Monday Musings

Plain English in the Singing Studio

Photo by Maxim Titov on Unsplash

Sometimes I think half the hilarious language we use in voice lessons could be shipped off to a museum of extinct metaphors.

I used to say some of these things, too, before I realized that most of them are verbal wallpaper. Decorative. Harmless. But also useless. ¹

Now I say simpler things. Simple, literal, bodily instructio…