This past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I attended a vocal clinic down at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus. It was an amazing experience. I would encourage anyone to take this class, singers and non-singers alike. I find it amazing how we grow up learning to walk, run, eat, ride a bike, etc., but so many of us are not even conscious of how to use our voices correctly. The course was much different than your typical "voice class" as it involved actual video of the vocal folds/throat and audio analyzations of the voices of our instructors, as well as our own voices. The class of 15 students was diverse... a 60+ year old Opera singer who had been teaching music for 35 years... several 17-18 olds studying music theatre... a group of gospel singers.. a worship leader. There were even a couple non-singers there, one of which just wanted to learn how to project his speaking voice more in noisy restaurants and other overpowering aural situations. I felt like I was on some episode of "Making the Band" where diversity was good for ratings. You can check out this program at www.trainmyvoice.com. It is full of ground breaking concepts, and is spreading across the world as a totally new way of looking at the voice. My good friend Diane Sheets (she sang background vocals on "A Thousand Gods") was one of the teachers. The other teacher actually works at the hospital as a throat specialist. I may write more on this experience later... above is a very cheesy picture of our class...I felt a little uncomfortable with this pose if you can't tell...
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