Nancy Salwen

Practice Prompt: Leave your stuff around…

For a lot of us it’s “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” when it comes to practicing singing.

A great solution to this is to leave prompts in various places around your home….

• Lyric sheets […]

It’s good for your mindset as a singer (even if you’re just starting out), and it’s very important from a practical standpoint, to have easy access to your personalized toolkit.

Creating your own songbook is the perfect way to do this.

Although I know a lot of people use an […]

This is an excerpt from the LAST CHAPTER of my book, The Fear of Singing Breakthrough Program: Learn to Sing Even if You Think You Can’t Carry a Tune.

You may not be quite there yet, but don’t worry – you can be – […]

The tip in this video might be useful for you if you ever sing with a guitar player, or if you’re a beginning guitar player yourself…

It’s about how to use a capo to change the key of a song to where it fits your voice.

Very handy dandy!!

https://vimeo.com/971181575 […]

Hey Friends,

Here are some tips for singing high notes.

A few key points:
Don’t worry about them; don’t forget to breath; engage your belly muscles; and use visualization. (Visualization in general is very use for singing!)

I’ll show you what I mean in this video…

https://vimeo.com/973235711 […]

Hello  Friends,

When I teach singing, intuitive discovery, and re-discovery are at the heart of both the process and my relationships with my students. ❤️

Over the last week or so while working with students and members, the idea of focusing on feeling your voice (as opposed to […]

It’s happening again. Another singing class that says it’s for beginners but really isn’t.

Now and then I try out other singing instructors’ classes that say they’re for beginners. It’s good to know how other people are doing it — I’m always happy to find out about new ideas and approaches. But often […]

Baguio City, Philippines

This post is by my assistant, Lorens, who lives in the Philippines…

In the northern part of the Philippines resides a beautiful culture – The Cordillera Region, the ancestral homeland of the Cordillera indigenous peoples, collectively referred to as the […]

(I’m the little one with the fabulous glasses…)

I missed this clue when I was choosing a career…

When I was in summer sleepaway camp (maybe around the age of 10?), I used to sing lullabies to my bunkmates to help them […]

Hello Everyone — Meet Carlyn & Tom!

Carlyn and Tom talk about their experience in the Playground membership, how singing cheers them up, connects them, and how much more comfortable they feel singing together and in general.

“I love getting to sing at the top of my lungs and not have […]