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HOW TO SING

From the Bottom of Your Heart At the TOP OF YOUR LUNGS
(Without hurting your throat or running out of breath.)

     Shallow breather? Tone Deaf? Does your throat hurt when you sing or speak for extended periods? 
     

Kelly Kerr has developed a highly effective and easy to learn Breathing and Singing Method to expand breathing capacity and strengthen the voice. She has simplified the most effective breathing and singing techniques used by the top professional pop, rock and classical singers and formed them into a compact and essential method. The Kelly Kerr Method has been used by other singing teachers, professional singers, speakers, health professionals, mental health counselors. asthmatics, athletes, choirs and shower singers for three decades.

SPRING 2010 CLASSES

LEVEL I

FUNDATMENTALS of BREATHING

Everyone who can speak already owns all the necessary components for a beautiful singing and resonate speaking voice. Your body is an inflatable musical instrument that is capable of at least two and a half octaves of vocal expression. Unfortunately most of us have bought into the idea that only 'stars' or 'idols' have been given magical vocal "Talent". No, most of the stars with great voices of our times have worked with trainers and coaches who have helped them extricate their voices from the limitations and habits of everyday spoken language. Master Singers work specific exercises and use little known tools to move their voices through the labyrinth of their body intrument. Kelly has identified these hidden and confusing techniques into a

• Learn how to increase the quantity of air in your body and control the rate of the exhale and inhale.
  
• Know how to use the efficient cycle of the breath increase your volume and tone quality.
• Train your body to convert breath into pain free and beautiful sound
• Time the breath with the music and still keep the proper posture
• Use breath to increase personal and/or stage presence.
• Unlock the pain in the throat, neck, head, jaw and shoulders that has accompanied your singing and impeded your full breathing.
• How the body’s singing instrument really works. The system that most great singers have used to build their voice.
• That your singing voice is controlled by the breathing, shaped by the face, tongue, jaw and lips and resonated within your body
• The beginng forms that build core tone and volume control
• Build confidence in your singing, rhythm and tonal qualities
  

     With this first set of fundamental classes you are learning the basic forms for building a solid lifetime technique. Please understand that any art form takes time for the body to integrate and utilize. Although you will notice an improvement in your voice from the very first lesson, you must understand that these are the beginning forms and that there are many skills left to learn. We will focus on your middle range in order to set in place skills that will be applied to later lessons and used to open your full range. In order to assure you meet your class goals, please plan to practice at least four times a week for 30 minutes.

CLASSES:

Seattle
Portland
LongviewWa
Gig Harbor Wa
Denver

ONLINE CLASSES will be available in the fall.

About
TONE DEAF REVERSAl and the Rhythm challenged.

    You're not tone deaf. You just don't know how to make your voice go up and down. And no one taught you the basics when you were a child, so you were relegated to the untalented seat in the social order, right? Baloney. Kelly has taught so-called tone deaf people for decades and can show you that it's not as big a deal as everyone seems to think it is. After the first lesson, you will understand what to do to strengthen your listening skills and body/voice connection. It's about brain-muscle coordination. If you can talk, your voice can easily be trained to sing and speak in gorgeous tones. It's just a matter of training muscles AND building trust in the subtle cues of tonality. Anyone who can speak can sing well. That's just plain fact.

SECTION II - offered Spring 2008
TUNING, VOWELS AND CONSONANTS, PHRASING AND STRENGTHENING.

     The breathing aspects of singing/resonant speaking are the absolute groundwork for a powerful voice. Once the control of the voice has been dis-entangled from the throat you can discover the muscles that really do the singing. No wasted effort. No pain. Plain fun.

SECTION III:

VOWELS, CONSONANTS AND VOLUME

SECTION IV:

PHRASING, EXPANDING THE UPPER and LOWER RANGES