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Making Memories For Singing Success

Whether you’re learning new material or looking for a way to breathe new life into a favorite song or a well recognized standard, a change ...

Follow Up For Follow Through

One of the challenges many face on the road to singing success is a lack of follow up or follow through. For some, it’s a ...

Seven Simple Steps to Secure Success in 2011

We’re fast approaching the New Year – a time for making resolutions. And even if you tend to avoid making that list, it’s natural to ...

Send Clear Signals to Connect to Success

Sometimes you can be so focused on getting the gig, swinging the deal, being a star or grabbing the center of attention, that your basic ...

Five Questions for Future Focus

In the pursuit of your singing success, there’s a natural tendency to focus so intensely on what you need to work on, that you forget ...

As Your Voice Grows, So Grows Your Material

Whether you’re searching for new material, seeking a new look or image for yourself or your band, or playing with a new idea or fresh ...

Simple Keys To Secure Confidence

Fear is the number one killer of confidence. Whether it’s stage fright or feeling like you won’t fit in or aren’t good enough, fear is ...

Parents See Glowing Return On Investment In Brett's Touch

Ever since their daughter, Lacey, was a toddler, Al and Cheryl Ritchie have known she had talent. But it wasn’t until they discovered Brett Manning ...

Find The Coach That’s Right For You

For many of you looking into getting a vocal coach or voice teacher, a trip to Nashville may not be possible right now. Although you ...

A Few Tips to Avoid Getting Burnt Out

To Be A Star – Avoid The Burnout One of the challenges faced in the pursuit of your singing success is the threat of burnout. ...

Take It On The Road

So you feel you’re going nowhere or you’ve simply lost the spark, and you want to do something that shakes things up so that it’s ...

Workout While You Rest Your Voice

Let’s say you have a really bad head cold or flu or you’ve strained your voice at a Sunday afternoon party while watching your favorite ...

Target Songs for Working Out

For the listener, a song can be a profoundly moving experience emotionally. A song can help someone grieve the loss of a loved one or ...

Planning 101: Reject The Unexpected

Even with the most meticulous, rigorous, faithful preparation for a live performance, things can and will go wrong. Even if you include long hours of ...

Fall Into The Habit Of Better Vocal Health

It’s that time of the year for another seasonal transition. The move from summer to fall certainly provides some environmental shifting and adaptation. And, it ...

Sing To Serve Others

We know that having an attitude of gratitude can keep us upbeat and lessen the length and severity of the occasional pity party or fit ...

Banding Together By Warming Up

One of the biggest challenges between a singer and accompanist or for band makers as a whole is communication, the ability to read each other ...

Training And Support For Singing Success

No matter how proficient you become from a technical perspective there is an intangible element that always factors into the perception of your performance as ...

Calling All Agents

If you’re serious about a career as an artist in the music industry, you will eventually need an agent. However there are a number of ...

The Singer As Leader Of The Band – Part 1

Practice and experience are obviously two of the greatest teachers. Program offerings such as Mastering Mix and Singing Success, along with sessions with a certified ...

Find The Right Coach For Your Singing Success

After surveying the top traits of effective teachers, a number of key traits or qualities kept coming up over and over. These qualities transcend culture, ...

Passion Drives Brett Manning Associates

The best teachers are driven by a passion not only for what they teach but who they teach. Many became teachers because a spark of ...

Vocal Health: Consume With Care

Brett Manning and his associates encourage proper care and maintenance for all parts of the body, mind, and spirit. The voice expresses the music and ...

Tips For Year-Round Vocal Health

Brett Manning teaches that a singer is a complex human instrument, with all parts of the body, mind, and spirit requiring proper care and maintenance to ...

Shelby Rollins: Driven To Bring Out Your Best

Driven by a passion for teaching and learning, coupled with a love and reverence for all things artsy and musical, Shelby Rollins has a lot ...

Affirm Your Creative Place In The World

It’s an often rough road to success as a singer, performer, artist, musician, composure, manager, vocal coach – in short – the road to all ...

Two BMA Coaches + Guest Solve Problems

Recently we’ve heard from several Brett Manning Associates around the globe as they share their perspective on common problems faced by singers. They looked at ...

BMA Associates Tackle Bad Habits

This is the second in a series where Brett Manning Associates from around the globe share their perspective on common problems faced by singers, the ...

Rowntree Rocks and Rules as Australian Brett Manning Associate Vocal Coach

For BMA vocal coach Sharon Rowntree, singing is a deeply rooted part of shaping each day she takes to task. It’s a driving creative force ...

Brett Manning Associates Address Common Problems

Over the next few weeks we will hear from Brett Manning Associates around the globe as they share their perspective on common issues faced by ...

Build Confidence To Secure Your Singing Success

You’ve heard the phrase, “knowledge is power”, but that’s not entirely true. If the knowledge you’ve gained contains misinformation, then by applying that knowledge, you ...

Matt Roy: Beyond Springsteen + Bon Jovi

Matt Roy of Glen Rock, N.J. is not your typical eighth-grader. For one thing, he’s been a performer since he was eight years old. In ...

Powerful Practice Songs

Anchor Songs Many singers will create a group of “anchor songs,” or best songs that they enjoy practicing. These are songs that you like to ...

The Master Mind Mixes It Up With MasterWriter 2.0

Brett Manning and Singing Success have remained faithfully committed to bringing you the best tools available to develop the fullest potential of your unique voice ...

Never Too Young Or Too Old To Sing

Imagine you’re in a crowded setting such as a shopping mall during a holiday sale. Even though we may have lost a few shopaholics, just ...

Plug In To A Power Audition

If you want to get the lead in a musical or book that weekly paying gig at a local club or make some decent money ...

Singing Through Sickness

At some point in the pursuit of your singing career you will find yourself under the weather, when a full recovery by performance time is ...

More Food For Thought On Vocal Health

As a follow up to last week’s health and diet tips, we thought we would offer some more valuable pointers to help you establish and ...

Soap Star’s World Turns Better Than Ever

Jon Hensley is a man of many creative talents. He’s an actor, singer, and songwriter. He’s also a Brett Manning protoge. He currently studies with ...

Building A Fan Base With Community Planning

One of the best resources you have for building a fan base starts with exploring your community. There may be existing opportunities to perform locally ...

Kicking Up The Confidence

Genuine self-confidence has a profound impact on how you’re perceived by others. The more self confident you are, the more likely you are to succeed. ...

Dove Award Winner Margaret Becker Still Soars

When I first came to Nashville back in 1993 I was writing for a syndicated music series for TV called, The Road. I met many ...

Brett Manning Studios: Student Spotlight – Dustin Small

Brett Manning Mixes It Up Big Time With Dustin Small After working with Brett Manning for just two short months, singer-songwriter Dustin Small has not ...

Mastering Mix Is A Manning Masterpiece

The program is about to be launched and the anticipation has been steadily rising, and for good reason. I’ve looked over the program and can ...

Giuseppe Lopizzo: Singing Success Italian Style

Giuseppe Lopizzo first discovered the vocal teaching of Brett Manning several years ago while surfing online in Italy. The 27-year-old singer, musician, and TV personality ...

Artist Development Drives Singing Success

For BMA vocal coach Dave Brooks artist development is something that helps to distinguish Singing Success and what Brett Manning Studios brings to singers and ...

How To Survive Setbacks

It sounds like a cliché but many of the greatest lessons learned and the greatest personal or professional growth comes with trial or a challenge ...

Root Bears Fruit In The Big Apple

It was five years ago when, at the ripe old age of 24, Jonathan Root and his wife, Holly, moved from Nashville, Tennessee to New ...

Win The Battle of Building Your Band

So, you’re looking to form a band, a choral group, find back up singers, or a back up band? There are a few clear steps ...