Singing Lessons For No One

Fan Mail Portal Well, Hello 2024.  How are we? What say we start the year with a singing Episode of singing? What a good idea, what what! Hey, did you know I have a new EP out on BANDCAMP - you can check it out via my website at shelly.com.au And you can support this podcast by heading to Patreon - Shelly_Brown This episode recaps some of my anchor lessons from my choir shenanigans of 2023.  And w...

Fan Mail Portal Dear sweet humans, I am beyond delighted to share with you that I have a NEW EP out January 1 - 2024. It's called In We Dive. As this podcast nears is 100k Streams, I need to sing from the hills to you to please go check out my music. This is gonna be really weird if you don't like it... But you've come this far with me, SO I can't imagine that you will not. Rig...

Fan Mail Portal Hi Beautiful People,  Thanks for Listening and following and supporting and your letters and hello's.  Today we do a quick warm up for my chickens: Chocolate (Cocklario); Caramel (Cam Cam) and Penelope (PenelopWa).  Then we head in to do a vocal warm up the way I warm up my choir.  Jammin, scales, vocal sounds, loosening up.  The We sing a song for the word Home.  How good are...

Fan Mail Portal Hiya. How's it going? I think I'm a bit scatty in this one. You'll forgive me.  It's all good.  Two warm ups, one to calm you down and one to wake you up.  Then off we go singing "Hold Me" By The Teskey Brothers.  The Chords for this are C Major to Dminor, Then Dminor back to C! Easy! Go play it on something if you wanna!  Thanks so much for listening...

Fan Mail Portal Well Hey There,  Happy New Things.  In this Episode we're looking at relaxing your voice on ascending vocal melody.  We're in E Major, it's got a very Major Pentatonic Vibe.  Hi to my sister walking up a hill - these are motivational shoutouts to get you up the hill you're on! Go you! You're a good Egg! Please jump on my Patreon if you want to hear the epis...

Fan Mail Portal I just baked Banana Bread. Our freezer was full of banana's. It was getting weird. So here's a warm up exercise using a Major Chord and a Minor Chord 1 2 3 5 3 2 1 in Gb Major, over to 1 2 b3 5 b3 2 1 in Ab minor. In a 3/4 time, " What is that thing I can smell Is it some thing I don’t like? What is that Banana smell? Is it banana bread?" It'll make sense....

Fan Mail Portal Hey Beautiful People. Today we're chatting about your cocoon, your safe happy place for singing.  And thinking about Speech Quality - this honest real amazing part of your voice that sounds how you sing, and sings how you speak.  and then we had into a minor pentatonic jam on the Revolution baby! oooh Yeah! Thanks for coming with me on this ride! See ya soon! x Shelly Support...

Fan Mail Portal Hey! How are you?! **Cheeky Advertisement, - New episode out NOW for Patrons and coming to your ears soon. Thanks for listening!!!*** I just wanted to let you know in case you or someone you know may be local to this area that I will be running a series of workshops on Songwriting and Vocal Joy. It's like the podcast, but with a group, in a studio, so its not really like the p...

Fan Mail Portal Hiya,  Today I wanted to have a chat about all the things that get in the way of you singing. Push 'em over! Get them outta here! Let your voice fly free! Then we'll have a big long note, breathe deep sing for Sparrows! I was a little bit hypo about the bass. Fun as fun can be.  Exploring harmonies, open your mouth, let it out.  Thanks for singing with me! https://www.pat...

Fan Mail Portal Hey Look at me cooking with Gas! I know right! Hey, in this episode we explore the Major Pentatonic Scale - 1 2 3 5 6 it starts a little jazzy, grooves past country and rounds the corner in soul music as it usually does round here... Then we delve into a world of Vocal Registers.  From your chest voice- where you might normally speak, up through to your head voice. And the grand ca...

Fan Mail Portal Hi Dear Singing Lesson for No One Community! Here is a long overdue Singing Lessons For No One Episode for you to sink your teeth into.  In this Episode, we explore singing Vowels, Consonants and Singing from the Heart, or what I call Bosom Singing. You know when you hug someone to your chest in a caring warm hug in to the chest kind of way? Yeah, well, it's that, but in singi...

Fan Mail Portal Hi there, this Episode features the song by the delightful Vince Jones called 'Jettison' from his 2004 Live Album.  I lead you through diving down from your G Major Scale to the D Mixolydian Scale and then we learn the Trumpet line from there.  I do take it up a few semitones at the end so you can feel it in different keys.  D is pretty Low on this horn line for me, but I...

Fan Mail Portal Hello 2021, you crazy chicken. I've missed making my podcast so very much and I aim to jump back on the bandwagon as much as I can this year.  If you love it half as much as I do, please jump on my Patreon at  https://www.patreon.com/Shelly_Brown In this Episode we explore Modes. A way of singing new scales and exploring music theory. You'll hear me stretch my range a lit...

Fan Mail Portal Episodes are in the Pipeline The Cat is in the Bag The Eagle has left the nest The snake is in the frypan I have a few Episodes in final stages and it's been so long between hello's I thought I'd make a trailer to say Hi.  Hope you're doing well. Here's my Hello.  https://www.patreon.com/Shelly_Brown https://www.facebook.com/singinglessonsfornoonepodcast ht...

Fan Mail Portal In the key of E minor- the Minor 11 Chord 1, flat 3, 5, flat 7, 9, 11 And then a chordal game where you take out one number and still sing the rest of the exercise. And then a songwriting game, I'll start you off, and then you make something up... "I don't know which way I should Go..... I wanna be free baby". This episode we had the incredible Grant Gerathy (Jo...

Fan Mail Portal Welcome Back! It's been too long :) Season 2 - Episode 1 Harmonic Minor Scale 1, 2, flat 3, 4, 5, flat 6, natural 7, 8 Egyptian sound at the bottom, and spooky at the top. "I haven't had my coffee yet"... :) Working on a song by Mama Kin Spender called " Air Between Us " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZNl95axbU&feature=emb_logo Chords: || Bmin ...

Fan Mail Portal Let's just have a look at "The Fear", if any, of singing, and consider the idea of putting it on the ground.  Then The Natural Minor (Aeolian Mode) 1; 2; flat 3; 4; 5; flat 6; flat 7; 8. And then have a look at the vocal round in "People Want to Sing", by Brisbane Band 'Kooii'. And Try some exercises with Vibrato.  Links: https://kooii.bandcamp.co...

Fan Mail Portal This is the exercise tape for running through sounds, playing with techniques, covering some basic music theory and good times. Ending up on the Minor 9 Chord. 1; flat 3; 5; flat 7; 9. Thanks for listening. Laugh Love Law Real conversations. Real people. Real impact. A podcast about life, law and... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show https://www.patreon.com/S...

Fan Mail Portal This Ep we're going to hassle out "Twang quality". We're going to find the strength and supreme delight in getting you nose working when you sing. It's totally a thing.  If you're a visual kind of person, get out something and write this on it: The Blues Scale: 1; flat 3; 4; flat 5; 5; flat 7; 8. Then we're gonna sing a Blues song about getting st...

Fan Mail Portal Hi, welcome back, come on in. Today we're going to attack the Minor Pentatonic Scale. If you're a visual learner, write this down on a big piece of something in front of you: 1; flat 3; 4; 5; flat 7; 8. Now that's stuck in your brain forever, we're going to manipulate your sound to play with "Sob" Quality. Open your throat, smile, don't worry abou...

Fan Mail Portal Hi How are you, come on in! Welcome. This episode will have you warming up and singing some basic Major scale exercises.  You can listen to these episodes as a whole, or, every two episodes will have a version with all the chit chat cut out, so you can just use the exercises.  Please feel welcome to send through requests, questions and feedback.  Thanks for listening. www.shelly.co...