The Music Tree

13/05/2022

We’ve been working with so many singers recently on the subject of confidence - that fortifying feeling that can sometimes be so elusive just when you need it for a performance or audition?
There are many tricks in the singing teachers bag for this- have you tried 7:11 breath techniques to regulate your oxygen/ carbon dioxide levels to create mental clarity? Visualisations with tapping techniques to help process vocal anxieties? We also work with the use of the eyes - where to look in a performance to feel comfortable and how to be your own best and fairest critic- not relying on the audience solely for feedback. Performance can often be marred by anxious thoughts and gloom but should be a time for your ‘inner race horse’ to run to the winning line and show brilliance. Performance anxiety is a thing. And it can be a thing of the past. Self care for a performer is a necessity to learn as a pupil and easy to self implement.

04/05/2022

Often pupils reach out to begin lessons when they find singing becoming more and more difficult to achieve in a relaxed and healthy way.

Singing lessons always include a warm-up session with technical exercises woven into them so you are not just singing endless mind-numbing scales but deliberately focussing on releasing tension, opening resonating space and allowing the voice to connect with the body and breath - together with coaching on pieces of all styles and musicianship skills.

A first free session with us gives you the chance to talk, sing and find out what the way forward would be for you with lessons individually tailored to your needs.

Our bodies are born to sing easily - sometimes we accidentally stand in our own way and make it more tricky than it needs be!

07/07/2021

'A piano is a piano, a violin is a violin.
A voice is a person.'
(Peter Pears)

28/06/2021

08/06/2021

Why music? Why not?

04/06/2021

I've very happy to have passed my qualification to become a Vocal Health First Aider!