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Ingredients Are Not Enough.
We've got every ingredient we need inside us, right now.Every element for greatness available.Ready to go.Ready to be what we require it to be. On this, I am adamant....
How the Sunk Cost Fallacy is Keeping You Down
Your best work is not behind you. It is in front of you. Your best self wasn't in college, or grad school, or DMA program, or at yesterday's workshop. Your...
Balance is a lie. Priorities are better.
Balance sucks. I'm allowed to say that, because I am a Libra, and therefore know these things automatically. It sucks because striving for it never brings peace,...
When Nikki Loney Asks to Podcast You, Say Yes.
^^^^ That is Faith, the official feline of Full Voice Music. She's awesome. I used her as the featured image because I knew she would make incredible click bait for all...
Yes. You DO have to understand the I-ii7-V7-I if you want to sing Jazz with me. I’ll help!
Lots of lessons this week with new-to-Jazz singers. YAY! I get great joy de-mystefiing much of what those outside of the jazz world see as shiny untouchable jewels....
“Do I need a coach or a teacher?”
In short, BOTH. Coaches and Teachers are an integral part of developing ones skill set, achieving performance breakthrough, and understanding style and genre. A teacher...
Talent is not enough.
This post is for the teachers of voice, and the singers of pop music. I didn’t break it up because I think we need to understand each other a little better, in order to turn the tides of the “chew ’em up and spit ’em out” industry.
I don’t want to hear what you *wish* you could sing…
I want to hear what you can sing. And perform. Here’s the truth. Y’all getting ready for college have an amazing asset that lots of us old peeps wish we still had. You...
To Fry or not to Fry, that is the question.
We aren’t one of those musicians who gets to put our instrument away to protect it from the elements. There’s no OttorBox Case made for our larynx; no humidity...