The Singing / Straw Blog
The year we collectively sang our faces off Well, well, well. Look who showed up to warm up. YOU. All 5,968 of you from 59 different countries. Whether you were sipping oat milk in L.A. or belting arias in your...
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OK, singer. Let’s talk about what really happens to your voice as you get older. Not in a womp-womp, eulogy-for-your-high-notes kind of way. But in an honest, hopeful, let’s-do-something-about-it way. So, Your Range Isn’t What It Used to Be? Back...
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Vibrato. For some singers, it’s a natural shimmer that shows up uninvited. For others, it’s the elusive vocal feature they’ve spent years trying to master. And if you’ve trained in both classical and contemporary styles? It might feel like vibrato...
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And no, I’m not talking about surviving Christmas dinner with your in-laws. I’m talking about the annual office Secret Santa. You know, the one creeping up way too soon and of course you drew the new guy… Who’s always aggressively...
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At the time of me writing this: it’s 7:04 AM. My youngest is using one of our Sili straws as a lightsaber. My oldest is singing “Into the Unknown” at a volume previously only measured by NASA. I’m partially caffeinated,...
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