Getting Past Roadblocks in your Voice

Getting past the roadblocks in your singing voice

Are you a “lost cause”?
Do you feel stuck?
Or maybe you are just “past your prime”?

(it’s all downhill from here…)

I hear you. I see you. And you know what? None of that is true. I absolutely reject it on your behalf (you’re welcome).

Listen carefully and repeat after me!

• There are no hopeless cases.

• You are not destined to decline with age.

• Every vocal problem has a solution, if you are patient, do the work, and are willing to accept that the solution may end up being different than you originally thought it should be.

Never give up

I'd love to share with you a story of one of my professional clients, we'll call her Angel.  

She attended and received her BFA in Musical Theatre from a very prestigious university, studying with a long list of prominent voice teachers.  

When she contacted me for lessons her message was something along the lines of "help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my last hope."  In spite of all her training, her voice was in pieces.  She had a strong lower chest voice and a soprano to the rafters, but no middle, no mix, and no belt.

Half of her was saying 

"maybe it's just not going to happen for me,"

while the other half was crying

"I know this is not what my voice can and should be."
 

In our first few lessons we discovered that there were some fundamental misunderstandings about breathing and effort that were literally preventing her from accessing the parts of her voice she most desired to find. She had some MAJOR roadblocks. 

Finding the path around the roadblock

After our 4th or 5th lesson, she begged me, "Please, tell me I'm going to be able to figure this out.  Can you give me a list of things I can do every day to get past these obstacles?"

I typed up an email of bodywork, breathing and functional vocal exercises for her to work into her daily routine, and gave her some of the early rough draft videos from my "Singing Essential Foundations" course.

And we went to work. She practiced daily between our lessons with the videos and at-home routines I provided her, and you can probably guess what happened.  She found her mix!  And sometimes her belt even showed up, and my oh my is it a glorious thing to behold!   

At the beginning of the COVID lockdown, Angel had to take a break from lessons to stabilize her business and remain afloat.  When we were finally able to resume lessons several months later, she had a huge grin on her face.

 "I can't wait to show you what I can do."  

And she sang for me.  It was the best I'd heard her sing.  

I said, "Ok, whatever you've been doing, keep doing it." Her reply was, "I still do the exercises and videos every day that you gave to me back when we started working together. They have changed everything."

Angel’s story is what we are all about at CrystalVoice Studio. We put function first, to help you not only get past those roadblocks, but blow them up, never to be seen again.

If you are interested in seeing what we can do for you, drop us a line, or comment below. We’d love to smash some roadblocks with you, too!