Tips, Tutorials & Workouts
Vocal coach Charmaine Brown shares tips and strategies to get the most out of your voice.

If you struggle with fatigue, tension, instability, breathiness, weakness or lack of range in your voice, this vocal tip is for you! Singing through a straw (also called “straw phonation”) is an incredible vocal technique that helps your vocal muscles build efficient coordination and balance (which for you means more freedom, range, stamina and flexibility!), reduces vocal strain, helps your voice recover from fatigue or sickness, and so much more! In this short video, you’ll learn the why, how and when of singing through a straw so that you can start incorporating it into your vocal routine!
Vocal coach Charmaine Brown shares tips and strategies for how to sing popular contemporary worship songs.

Watch and sing along with vocal coach Charmaine Brown as she shares exercises, strategies and Scriptures that will help you sing with power and freedom throughout the (wide!) range of this song, eliminate excess tension in your voice, sing in a contemporary-sounding mix voice tone, connect your vocal delivery with what the lyrics are saying

Watch and sing along with vocal coach Charmaine Brown as she shares exercises and strategies that will help you sing in a powerful, contemporary-sounding mix voice throughout your range; vary your vocal resonance to create beautiful dynamic contrast; sing with breathy & edgy texture to add style and dynamics; and connect your vocal delivery with what the lyrics are saying!

Watch and sing along with vocal coach Charmaine Brown as she shares exercises and strategies that will help you nail the high notes in a powerful, contemporary-sounding mix voice; navigate the low notes with greater ease; create a beautiful, dynamic journey throughout the song; and, sing with energy and intention!
These vocal workouts were recorded live on Zoom with Worship Vocalist subscribers, along with Worship Vocalist coach Charmaine Brown as well as other guest coaches. The workouts in the “Discover Your Voice” and “Master Your Voice” courses are your “bread-and-butter” workouts, but use these to supplement your vocal training, challenge your voice, and keep things fresh!

Sing along with Worship Vocalist coach Charmaine Brown as she leads you through a vocal workout honing in on 3 different exercises and 3 different scale variations for each exercise. Each exercise is purposeful for developing your mix voice (a blend of resonators that allows us to have a seamless vocal tone throughout our range!), and each scale pattern is purposeful for training your voice to have power, freedom and balance!
Vocal coach Charmaine Brown shares practical tips and strategies for singing harmony on a worship team!

Get ready to dive into an important topic for every worship team—how to make a co-lead vocal arrangement sound amazing! In this video, you’ll learn how to identify different voice types and where they sound best in their range, the importance of arranging a song for your team vs mimicking the original recording, how to get the best sound you possibly can with the team you have, how to assign songs and harmony parts based on the strengths of your team members, and more…

Do you sing on a worship team? Maybe you know HOW to sing harmony but wonder WHEN are the best times in the song to add harmony! Or maybe you struggle to know WHAT harmony part you should sing… Low or high?! When you have multiple vocalists on the team, how do you plan out when and what each vocalist will sing? I’m here to help answer these questions!

Learn practical strategies on how to assist and support your worship leader, the overall sound, and the worship experience you’re creating as a team. And even more than that… understand that your role goes so much further than just the sound! It’s about our whole presence—our appearance and body language on stage—and the heart and attitude that we bring to the team!
Vocal coach Charmaine Brown answers questions from Worship Vocalist subscribers.