Tips, Tutorials & Workouts

Vocal coach Charmaine Brown shares tips and strategies to get the most out of your voice.

In this video, vocal coach Charmaine Brown shares important habits to put in place in order to have a healthy, well-functioning singing voice. Your voice is an instrument—and such a uniquely complex one because it’s part of your body. It’s inside of you, and so, it functions well to the extent that your body functions well! 

In a live community call, a worship vocalist expressed that singing in her low range was a challenge. We worked on the song “Amazing Grace”—engaging her chest voice muscles as she sang those same lower notes, and the transformation was truly remarkable! Weak lower notes were suddenly strong when she used chest voice instead of head voice!

Many vocalists have a hard time doing lip rolls properly, and so instead of the exercise creating these amazing benefits, it ends up causing tension and frustration! If that’s you, check out these 8 tips to help you troubleshoot your lip rolls—hopefully something in here will help!

Vocal coach Charmaine Brown shares tips and strategies for how to sing popular contemporary worship songs.

Navigate the wide vocal range of this song, sing with power and freedom, eliminate excess tension in your voice, sing in a contemporary-sounding mix voice tone, and connect your vocal delivery with what the lyrics are saying.

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!

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 set of vocal exercises that use pharyngeal resonance to develop a blended mix of your chest and head voice registers.

Sing along with Worship Vocalist coach Charmaine Brown as she leads you through a set of vocal exercises specifically designed to develop more freedom, flexibility and control in your higher range.

Sing along with Worship Vocalist coach Charmaine Brown as she leads you through a set of vocal exercises specifically designed to develop more freedom, flexibility and control in your higher range.

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…

Singing tip video - When to Sing Harmony on a Worship Team

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 the role of background vocalist, supporting vocalist, harmony singer on worship team - Worship Team Training Video

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.