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? Do you have something special inside that longs to express itself? Sound a little like Elvis or Pink in private but want to warble unabashed and proud in public?
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 fun method. Her method has been used by other singing teachers, professional singers, speakers, health professionals, mental health counselors. asthmatics, athletes, choirs and shower singers.
FALL CLASSES
SINGING I:
FUNDATMENTALS of BREATHING
The first six classes are about the special breathing because - It's ALL about the breathing,
friends. Really
REALLY about the breathing. It's much more than
learning to use your diaphragm.
Classes 1 through 4 you will learn how to:
- Increase the quantity of air in your body and how to control the rate of the exhale and inhale.
- Know
how to use the efficient cycle of the breath increase your volume and tone quality.
- Convert breath into pain free and controlled 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.
Classes 5 and 6
Once you have released the throat from the task of breath control and are comfortable with the inner stretching that comes from breathing to your fullest capacity we can work with the innate brilliant design of your very special instrument. You will learn:
- 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 and shaped by the face, tongue, jaw and lips.
- The beginng forms for to learn core tone and volume control.
- That your confidence and understanding of your voice will have completely transformed.
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:
Portland Class I - being scheduled now for end of February.
Seattle March classes about to be posted. (1/1/08)
Questions? Email:
kellykerrclasses@yahoo.com
About
TONE DEAF REVERSAL
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
For questions email: kellykerrclasses@yahoo.com |