Why Great Lyrics Live Close to Cliché (Without Crossing It) By Sam Marlow, City Vocal Coach One of the first things I notice when I work with a new songwriting student is how hard they’re trying to avoid saying the obvious thing. They’ll twist a line into something unusual, reach for an unexpected word, do
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Vocal Tips Stop Squeezing the Note: Why Singing Should Feel Like Speaking By Sam Marlow, City Vocal Coach I get some version of this most weeks: “When I talk, my voice feels easy. The second I start singing, it all changes.” And it does change, every time, for almost every student. The good news is
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Nearly every singer I work with has some degree of nasality in their voice, and almost none of them know it’s there until I point it out. It’s one of the most common things I hear in lessons, and also one of the most fixable, once a student understands where it actually comes from.
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