A Voice Apart

Evidently, Rock style singing requires more precise vocal technique than any other style. The fact is, that Rock singers are using much more aggressive sounds and, in the majority of cases, they are almost forcing their voices to perform the high level of what I call, "Vocabatics". I compare it to the "Snowbirds" airplane show here in Toronto at the CNE, where they do all kinds of aerobatics which indeed, are very fascinating to watch. No doubt, that the pilots have to be very experienced and have a lot of flown hours under their belts, to perform a high intensity and synchronized show like that, in the air. The Rock singing style is a very honest genre in my opinion. You either can sing and put your voice almost through the ringer, or you can't. You can not fake it. Like figure skating, you can either jump a triple axel or acquire a serious injury if you don't know how. It takes a lot of hours of training and proper technique to be able to surviv

Vocal Science Method represents an unconventional vocal technique.  Whereas the conventional vocal technique suggests, for example, to drop the jaw down loose, stick the stomach out, replicate the weird sounds and lip trills, the Vocal Science technique advocates exactly the opposite. I find the latter completely redundant, as it does not produce anything except the voice damage. The voice becomes drawn to the very low position in the singer’s throat, which flora’s becomes disturbed and thus, the voice may easily become husky and simply hoarse.  It has a danger not only to disturb the inner vocal parts, but also to meet the gastric acid and produce the acid reflux, which is very uncomfortable and very damaging for the singer’s vocal cords and vocal anatomy in general. On that note, our motto is : WORK SMART AND NOT HARD. THUS, ACHIEVE AND BE CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR VOICE SAFETY AT ALL TIMES. The sound is a physical material body and it travels as such.

Sometimes, people use their speaking and/or their singing voice in the incorrect manner. In fact, the misuse of the human voice begins from the voice being drawn in the lower throat position, which often results in a lower volume, and also, quite often results in a raspy and hoarse sounding voice. In some cases, it’s just a result of the manner in which the person speaks and/or sings. Unfortunately, in North American Schools, nobody teaches children and later on young adults, how to speak, i.e., how to conduct themselves (posture-wise) while speaking and delivering the message. Also, in North American schools, nobody teaches students how to articulate, as well as how to pronounce and announce the words clearly... That is, almost needless to mention, use the proper emphases and inflections while pronouncing certain words and/or singing certain phrases. If those components are not addressed, and thus, the voice is drawn deeply to the bottom of the vocal box, the person could ex

Over almost three decades of the existence of my vocal school , I had in my possession, estimated, close to 20 000 students to date, and that not to count numerous workshops and seminars I've conducted around the world.   My "claim to fame" for all these years has been: Beginner to pro-singer in a matter of (ten or less) hours, and not months or years. Therefore, the turnover of my clientele (singers and speakers) was quite high and still is. Many people over the years were commenting that I was working myself out of my business, by producing very fast and very good results with respect of my singing and speaking clients' voices. However, the "quick fix", (not always preferred by my choice) so to speak, was not necessarily sufficient enough as it could have been, opposed to when the singer or a speaker for that matter, would give me and themselves more quality time than just for example only ten hours of instruction. Nevertheless, for some pe