Rebecca Schwarz - Singing Lessons and Singing

Rebecca Schwarz - Singing Lessons and Singing Singing Teacher,
Singer/Actress Singing Teacher,
Choir Leader,
Singer/Actress

Your voice doesn’t need to feel the same every day.Some days singing feels easy. Everything seems to coordinate, the not...
07/09/2026

Your voice doesn’t need to feel the same every day.

Some days singing feels easy. Everything seems to coordinate, the notes are there and your voice does roughly what you ask of it.

Other days… not so much.

Sleep, stress, hormones, illness, how much you’ve been speaking, what you’ve been doing physically and plenty of other things can all affect how your voice feels on a particular day.

That doesn’t automatically mean there’s something wrong with your voice.

One of the most useful things we can learn as singers is to notice what our voice is doing today, rather than immediately comparing it with what it did yesterday.

Maybe today you need a little longer to warm up.

Maybe something needs adjusting.

Maybe today isn’t the day to push for that note just because you could sing it easily last week.

A flexible voice isn’t necessarily a voice that behaves exactly the same every single day.

It’s also about learning how to work with the voice you have in front of you today.

05/09/2026

Sometimes the singing teacher gets to go out and sing too… 🎶

A little snippet from a recent open mic night at The Three Tuns in Sutton Coldfield, where I got to sing with Grandma's Biscuit Tin.
I spend a lot of my working life helping other people explore their voices, but continuing to perform myself is still an important part of what I do.

There’s something very different about actually being up there, working with other musicians, responding to what’s happening in the moment and trusting your voice to do what you’ve trained it to do.

And, most importantly, I still really love doing it.

If you fancy seeing the whole performance, it’s now over on my performance YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/p_HUZTnCPp0

If confidence wasn’t a factor… what would you sing?The musical theatre number you know every word of? The song you alway...
04/09/2026

If confidence wasn’t a factor… what would you sing?

The musical theatre number you know every word of? The song you always turn up in the car? Something you’ve quietly thought, “I’d love to be able to sing that”?

You don’t have to choose something impressive. It might simply be a song that means something to you or feels lovely to sing.

Having music you genuinely want to explore is a wonderful starting point for lessons. We can play with it, work through the tricky bits and find an approach that suits your voice.

Tell me your song in the comments—I’d love to know.

And if you’d like to explore it together, send me a message about singing lessons.

03/09/2026

Once you can recognise nasality, the next step is exploring whether you can move in and out of it deliberately.

Follow along with this exercise and notice what changes as you experiment with more and less nasalised sound.

This isn’t about removing nasality or labelling one version as “better”. It’s about developing awareness, flexibility and choice—so you can use different vocal colours intentionally.

Can you hear and feel the difference as you try it?

There isn’t one “Rebecca Schwarz sound”.I don’t teach everyone to sing the same way, and the music I enjoy isn’t necessa...
02/09/2026

There isn’t one “Rebecca Schwarz sound”.

I don’t teach everyone to sing the same way, and the music I enjoy isn’t necessarily the music you want to sing. That’s absolutely fine.

Having favourite singers can be a wonderful starting point. We can explore what you love about their sound, try different vocal colours and discover which choices feel right for you.

You don’t have to find one “true” sound and stick with it, either. Your voice can be playful, expressive and full of possibilities.

My role is to help you develop a healthy, flexible voice and explore what you want to do with it.

My aesthetic isn’t the important one. Yours is.

Whose singing inspires you—and what is it about their voice that you love?

01/09/2026

Are you using nasality when you sing or speak?

Here’s a quick way to test it: hold a note, then gently pinch your nose partway through.

If the sound changes in quality, becomes quieter or stops altogether, air was travelling through your nose—which means the sound was nasalised.

Try it with different notes, vowels or speaking sounds and notice what changes. This isn’t about deciding whether the sound is “good” or “bad”. It’s simply a way to become more aware of what your voice is doing.

What did you notice when you tried it?

You’re allowed to come back to singing.Maybe you used to sing in a choir. Maybe you had lessons years ago. Maybe singing...
31/08/2026

You’re allowed to come back to singing.

Maybe you used to sing in a choir. Maybe you had lessons years ago. Maybe singing was simply something you loved before life got busy and it slipped further down the list.

You don’t have to pick up exactly where you left off—or sound exactly as you remember.

You can start with the voice you have today, the music you enjoy now and a little curiosity about what’s possible.

And you don’t need an audition, a performance or a big goal to justify making time for it. Missing it is reason enough.

If you’d like some support finding your way back, send me a message. We can explore what you want from singing and take it at your pace.

Nasality and sounding like you have a blocked nose are not the same thing.When your nose is blocked and very little soun...
28/08/2026

Nasality and sounding like you have a blocked nose are not the same thing.

When your nose is blocked and very little sound can travel through it, that’s actually *hypo-nasality*—too little nasal resonance.

Nasality usually refers to air and sound travelling through the nose while we vocalise. We need it to produce everyday sounds such as “m”, “n” and “ng”.

Try saying “mama” while pinching your nose. It will probably sound more like “baba”—because those sounds need nasality!

So, a voice that sounds blocked may actually need more nasality, not less.

Did you know there was a difference?

27/08/2026

Is nasality good or bad?

The answer is: neither.

Nasality is simply one of the many vocal colours available to us. Whether we choose to use more or less of it depends on the sound, style and effect we want to create.

Rather than automatically treating a nasal sound as something that needs fixing, we can learn to recognise it, explore it and make conscious choices about how we use it.

In the next videos, I’ll show you how to test for nasality and begin gaining more control over it.

When you describe a voice as “nasal”… what do you actually mean?We use the word “nasal” to describe all sorts of sounds,...
26/08/2026

When you describe a voice as “nasal”… what do you actually mean?

We use the word “nasal” to describe all sorts of sounds, but often what we’re hearing isn’t nasality at all.

It might be twang, whine, brightness, a blocked-nose sound or simply a vocal colour we don’t personally enjoy. “Nasal” can become a catch-all description—and it’s often used as a criticism without anyone being quite sure what they mean by it.

So, before I talk about whether nasality is “good” or “bad” in my next video, I’d love to know:

What do you hear when someone describes a voice as nasal? Is there a particular singer or sound that comes to mind?

Let me know in the comments.

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