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Thanks to all the new members who have joined us in the last week! I am very excited to be expanding the Practical Singing course and offering this more widely to so many people who are wanting to make beautiful noise and find their voices! Coming into the summer season we will be focusing on CONFIDENCE and BREATH WORK. This weekend, make sure you check out the 4-7-8 breathing excercise and try and do that every day - morning and night :) This is our EFFORT to become EFFORTLESS in our voice and musical presentation. Let me know if you have any questions. Join me here for coffee sunday morning at 9 for a one hour discussion on Using the Voice in our daily lives :) Thanks for singing with me! Josee

Im super looking forward to dropping our next class tonight!! I worked hard on this and am trying to find a way to bring this class authentically to people who cannot always attend physically. Finding our Voices should be for EVERYONE! I appreciate any and all feeback and idas on how we can make this course useful and fun! If you have specific questions - please don't hesitate to email or DM me. Thanks for finding your voice with me! Keep your eyes open for the next session! You can find it in the CLASSROOM. Peace! Josee

Life is hard, busy, stressful, and frankly insane lately — so I’m not going to add to your stress or worries. I’ll only ask you to do a small reflection about yourself… What music did you love before you started dating? Or before you had to think about being responsible in the big, complicated world? I find my core tastes haven’t changed very much. Maybe I’m a little hard‑headed — an intractable hippie, firmly planted in the 60s and 70s — except that my students keep bringing me modern songs that prove I’ve clung to the past a bit too diligently and for far too long. There are some very cool things happening in music over the past ten years that I seem to have entirely missed. I was humbled to discover that there are, in fact, new artists under the age of 80 (wow!) creating amazing rhythms, meaningful lyrics, and wonderfully approachable melodies. I love that. Winehouse, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Joss Stone and other “modern” artists have joined my playlist alongside Woodstock, Big Yellow Taxi, and James Taylor. My newest obsession is Lose Control by Teddy Swims — a thirty‑year‑old, giant, red‑bearded, Scots‑looking pop star with tattoos on his face and a Barbie earring. I can howl his catchy music at the moon until the cows come home. At least 75% of my students sing Lose Control to practice effective, open modulation techniques. It’s a fantastic teaching song, and I know it’s good because after hearing it five kabillion times in every possible version, I still love it. Choosing a song that truly resonates with you — something you know well from your past or something you’re grooving to right now — is one of the best ways to practice your vocals. Because of course, the only way to learn how to sing… is to actually sing. Trying is not doing. Doing - is doing. I highly recommend DOING car karaoke. Find songs you love and sing them as emotively as your little heart desires. It’s important to have a place where your own sound can take itself for a walk and you feel safe to go to your own edges. We’re too emotionally and behaviourally contained in our homes, with our family, at work, and out in public. I dont take being a career musician for granted. I an aware and I consider it a great honour that my life involves yelling at full force with my now super‑powered lungs in front of crowds of people who seem happy that i am doing that.

Im going to be figuring out this amazing Skool thing over the next few weeks and inviting friends to join me here for some breathwork and sound making :)