Pedagogy
Are Your Students Oversinging? What Voice Teachers Need to Know
Are your students oversinging? Learn how voice teachers can identify vocal tension, reduce unnecessary effort, and help young singers develop healthy, expressive singing habits.
Unhurried Voice Lessons
Feeling the rush to get everything in a voice lesson? So are your students. Here are student-led strategies for slowing down.
How to Help Singers with Pitch Accuracy
When a student struggles with basic singing skills, many teachers feel lost about what to do next. And in a result-driven studio culture that expects quick progress, these are the students who are turned away from lessons if we are not sure how to approach them.
10 Simple Strategies for Shy Singers
There are many reasons why your student may be holding back their voice. Here are helpful activities and resources for helping shy singers perform with confidence.
Better Lesson Pacing in the Voice Studio
Lesson pacing is mindful observation, connection, careful planning, and the ability to shift from your plan when things aren't going in the desired direction. Lesson pacing and engagement go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other!
Attention in the Voice Studio
Especially for younger students, neurodivergent learners, or anyone feeling unsure or overwhelmed, attention is part of a growing set of executive function skills. Itâs not something we can demand on command. Itâs something we can nurture, support, and strengthen.
What Does âStudent-Ledâ Really Mean For Voice Lessons?
We talk a lot about student-led learningâbut what does that actually look like in a singing lesson? Sometimes, it looks like a game. Sometimes, it sounds like laughing. Sometimes, it feels like a sigh of reliefâfrom both the student and the teacher.
Lyrics, Literacy, and Learning: Strategies for Voice Teachers
Understanding song lyrics is not as simple as reading everyday language. Lyrics are compressed, poetic, and often inverted in order to fit rhythm, rhyme, and melody. They can use unfamiliar vocabulary, metaphor, or imagery that doesnât exist in a childâs lived experience, and meaning is frequently implied rather than stated outright. Here are strategies to…
