Are you a male singer who wants to explore and expand your upper range and your entire vocal range?

What is the male “head-voice” and how to you develop it? Is it the same as falsetto? How is it different from the “chest-voice” or mixed-voice? I can show you those answers, not in words but in the actual voice.
Are you having issues with PITCH, endurance, range or other vocal issues? There are ways to work on those areas.

How do some men sing so high, all the way up to High-C and beyond? (that’s the range of high-tenors in pop, R&B, rock, and all styles of music). Are they born with it, or can it be learned? The answer is yes to both!

I am currently offering great Online video lessons using Zoom/Skype!
They work extremely well, as I can help you get setup up properly in terms of audio and video before we begin. Please email if you have any questions, and I can give you a phone call or a Skype/Zoom call and discuss it.

email Chris at: chinchillaweb@gmail.com

I have put a lot of info below, for anyone who is interested in reading through it! But if you just want to discuss your voice, and what I can do to help you, just send me an email, and we can have a quick talk, and I can hear you sing, and give you a vocal assessment on the spot. Easy!

You can work on your voice and music from the convenience of your home! I am currently working with a number of different singers, and songwriters, from pro’s and recording artists, to those just getting started.
I have also helped numerous singers to audition for singing competitions, and have worked with them throughout the process, providing the tracks in their key, and whatever else is needed.
So send me an email and we can set up a time to do an assessment.

email Chris at: chinchillaweb@gmail.com

My name is Chris, and I am a male pro-singer, and I’ve sung professionally and taught singing/voice my entire adult life and will continue to do so. But I have now decided to spend more time each week working with other singers, as I feel I have some new knowledge to share that is not really available anywhere else. I’ve been through full professional training, (Banff School Of Fine Arts, years of private vocal lessons, workshops, Masterclasses, St. FX University Jazz, Royal Conservatory, Seth Riggs speech level singing training, etc) and have tried lots of other training as well. But most importantly I have studied other great singers in person and on recordings, and have spent countless thousands of hours trying new things with my own voice and now have some unique skills to offer. I wish I knew about this stuff years ago when I got started!

The male voice can be trained to expand its upper range all the way to the top, of course subject to each person’s unique voice. For a real life example, when I started to sing people told me I was a baritone, but even from the start I knew in my gut that wasn’t right, so I kept training and exploring, and eventually I figured out how to expand my range from the baritone Eb, right up to an Ab, and then later all the way up to High-C and even High-D’s and beyond. So I am living proof the voice can be trained and expanded, and I know exactly how to do it, not from a theory, but from actual practice in reality.

What I am doing with singers is based on what I have done for my own voice and for others, and its based on natural singing and the healthy development of the voice, so you can develop great vocal endurance.
I work with male pop, rock, R&B singing like you hear on the radio everyday, as well as modern musical theatre, to pop-classical. Of course these days, all of the singers we hear in rock, R&B, pop, and even in pop-classical, are all having their voices run through computer software programs to add what amounts to a multiple ‘chorus’ to the voice, pitch-correction, etc, so you have to be able to hear through that, and focus on actual singing. To figure out how to sing these days, you generally have to go back to recordings from before the computers took over, as digitally you can literally do anything to a vocal sound, so listen to analog singers as much as possible on LIVE recordings, that is the best way to learn.

Update! I am now involved in designing a free App for singers ear-training called
“Voice Training – Learn To Sing”. You can view my tutorial video for the App here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVWPng-VIMg

The App can be downloaded free from Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.learntomaster.vtlts&hl=en
Also iTunes for the iPhone
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-training-learn-to-sing/id894620096?mt=8

The advantage of working with a professional singer, is they know what its like to actually sing for people in public, have them enjoy it, get paid for it, and be asked to come back and sing again! A pro singer is very realistic, practical, and knows how to get the job done, and enjoy the process.

So how it works is that we’ll check out your voice in total, from the top to the bottom. Then we’ll look at different ways to start developing areas of your voice that need work. There are many techniques, but its not a cookie cutter as each person’s vocal situation is unique.
We’ll work your entire voice, and expand the range of your natural chest-voice, but will also start to explore your male ‘head-voice’ and begin developing it, and see where that leads in your unique vocal instrument. We’ll also start to work toward merging your head-voice and your chest-voice, so it all works seamlessly and automatically.

Some of the areas we will work on are: (of course depending on your individual goals)
• Physical relaxation techniques,
• Voicercises to open the ‘vocal mask’ for vocal power and clarity.
• Vocal Yoga to relax and break down tension in the vocal instrument,
• Breathing techniques, abdominal breath support for vocal endurance.
• the advanced Yawn technique to relax the soft-palate and tongue,
• study of Seth Riggs speech-level singing techniques.
• how to sing a melody (legato, musical tone, phrasing, expression, styles)
• working with vowels and resonance for your natural placement of the voice,
• opening up the full range of your voice by connecting to your natural voice projection,
• using all areas of vocal expression from full voice belts, to vocal blends, whispers, and everything else!
• Endurance: building a natural way of singing, so you can sing a full gig or concert without tiring vocally.

• audition preparations for performing arts schools like Westmount Collegiate, Cardinal Carter, Claude Watson School for the Arts.
• Audition preparations for jazz/commercial vocal programs in colleges and universities like Humber, York and U of T.
• preparation for graded Royal Conservatory RCM Examinations.

• using new Smartphone Apps for ear-training to sing in-tune.
• scales for vocal flexibility and pitch-training,
• live performance training,
• interpreting lyrics,
• improvising fancy singing ‘riffs’ like the pro’s,
• how to sing harmonies on the spot live!!
• Studio singing techniques, setting your custom headphone levels and sounds, overdubbing, blending,
• Microphone technique for live performance, setting the gain for expression and vocal survival, choosing the correct mic for your voice.
• Mixer: using a mixer/speaker (EQ, FX, reverb-delay, gain, compression), how to set monitor levels, how to find the exact setting for your voice.
• How to build vocal endurance and survive longs gigs and singing daily.
• overcoming stage-fright,
• using film acting techniques to connect emotionally with the audience,
• speaking/interacting with the audience with confidence
• dynamic stage presence, physical movements onstage,
• using visualization techniques to enhance performance, and many others.

I will design for you a specific series of exercises for you to practice each day, if you are just starting then 15 minutes a day is ok, but as you progress you can work up to 1 hour or more each day.

We will also pick songs that suit your voice, and work on finished public song performance, or prepare for auditions, so you can actually get up in front of people and…SING.

I am offering a FREE vocal assessment of about 15 minutes, or longer if there is time, where we can talk about your goals, I can listen to your singing voice and your pitch, and show you what we can work on, as well as answer any questions you might have.
We can book a time to talk about your voice and goals. If you are having a specific vocal issue we can discuss it, and possible solutions.

All the best, and keep singing!
Chris
email: chinchillaweb@gmail.com