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How to Hit the High Notes Using Your Chest Voice

I’ve got a quick tip for you today about how to sing your high notes in chest voice in a healthy and supported way! We’re going to walk through a quick exercise to help you develop your chest voice (or belt voice) so you feel more comfortable. We recently talked about how to hit high…

How to Hit High Notes as a Singer: tips to work on exercises and songs with high notes from vocal coach and VoiceFit founder Tamara Beatty

How to Hit High Notes as a Singer

As a coach, a big focus for most singers is hitting the high notes. Everyone loves these notes – they help us express emotions, they help us to bring what’s inside out, and it feels really good when we hit them! But sometimes, hitting those high notes isn’t as easy as it seems and it…

How High Should You Sing During Your Vocal Exercises: voice coach demonstrates one easy exercise to help your voice stay healthy

How High Should You Sing During Your Vocal Exercises | Avoid Hurting Your Voice During Practice

Today, I’m sharing one of my favorite training tips for singers. It’s one of my core training principles, that I think every singer can benefit from! No matter what type of singing you do or your voice type, make sure to try out this tip to improve your singing and get more out of your…

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How to Relax Your Speaking Voice as a Singer

We always talk about our singing voices here – but there’s something else we need to talk about: our speaking voice. How we use our “normal speaking voice” can deeply impact our singing voices. There’s so many scenarios that change how we use our speaking voice. From crowded spaces to more animated conversations to whispering…

Why You Need a Strong Vocal Foundation as a Singer: vocal coach Tamara Beatty talks about having a healthy and strong voice

Why You Need a Strong Vocal Foundation as a Singer

This year, I want to help you create a stronger, healthier voice. At the heart of it, a good vocal foundation the best way to do that. If you want a strong vocal foundation, you need vocal stability in a few different key areas of your voice. If you have this type of strength, you…

How much vocal rest can your voice take? Vocal coach Tamara Beatty shares how to regain strength after time off from singing

How Much Vocal Rest Can Your Voice Take?

Let’s talk about vocal rest today! Vocal rest happens when you need to stop singing or take a break from using your voice as a performer. A question I’m asked a lot is HOW long can someone take off before they begin to lose the strength they’ve worked so hard to gain? Today, that’s what…

When Not to Warm Up as a Singer: Vocal Coach Tamara Beatty shares when you might not want to warm up before singing

When Not to Warm Up as a Singer

This week, we’re talking more about vocal warm ups for singers. In recent posts, we’ve talked about how to warm up and why it’s important. But today, I want to share about the instances where a vocal warm up might not be the best thing for you. Crazy, I know! We’re taught early on that…

Improve Your Articulation with a few simple exercises to create better sounds and tone shared by voice coach Tamara Beatty

How to Improve Your Articulation as a Singer

This week, we’re talking about how to improve your articulation as a singer. You might have an idea of what articulation means – a proper sound, clear diction, or extra pronunciation for example. For some styles of music, that’s exactly what you need – to hear every sound clearly. But for many other styles, super…

Pop Styling: How to Create A Moment with Head voice/Falsetto and Chest Voice shared by voice coach Tamara Beatty

Styling for Singers: Creating a Moment with Your Head and Chest Voice

Today, I want to talk about one specific skill to help singers create a moment when they perform. I truly believe that if a singer knows how to use this skill, they’ll be able to create more emotional connection through their performance. Whether you’re in a recording studio, a live performance, or audition, you want…

Chromatic Scale to Improve Your Pitch: a walkthrough video of exercises to improve your pitch as a singer from voice coach Tamara Beatty

Use the Chromatic Scale to Improve Your Pitch: Video Walkthrough for Singers

A few weeks ago, we reviewed the Chromatic Scale to help singers improve their riff skills. Several people tried it and were surprised with how much it helped improve their ear (yay!). They also requested a walkthrough to help with the practice, so that’s what this week’s video is all about! This video was made…