Advanced Vocal Training
For Working Singers
Take your voice further.
For experienced singers, professional performers, working musicians and artists, lessons can go beyond the basics.
We can refine technique, expand your vocal options, improve stamina and consistency, prepare for performances or recordings, and deepen your understanding of your instrument.
My approach combines evidence-based functional vocal technique with musicality and creativity. Rather than forcing every singer into the same system, we’ll focus on what your voice needs and how to make it work for the music you want to make.
Sessions may include:
Vocal technique and coordination
Registers, mixing and healthy belting
Range and vocal flexibility
Stamina and consistency
Performance preparation
Microphone and recording technique
Interpretation and musicality
Harmony and improvisation
Songwriting and arranging
Preparing for auditions, shows or recording sessions
Whether you’re looking to troubleshoot something specific or want an ongoing space to keep developing as an artist, lessons can be tailored to where you are now and where you want to go next.
Vocal Technique
Extend your range
Explore the extremes of your range. Find your 3-octave (or 4 or 5!!) range!
belting
Learn the difference between chest belting and mixed belting. Learn how to belt with consistency and confidence!
Master the mixed Voice
Solve the mystery of the mixed voice once and for all! How you can find and control the mixed voice to sing higher and more powerfully than you ever thought possible!
Advanced breath Control
Breath is your voice’s power source. Ensure that you are in full control, from the inhale to release! Control breath for vocal health, stability, and style!
Healthy Phonation
Learn how vocal fold compression affects phonation (a fancy way of saying making a sound!) Learn how singing with connected, unconnected, or overconnected vocal folds can impact your vocal range, tone, and health!
Smooth out all the Vocal bridges
Does your voice click or crack? Learn how to reduce tension at each of your vocal bridges for smooth and effortless signing through your full range!
Advanced Vowel Shaping
Extend your range, adjust your timbre or change the colour of your voice by exploring advanced vocal tract (or vowel) shaping!
Advanced Registration
Master your vocal registers; chest, head, and mixed voices! Learn about heavy and light phonation. Explore the extreme registers like vocal fry and whistle tone as well.
Musicality
Music theory and ear training and their applications. Understand harmony and chord theory and apply that to your song work and songwriting.
song Writing
Learn about traditional and non-traditional song form, harmony, and melody creation. Workshop your songs with me and with other songwriters!
Chords and Harmony
Understand harmony, chords and how to construct songs!
Riff and runs
Find your inner Meriah and master the melisma. Improve your vocal dexterity and play with the most influential vocal effect of this generation.
Improvisation
Develop advanced listening skills and learn how to explore melodies confidently through vocal improvisation. Master creative phrasing and melody manipulation.
Career Development
Start your singing career off on the right foot with supportive mentorship. Receive guidance through all the early stages of a long and happy career from writing and recording your first song to feedback, distribution, and time management.
Tour or recording project support
Personalized support during your ongoing projects! I’m here to make sure that you’re feeling at vocal your best every single day.
Vocal health and Sustainability
Learn how you can stay healthy take after take, show after show. Never experience vocal fatigue again through advanced, healthy, and sustainable voice work.
Career mentorship
Need help with a gig poster or an album cover? Releasing a song and don’t know how to distribute it? Trying to book a gig? Looking to hire a band? Need to know how to set up mechanical rights? Joining SOCAN? Booking a tour? I got you. I’ve been there and I can help you to navigate the early stages of your singing career with confidence and grace.
Modern or Classical technique
Learn the right kind of technique for your prefered musical style. Singing classically requires classical technique and signing modern repertoire requires modern technique. learn the difference and apply what works for you.
Vocal Anatomy
Understand how the respiratory system, the vocal folds, and the vocal tract make up one of the most beloved instruments in history.
The Respiratory System
How does breath – the vocal power source – affect the voice?
The ‘Voice Box’
How does the larynx and the vocal cords – the vocal vibrating body – affect the voice?
The Vocal Tract
How does the vocal tract – the vocal resonator – affect the voice?
Somatic Singing
How can I use my understanding of vocal anatomy to improve my relationship with my voice?