Advanced Vocal Training

 

Vocal Technique

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Extend your range

Explore the extremes of your range. Find your 3-octave (or 4 or 5!!) range!

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belting

Learn the difference between chest belting and mixed belting. Learn how to belt with consistency and confidence!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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Advanced Vowel Shaping

Extend your range, adjust your timbre or change the colour of your voice by exploring advanced vocal tract (or vowel) shaping!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?