We love to watch you learn!
What happens in a 1:1 voice lesson?
1—Check in
We’ll take a few minutes to catch up on your progress from the previous week and discuss anything that came up for you. This is the perfect time to ask questions and make sure you know what “the right track” means for you.
2—Warm-ups and exercises
Yes, those are different things, isn’t that cool?! Warm-ups help to get the muscles and tissues in and around your voice ready to work. Exercises target and build specific skills that align with your vocal journey. This portion of your lesson is important for conditioning your voice and for getting your brain/mind into a flow for learning.
3—Repertoire & daily life practice
If your lesson is focused on singing for the day, we’ll work through some repertoire, or song selections, to solidify the techniques we worked on during the exercises. For speech work, we can find some scripted materials to practice (tongue twisters and children’s books are crowd favorites), or we can implement the skills from your exercises into spontaneous speech related to your daily life. This portion of the lesson is where we start building muscle memory—you start learning to balance the cognitive load of what you’re communicating with how it sounds while you do it.
4—Recap and practice plan
At the end of our lesson, we’ll review and reinforce some of your strongest learning moments. This is a time to celebrate yourself! Claim ownership of your own progress and process; no one’s journey looks the same.
What else happens in a 1:1 voice lesson?
Self-knowledge
Our job is to help guide you toward a better relationship with your voice, not tell you what it is or what it should be. We’ll ask you questions like “what does your voice need today?” Your job is to keep learning how to tune in with yourself.
Self-expression
It may seem fundamental that you would learn about expressing yourself with more authenticity, and it is. This includes concepts like code-switching, gender fluidity, social vs personal expression, and often stretching familiar definitions of voice and identity. Femininity is not inherently meek or flowery; masculinity is not inherently aggressive or flat. And singing doesn’t have to be “pretty” to be compelling.
Self-actualization
The buzziest self-help buzz word ever, we know, but what this means is that you leave every lesson with a new way of claiming and building your own voice. A voice you love, a voice that feels like home, a voice you want to identify with and take care of. We’re here to reflect and offer perspectives and tools for technique and growth, The goal is for you to recognize that you are the expert on your own voice. That you bring your own voice into the world. Git it, friend.