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Find your own voice and develop it. Explore and develop your vocal range, vocal singing speech exercises, finding the stress areas of the body and learn how to releasing it, proper singing warm ups,
breathing exercises, working on vowel sounds, vocalized speech, raised rip cage exercises, exercises placing voice in the lower part of the face all around to the top and back of the head, dog panting exercises, finding block ages in the spine exercises, finding and improving your register, finding proper diction and so much more.
Vocal lessons are great if you sing alone, solo, with a band, but also great if you sing when playing the guitar, or when you play piano.
I really am a experienced how to open up the resonance cavities of the voice.
We must all learn not to over sing. It is a must to locate stress and blockage areas. This is essential to free the voice so the whole entire body is resonating.
The type of warm ups are very important. Some situations with the wrong teacher can cause stress, and by the time you do the warm ups your voice is rough and tight. The methods I teach are very relaxing, and always directed towards a relaxed voice.
You will find and discover qualities about your self you never thought you had.
The most important area of teaching vocals for me is vocalized speech.
I basically teaches a method based around talk singing. This is fascinating. It will develop the resonance tone areas of in your face.
It is a up lifting sensation when you can find and feel the resonance in the teeth, upper pallet of the mouth, the jaw, forehead, check bones, lips and the back of your head, ect. and ect.
The face is like an equalizer that you find on a stereo system. A good analogy to explain is how one can adjust the treble, bass or the midrange on a stereo. It is the same with the human voice. You will be amazed when you first get the hang of it, or it is demonstrated to you.
Singing A, E, I, O, U, is the basic way to find these resonant tones, and then how to develop a louder stronger richer tone. Learning how to keep the quality of resonance when changing from vowel to vowel is only one benefit of the exercise.
Another fascinating approach is developing and training the voice from establishing the falsetto voice and bridging the gap from your chest voice to your head voice. This increases your range. This can all be explained to you in easy steps.
Scat singing is another fun and effective way to express yourself vocally. Singing ba, do, be, day, fa , ba, de, bo day.
The teaching of tone, coach for character, pitch exercises, and finally a valuable self discovery in finding your innate voice, the voice that best suits you is exciting, you will find your way of expressing.
Singers tend to sing along with their favourite singers. This is good, but if it is done to much, and the singer doesn't find their own voice it is not good. I am not saying don't do this. It is great training and a great way to learn how different phrasing comes from listening to different singers. Just remember that you one day are going to sing from your heart with your own voice.
Some people at a very young age just sing the way they are, and don't have to do so much searching. Some are gifted at a young age.
During the adolescent years some singers will try to hard to do the things they cant do, They imitate, and scream or change their voice to much to sound like a singer they like. In the end you will hurt your voice.
Then you have to rebuild it. This is common.
I have worked with beginners, rock singers, I have had the honour to teach one student in particular a female that had her 3 year degree in opera singing at UFT. She came to me to help her find her softer real voice.
She came to me from a reference. If you would like to contact any off my references that would be fine.
Oakville Vocal Lessons - Rick Washbrook
The teaching of tone, coach for character, pitch exercises, and finally a valuable self discovery in finding your innate voice, the voice
that best suits you is exciting, you will find your way of expressing.
By:Rick WashbrookSeptember 24th 2010Oakville Vocal Lessons - Rick Washbrook Oakville Vocal Lessons - Rick WashbrookBy: rick washbrook
