VocalFri Podcast

Sarah and Dr. P discuss upholding some standards of excellence, despite our troubled times. A little bit about Percepts of F1 and F2 and Dr. P's voice modeling assignment. We round out with a review of the Dr. Strange trailer, which we misrouted the audio for, but the spirit is still there. Hang in there #VocalFam you're almost through February!

#VocalFam, sorry it took so long for us to be back! Dr. P and Sarah talk about voice acoustics for the first time in quite a while, leading up to revealing that Sarah actually took at lesson with Dr. P yesterday. And they both lived to tell about it! We also covered this week's pop culture news.

Happy New Year #VocalFam! Dr. P and Sarah spend most of the day talking about memorization. In this era of brain fog we've all got new challenges to overcome when trying to memorize our programs or help our students do the same. 

STOP...SPOILERS FOR SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME! It's VocalFri and it's Christmas, which means we wrap up the calendar year with a Christmas blockbuster review. If you have not seen No Way Home...GO NO FURTHER! If you have...why don't you please celebrate us HOME like VocalFri invited Kenny Loggins to a Christmas brunch. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays #VocalFam!

The high voltage sequel to "Treble Middle Voice" has arrived! This time it's ALL ABOUT THE HIGH NOTES! #VocalFam Kayla Gautereaux and Yvonne Redmon join us back on the podcast for us to talk about every singers deep desire...how to hit that high note! We talk top of the staff transitioning and the infamous Whistle voice. Information, citations, exercises, concepts, we've got it all in this JAM PACKED Holiday season. Come open up a box of [ɔ] with a side of manual occlusion and amuse bouche of affect! This one's got something for everyone.

Words were all made up by someone, and wow do we love words in singing teaching! A little reflection on some registration terminology as we prepare for this Thanksgiving break. Also, a BIG VOCALFRI ANNOUNCMENT! And, we cover this week's pop culture news. Apparently there was a new No Way Home trailer? 

Our spoiler ridden Eternals review! Was the first MCU film to receive the dreaded Green Splat from critics as bad as they said? Did the audience respond positively? But more so...a sex scene in a Marvel movie?!?!?!? All this and more as we celebrate what was easily Marvel's most inclusive feature film to date. 

We are joined by Caitlin Moore and Joshua Glasner to tell us about their experiences to NATS' premiere mentoring program, the NATS Intern Program. Such great experiences to be had. Application deadline for this year's program is 12/15. Check out more on nats.org.

Emily Martin and Elizabeth McDonald join the #VocalFam to tell us about their MANY voice entrepreneur endeavors including Women on the Verge, EM2Connect, and From the Voice Of...Be sure to check out all of their great content and join the From the Voice of community. A really great conversation about everything from our failures leading to opportunities, ego in our profession, and how we can do the best to redefine success for our students and community. 

#VocalFam, did you know Sarah and Dr. P don't plan this radio show? We started out a bit like a Seinfeld episode about nothing. However, we led to a lovely discussion about what's true versus what's useful, Dr. P starting Phonation in undergrad pedagogy, and sharing a variation of an exercise from our Treble Middle Voice episode that Dr. P has found useful for treble Musical Theater singers.