Voice Instruction Charlotte

Serves Matthews, NC

35244

Hired 66 times

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19 years in business

$60

5.0

This pro accepts payments via Cash, Check, PayPal, and Zelle.

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Hours

Sun Closed

Mon 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Tues 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Wed 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Thurs 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Fri 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Sat 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Credentials

Background Check

Robert Wendell
Completed on 2/22/2022

Introduction

Please note! I do NOT offer lessons shorter than an hour. Half-hour and 45-minute lessons ARE NOT AVAILABLE. I also don't generally accept children under ten years old unless they're unusually mature for their age and exceptionally talented. The extremely effective approach I use requires working very closely with you. As a result, I only teach ond-on-one live, here in my home studio. Please continue reading below to better appreciate the very high value my approach offers: If you want to free your potential as a singer and let it blossom fully, at Voice Instruction Charlotte you’ll get the understanding and experience you need to do exactly that. I'm an experienced professional singer and instructor. I had the great good fortune to study under a genius who was widely considered in Europe to be one of the few top vocal teachers in the world. I'm standing on the shoulders of a giant. I also worked in audio electronics for years. I understand voice science and how it sheds light on traditional voice teaching. Special techniques help you rapidly develop natural, efficient, and powerful but relaxed, healthy singing. Typical voice teachers understand nothing to very little of the principles and techniques that really work to advance your technique rapidly. The key: strain-free, relaxed skill in the voice itself fully uses the amazing power of breath from your diaphragm and the right adjustment in your vocal anatomy that takes advantage of the laws that govern the optimized production and transmission of sound from your larynx out into the performance venue. You’re freed from vocal strain even on very high notes. You project easily without a microphone. My many past and present students have experienced this for themselves. I work in all major musical genres, including Classical, Blues, Jazz, Scat, Rock and Country. Students range from amateurs to professionals, children ten years old to middle-aged adults and beyond---at all skill levels. We work comfortably, enjoyably with each student to reveal the relatively effortless vocal power and beauty anyone with a normal, healthy vocal anatomy has hidden within. Here at Voice Instruction Charlotte, solid, practical principles help you vastly more than learning a few new songs and pronunciation techniques. Careful observation and guidance helps you greatly improve the way your voice works. Extensive knowledge of the cream of traditional technique and the science behind it makes this possible. You won’t just stop wearing your voice out. You’ll build it with use! Come to Voice Instruction Charlotte to unlock the true power of your natural voice. I look forward to working with you!

Q&A

What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?

The investment in your voice is $60 per lesson, one lesson per week. Pay as you go: cash, check Paypal, or Zelle only.

What is your typical process for working with a new customer?

I listen for healthy, efficient vocal function. I don't just go for a "nice sound". The goal is to optimize functionally the interface between vocal anatomy and the laws that govern the aerodynamics of vocal sound generation and the acoustics of sound propagation from the larynx out into the hall. I have unique exercises that are anatomically, aerodynamically, and acoustically informed to set up the voice. They give it practical, charming incentives to attract it toward its best possible function. By enjoying what already feels good, sounds great, and is much easier than any other way to get that kind of high quality result, it naturally starts to self-refine. The student doesn't need to know all the technical details of this process. To be genuinely effective in solving vocal problems for the student, though, the teacher must. The student fully understands the laws on a practical level only by noticing and remembering how it feels when it's working right. When it feels really good, sounds great, and it's relatively effortless (no physical strain) even on high notes, then the voice is working properly. When the teacher deeply understands the best vocal traditions and modern voice science, they illuminate and reinforce each other. The five steps of progress as I have formulated them are: Listen, Feel, Notice, Enjoy, Remember. When a student remembers how it feels when it's right, the student can do the same great things with his or her voice at will.

What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?

Well over two decades of intense experience as both a voice teacher and choir director. I have a master's degree in choral conducting from the University of Florida. My undergraduate major was violin with a minor in voice. I then studied classical voice for three years with Lav Vrbanic at the New England Conservatory in Boston. I already had excellent diction in my native English, as well as Italian, French, German, and Spanish. I speak Spanish with near-native fluency. Native speakers often mistake me for one. Before studying with Professor Vrbanic I was already an excellent sight reader, so he could put anything in front of me without ever having to teach me the words or the music. For those three years we focused exclusively on optimizing vocal function. I'm also a jazz, blues, and R&B lover, and have been an expert at scat ever since middle school.

How did you get started doing this type of work?

These students saw my reviews and asked if I was willing to help with speech problems, since they noticed I had a deep technical understanding of vocal function. I answered that I was willing to experiment. Happily, I was able to help a couple of people whom even much more expensive licensed speech therapists had failed to help.

What types of customers have you worked with?

Voice Instruction, Sight Reading, Tutoring in Basic Musical Skills, Harmony, and Improvisation. All major genres.

Describe a recent project you are fond of. How long did it take?

A deep technical understanding of vocal function together with the ability to hear how the voice is functioning allowed me to help three different students with speech problems. I helped a woman with a lifetime of lisping overcome it in three weeks. She told me her female boss was treating her with much greater respect after she quit lisping.

What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?

Teaching melodies and accompanying them is NOT teaching voice. The teaching has to improve the way a student sings so that it's healthy, uses the least effort to produce the best possible results. Thidevelops a wide range from low to high, increases vocal flexibility, agility, and feels deeply satisfying both to the body and the soul. Teachers who can't do that are not really teaching voice...just songs. Make sure the prospective teacher understands vocal function and anatomy well enough to address whatever specific problems a student may be having. Ensure they can understand what a voice is doing physically from the sound it produces. We can't see inside the voice, but a genuinely good teacher has learned to hear very specifically what's off and what's right, what's physically wrong or correct inside.

What questions should customers think through before talking to professionals about their project?

Are they seriously interested in learning to sing well or do they just want help for some specific event just around the corner. I’m willing to do short-term coaching for experienced singers. However, I don’t accept beginning students who just wish to learn a song to sing for their spouse at a birthday party or a wedding next month.