Welcome to Vocal Workout, a place to exercise your voice!

What is Vocal Workout?
Vocal Workout is a voice technique course devised by Nadia Piave and open to all singers and voice users. In this course we go into the detail of healthy phonation, spending time on vocal drills and exercises, an area of voice maintenance often overlooked. The course is suitable both for singers with limited experience and for professional singers who may not have explored the benefits of vocal drills.

This course offers a regular weekly space in which students can ‘workout’ - explore and have demystified various vocal drills presented by an expert practitioner in a methodical order.

Who does Vocal Workout suit?
Vocal Workout is a Beginners voice course for people who wish to improve their knowledge of vocal technique for application to singing for better enjoyment. It will suit professional and amateur solo singers, choristers and speakers who lack technical approaches to vocal delivery. The course addresses breath management, better resonance, range extension, pitch improvement and holding a part. If bad habits have crept in over the years, rest assured these can be broken and replaced with new healthy ones through the application of monitored vocal drilling.

What do we do in Vocal Workout?
The program features vocal drills of various styles devised by the great voice teachers, past and present including Diack, Marchesi, Herbert-Caesari, Miller and Stoloff.

In Vocal Workout, students will learn to:

• increase flexibility and agility in the voice
• sing scales and modes smoothly and with accurate intonation
• use vocal devices such as staccato, messa di voce, legato and scat
• develop breath control in florid or improvised passages
• extend their range

Why spend time on vocal drills?
A muscle will only grow with repetition of specific drills and the same applies to voice work. The repetition of technique-specific drills will instill a practice and maintenance regime necessary for continued care and longevity of the human voice.

Upon successful completion of the course, a student’s outcomes will include:

• knowledge of a range of vocal ‘methods’ and their uses
• proficiency in vocal exercises
• improved range extension, agility and flexibility
• understanding of breath management techniques
• ability to devise a regular practice regime

About Nadia Piave
Nadia’s teaching experience is vast, having worked with adult, teen and junior voice users for over 25 years. As a performer Nadia has explored vocal styles from Renaissance to operatic and classical, to ‘world’, jazz and contemporary art music, and most recently, spoken word.

It is Nadia’s belief that longevity, and compelling performance outcomes in singing and speech, are based on solid principals of healthy vocal technique.