Singing is certainly for fun and personal pleasure. To many it is also their work.

Complete beginners to very technical singers will need help, guidance or structure at some time or other....enter The Teacher!

You can't know how to sing if you don't know how to sing!

• There are 1000's of books dedicated to the voice & singing. Some even make fascinating reading! I've been studying for 20+ years and I'm more fascinated than ever. Learning from books and internet sites is useful but practical learning is considerably more rewarding. Singing is a very physical and hands-on 'activity'....
• I really enjoy the challenge of training people to sing. It IS a process and experience has shown me that even those who say that they can't sing, can; to whatever degree.
• The important thing is just to sing. Not be your own worst enemy and clam up. Expressing your 'self' means using your voice, which, to all intents and purposes is a MAJOR part of your identity. So be proud of it. Train it. Maximise it, your enjoyment of it; your ability to express yourself with it.
• Accordingly, so many people's speaking-voices change. They are often far mellower and suit the person better. The individual gains in presence, in stature.
• Teaching singing often involves a lot of freeing-up, loosening mental and vocal blockages and finding out how the voice lost it's way in the first place.

 The renowned singer Enrico Caruso said...

great singing is: "10% natural voice and 90% hard work"

Vocal Technique is:

The singing voice is a larger 'version' of the spoken voice. Each voice is unique but can be systematically trained to achieve it's fullest potential. Whether beginner or advanced, the principles are the same, the exercises similar but the intensity and detail will be different.

I believe in this approach, follow it myself and have certainly not reached the end of my vocal 'learning-rainbow'. With me, training is more to do with extending power with range, but I still need external ears whom I can trust to guide me.

How much training?

Well, what do you want to sing?

• Of course, the level of technique-training depends upon the degree to which one wants to sing 'fully' and the condition of the voice when you first come to me.
• Lighter, popular and some classical singing requires comparatively less physical training, rather fine-tuning or interpretational work.
  At the end of the day, the student chooses how far they want to go and I train their voice to that extent. Every voice is different because every 'body' is different but there is a core technique that is common to all voices.
• There is no way of predicting how many sessions are necessary to achieve one's immediate or long-term goals, BUT: 
• Within the 1st session you will already feel changes occuring.
• Within 3-5 sessions a student will have practical knowledge of lots of basic principles.
• Within 10, be able to feel how that transmits to their singing.
• Teaching singers to sense their voice-body is paramount because the 'teacher' cannot always be there. The singer must learn to evolve using their own learnt 'sensations', otherwise the process takes too long and is too costly.
• It is a steady process of 'building', rather than a quick-fix overnight process.