020: How to Sing Smarter, with Meghan Nixon
Today we’re joined by Meghan Nixon, of HowToSingSmarter.com. You may be confused by the title: singers want to sing louder, higher, stronger, more confidently - but “smarter”?
As you’re going to discover in this conversation, singing smarter is perhaps the most important thing you can do to improve your experience and results as a singer.
During the course of her career in music, Meghan has helped hundreds of people become better singers and musicians. She works with voice and piano students of all ages, levels and genres in her busy private studio in Arvada, Colorado. She is a classically-trained vocalist with a degree in Jazz Performance from Michigan State University and has performed in Jazz, Rock, Funk, R&B, Bluegrass and Folk bands. She’s been teaching voice for 15 years and focuses on healthy singing technique, ear training and musicianship.
In this episode Meghan shares with us:
• The framework she puts in place with all her students that helps them approach new songs, sing the right notes, and even sight-sing music they’ve never seen before.
• The truth about “tone deafness” and how she helps first-time singers to quickly get the hang of singing in tune, and
• How she went from being too scared to even try improvising as a singer, to knowing clearly and confidently how to assemble the right notes at the right time.
We loved chatting with Meghan about what it means to “sing smarter” and how it can help all those of us who aren’t necessarily “natural singers” to feel just as confident and capable as those who are.
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Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 020
Links and Resources
• Beginner Solfa Sight-Singing Practice Exercises
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