Lesson Content:"My overarching goal is to provide students with more flexibility and mastery of their voice; with an under girding sense of self-belief and enjoyment in their craft. This then allows them to approach a wider variety of genres and songs of increasing complexity. It is a very nice point to reach as a singer, knowing when you begin to sing, how your voice will sound and what is going to come out."- Kirsty

Areas a vocal student can develop (depending on age and existing skill level)

Articulation: This is how we move our lips, jaw, tongue and soft palate. It is an important skill, and improves our intelligibility as singers, it also impacts on tone, and contributes towards stylistic factors.

Tone: This is the way our voice sounds. This aspect takes a while to master, but basically is the ability to approach the emotion and energy required for a song, while maintaining a pleasant sound that an audience might appreciate. 

Breath control: using the air we naturally inhale conservatively, and to support the voice properly. This impacts on tone, range, dynamic control, phrasing among many other aspects.

Posture: This goes hand in hand with Breath Control, and involves using our body the best way we can to support a free unrestricted tone 

Range: These are the highs and lows of our voice and notes between. It's not just about increasing range, but improving control and tone through out the range.

Registration: This is transferring between the head voice(Falsetto) and chest voice, as well as navigating the tricky passagio

Emotiveness: Dynamics, tone, detached, legato, aspiration, bends, slides, accents, swells. These are all considerations for the emotive singer. We also have to work on lyrical interpretation.

Self-belief: that a person learns to become friends with their voice and silence the harsh inner critic. This is harder for people who have had 'critics' from the outside world, and the perfectionist. I cry inside when I have 6 year old students petrified to sing because they hate how their voice sounds. We learn we can not compare our individual talent to anothers, but only against ourselves and where we have come from.

Vocal agility: Being able to move our voice quickly and accurately from one note to the next. 

Resonance: Moving the resonant space for singing to different areas using orophraynx manipulation. 

ALL STUDENTS LEARN A RANGE OF WARM UPS, EXERCISES AND SONGS TO ENCOURAGE AND FOSTER ALL OF THESE ELEMENTS.