Singing - Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues and more... Austin, Tx

The Singer Songwriter Studio: Methods, Mechanics and More ...

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Beautiful Singing StudentI love working with everyone, from the absolute beginner to the seasoned professional entertainer. If you are just starting out. It is important to listen to yourself with a kind ear. We compare ourselves to master singers and often are too harsh with ourselves. Here's a tip. If you judge yourself harshly, often telling yourself everything sucks, change this habit. Get very specific and ask yourself which elements you would like to change. Write them down. There are many details to juggle when singing, so be patient. With patience every element can be mastered. Here are some examples of wonderful students who have developed this skill and are working their unique beautiful voices regularly. If we learn to be kind to ourselves, we practice more....

Kindness + Form + Fun + Repetition = Great Speaking & Singing Voice

Some people are visual, some auditory, others conceptual, some a combination of all three. Which are you? Our training method is custom tailored to match your learning style. We use tried-and-true methods and state-of-the-art tools to expand your expression. Call 512.554.8771 or Request a Complimentary Consultation

Fearless Freedom Expression Training :: New Philosophy
Are you nervous when expressing yourself? Is it fun or to a degree, frightening? Do you go out of your way, to avoid expression in public? If so, you are going to love this popular training element. Many of us have been taught in school to "focus on what is wrong to get it right", which is great if we're alone by ourselves planning something, however, can be very bad when presenting ourselves to others. Many of us have developed the habit of frightening ourselves in public. This is merely a bad habit. Bad habits can be changed with good habits. Come and discover how to experience freedom from the "inner critic" and express yourself like never before.

Ear Training :: Locating and Navigating, Natural Pitch
Mastering the creation of pitch is a prerequisite to creating a beautiful voice, whether a public speaker, classical singer, folkster or rocker. Vocal exercises on the piano can be challenging, fun and will make your voice "sparkle" with color!

Diaphragmatic Breath Training
Do you hold your breath when speaking or singing? You'd be amazed at how many people do. Do you know how to use your diaphragm on demand? Most people don't and dream they could. Want to sing and speak like a pro? The diaphragm makes your voice delicious, commanding and powerful. Come, learn to breath like a master!
Voice Training, Austin TXBuilding A Song - Production Architecture

To truly develop consistent success, we must apply your unique style to a song. This experience will show you how take a song, break it down, and make it your own. By applying phonetic conversion, vowel emphasis opportunities, relaxed phrasing moments, grace-note opportunities, application of vocal dynamics, pitch and vowel preshaping and more, you'll discover the diamond opportunities waiting for you . It's fun and easy, once you know how. Remove the weaknesses and focus on the strengths. Ooh baby! The song will begin to sound amazing after this process.
Over 5000 songs :: Develop Your Confidence

For students who are ready to apply technique, we offer thousands of songs to expand your unique vocal style. We provide the highest quality backing tracks during your session to provide musical accompaniment that will take your breath away. What a fun way to apply all the tools your learning here.
Computer Aided Voice Training - Austin TXComputer Visual Ear Training :: Pitch Development
Difficulty locating pitch? Locating pitch is often difficult. We use high-tech software to make your learning easy. In this display, the sung pitch is displayed as a continuously moving line on an expanded representation of the piano keyboard. This allows you to see how your pitch changes from note to note - and reveals any lack of control or support over those notes. We offer coach guided, visualization training to assist you getting on pitch quickly, easily, and it's fun too.

Vocal Spectrogram Analysis :: Vowel & Tone Mastery
We also use computer generated analysis offering incredibly detailed analysis of vowel usage and tone consistency. Our computer shows harmonics of the sound wave in a color spectrogram. We are looking at good clear vowels being spoken. The brightness of each harmonic represents its strengthening this device we can see the tonal balance of your singing, and how that changes with different vowels and across your range. This display shows the harmonic spectrum of the sound as it is sung. This display shows you the tonal balance of your voice as you sing. You get an immediate visual response to changes in how you are singing or speaking. A great tool used to assist in changing vocal qualities.
My First Song :: Accompaniment Training
What if you could play simple chords to your favorite song without previous training or learning to read music? Would you enjoy that? What if you could play a song for your sweetheart? We will show you how. It can change a life. We can train you to sing a favorite song beautifully and accompany yourself by guitar or ukulele. Would that be fun?
Recorded Session :: For your Review
If you desire, we offer to create demo's for your demo CD.

 

The Monroe method is based upon selected works of the following master teachers:

Van Alton Daniels, Thomas Fillebrown, Lilli Lehmann, Oren Lathrop Brown, Divy Nelson, Roger Love, Seth Riggs, Mark Baxter, Melissa Cross, Joan Frey Boytim, Thomas Appell, Elisabeth Howard, Brett Manning, Howard Austin, Elizabeth Blades-Zeller, Pamelia S. Phillips, Gary Douglas, Barbara & Gregory Markway, Brett Manning, Dr. Murray B. Stein, Dr. John Walker, Dr. Morton Cooper, Graham Hewitt, Jaime Vendera, Dr. Barbara Markway, Dr. Cheryl Carmin, Dr. C. Alec Pollard, James Alburger, and Erika Hilliard.

Educational Model and Method:

Building upon a foundation of positive reinforcement, Guy Monroe utilizes a variety of techniques to expand a students expressive possibilities, such as the Socratic Method (exploring the implications of others' positions, to stimulate rational thinking and illuminate ideas), exploring cultural influence on a students expressive ability as well as teaching conventional mechanical vocal techniques applied to posture, anatomy, breath control, the column of re son ace vibrato and more. Guy Monroe strives to replace untested personal beliefs, bad habits, misinformation and self-doubt with reliable expressionistic application producing masterful ability in vocal expression.

Guy Monroe works with the absolute beginner and the seasoned pro. Everyone has different needs. Guy desires you to have every tool you can under your belt, so you can sing and speak at your best. Here are some skills you should consider acquiring when working with him.

Vocal Curriculum Objectives

There are unlimited potential points to cover. Each of us have unique requirements. I cannot wait to begin working with you. If you commit to investing some time on your voice. You will be amazed at the results. Here are some of the curriculum points we can explore together:

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Ear training.
Articulation: Tongue, Teeth, Soft Palate and Lips.
Extending the range of your voice.
Consonants and Fricatives.
Sympathetic resonance.
Develop Vocal Projection.
Mastering front and back vowels
Consonant vs. Vowel Emphasis.
Singing across the vocal break.
Mastering The Vibrato
Tension releasing techniques.
Developing style and ornamentation.
Controlling Nasality and Vocal Color.
Coordinating your soft palate and tongue.
Vocal Phoneticism.
Low larynx and tongue training.
Vocal warm-up exercises.
3 Vocal Horns: Nasopharynx, Oropharynx and Laryngopharynx.
Exploring chest voice.
Pop Singing using Speech level Techniques.
Exploring head voice and falsetto.
The Blended Voice.
Discover, Locate and Maintain pitch.

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Mastering intervals.
Improvisation for pop, jazz, rock and folk singing.
Exploring Tonal strategies of classic country.
Power of Informality and Southern Speech.
Exploring The Vocal Fry.
The Whistle Register.
Develop your Optimum Speaking Pitch.
Explore Physicality, Gesture and Tension dumping.
Exploring Fight or Flight Mind Set.
Overcoming anxiety through preparation.
Nutrition and Hydration.
Vocal Production Song Worksheet: Song Mapping.
Learn Chord Accompaniment.
Freeing The Upper Voice.
Posture Exercises.
Replacing the inner-critic with the inner-compliment.
Diaphragmatic and Intercostal compression and Breath Exercises.
Continuous Airflow Exercises.
Phonation: Developing a healthily-produced lower, middle and upper voice.

Individual coaching in communication skills training is ideal when you desire to connect more powerfully with others. The Singing Voice is offered in person, by telephone or by Skype from anywhere in the world. Telephone and Skype coaching is quite effective. Call 512.554.8771 or Request a Complimentary Consultation.