Comments on: To Sing With Confidence? What Does It Take?

By: dondon

dondon — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:39:04 +0000

hi Per nice blog i like it. maybe you can help me as well since i am also playing guitar and singing at the same time with Christian songs as my problem is sometimes i cannot reach the high note. is it maybe lack of air or breathing or anything else? Please send me your response on my email; valentinf@alj.com. thanks. God bless!!!

By: Iva

Iva — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:47:05 +0000

Wow all these articals are amazing and the testimonies are very inspirational!!

By: Kristina_Acoustic

Kristina_Acoustic — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:53:20 +0000

Hi, Im a Guitarist/songwriter/Preformer,
I started last year in August, and Preformed 2times a week and took a long break in Jan. and Havnt wrote any songs, Struggled with my voice and songwriting, Which is why i found this website, This really helps a lot,
My problem is i dont know whats holding me back, of going and preforming when i can 2 a week. Before i started getting lessons befor i played guitar I walked into a open mic and sang accapella everybody stopped and just stared, I had to say I was verry Nervous and extereamly enbarrassed, My point first time Preforming i made a fool of myself in my opinion.
I was told to come back! and learn how to play something. I got a guitar started learning and everyweek id come back with new songs, People said i had a nice voice, i had Potential, and i was getting really good!
But my problem started; I was practicing and all my songs sound lame, i dont think there that good, I started not to like my voice, so i took a break in Jan. now it is may and I cant find the words to write a song along with a chord progression for guitar, i just dont like how the guitar sounds anymore or my voice,
but i am working on it, i dont know if it's a phase, what ever it is i hope it goes away, i want to go back to how things were in aug. write songs, preform, have fun

By: karen

karen — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:28:22 +0000

hi i am really good at singinng but i feel that i need help with my tune and confidence i really beileve in myself but my mind is beating what i bieleve in. Can u help me?

By: Edie

Edie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:12:54 +0000

I am a beginner as far as lessons go, but I have been a singer for fun all my life. I did sing in chorus, choir, harmony 3, 4 and so on. I lost my voice and have not been able to sing aloud in front of people for at least eleven years now,,,with a couple of exceptions that went pretty well. I do not want to be famous, but I do want to enjoy singing again. I am just beginning and my success story is on it's way,,,,,I'll run the race and I will win or maybe not, but to be sure,,,,I WILL RUN THE RACE TO THE END,,,,,and I will enjoy it. Thank you for these lessons, you have opened my eyes and now, my journey begins. Yea!!!

By: john zacharias

john zacharias — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:53:56 +0000

Your comment about "there's no such thing as a bad singer" is so not true. My brother in law cannot hold a tune, no matter how he tries, it's simply not there for him. I've tired to coach him on on some simple methods but it does not work. But, that does not stop him from trying, much to the chagrin of those around him! I noted that you post nothing but glowing and positive comments, surely someone out there must dissgree with something you do?

By: phil stilliard

phil stilliard — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:47:50 +0000

Hi Per and everyone else
I have sung a few solos, but never as a soprano at Hereford Cathedral where I sang in the Three Choirs festival four times before my voice broke. I was head chorister for 25 months. After my voice broke, I gave up, until in church one day, someone said 'you.ve got a nice voice', so I joined the choir. Our chior director writes music, he wrote, directed and conducted The Job Story, 1 1/2 hours, I sang Satan!!, I needed the mike in front of 200 audience, the other soloists were pros, and did not need a mike. That was a huge coup for amateur me. I also sang other solos, How lovely are Thy Dwellings (Psalm 84), and You are my Heart's delight (Franz Lehar) I want to be able to sing the tenor part in The Pearl Fishers, with a top b flat, and Nessun Dorma, but I need help with those.

By: Esther

Esther — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:11:14 +0000

Thank you Per for your unteresting article and convincing video to which I absolutely agree.
I wish you,of course,a Happy New Year and a Very Happy Valentine Day – Mind the process!
Esther

By: Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:49:21 +0000

After just three weeks doing the first three lessons of the Singing Zone, I have more confidence with my voice now than in many years. I am in my fifties and have suffered with chronic laryngitis since I was a young boy. I recently posted this at the Community page at the Singing Zone Web site, but want to post it here as well. Here goes …
I have just begun my Third Lesson and am continuing to experience miracles both big and small. I even had a “voice emergency” over a stressful Thanksgiving family gathering – “losing my voice”. But by going back to the first and second CD’s I was able to see what had happened, and bring my voice back to the richness I have been experiencing.
When I was a young boy, I loved to sing. I grew up near New York City and my parents took me to see so many of the classic Broadway Plays: My Fair Lady with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison, Camelot with Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet, Peter Pan and The Sound of Music with Mary Martin, Oliver and many others. I would play the records and sing literally for hours. Unfortunately, I developed chronic laryngitis, to the point where I completely lost my voice. My father took me to nose and throat doctors, speech therapists, vocal coaches. But it did little good. So the doctors told my parents I was to sing very little if at all, otherwise I would damage my voice.
My father is a well known voiceover narrator still working on network television and on PBS programs such as Nova. He has a beautiful voice, but I think of all the years of trying to emulate his resonance, I actually strained my vocal cords and developed ingrained, destructive habits. And through my adult years, I have continued to have regular bouts of chronic laryngitis.
I eventually stopped seeing throat doctors who could find nothing wrong. In my twenties, I studied for three years in New York with a voice teacher who had me on the floor with books on my belly, tightening my abs and shouting ‘HO!”, reading tongue twisters in a forceful way. I would leave each lesson with a weak, tired voice. It was frustrating and discouraging. On my own, I studied the Kristin Linklater method, which did no good. I studied the Lessac Method and Alexander Technique, which helped a bit, but did not stop the hoarseness from returning. There was one method that actually taught to slide two fingers down the tongue, deep into the throat to massage the root of the tongue. That, of course, did not help at all.
In just three weeks of The Singing Zone with Per, I have been able to find a richness, resonance, and freedom in my voice which I have never before experienced – after decades of searching desperately for help. (In fact today I had a long recording session narrating a short documentary, and my voice was free and rich.) I thought I had studied every method there was, but the principles I am learning are all new to me. I was never taught to isolate the vocal cord muscles and to feel them opening and closing. I was never able to release the tension in my tongue, throat, and neck. I have finally found help after so many years of searching.
In the last weeks, I have discovered an ease not only in my voice, but in my self-expression and emotions. There is a lightness. I can speak, read and sing all day with little vocal fatigue, and with a soothing resonance. Sometimes in the evening, my voice feels a bit tired, but as I’m continuing with the Bristow Method, it is getting less noticeable. I sometimes go back to the ingrained patterns, but am able recognize them and go back to the new habits.
I am thrilled and looking forward to the upcoming lessons and the joy of freedom in my speaking and just living. And I'm singing throughout day, even in the shower and the car, with no vocal fatigue, and actually a wonderful sound. What has happened for me has been magical. The joy of singing should be for everyone, not just professionals. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Per!

By: srinu

srinu — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:27:38 +0000

hi…
i am not able to sing with high notes and my voice is not cooperating with the song
what should i do to be the best singer? i read all articles were so amazaing