Singing Lessons For No One

46. Minor Pentatonic Warm up Melismas and I Better Not

Fan Mail Portal Thanks so much for listening in.  Today we're warming up for a gig, and thinking about creativiy.  We're singing minor pentatonic Scale in Eb

45. Introduction Stories and Bad Coffee

Fan Mail Portal Thanks so much for listening.  Today we talk stories about stories.  About introducing a song and helping your audience breathe.  Then we sing a song ab

44. Workshops ahoy, Maybe that big old sun knows whats coming next

Fan Mail Portal Ahoy my friends,  Thanks so much for tuning in. We're heading on a journey about what the workshops I lead are like, Because! I'm heading out

43. Sea Urchins and the clarity of sea urchins

Fan Mail Portal This week we sing a classic Sea Urchin masterpiece.  And then we dive deeper (see what I did there) to look at the clarity and pronunciation of words. 

42. Somewhere in Hallelujah of the Major and Minor

Fan Mail Portal Heya,  Today we sing Somewhere in Heaven, and we play with wether that melody is Minor or Major.  And then we play with Vocal Blending over Hallelujah. 

41. Moaning and Wailing and Platypus

Fan Mail Portal Oh me oh my, what a delight. Here is a new Episode for your earsies! We warm up in the Key of A Major, and we sing Moaning and Wailing,  and then we si

40. Spin around this Earth with a Diminished Chord

Fan Mail Portal Hiya, Im running off to teach workshops and singing and schoirs at a singing and dance retreat in Byron Bay. So Fun! And Im squeezing this episode in bef

39. Jericho and the Dominant 7th Chord

Fan Mail Portal Oh Crumbola, I usually try to do two different jimmy jams in an Episode,  but today, I was on a roll with this Jericho, couldnt stop. It was so satisfyi

38. Procrastination and the Mixolydian Mode

Fan Mail Portal Hi there, thanks for listening! We sing about procrastination. It's all rainy and moody, and my heart says relax but my brain knows it time to sing

37. Velma The Moose in B Dorian

Fan Mail Portal There's a lot going on in this episode.  We start in a B Dorian Scale Warm up.  1, 2, flat 3, 4, 5, 6, flat 7, 8. I'm playing a B Minor Chor

36. Times Tables like you've never heard them before

Fan Mail Portal So,  I was feeling down on the weekend. And so I took myself on a walk. And the more I walked, the more I found myself singing the times tables to music

35. Polar Expresso and the Cycle of Fifths

Fan Mail Portal On this episode we take a little adventure to the other side of the globe.  I take a "walk" around a far far away town and create a songwriting exercise

34. Set Your Love Free

Fan Mail Portal Hi end of your friends,  I hope you're going ok.  I love my little deadlines, but this is getting ridiculous.  I hope you celebrate the ends and

33. I've got a gig - Warm up with me - Major Scale + Basically How to Scat

Fan Mail Portal Hi How are you?! So I begin with singing a D Major Scale over two octaves over the chords: Bmin/G and F#minor/D.  I'm referencing a song by Tainui

32. Always Take you Instrument

Fan Mail Portal Oh October, you nearly won this round, BUT NO! Here I am! End of October! Yes!  One Episode a Month is my promise to ME, and I will keep it! Yay for se

31. Share you Music and Henrietta.

Fan Mail Portal Thanks so much for Listening! This Episode has my number one tip for if you are releasing music... or practising singing and taking steps with your voic

30. Vocal Registers and Call Me for No Reason

Fan Mail Portal I've got a new song coming out called "Call me for No Reason" AUGUST 17 - 2025  it's coming out on the Bandcamp Platform. This Episode delves

29. Hey little Earthing in the Natural Minor Warm up to get you going for the day

Fan Mail Portal I wanted to do a shorter episode for just the Vocal Warm up while you drive somewhere and you know you gotta speak and you need to warm your voice up rea

28. Ending your Notes and You Never Let Me Down

Fan Mail Portal Heya, I wanted to work on a warm up that is a minor pentatonic descnding run, and on open vowel sounds.  Then we head into a song about my chickens.  H

27. Relative Minor, The Air in Africa and When am I Gonna Learn?

Fan Mail Portal Hiya beautiful people!  Thanks for tuning in to my podcast. Lotsa love to you out there.  In this lesson we look at the Relative minor scale as a warm