal cord that we think resulted from my vocal cord being nicked by the breathing tube during my last surgery. After all of this, my vocal cords are more damaged than ever!
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Kim Snyder, the Performers Personal Trainer and creator of The Voice Club has shared the stage with major label artists, has been heard on jingles campaigns for The Kansas City Royals, Anderson Erickson and as the voice of the Sprint phone, Hallmark, Disney, and the NFL. She's also a network level audio producer.
