Susan Anders

Sorry to say that Amazon has made it way too difficult and expensive for me to supply them with product to sell, so physical CDs and workouts are no longer available there. You can still download most of my vocal methods from this site and many other platforms, but the vocal workouts are no longer available. 

A user just wrote me about a cool way to use the method on iOS devices: Here's what he wrote:

 "I created a way to toggle the left center right stereo channel balance pressing the iPhones action button. Thought it could be of use to some of your students who need an easy quick way to change the L/R balance on iOS. 

• - you add the shortcut from the url  https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7e8dfc0ae2e548818c0d6acab6cfe12b
• then you assign the action button to “shortcut” and select the “Left Right Balance” shortcut you’ve added. 
   
•  then going forward when you press the side action button it toggles from L, to balanced, to R stereo balance. "

For years instead of hand massage I have used a percussive massager [also called a massage gun] to relax my shoulders and the sides of my neck as part of my vocal warmup. I just read an article quoting a neurologist who thinks using a percussive massager on one's neck is a dangerous practice that could possibly cause a stroke. I don't know if this is a warning all neurologists share but I'm passing the information along. Here's another article with more on the topic. If you want to heed this warning just use your massager on your shoulders, not your neck. On your neck you can go back to good old hand massage and stretches.

I got the flu and lost my voice this last spring. Here's a new blog about what did and didn't help as my voice very slowly came back.

I moved to Santa Fe in November 2023: it's a soulful small tourist town filled with art and music. I'm teaching less and writing and singing more here. On top of writing/recording my own songs I'm singing in a choir for the first time in many years: The Zia Singers. It's a kick in the pants to be sight-singing again after so long, and both fun and thrilling to be part of a large group singing beautiful contemporary choral works.

I got to study vocal improv and circle singing with the always jaw-dropping master Bobby McFerrin all last week. 200 singers from all over the world gathered in San Francisco to sing and learn. So inspiring.

I'm so happy to be teaching at CCMC this July 7-14. Loads of singing and playing all week in the beautiful Carmel Highlands. Everyone gets a little sleep-deprived and slap-happy. I'm teaching two classes all week: songwriting and vocal style. 

Big congrats to Brant Miller who is an International Acoustic Music Awards finalist in the Folk/Americana/Roots category--well deserved! Tom Manche and I worked with Brant when he was recording his nominated song No Interest In That.

It's been awhile since my quarter-life crisis but I love Julia Perla's new single Quarter Life Crisis. It's everywhere.⁠