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First up, we’ll take a short vocal history: what singing experience do you have? Have you had lessons in the past, and if so, what did you learn? What did you like and dislike about those lessons? Do you play any instruments? Most importantly, do you have any health issues or vocal health concerns? Although it doesn’t happen often, I will recommend you first get checked out by a laryngologist if you have symptoms that indicate vocal injury. I am not a doctor or a speech therapist, and if that’s the care you need at this time, that comes first!

Lastly, I want to know if you have any specific concerns or goals. And while it’s okay to have the general goal of overall improvement, it’s really helpful to share what your specific goals are. That could be: strengthening your voice, eliminating strain when you sing higher, auditioning for a school musical, learning to harmonize. I want your lessons, even if we only have one lesson together, to support your goals for yourself.

MY number one goal as a teacher is your vocal health and longevity. I want to equip you to sing the songs you love, and to continue your vocal development on your own! Most of us cannot afford consistent lessons with a private teacher, so it’s very important to me that you understand what we’re working on and know how to apply what you learn in your individual practice.

Next up, we’ll do a short assessment. At this point, I assure you that it’s normal to crack at some point! Cracking is not a failure. Where and why you crack gives me valuable information to help you, so please don’t apologize if your voice does something funny. Please sing along as you’re able!

Based on that assessment, we’ll continue with some exercises to address whatever your biggest issue is. I’ll list some of the most common ones, with exercises that work for most people!

1. Issues matching pitch
If you’re struggling to match the pitch of the piano or of my voice, I’ll meet you where you’re at and play that pitch on the piano. I’ll then teach you how to use a virtual keyboard and chromatic tuner to practice pitch matching on your own!

2. Weak chest voice
We’ll do exercises that include speaking on pitch.

3. Shouting for high notes
If you’re yelling as you sing higher like this [demonstrate], we’ll find your head voice function to give you another way to approach high notes. Then we might try exercises that take you from low to high on a slightly dopey sound to override that tendency to shout. Depending on how that’s going, we may add a little intensity back into the mix on a syllable like ONE.

4. Flipping into head voice
If you flip or crack, we’ll usually use bratty or pouty exercises. Nasal exercises can also be very helpful in finding strength without getting shouty.

Last, we’ll work on a section of a song together! Typically that process involves going back and forth between the melody and exercises, removing the lyrics to sing on a warmup syllable, and learning vowel modifications to sing with more power and ease on tricky lyrics.
I hope you found this helpful! If you’d like to book a lesson OR learn at your own pace, visit 30daysinger.com.

0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Vocal History
1:53 - Assessment
5:21 - Common Issues
8:07 - Outro

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