How to choose a Singing Teacher
Always try a lesson before you choose a Vocal Coach or Singing Teacher and even then, you can of course see as many singing teachers as you find helpful. No loyalty is needed to a teacher, be loyal to your own progress. Always look at what was the route they have come and training they have had to be calling themselves a Singing Teacher or Vocal Coach.
Below are terms used but not protected or well defined, and what teachers teach varies enormously. Every teacher, like every pupil, is different.
- Singing teacher, Vocal coach, Singing Tutor, Singing Coach, Voice Specialist, Music Teacher, Music Theory teacher,
- Classical singing lessons, Voice lessons, Aural Training, Opera lessons, singing classes, Drama coaching, Vocal Technique, Audition preparation, Vocal Training, Sight-reading, Intonation, voice issues, Professional Voice user development, Singing lessons for adults or children. Singing courses, Sore voice issues, High notes, Vocal pitch range, Projection, Vocal stamina, Breathing, Breathwork. Performance Anxiety, Listening, Rhythm, Character development, Confidence, Posture, Vocal Anatomy, Musical memory training, Vocal health…
Working With People Who Have Given Up Smoking or are Recovering From Covid
Some of my pupils had Covid early on and I worked with them to get their normal breathing back as they got better. One had got into the habit of high shallow breathing which was all she could do with Covid. As the covid subsided, she was like some smokers I have taught in the past. When they give up smoking and some healing does happen, they still sometimes breath as if they are still smokers, not realising the new capacity they get back gradually after giving up. Learning to use again what has been given back as you get better is really important.