Finding your reason
With
Rachel LynesRachel Lynes helps you reconnect with why you vocalise, communication and emotion, so you can release jaw and breath tension and sing more naturally.
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18 lessons (1h 25m) · 1 free
Lesson transcript
Understanding Your Voice and Vocalization
The good news is you know how to sing. In fact, sometimes in our urge to be the best we can be, we may actually interfere.
What Do I Mean by That?
- We might be using too much jaw tension because we really want to give the song our all.
- We might be trying to breathe out too much or save our breath.
Now, we're going to have a look at how you evolved to vocalize. We will do this by remembering that you already know what to do.
A Moment to Reflect
Think about this for a moment:
- When we evolved to vocalize, did that happen to make pretty sounds?
- Did that happen so you could hit the big notes and impress audiences?
No. When we evolved to vocalize, it was for several vital reasons:
- Communication
- Survival
- Imparting information
These vocalizations were needed to connect with people, soothe our babies, and call out to warn others. All these things happened thousands and thousands of years ago.
Body Knowledge
Your body knows how to make sounds, high sounds, low sounds, all sounds. I want to remind you of this by using some sounds now that you'll be making all day long, perhaps to:
- Release some emotion
- Communicate with your friends or family
We will explore these sounds and see how we can use them in singing, especially in musical theatre, where it's so important to connect your emotions to the song and the story.
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Rachel Lynes works with singers ranging from recording artists to West End performers. She has been studying the voice for over 20 years, with a particular emphasis on the connection between singing, mental health and well-being. As a performer, she spent 10 years playing leading roles in the West End and internationally, working with everyone from Andrew Lloyd Webber to Tony and Olivier award-winning creatives.
Fondly named "the voice whisperer" by the singers she works with, Rachel's approach is rigorously technical yet accessible, combining the science with the heart.
She is also the founder and coach at the Sing Space, a global online studio open to singers of all levels and home to the world's first Vocal Gym™, offering group classes, one-to-one singing classes, and exclusive opportunities to perform in front of some of the industry's leading creatives, including casting directors, directors, producers and West End stars.
In her MusicGurus course, Rachel brings that same technical-yet-human method to musical theatre singing, coaching you through the very techniques she uses with West End performers.
