Welcome to the Slice of Singing blog! Thanks for stopping by. Today I’d like to share a video clip from a lesson with a private student. My student, besides the fact that he’s very cute, is a sensitive and talented singer/songwriter. In this voice lesson we are working on making the song more honest and real – to get more connection with the audience and to get my student submerg...

A couple days ago, I interviewed the brilliant, warm and extremely talented Steven Lutvak. Our conversation is a wealth of information and inspiration for all musicians, singers, songwriters and performers so I must share it with you. I met Steven about 10 yrs ago when my vocal method, Sing Like You Speak™, was just a seed of an idea that was forming in the back of my mind. He epitomizes Sing Li...

It’s fascinating to watch an audience as they watch a performer. You can learn an awful lot about what works on stage by the audience’s reaction. Charlie Sheen was booed off the stage here in NYC recently – and rightfully so. As a vocal trainer, I spend a lot of time as an audience member at my students’ gigs. I watch the audience as much as I watch my student. My job is t...

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Adele is one of the best pop artists we have. Love, love, love her music and her voice. Unfortunately, she has some vocal damage and has not learned to use her voice so that the damage can heal. This is a tragedy and so unnecessary because with good vocal technique, she would have no vocal problems. Seriously, I don’t understand why a very successful singer like Adele would NOT get good vo...

People are always asking me why I call my vocal method Sing Like You Speak. And of course, does it really work? Yes, it can make a star out of anyone who has the drive to be a singing star. This is NOT traditional vocal training. Sing Like You Speak™ is vocal technique for contemporary singers based in the latest medical, musical and therapeutic research. It is NOT Speech Level Singing. It̵...

Singing can feel like lifting and struggling to find your way out of a tangled mess of netting that somehow got wrapped around your body. The more you strain against the netting, the less progress you make toward freedom. Usually this type of singing challenge begins way back in time with an idea – one you are not aware of – that singing is hard work. The strain and struggle you think are supp...

The voice is mastered inside the body, your vocal instrument. The result of that mastery is resonates outside the instrument, to the audience. This is not traditional vocal training. Sing Like You Speak™ is based on the fact that the body is a perfect musical instrument and is rooted in the latest vocal, medical and acoustical research. It is the only fully codified contemporary vocal method co...

Vocal freedom – it’s what every singer wants for your self and for your art. A free voice can easily respond to the music, changes is emotion and point of view and dynamics. A performer with a voice that soars out to the audience through an open instrument is engaging to watch and a thrill to hear. But how to you achieve vocal freedom? At Sing Like You Speak™ we believe in a logical...

In a workshop at an international vocal conference, a woman presented her new vocal method for the audience. When she demonstrated how to teach diaphragmatic breathing, she divided it into 10 distinct steps. Can you imagine having to think of all 10 steps every time you inhale? Your band would finish the song long before you got to the hook! Here is a Singer Quick Fix to help you with Diaphragmat...