The Contemporary Vocal Studio offers ongoing development for students wishing to extend their performance and musical understanding in the area of contemporary singing. This course will focus on the contemporary genres of blues, pop, soul, funk, and jazz, and will encourage the student to develop their personal singing style further, whilst exploring more advanced vocal techniques and exercises.

Students will explore:

• Challenging vocal exercises and techniques
• Extending the breath for long note work
• Improvisation
• Advanced ways of interpreting songs and executing different approaches to repertoire
• Executing challenging vocal parts
• Jazz – learning a song, singing through the chord changes, learning the harmony and rhythm parts, and honing a jazz vocal tone
• Advanced breathing techniques
• Establishing practice routines
• Breaking bad vocal habits
• How to rehearse and workshop a song

Students will experience a supportive and encouraging learning environment, aimed at enhancing their vocal ability and understanding. This course is designed to be an on-going workshop that will suit a participant for one term or as a regular singing class. There will be opportunities for solo singing as well as group work and in the last class of term the students will give an informal, in-class concert for family and friends.