Matilda Lindell Voice Studio

Are you feeling like your vocal journey is stuck? We've all experienced those roadblocks. Many singers face obstacles that can hold them back from unleashing their true vocal potential. Let's talk about them!

Obstacle #1: Not Making Progress. 

Often this is just a belief BEFORE we start. Like it, won’t make a difference what you do, you just sound like this. But if you start exploring, you will experience a change in your voice! But sometimes we plateau and it can be disheartening. That’s often the case when we are getting more aware, so it’s a good thing really. I promise you, even Beyoncé had some setbacks practicing her riffs and runs 😁 Progress takes time and consistent effort. Keep going!

Obstacle #2: Admitting You Need to Work on Technique.

It would be great if we were born singing like Lady Gaga, right? But the truth is, even the greatest singers continuously work on their technique. It takes humility and courage to admit that we still have room for improvement. And that's a...

Touring can mean long shows and wear on your voice, extensive, tiring travel, and very little sleep. To last on tour and to set yourself up for all the different sounds you want to use on stage - I’m going to share three of my favorite tricks to use! This is of course valuable even for just one off shows, before or on auditions, with your students, and so on!

Number 1) Using slack folds to get a little rest and reset in your voice or set myself up for a more talky quality. If you’ve been around my block for a while, you know I LOVE slack folds for so many things! As the name reveals, your vocal folds are “slack” and relaxed and are just producing an irregular cycle with a bubbling, frying sound. In Estill Voice Training we call it slack folds but it’s also called vocal fry and glottal fry. 

When we produce this sound, our voice parts often want to go to their neutral or mid position so it’s effective if you want to go back to your homebase so to speak, find thicker folds, a more popp...