Description: We specialize in offering beginner to advanced level informative and affordable music lessons for residents in San Pablo, CA
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Voice lessons are based on a method developed by Gregory Blankenbehler, with influences from the Full Voice curriculum and the Hoffman method. Lessons are really fun and well-paced, keeping young people engaged in the process. Lessons include games, body movement and awareness, encouragement and positive reinforcement, age-appropriate songs, ear-training, and more.
The lessons begin with fun stretches to wake up the body, opening the muscles in the pelvis, torso, chest, neck and face. We make fun animal sounds while we stretch. After waking up the face, tongue, and mouth, we learn a fun new tongue-twister each week to work on articulation and mouth shape awareness.
Next, to wake up the breath we do some movement to get the heart-rate and breath going and promote a mind-body connection. After this movement, students feel the breathing movement of their bellies/lower torso to build the habit of breathing low and not in their shoulders. Then students stand and test how long they can exhale on a hiss, a ‘zzzz,’ or a hum. The time is recorded each week so that the student can try to surpass their previous record.