POPUP VOICE PED CLASS

Expanding & Adolescent Voice

Ya’ know what?

The prevailing -ahem- wisdom used to be that people should wait until after puberty to take voice lessons. And that, until puberty, they should take piano lessons and join a choir. And, that people might injure themselves if they DID take voice lessons before or during puberty.

In fact?

I’ve even read about voice teachers who said that people should wait until they were SIXTEEN YEARS OLD to take voice lessons.

Which: whaaaat? If we independent voice teachers only worked with people who were sixteen or older? Some of us would drop our studio population by 75%. #amiright?

So, if you’ve got a studio full of people who are under sixteen years old (or you wanna’ have one), this is a class where you can get the anatomy & physiology info you need to understand exactly what’s going on in those pubertal bodies so you can work with them even more efficiently than you already do. And with no fear of injury.

NOTE: this class will NOT help you to understand the adolescent mind. In no way can I help with that. In fact, if you figure that out? Maybe write a book about it or something. I would buy that book in a heartbeat. #justsayin

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Soon this class will be a stand-alone, self-directed mini-course – be sure to join the #voicepedrev(olution) mailing list to be the first to know when it’s ready!

Here’s what some of the #reallifevoiceteachers who have participated in past POPUP Voice Ped Classes have to say about them:

Shannon's insightful and incredibly knowledgeable guidance on aspects of my teaching was invaluable!

Gabriela Farias, Educator & Voice Teacher (Brampton, Canada)
Engaging, Thorough, Truthful

Erin Milley-Patey, Voice Teacher (Port Elgin, Canada)
What a great way to start the day! 🌞 An information packed 90-min pop-up vocal pedagogy presentation with Dr. Shannon Coates on teaching the ADOLESCENT AND EMERGING VOICE. Lots of great take-always and practical suggestions for working with singers age 9-13 and older teens.

Cynthia Vaughn, Voice Educator (Richland, USA)
I feel like you've brought me full circle in my teaching.

Elspeth Maynard, Voice Teacher & Educator (Windsor, Canada)
Stellar!

Maureen Batt, Soprano, Teacher, Artistic Director, Recording Artist (Halifax, Canada)
Lots of great take-always and practical suggestions!

Cynthia Vaughn, Voice Educator (Richland, USA)
You've brought me full circle in my teaching, Shannon! I spent years teaching voice based solely on imagery (which was the way that voice was taught to me) and then I retired from classroom teaching and had the time to take some voice pedagogy courses.

Suddenly, I felt like I had missed out on the past twenty years of research and was intimidated by all the voice teachers using what seemed like purely technical terminology to teach voice.

Then I listen to you, and I see that, although you know all the anatomy and physiology and can teach it, you still stress the need to communicate to our students about feeling and imagery rather than getting too "sciencey". So, I take inspiration from that and am learning to combine the imagery with the technical terminology to facilitate the deeper learning of my students.

Thank you for all that you do!

Elspeth Maynard: Voice Teacher & (Retired) Classroom Educator (Windsor, Canada)