Best Singing & Voice Lessons in Brentwood, NY

Our human brains are always analyzing and thinking and breathing is often overcompensated for by the wrong body mechanics. Those who have taken yoga or play a wind instrument already have a better understanding of proper breathing but the rest of us have yet to learn the magic of breath support. Breath support is vital and can affect all other areas of your voice including pitch control, dynamics and tone.

The vocal chords are muscles and just like working out in the weight room can build and tone your arms and legs, doing the vocal exercises we give you will strengthen and condition the vocal chords resulting in a more powerful and responsive instrument. If you do your work outside of class, you will feel the difference in your voice in weeks and even more so after several months. As your voice gets in shape, your range will naturally expand upwards and downwards up to several notes. But again, the speed at which you can expand depends on how much work you put in.

No matter what style your sing, the same basic vocal techniques such as breathing, pitch control, belting, head voice/chest voice, apply to all singing. There are certain characteristics to each style but one singer can definitely wear different hats and sing many different styles well. For example classical singers tend to use a big vibrato while pop singers of late do not sing with as much vibrato. Modern music also is more like slang and the diction and delivery is much more relaxed and conversational whereas musical theater requires a very pronounced American diction.