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Sorry the titles are a bit fast! The pause button is your friend here. p.s oops, I appear to have baked in a misused colon, never-mind. www.tmvoicetraining.com thomas@tmvoicetraining.com

A few spontaneous thoughts on using moaning to get rid of shrillness and tightness in your voice and to bring in more depth, power, richness, warmth and openness, as well as helping to stabilise the upper range. For lessons find me at thomas@tmvoicetraining.com or www.tmvoicetraining.com

This one especially goes out to all my MTD people. Hope this helps someone, hang in there! For lessons get me at thomas@tmvoicetraining.com or look me up at www.tmvoicetraining.com

I knocked this together a couple of months ago, just trying things out. Ended up sounding like a John Lewis Christmas ad. The photo is St George's Park, Bristol.

This one's just for fun: my little party trick. It makes people leave the party. Introvert smash. I've included a few tips on how to DIY so that you, too, can make people go away, far away. Here's a link to my Fiverr if you want to hear more of this nonsense: www.fiverr.com/tmvoicetraining/provide-character-accented-and-narrational-voice-over-work

Making great progress. The before and after here are about 7 months apart. www.tmvoicetraining.com thomas@tmvoicetraining.com

Just dug out this old widescreen tub-thumper from the archives. Recorded with my old band First Season circa about 2012 I think. Sharing is caring.

A heavy and challenging exercise that, applied correctly and judiciously, can really help to build chest voice and bring colour and depth to your open belt vowels, as well as help to fill out your upper range. For lessons get in touch at thomas@tmvoicetraining.com

The falsetto, exercised properly and to the right degree, can be a very powerful training tool. Here's how. For lessons, get me at thomas@tmvoicetraining.com

Quick demo of how the big voice helps the little voice using Leonard Cohen's The Partisan (itself a quasi-cover, for the nitpickers). I love soft singing but until I strengthened my chest voice with big, heavy, robust sounds it never felt reliable. For lessons git me at thomas@tmvoicetraining or just holler on here, whatever.

Kids, don't try this at home! At least not at first! It typically takes a long time to be able to build sufficient vocal fitness and co-ordination to do this! But this is a brief primer on the basic ingredients... For lessons, hmu at thomas@tmvoicetraining.com

A little taste of how the falsetto can really open up your voice and make the high notes pretty easy. It's not that we sing in falsetto - more that we sing WITH falsetto, by training it in isolation and then bringing in just enough chest connection to keep the edge and presence. For lessons HMU at thomas@tmvoicetraining.com or go to www.tmvoicetraining.com

and when I say "live" I mean I did it in my living room on a rainy day with an iphone.

Been trawling the archives and exhumed the above. This little fella comes from the olden days of 2009. What he lacks in polish he makes up for in vim and brio. The picture is from St George's Park in Bristol, during one of its regular volcanic eruptions.

The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot read by Thomas Martin

What happens in chest/falsetto...DOESN'T stay in chest/falsetto

Optimal use of the speaking voice

opera practise July 23

opera progress

depth and brightness

how to properly engage chest voice

maximise pharyngeal resonance

Last year's Man

More grainy-ass footage of me practising my developing opera voice.

impromptu stranger song cover

Leonard Cohen - Last Year's Man

Leonard Cohen - The Partisan (“I am a bit drunk” edition)

Being inventive with practice opportunities.