What is it about running a choir that keeps me engaged and interested?

You'll a lot of disagreement amongst singers, pedagogues and scientific types throughout history about breathing techniques and the use of tummy muscles in singing. In this post I'm going to look at the first phase of things - the in-breath. How you get your breath has a pretty important knock-on effect on the sound that will come back out shortly afterwards. At Vocalese, I frequently bang on about using "zippy" muscles, and "nice deep breath" - well, for many of you, these t

OK, so my workday did not start well. Stressed with all kinds of things running round my head. Trying to get into an essay which is due soon and failing at that dismally. Getting cross with myself for not having better time management skills...oh hang on...I went on holiday...excuse? Anyway, too much to do and too little time. Things got worse and worse, I got more and more worked up and I ended up with a serious knot in my stomach, a head ache and I just wanted to jump on a