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Our Level 1 online vocal lesson (part of our vocal course) focuses on the Vocal Fundamentals needed to build a strong foundation for the voice to work at its best when speaking and singing, and also in applying effective vocal techniques healthily. Students are first taken through a study of the Vocal Anatomy to understand how the voice works and then how to make full use of their voices through mastery of what we term the Vocal Trinity. Thereafter, you will be walked-through the three important pillars for preparing the body for optimum singing performance – posture (and physical warm-ups), breath control exercises and vocal warm-ups.
This vocal course is recommended starting point for singers who are new to the Unlock Your Voice vocal technique; a prerequisite to building a strong voice.
The first step in unlocking your voice is to understand what the voice is. This will affect how we treat, regard, train and use our voices. This course helps maximise your vocal capacity through your understanding of the vocal system – your Vocal Anatomy.
Familiarise yourself with the Vocal Trinity that makes up your voice:
Build a strong foundation for your voice to perform at its best by understanding and practising the Vocal Fundamentals. Learn how to condition the Vocal Trinity to cooperate at its best with you whenever you sing and speak.
Find out how stage fright affects your body and your vocals, and more importantly, what you can do to prevent or lessen the effects of stage fright upon your voice. Follow a routine of physical warm-ups to help relax and prepare your body for singing and speaking. Identify the most effective source you have to test if you are using your voice unhealthily.
Understand why having good posture is important in singing and speaking; get a clear idea on what makes an ideal posture for singing/speaking and how to maintain that posture to assist you in good breath control and breath support.
Learn how to warm-up your vocal cords and vocal mask properly before you sing and speak. These exercises, when included in your regular vocal warm-up routine, encourages good phonation as you sing. They also give you better idea on how to approach higher notes in an easy & relaxed manner.
This course will address common questions singers normally have as they embark on a journey to improve their voices, such as:
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+ Short quizzes to test & refresh your knowledge.
After establishing a strong foundation for your voice to work at its best in Level 1, this course will walk you through on how to amplify your voice through vocal projection and increase your vocal range so that you can reach a wider spectrum of notes without feeling any strain. The course will also introduce the fundamentals of improving your vocal connection (sing without vocal breaks/cracks) in preparation of the vocal gears that you will be learning in Level 3 to further strengthen your connection and vocal control.
A prerequisite to unlocking your vocal projection and true vocal range. Immediate results.
Vocal Projection is the key to a stronger vocal presence. Good vocal projection can save you from any strain and discomfort that comes with shouting to get yourself heard. Learn how to project your voice effectively, maximise the timbre of your sound and give your voice that extra ‘oomph’. Discover easy methods to produce a better vocal tone and projection.
Understand how to feel and access all of your vocal registers to unlock your full vocal range. Learn what vocal resonance is and what exercises you can do to place your resonance in your different vocal registers to help you sing across a much wider vocal range, reaching low and high notes with ease. You’ll also get a clearer idea on how it is possible to speak in your different vocal registers – giving you the ability to speak in a lower or higher pitch/voice as you deem fit for the occasion.
This lesson will address common questions that singers have such as:
Vocal Connection is the key to smoothening the transitions between your vocals and getting that smooth blend across your vocal range. Learn how to strengthen your Vocal Connection and make your transitions between your Vocal Registers across your vocal range seamless – one of the ways is to simply use only muscles that need to be used while singing. Find out how to get that going with Vocal Fry and perform vocal exercises that can help you cultivate that habit.
This course is important in preparing you to pump up the volume of your Vocal Connection with your Vocal Gears in level 3.
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+ Audio notes to practice with.
+ Short quizzes to test & refresh your knowledge.
Picking up from Level 2, this course is designed to take singers from intermediate to advanced vocal techniques. Equipping you with the Vocal Gears, you’ll be able to drive your voice to achieve the 4 stunning sounds that professional singers use and mix all the time, to achieve great vocal control, power, flexibility and your own signature sound. The Vocal Gears are essential to allowing a singer to fully express himself/herself without any vocal limitations.
Get acquainted with all your Vocal Gears!
By engaging different gears, you can improve your vocal connection, strengthen the power of your full vocal range, increase your vocal options and also achieve better vocal control and flexibility.
Obtain insight on how professional singers are able to generate different sounds by using different vocal gears and get a glimpse of how you can further develop and distinguish your own sound by using the various vocal gears: Anchor, Frost, Cry & Belt.
Learn how to use Anchor:
There is no other vocal gear more delicate, gentle and ‘heavenly’ sounding as Frost. Learn how to use Frost – the vocal gear behind all the ethereal voices that we love:
Learn how to engage in Cry, a popular vocal gear used by professional singers across all music genres.
Why? Cry is the vocal gear that is best when it comes to improving your overall vocal connection; your key to more vocal flexibility. It can also help you deliver notes with amazing power.
Learn how to belt out notes with power and ease! Belting is not reserved only for those with great pipes – you can now learn how to engage this vocal gear to deliver the ‘full voice’ effect in your higher vocal register, which includes both your high mix and your head voice.
Clear examples are provided so you can understand and compare the sound quality of every vocal gear.
After you’ve acquainted yourself with the Vocal Gears, you’ll learn how to mix them up to do more wonders with your voice!
+ Study notes.
+ Audio files to practice with.
+ Short quizzes to test & refresh your knowledge.
After learning the Vocal Gears in Level 3, this course will take your vocal gear skills up a notch – helping you to tighten up your control of the specific vocal gears that can help you sing strongly in your head voice and chest voice. This course will also help you establish the link between your vocal registers and vocal gears, so that you’ll not only be able to reach your higher and lower notes very comfortably, but with great power and versatility. Thereafter, the course will address some of the most common problems that singers face when singing – so that you can constantly troubleshoot the vocal challenges that you may face from time to time as you continue to improve your voice even after this programme.
A vocal course that is perfect for those who are trying to achieve more power in their higher and lower vocal range. This course also helps you fine-tune your vocal control, singing techniques, tone quality, vocal range & more by troubleshooting the most common vocal challenges and problems that singers face.
Learn how to strengthen your head voice – the voice that can help you to hit high notes easily! Get a better idea of how your use of vocal registers can affect your vocal gears.
Learn how to strengthen your chest voice; develop and strengthen your deeper-sounding voice to sing low notes easily!
Troubleshoot some common problems that singers face and learn how to overcome them. This segment will address the following:
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+ Audio files to practice with.
+ Short quizzes to test & refresh your knowledge.
A complete syllabus that will help you unlock your voice and allow you to sing freely and healthily with great vocal power, range, control, connection & flexibility. This course is an essential tool for any singer who wants to draw out their true and best singing skills. Unlock Your Voice reveals the vocal techniques professional singers have been using all along, and is designed to equip you with the knowledge needed to continuously improve your voice on your own, even after completing this course.
The complete Unlock Your Voice programme, perfect for students who want to increase the capacity, flexibility and diversity of their voices – students who want to unlock the full spectrum of their vocal potential and develop their own unique sound and style of singing.
This programme combines the syllabus of Level 1 – 4, all into one, to be learnt at your own pace.
It begins by first helping you to build a strong foundation for your voice to work at it’s best and gain better vocal stamina to last long hours of singing and speaking. While building this foundation, you will learn how stage fright affects the voice, and what can be done to lessen or dampen its effects on your voice.
Thereafter you will be walked through the mechanics of the voice, equipping yourself with what all singers need to know about their Vocal Anatomy. From there you will learn how to create more awareness and engage in all of the Vocal Trinity (The Power Source, The Vibrator and the Resonator), which is necessary for any singer who wants to sing in their best-sounding voice. You will learn how to practice good posture, breath control, and vocal-warmups to condition the Vocal Trinity to cooperate well with you when it comes to singing.
Once you’ve got that going, you can then move on to maximising your vocal projection. Learn the easiest and quickest ways to get a projected voice, and condition your body to provide stronger breath support as needed in vocal projection and for you to learn advanced vocal techniques.
As your vocal projection improves, the programme will stir you into expanding your vocal range, by strengthening all of your Vocal Registers (chest voice, mix/middle voice, head voice & whistle register). You will learn how to be sing any notes, whether high or low, in the most comfortable way, by using all of your vocal registers. But that’s not all, you will also learn how to connect all these registers well, so you can have a good vocal mix; use ‘one voice’ that can sing across all of your vocal range.
From there, you’ll move on to increasing your vocal connection, by learning how to engage in the 4 Vocal Gears. The 4 vocal gears help you tap into your natural ability to sing, making it possible for you to sing in all sorts of styles (ethereal and smooth, chesty/shouty, metallic/edgy & belt) almost effortlessly. These vocal gears are commonly used by professional singers in Contemporary Music, and are absolutely necessary for any singer who wishes to be able to take on any song with confidence, great vocal control and style. You will also learn how to mix and switch these vocal gears effectively to help you accomplish better vocal dynamics and enhance your overall vocal performance.
The last part of the programme is designed to help you get that ‘x-factor’ sound in the higher and lower part of your vocal range – to help you sing powerfully in your chest and head voice. The same segment is dedicated to ensure that you’ll be always be able to approach those ‘difficult’ high and low notes with no strain or discomfort.
The programme will then conclude with a troubleshooting segment to address all of the common vocal problems that singers face – from sounding too nasally, child-like and/or artificial, to trouble sustaining notes, vocal connection, hitting high notes, to breath support & etc.
+ Study notes.
+ Audio files to practice with.
+ Short quizzes to test & refresh your knowledge.
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