Looking for more like this? The Voice Teacher's Toolkit: a Warm-up Database, has over 50 singing exercises and therapies to make you the "go-to" expert in teaching and transforming voices. I walk you through them step-by-step, providing explanations of why and when I use them, demonstrations, and full accompaniments!
In this lesson, I will take you through my four key objectives when I start teaching a new student and a few drills/exercises that I use to help them reach those objectives:
1. Pitch Perfection 2. Range extension and evenness of scale 3. Length of phrase (breath control) 4. Increase of resonance or amplitude
Disclaimer I can’t guarantee that all of the methods I recommend will suit you. I only use exercises and methods I personally think are good - having tried them on myself and my clients and having a thorough understanding of vocal pedagogy - but everyone's anatomy and voice are different and it's possible these exercises won't help. Wherever possible, test the method out on yourself before applying to students.
I only feature methods I like, have tested and had consistent success with, or have seen others succeed with.
Music: "Can't Make Up My Mind" (instrumental version) Gloria Tells: Epidemic Sound
I graduated with my Masters from Yale University in Vocal Performance. I am currently serving as the Director of Voice at a university in the United States where I teach vocal pedagogy and private voice lessons; I direct the opera productions and teach vocal diction for American English, French, German, and Italian. I am also a dialect coach, perhaps the thing I'm most passionate about. I love speech and the voice! To communicate really defines us and we're born with the tools to learn how! Truly astonishing!
