Teaching across ages and stages of vocal development
Teaching across music genres
Teaching different resonances for different styles
Understanding the root of vocal problems
PLUS Gillyanne and Jeremy in action in a live masterclass
What you will discover
Unit 1 - Teaching singers of all ages, practical tools to deal with adolescent stages of change, supporting the elderly voice
Unit 2 - More than just sound! Analysing different music genres with examples, discovering vocal style features in context
Unit 3 - Resonance explained. Finding different resonating shapes, working vowels, and the real power of vowel tuning
Unit 4 - Identifying voice problems - an overview of vocal habilitation with real case histories from Gillyanne
Unit 5 - Watch Gillyanne and Jeremy teach live masterclasses, then discuss why they chose particular instructions & exercises
Rebecca
“A truly valuable chance to learn our craft as singing teachers with like-minded and supportive colleagues in a completely safe environment.”
Stefanie
"Transformative, fundamental, invaluable, an absolute must for any teacher who is really looking to offer a high level of vocal and technical training.
So empowering"
Laura
“I am hearing voices differently; I am hearing things that I didn’t even realise you could hear. A community of people, who celebrate in each other’s successes, who share revelations and grow together.”
What is included?
NEW! We're including live check-ins with the course leaders
Over 60 targeted teaching videos (from 3 minutes to 22 minutes)
Every video is subtitled for easy understanding
Every video is available as a transcript
Multiple course resources including articles on working with the adolescent voice
Singer lifespan - hormones, development and ageing
Breathing life into a song, with industry examples
Harmonics, vowels and resonance shaping for singers
Access is included to our two hour-long CPD Webinars on How We Diagnose
(Webinar 4 - Finding the YOU in every song, and Webinar 18 - Taking Vocal Technique Into Song)
Content and images from our #1 bestsellers "This Is A Voice" and "Singing and the Actor"
Revealing videos taken using endoscopy, plus genuine case histories of singers going through vocal difficulty
Exclusive "live" fly-on-the-wall videos of Jeremy ad Gillyanne using their methodology
Examples of industry performances for analysis
Cutting edge information and insights into M1 and M2 vocal fold vibration with industry examples
A minimum of 12 hours of CPD Certificates included at no extra cost
Example Curriculum
- Introduction to 12 Hours to Better Singing Teaching (1:18)
- Course Resources To Print Out
- 1 What problems do you face? (4:51)
- 2 Larynx as a hormone receptor (9:04)
- 3 Changes in older voices (4:12)
- 4 The four stages of pitch matching (9:59)
- 5 Life span of the voice summary (2:49)
- 6 Vocal fold length and development (8:20)
- 7 Vocal fold layers (4:23)
- 8 Puberty (2:54)
- 9 Charlie Green aged 10 (8:11)
- 10 Charlie Green aged 13 (7:42)
- 11 Lilia Slattery aged 10 12 and 14 (9:20)
- 12 Breakout male voices with Jeremy part 1 (21:58)
- 13 Breakout male voice with Jeremy part 2 (7:20)
- 14 Breakout with Gillyanne (26:52)
- 15 Breakout with Anne (28:02)
- 16 Roundup (1:50)
- 1 Introduction (1:17)
- 2 What do you see? (7:26)
- 3 Amazing Grace Jessye Norman (4:05)
- 4 Amazing Grace LeAnn Rimes (4:38)
- 5 Singing is more than voice (2:20)
- 6 Music style Song 1 - Sleep (9:12)
- 7 Sleep - Sarah Connolly and James Rutherford with Eugene Asti (12:47)
- 8 Music style Song 2 - I'm Not Afraid (6:33)
- 9 I'm Not Afraid Andrea Burns Emily Hannaway (9:21)
- 10 Music style Song 3 - Gravity (17:59)
- 11 Breakout session with Jeremy (29:27)
- 12 Roundup (6:21)
- 1 Resonance and bottles of water (8:02)
- 2 What is resonance? (5:28)
- 3 Analysing Adele (6:27)
- 4 Finding Adele resonance setup (10:59)
- 5 Alternative resonating shapes (8:01)
- 6 Understanding the vowel box and resonance (10:29)
- 7 Jeremy Breakout session on vowel shapes (32:20)
- 8 Anne Breakout session on vowel shapes (29:29)
- 9 Gillyanne Breakout session on vowel shapes (28:36)
- 10 Breakout Session feedback (2:09)
- 11 Looking at the waveform (4:36)
- 12 Looking at pitch and volume (4:54)
- 13 Looking at harmonics and formants (12:58)
- 14 Roundup and homework (7:00)
- 4 1 How do we know our singer has a voice problem? (4:07)
- 4 2 Kate case history (5:08)
- 4 3 Kate acute event and diagnosis (4:43)
- 4 4 Kate after voice therapy (4:55)
- 4 5 Kate vocal folds endoscopy video (4:39)
- 4 6 Kate vocal habilitation post surgery (5:49)
- 4 7 Jeremy and Gillyanne personal histories (4:35)
- 4 8 Kate habilitation post surgery and results (9:31)
- 4 9 Jake case history and event with recording (7:00)
- 4 10 Jake medical diagnosis and treatment (8:14)
- 4_11_Jake_vocal_habilitation_work (12:57)
- 4_12_Supporting_Jake_back_to_work (5:55)
- 4_13_QandA_beliefs_resonance_accent_method (6:02)
- 4_14_QandA_awareness_and_deconstriction (15:12)
- 4_15_QandA_distortion_and_Roundup (6:20)
- 5 1 The Cycle of Nerves (4:35)
- 5 2 Alice recording of Heart of Stone (7:17)
- 5 3 Alice live masterclass with Gillyanne and Jeremy (24:24)
- 5 4 Sharing notes on Alice masterclass (14:30)
- 5 5 Sharing notes on Alice part 2 (12:55)
- 5 6 Laura recording Chasing Pavements (4:03)
- 5 7 Laura live masterclass with Gillyanne and Jeremy (24:20)
- 5 8 Discussing pitch centres (21:11)
- 5 9 Roundup and receiving your personal Certificate (1:26)
- Finding the YOU in every song - Handout
- 1. Introduction (1:44)
- 2. Singer AND Song (8:03)
- 3. Tools (1:36)
- 4. Your Reasons (4:44)
- 5. Listen (10:15)
- 6. What Matters Most (2:03)
- 7. Story (5:49)
- 8. Vocal Quality (4:55)
- 9. Rhythm (3:37)
- 10. Emotion (4:42)
- 11. Play (6:09)
- 12. Landscape (5:05)
- 13. Task (4:50)
- Finding the YOU - Embedding your knowledge
- TP 0224 2 Analysing Gillyanne exercise (6:38)
- TP 0224 1 What is an exercise (2:37)
- TP 0224 3 Analysing Joanna Droopy Face exercise (2:25)
- TP 0224 4 Analysing the MeMeyMaMoMu exercise (13:38)
- TP 0224 5 Analysing the NG siren (15:38)
- TP 0224 6 Katie using stretch bands for register changes (8:36)
- TP 0224 7 Working with people in wheelchairs (9:43)
- TPS Mar24 1 How much breath do you need (7:53)
- TPS Mar24 2 Timing and backphrasing (6:26)
- TPS Mar24 3 Defining Legit (2:34)
- TPS Mar24 4 Phrasing and rhythm (1:56)
- TPS Mar24 5 What else impacts on breathing patterns (8:48)
- TPS Mar24 6 Student breathiness volume and airspeed (10:38)
- TPS Mar24 7 Rebalancing glottals (3:32)
- TPS Mar24 8 Breathiness Billie Eilish and airspeed (10:07)
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Who we are
We are Dr Gillyanne Kayes (singing voice specialist) and Jeremy Fisher (vocal & performance coach).
We're both avid tea drinkers (Gillyanne loves builder's tea and first flush Darjeeling, Jeremy's a black-tea-no-sugar Ceylon drinker, but his favourite tea-du-jour is Royal Blend from Fortnum & Mason in London.
We've co-taught for more than 25 years all over the world.
We've written 10 books on vocal technique,
including five Amazon #1 bestsellers.
We've been creating vocal training resources since 2004, including courses, DVDs, CDs, ebooks, the Build Your Own Larynx template and most recently the amazing online Learning Lounge with over 600 voice training resources.
We love helping people find and share their truth as teachers and performers.
Cheers!
