Using play, exploration, and improvisation to build confidence and independent singing skills in children and adolescents … and maybe even in adult singers, too.

We all live super busy lives and as a result, we are all searching for efficient ways to make our lives more streamlined. This week we welcome Dr Shannon Coates (www.shannon-coates.com) to the show to discuss ways to develop disciplines that will benefit our vocal health without eating into our precious time.

Join Dr Dan and Dr Shannon (a longtime friend of Voice Essentials) for a provocative discussion about singing to be ‘good enough!’

Shannon Coates was our guest for NATS Chat, presented by Inside View Press, on March 11, 2018. Shannon shared her extensive experience to discuss the special dynamics of teaching very young singers. The lively and informative chat included expectations for very young singers, tools and resources for independent voice studio teachers, and incorporating the instruction of very young singers into voice pedagogy curricula.

The National Association of Teachers of Singing Student group (SNATS) held its spring 2021 SNATS Chat with Dr. Shannon Coates about working with children in the voice studio.

With so much advancement going on in the world of learning to sing, and teaching singers, you could be forgiven for thinking that the baby is being thrown out with the proverbial bathwater. Join Dr Dan and Dr Shannon (a longtime friend of Voice Essentials) for a provocative discussion about where voice teaching has arrived, and where we think it might be going…

I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Dr. Shannon Coates, an incredibly gifted vocal pedagogy specialist who focusses on teaching teachers of voice.

Have you ever been left confused by some of the terminologies you hear used by singing teachers? if you have, you’re not alone. Sometimes it feels like everything in singing has three or four terms that mean the same thing. And to make things worse, sometimes singing teachers are using the same label to describe completely different things! ARGH.Join Dr Dan and special guest, Dr Shannon, for a fun and informative discussion about singing terminology and lingo. Here’s hoping we don’t muddy the waters further!

We all have bias! Some of our biases are known, and some of them are unknown. Join Dr Dan and Dr. Shannon Coates (from The Vocal Instrument 101) as they discuss the impact of bias on the developing singing voice and how the student singer can use their bias to empower better singing.