Singing Training
Looking to improve your singing abilities?
Drew Douglass, MS, CCC-SLP can help you achieve your goals
Drew’s Philosophy on Singing Training
Vocalists often focus on skills like getting a better sound, reaching certain notes, or utilizing better breath, etc. While these are important aspects to singing, they are often approached in a one-dimentional way, meaning the focus is on only one aspect of voice production. The result is often that the skill does not become integrated with the rest of singer’s automatic vocal habits, and therefore continues to require effort for success, potentially distracting from other aspects of singing.
As we know, singing is an incredibly complex activity, and when faced with such a big responsibility as singing at our best, it is essential to cut through the noise in a way that aligns and coordinates all the components of vocal production. When we integrate several voice improvements simultaneously into the same exercise, we get a sort of quantum effect of voice optimization. Utilizing these principles of voice integration promotes increased vocal ease, efficiency, endurance, range, and agility.
Drew’s Methods for Singing Training
When you start sessions, have a few tunes ready to work on which present challenges to your singing. You and Drew will identify the source of obstacles and practice eliminating them while reinforcing optimal voice habits throughout the rest of your vocal mechanism. This usually includes some repetitive exercises and a lot of actual singing through parts of songs.
Drew’s primary focus is giving you exactly what you’re looking for, and nothing else. This helps eliminate the coach/client style barrier, and also insures you’ll come away with something useful to work on. As a Voice Specialist, Drew has years of experience detecting and analyzing minute, overlapping, and subtle vocal characteristics, which afford him a unique ability to cut right to the core of a voice issue and immediately provide pertinent solutions. You’ll come away from each session with a customized set of practical and effective exercises for targeting the specific aspects of voice production necessary for achieving your goals.
Expect BIG Results
For Pros, just a few subtle tweaks to your technique can render powerful improvements, and for novices, a few key skills and knowledge of do’s and dont’s will get you far. As your voice becomes more adept at maintaining optimal coordination of breath, phonation, and resonance, lines that were previously a challenge will flow more smoothly, notes at both ends of your range will become easier and stronger, and passaggio transitions will become more effortless.
As new and improved vocal skills and habits become integrated into your automatic technique, you’ll be better equipped to tackle new singing challenges in the future. Through our sessions, you’ll gain increased confidence in identifying and promoting good vocal habits while eliminating bad ones. Ultimately, whether you need just a little vocal tweaking or a total overhaul, expect come away from our sessions with meaningful and lasting skills and improvements.