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Providing professional instruction for children and adults seeking to learn to play piano/keyboard/guitar and read music, or to train their voice to sing with tonal clarity and ease.
Goals and Techniques
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The goal is to become as quickly as possible, independently capable of playing any type of music and to use the instrument as a means of self-expression. Depending entirely on the person’s interest, the skills I foster include sight-reading, improvisation, composition, music theory and an increased awareness of the full spectrum of sound.
Voice Coach
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The body is a living instrument. It personifies everything needed to emit sound – a soundboard, an equalizer, bellows, pipes and power source. But there are critical skills one must learn to realize the full range and register of their voice, to find one’s own sound, to not strain the vocal chords, and to be able to shift attention to performance. The most important of these are proper breath control and relaxation. I call my technique “fine-tuning the voice”. The result is an ability to sing more smoothly through the registers, and in many cases, to increase one’s range.
I also incorporate into my teaching regimen a very specialized skill called “Toning”. In its simplest form, toning is about changing discord to harmony. This is a very powerful tool that an actor or singer can use to attain a balanced, neutral state (the Tabula Rasa) – easing the transition to developing a role and connecting with an audience.
All of these skills can assist the person to create a “voice makeover” or just emanate the best sound possible.
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