Vocal Workout – a place to exercise your voice!
Give your voice a workout using the great singing methods of the past and present – Diack, Marchesi, Concone and Aebersold. This course will help you to develop healthy vocal habits and improve technique. 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.

Vocal Workout was devised to fill the need for the tuition of good healthy voice drills, an area of voice maintenance often overlooked in this fast-paced world. The course is suitable both for singers with limited experience and for professional singers who may not have explored the benefits of vocal drills – rest assured if bad habits have crept in over the years then these can be broken and replaced with new healthy ones, through the application of monitored vocal drilling.

Entry: open to anyone with some singing experience. N.B:The ability to pitch accurately is important for this course.

The basics of healthy vocalisation will be explored through a Call and Response format where drills are demonstrated and students are asked to copy these in their own acoustic space

*Open discussions on technique are welcome and encouraged and a range of Vocal ‘Methods’ are explored

In Vocal Workout Students will learn how 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, portamento and scat
• develop breath control in florid or improvised passages
• extend their range through register blending

On successful completion of the course, a student’s outcomes should 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

Please Note: this course will suit singers of all repertoires from classical through to jazz and world music, however the course does NOT involve the singing of any solo repertoire