How do Vocal Chords Work? Check this out

Hello there,

One of the most frequent situations I find in my daily vocal coaching sessions in south florida is explaining how the human sound is produced and how it becomes singing.
When you think on the process of listening to a melody and singing it back is pretty magic. First the sound waves produced by the generator of the melody excite your ear bones and tympanum, that movement generates electric impulses which go to your brain and the brain makes all the calculations and gives the order to YOUR WHOLE BODY to coordinate muscles, air and bones to reproduce that sound.
Most of the fine tuning occurs in the vocal chords; there is where all the efforts of you whole body convey for the moment of truth, was the melody reproduced with precision or not.
Here's a video which illustrates the rate of vibration of your vocal chords. As a Delray Beach Vocal Coach I find these kind of media very interesting, as it helps my students to visualize what happens inside their bodies when they are singing.
For more information and to learn how to sing please visit www.bocaratonvocalcoach.com or call me direct - 786 873 8544.
Enjoy the video.

Rock History: Why Jason Newsted left Metallica? GREAT SUMMARY

I found this interesting story about Metallica, I own a copy of the Some Kind of Monster DVD, and it is enlightening to see how these monsters of rock also struggle to keep together. That is a 2 hr. awesome documentary, but for the ones who don't have 2 hr. here it is a very good summary of what happened.
Check it out, what do you think?




Jordy Marin is a Delray Beach Vocal Coach and Boca Raton Singing Lessons coach.

How to know when you are ready to audition for The Voice

Aspiring artists' dreams are going wild with the huge success of talent shows like NBC's The Voice. Every body who's ever got a compliment on their Vocal Abilities is now dreaming on making it big by being the next TV Talent Show winner. That is good, dreaming is the mother of all success, but you should dream with one foot in the floor.
How do you know if you are ready to audition? besides confidence what else should you have in your check list? well, here's a comprehensive summary of the most important vocal performance aspects that you need to have down when you are thinking on auditioning for a talent show such as NBC's The Voice.

• Do you master your breathing and vocal technique?
• Do you feel in advance what type of voice you are going to use to attack a low or high note?
• Does your range overlaps comfortably among chest, head, mix and falsetto ranges?
• Do you clearly feel and understand your head and mix voices?
• Do you master microphone techniques and know how to get the best of it?
• How about your self monitoring system?
• Are you impeccable in your tempo?
• Do you feel confidence you can sing ANYTHING?
• Do you experiment beyond the recorded version of the songs you like?
• Do you feel the music you are singing?

If is there anything you are missing from this list you should talk to your Boca Raton Vocal Coach and work on the specific items you are missing, if your dream is to make it big on a talent show you should make sure your effort and illusions don't get washed away because of false self confidence. Self confidence is good but only if is backed up by talent and perfect technique.