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Young voice teacher asking for advice on Vibrato.

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Hi Ariella! I have a question for you. I am a recent college graduate with a degree in vocal performance. I am teaching voice lessons to a student right and I am struggling as to how to go about teaching her vibrato. From listening to her sing, I don’t hear any vibrato present in her sound. Do you have any techniques/teaching methods you could share with me? Any advice you can give me would be very much appreciated! Sincerely, Anandi

Hi Anandi,

Welcome to my profession!  :)  Well, everyone is born with their own natural vibrato, as you know I’m sure.  My thought is that vocal tension can inhibit the vibrato as well as exaggerate it.

Finding the perfect balance is easier for some than others.  Keep working on releasing your students voice, especially front he tension in her solar plexus area.  You can even have her hold a note while deeply massaging the muscle just below the solar plexus.  Then try the same thing and try to release  the tension in her shoulders.  Have her drop at her waist and go for the notes, see if any of these things allows for more of the natural vibrato to come in.  Once something works a bit, you will be on the right path.
Free singing, free tension.
Good luck!

Please keep in touch if you have any more questions!

Ariella  Vaccarino

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Please advise on my voice.

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Hi Ariella

Please can you give me some advice. I am a 15 year old male singer. I love singing and really do see it as my future. The problem i have is that my voice is now starting to break and as such i feel as though my vocal range is becoming very limited. Can you please take a look at one or two of my videos and give me some feedback. I have had a few singing lessons but decided to stop as the teacher seemed to not have any structure to my lessons and they were very expensive.

I am now really worried that if i keep singing i will end up causing more damage and if i stop i will lose the ability to sing completely. Please can you advise me of what is best in your own opinion.

Regards Ben

Hey Benanty,
Yo really have a great voice. The minute I started to listen to your video I started to smile, a true talent. There definitely some things you can do to work on your voice. You are singing well, but you putting unnecessary pressure on your chords which is causing your larynx to rise causing that cracking or vocal fatigue. I wish you lived in LA because I would love to teach you.
I offer a service on my site www.voicelessonstogo.com. You can sign up for vocal assessments from me.
http://voicelessonstogo.com/cart/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3

I am written to daily requesting my advice on peoples voices which I love, but I do as a professional voice teacher need to charge for my services and time. There are different packages offered on there 1 time to ongoing.
I think I can help you out, I know what you need to do to get that pressure off your chords.
anyway, good luck on your singing, you have something special.
Ariella

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