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Shape your sound. Elevate your voice.
Step into your fullest expressive performance.
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Shape your sound. Elevate your voice.
Shape your sound. Elevate your voice.
Step into your fullest expressive performance.
Your Vocal Journey Begins with Kathryn
Your Vocal Journey Begins with Kathryn
I work best with focused, self-aware students who are committed to personal growth, open to feedback, and passionate about developing their vocal potential with intention and authenticity.
Commonly Asked Questions
- Those eager to learn and develop
- People who just love to sing for fun, between ages 595!
- Children looking to maximize their voice appropriately for their age
- Aging vocalists looking to maximize the richness they’ve gained, or rehabilitate from underuse
- Recording artists going to record in the studio, or on tour
- Singer/Songwriters looking for songwriting help, artistry and stylization coaching, as well as technique
- Novice singers to professional
- Singers and dancers auditioning for Broadway shows, community theater, cruise line auditions, college music/theater program auditions
- Actors who’ve never sung before
- Dancers who’ve never sung before
- Karaoke singers
- Beauty Pageant contestants
- People with stage fright
- Choral singers
- Speakers looking to maximize their tone, inflection and speech patterns
- People looking to rehab vocal issues beyond what speech therapy has given
- People looking to work with their mind/ body connection and use vocalizing as an embodiment practice for stress relief or regulating their nervous system
- Anyone wanting to learn how to better use their voice!
30 minutes
Best for those looking for…
- An introduction to singing
- Basic skills and understanding of the voice
- Introduction to basic technique
- Short application to song
Or
- A short vocal assessment
45 minutes
Best for those looking for…
- More time for higher level skills
- Deeper understanding of the voice
- More time for fine tuning
- More intensive vocal training
- More time for song application and detailed work
60 minutes
Best for those looking for…
- Leveling up with intensive vocal training and skills
- Deeper understanding of the voice for direction and intention
- More fine tuning of resonance, vowel tuning, coordination
- More detailed coaching and fine tuning of song and stylistic choices
90 minutes
Best for those looking for…
- Preparation for Performances, Auditions, Recordings
- Time for vocal warmup and training to clear the voice
- And align and balance for easier singing and less tiring
- Time to fine tune and use repetition to solidify
In Studio Coaching
- 2 hour minimum
- Vocal warmup and alignment
- Help set the voice for placement and emotion
- Help the voice if it feels strained or tired
- More efficient time and effort used so you get the most out of your time
The videos give instructions on exercises to help coordinate the voice,to help with balance,alignment, honing resonances, working through bridges and breaks throughout vocal range, extending vocal range, and so many other helps in solving common vocal issues and expanding your vocal abilities. These can be a great way to learn how to work with your voice and answer common questions you might have about singing. They also give an opportunity to choose the level of singing you’re wanting to challenge yourself with, moving up to more advanced levels as you choose to or feel ready to try. Or maybe you’re already advanced and are looking for even more ways to coordinate and strengthen your voice. The voice is an endlessly progressing instrument that always has more room to grow and do even more than before, so the videos can also direct you to more ways your voice can improve that you hadn’t even considered.
Working through the exercises with repetition and consistency can really help improve the coordinations and strength of your voice so you have access to more coordination and strength when you sing a song. Working a song is another step in coordinating your singing, which can be helped with some of the videos about basic singing issues you might be working on.
Then adding in private lessons to help answer questions about these exercises and instruction can help fill in any gaps of understanding and address any specific issues you’re not able to resolve with the videos alone. And attending the classes adds another layer of learning with observing others resolving their vocal issues, which may be similar to yours, or ones you may come up against at some point. And if you choose to participate in the classes, it helps learn in an additional way under pressure, but also to add in more experiences being instructed in any given thing you’re wanting to work on at that time. The videos are a great way to layer in more learning about your own voice and give you chances to share your voice and learn in a supportive community of other singers working on their instruments too!
Group online classes give an opportunity to learn from observing others, which can help you realize similar issues you might be working on. For those who volunteer to be a participant in the classes, they can choose to sing part of a song they need help with, either technically, or dynamically, or stylistically. Maybe a performance is coming up, or it’s just to help on a song you’re working on. You can ask about an exercise that doesn’t make sense, or recommend some exercises that will help with specific vocal issues. You can ask questions about other people’s parts they’re working on to understand more deeply for yourself. Whatever vocal questions you have or want to work on, it’s great to have checkins for your own voice and to learn from others for self correction and understanding when it’s not you on the spot. It’s a supportive community of singers wanting to improve and happy to cheer each other on in their progress. Another great perk is the classes will be recorded so you can go back and keep learning from them. It’s amazing when you listen back to yourself how much different (and better) it sounds when you’re not in the moment learning and adjusting.
A combination of both is the most effective and efficient way to learn and advance.
In Private lessons we can get much more detailed and specific and dive deeper. Classes are more of a certain issue in a song we have a shorter time to work on, but can really help those one or two things that just aren’t clicking. In classes, questions might come up for you in different ways when you’re observing others. Learning from the classes will also add to more exposure to other’s vocal issues which can help in self corrections and understanding as you learn from their vocal issues that might be similar to yours, or something you might encounter. It also helps expand your understanding of how singing works as you hear different voice types, styles and personalities. It’s helpful to know everyone has to work to learn how to coordinate their singing and it doesn’t all just easily happen for everyone.
Private lessons allow for fully analyzing your voice, your strengths and areas that need more help, and adjustments to those things as your voice evolves in correcting unhelpful habits and moving forward on better habits, and then intensifying and strengthening on top of the healthy habits and pushing past former limits continually. In private lessons, we can work more deeply into technique and healthy habits, and can work through more of a song, or be able to have more time to spend on especially tricky spots.
The classes give time for a short part of a song or part of your voice you would like help with. So even though it won’t go into all a private lesson can, it can help spot fix something you need a little extra direction with personally if you participate, and then we can dive deeper into it with lessons each time. And it also gives the great benefits I’ve listed in what the classes can do for you in observing other people and the things they’re working on.
- To develop and train most effectively, weekly is best
- More frequency makes quicker progress, even 23 times/ week if you need to progress extra quickly or feel you have deeply ingrained habits that are harmful
- More frequent for preparing for performances, tours, or recording sessions
- Weekly is ideal, especially to start, but biweekly is especially effective depending on goals
- It can depend on how disciplined you are to practicing on your own
- It can depend on how secure you feel correcting and adjusting on your own to keep aligning and catch bad habits or straining and correct it
- I recommend longer sessions 23 times/ month rather than shorter sessions,then we can get deeper into things with more time
- It can be evolving and adjusting the time and frequency along the way to match your goals at the time
- To see where you are and what your particular voice needs, which varies by person, by day, by intensity of effort. We will see where your voice is at on any given day, since it’s a human instrument it can vary by time of day, how much sleep, how hydrated you are, allergies, stress, and so many factors!
- We will work through vocal exercises to warm up the vocal folds, strengthen various parts of the voice, balance and align and memorize the feelings of resonance and coordinations of the vocal tract and breathing, all the multitasking the voice requires.
- Then we will apply those coordinations to a song of your choice, with vowel tuning, dynamics, stylization, working through the song to make it what you want it to be!