What Does A Vocal Coach Do?
A bad vocal coach will tell you to do the impossible, here are a few things:
- Sing from your diaphragm.
- Place the sound in the masque.
- Fill up with air.
- Fill up your abdomen with air.
- Raise your eyebrows for high notes.
- Open your throat.
- Mix your chest voice with your head voice.
What’s A Vocal Coach?
Anyone, hypothetically, could be a vocal coach.
- A vocal coach may work with singers or speakers.
- A vocal coach could work with vocal technique, but not necessarily style.
- A vocal coach may or may not know music theory.
- A vocal coach might work with performance technique.
- A vocal coach is not state-licensed professional.
- A vocal coach may use any technique, whether effective or not.
- There is not one specific set standard for all vocal coaches.
A Best Vocal Coach
What would make a vocal coach the “best”?
- A best vocal coach knows music theory, orchestration, arranging, and modern harmonic technique.
- A best vocal coach knows and understands the structure and function of the voice.
- A best vocal coach understands the most common problems of singers and how to help singers overcome those problems.
- A best vocal coach has a firm grasp of several sciences including: anatomy, acoustics, physics (statics and dynamics included), and how all work together in music, in the studio, and in live performance.
- A best vocal coach understands genres and styles of music and can impart this knowledge to a singer.
- A best vocal coach understands microphone technique for studio and also live performance. Microphone frequency response and pickup patterns are also known by a best vocal coach.
- A best vocal coach can demonstrate the effectiveness of the techniques taught, and is living proof of how and why they work.
- A best vocal coach knows how to deal with real-life problems which can occur in performance, such as bad monitors or bad “sound engineers”.
- A best vocal coach teaches how to successfully work with others in the music business.
- There is much more, contained in One Voice System, the book.
Are you ready to be a best vocal coach? Your clients will either benefit from what you can know and teach, or will suffer for any missing but necessary information.