Which is the best vocal music school in singapore in your opinion?

Hi, I am new here. I am still looking for a good music school to learn singing, anyone has any recommendation?


Hi Ben

You can try private one-to-one singing lessons actually! Music school may not be able to cater to your needs and individual goals, while working with a vocal coach on a one to one basis give you flexibility in scheduling as well as more customised lesson plan to suit your goals and personal achievements.

You can contact 97380708 to enquire more about private vocal coaching. :)

Hope this helps!
 
Not too sure whether Verve Music School is a good option..
I am planning to take on Vocal Lessons!

As a student from the school, I can give you this much:
- lessons are typically 45 minutes long.
- pop vocalist teacher has multiple, unconventional (you could say) methods of teaching you the basic techniques
-- outgoing, as one of the members commented below, and plays multiple instruments. It won't be hard to build a rapport if
-- great teacher, but I can't say 45 minutes per lesson is enough.
-- a shitload of patience (I'm probably the most rebellious student there. Seriously.)
- lessons are one-to-one so you get plenty of time for feedback to work on your vocals (as opposed to group lessons where time is split between a few people)


I suppose you can give it a go. ;)

The one downside, if it matters to you at all, is that the admins at the counter are almost always changing (been there a year and 2 ish months now, this is the fourth set of admins I've seen) so it makes scheduling/admin work a little troublesome.
 
REAL PROPER SINGING LESSONS FROM A VETERAN SINGER AND TEACHER

REAL, PROPER and PROFESSIONAL Singing lessons should teach you the proper way to breathe and pitch from the diaphragm, - NOT FROM THE NOSE OR THROAT NOR BY SHOUTING - and you should be taught the rudiments of music, and sing in the appropriate way for the style of music you like (be it pop, classical, jazz, R&B, etc.) In this way, you learn to project your voice and make it more solid and resonant, extend your range, pitch accurately, and your voice becomes\ clearer and smoother. You should also really learn to read music like real musicians do.
The human voice is an instrument, and whatever you are singing, there are the corresponding notes to it. You should learn the notes to what you are singing!! So, in addition to proper breathing and pitching techniques, you should be taught the rudiments of music (using the piano/keyboard/guitar) - for you to learn to read notes, to know the keys to your songs, to sightsing, to count and differentiate time signatures, harmony, the different genres of music, etc. You can choose to sing in whatever song genre you want– be it pop, jazz, blues, theatre and classical, but you should be taught the techniques very well so much so that you become versatile and can sing in any genre. It is only when you decide to concentrate on one genre that you love very much eventually, and are very inclined to, then you can concentrate and specialise in that genre. But Good technique is good technique. And good technique enables you to sing anyting and be versatile!

YOUR TEACHER MUST TEACH YOU HOW TO READ MUSIC!!!

If your teacher has no knowledge of reading music, and cannot accompany you on piano or guitar or organ, and is grabbing sounds from the air to teach you, this is inadequate singing training! All of the above techniques and rudiments should be taught with the teacher playing the piano/keyboard or guitar for you. She/He should teach the techniques using scales, while checking your pitch against the piano/keyboard/guitar. How will your teacher and you be able to tell if you are in pitch except if you pitch it against an instrument? She should be able to accompany you while you are singing. Teachers who teach singing using only instrumental tracks and are not able read and play music themselves to play the scales and accompany you, are just teaching you TO MIMIC and COPY SOUNDS LIKE A PARROT!

CLASSICAL STYLE SINGING IS DIFFERENT FROM POP/JAZZ SINGING!!!

Classical singing techniques and tones are different from pop and jazz technique and tones! Your teacher cannot let you be doing pop songs with your head or choir voice only. These are used mainly in classical music! Vice versa, neither should she teach you to sing with your chest voice only. Pop and jazz and R&B call more for a "conversational" style of singing, with some head voice thrown in, and that calls for special belting techniques THAT DO NOT MAKE YOU SHOUT.

A proper singing teacher should teach you how to sing with your chest voice without shouting and hurting your voice! Shouting is bad for the throat and proper singing teachers should not let you shout and hurt your throat. Note: Please do not listen to classical singing teachers who say singing pop and belting is bad for the voice. No. 1 – there is a way to belt SAFELY and FROM THE DIAPHRAGM that is safe for your throat. No. 2 – Shouting and screaming is NOT BELTING and No. 3 – Your classical singing teacher probably does not know how to sing pop nor to belt, that is why she says this. Just as to play classical piano has a different style and approach from playing jazz piano and pop piano, you cannot be using classical techniques and approach to sing pop and jazz songs!

SINGING EXAMS SHOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE

If you might want your singing lessons to be accredited or certified, you have the option of taking the Trinity Guildhall or ABRSM or Rock School Singing Exams. You may also, of course, take lessons for leisure or other professional objectives

Lessons at $70 per session from a Trinity Guildhall certified teacher of 14 years at local and international schools, and a seasoned professional singer of 30 years local and international performing experience. Performance/Vocal coaching is also available for semi- professional and professional singers, or for those going for a singing audition. Email at ladybirdworks@gmail.com for any more enquiries, or call 96512921.
 
but in my opinion , for some amateurs who want to stand on the stage, what they really need is an instructor come from backstage to improvise their singing style, teaching them how to design their own voice, how to how to engage with the audience etc as well as those vocal and breathing techniques. And that's what we can do for you, not only the enhancing skill for your singing as well as the stage management.
Join us by contact 82808681.
 
Please share your experience in a vocal school you've attended before!

Did you find it useful, structured, long-term minded (as opposed to "LEARN HOW TO SING IN 2 WEEKS")?
Also, the fees?

Thanks =)

Try Singing Teacher Yvette Atienza , who gives real proper singing lessons . Her website is www.realpropersinginglessons.com, or email ladybirdworks@gmail.com. She is a veteran singer herself with 30 years performing experience and 15 years of teaching singing.

She will teach you properly how to sing NOT FROM YOUR THROAT NOR NOSE, but properly from the diaphragm, with a relaxed open throat , and a relaxed upper body that will immediately improve the volume, resonance and clarity of your sound, even from the first lesson! She will teach you the proper way to breathe and pitch notes from the diaphragm, She can also teach you how to read music and learn the rudiments of music, as this will give you a better and deeper understanding of the music, and make you a better singer!

She is very versatile herself so she can teach you to sing in the appropriate way for the style of music you like (be it pop, classical, jazz, R&B, etc.). Some teachers sing in a classical style with a choir voice themselves and then teach pop and R&B singing, and they cannot belt properly (instead they are shouting), and yet say they can teach pop singing!! Yvette will teach you how to belt
with a big sound BUT SAFELY, not shouting! She can also sing in a Classical Style to help you sing Classical songs, and/or prepare for Singing Exams!

Her students have gone on to
1. become professionals in the Australian and Singapore Music Scene - Kalli Coplin from the local band 10 Minutes, Rya Park from the Australian group Tempus Sun, Singapore based Dutch-Indonesian Singer-Songwriter Noa Angel Boon, local singer KK Ho formerly from Budak Pantai, local theatre actress Shana Yap, Singer/Songwriter Helena Hullsman
2. Her students have gone on to clinch full scholarships from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London
3. Her students score high Merits and Distinctions in their Classical Trinity Guildhall Singing Exams

She not only can sing Popular Music, and Classical Music, but she is really one of the very rare talents who can also do jazz improvisation. A very complete and versatile singer herself - so she will be able to teach you to sing the phone book! She gives individual lessons only. Her email is ladybirdworks@gmail.com
 
Try Singing Teacher/Singer Yvette Atienza , who gives real proper singing lessons . Her website is www.realpropersinginglessons.com, or email ladybirdworks@gmail.com. She is a veteran singer/performer herself with 30 years performing experience who can perform in all genres – pop, jazz, R&B, Musical Theatre and Classical. With a Trinity Diploma in Voice and 15 years of teaching singing, aside from her knowledge of singing, her vast experience in 6 genres is very valuable to any aspiring singer/performer

She will teach you properly how to sing NOT FROM YOUR THROAT NOR NOSE, but properly from the diaphragm, with a relaxed open throat , and a relaxed upper body that will immediately improve the volume, resonance and clarity of your sound, even from the first lesson! She will teach you the proper way to breathe and pitch notes from the diaphragm, She can also teach you how to read music and learn the rudiments of music, as this will give you a better and deeper understanding of the music, and make you a better singer! PLUS She will give you tips on proper delivery – appropriate stage performance , communicating and acting out a song, creating a commanding stage presence.

She is very versatile herself so she can teach you to sing in the appropriate way for the style of music you like (be it pop, classical, jazz, R&B, etc.). Some teachers sing in a classical style with a choir voice themselves and then teach pop and R&B singing, and they cannot belt properly (instead they are shouting), and yet say they can teach pop singing!! Yvette will teach you how to belt
with a big sound BUT SAFELY, not shouting! She can also sing in a Classical Style to help you sing Classical songs, and/or prepare for Trinity/ABRSM Singing Exams!

Her students have gone on to
1. become professionals in the Australian and Singapore Music Scene - Kalli Coplin from the local band 10 Minutes, Rya Park from the Australian group Tempus Sun, Singapore based Dutch-Indonesian Singer-Songwriter Noa Angel Boon, local singer KK Ho formerly from Budak Pantai, local theatre actress Shana Yap, Singer/Songwriter Helena Hullsman
2. Her students have gone on to clinch full scholarships from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London
3. Her students score high Merits and Distinctions in their Classical Trinity Guildhall Singing Exams

She not only can sing Popular Music, and Classical Music, but she is really one of the very rare talents who can also do jazz improvisation. A very complete and versatile singer herself - so she will be able to teach you to sing the phone book! She gives individual lessons only. Her number is 96512921 or email is ladybirdworks@gmail.com
 
Hi Everyone,

Chanced upon this thread and would like you guys to know of my services as a singing teacher.

My name is Steven Ang, a singer and teacher trained in the UK, Taiwan and Singapore and frequent performer in the arts scene. My unique style draws from classical bel canto adapted into pop and musical theatre styles, based on sound and wholistic usage of our physical resources.

My students have won competitions and have appeared in productions by Wild Rice, Childaid, Singapore Lyric Opera and soon in Evita at MBS. They also include numerous hobbyists who are amazed at their progress in only two months.

My rates are reasonable and location is easily accessible from AMK MRT. I offer a trial lesson at only $30 which is refundable if you decide to sign up. Please check out my website below for more information:

http://steven-ang-ky.blogspot.sg/p/blog-page.html


Thank you!

Steven
 
In answer to this question, you should go to a Singing Teacher who HAS STUDIED HOW TO TEACH SINGING, ASIDE FROM BEING PERFORMERS THEMSELVES, and who has YEARS OF EXPERIENCE DOING BOTH! There are many performers out there who teach but don't have the requisite Singing Teaching training!

So many a Singing Teacher in Singapore are either young music graduates without much teaching and performing experience, or older teachers who do not perform much and who only do classical singing and/or have trained only in classical singing! Then they conduct singing classes that teach pop/R&B/Jazz with their classical techniques!!! THIS IS WRONG! It's like studying classical piano, then going to teach jazz piano! Pop/Jazz/Contemporary Singing call for a singing style and technique that is a modified version of classical singing techniques!


REAL, PROPER and PROFESSIONAL Singing lessons should be taught by Singing Teachers who have years of Performing experience in the genre you like, and who have STUDIED TO TEACH SINGING INSTRUCTION, with many years of teaching Singing!!! A few famous students who sing very well would also be a BIG PLUS!!

REAL PROPER SINGING LESSONS should teach you the proper way to breathe and pitch from the diaphragm, - NOT FROM THE NOSE OR THROAT, NOR ONLY FROM THE "MASK" AND NOT BELT BY SHOUTING!!! Your Vocal Teacher should be able to teach you a safe way to belt if you need to belt!!

You should have a COMPLETE VOCAL TRAINING by teaching you how to read music, too!! In this way, you learn to project your voice and make it more solid and resonant, widen your range, pitch accurately, make your voice even all throughout, clearer and smoother, and you learn to read and understand the music like real musicians do!!! YOU WILL SING BETTER IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE MUSIC WRITTEN FOR IT!!!!

The human voice is an instrument, and whatever you are singing, there are the corresponding notes to it. You should learn the notes to what you are singing!! So, aside from singing techniques, your Vocal Coach should teach you the rudiments of music, in order to know the keys to your songs, to sightsing, to count and differentiate time signatures, harmony, the different genres of music, etc.

You should be able to sing in whatever genre you want– be it pop, jazz, blues, theatre and classical - but you should be taught the techniques specific to the genre!!! Again, your Vocal Coach cannot teach pop singing with classical techniques only! Again, its like a classical pianist teaching jazz or pop piano!!

YOUR SINGING TEACHER MUST TEACH YOU HOW TO READ MUSIC!!!

If your teacher has no knowledge of reading music, and cannot accompany you on piano or guitar or organ, and is grabbing sounds from the air to teach you, this is inadequate singing training! All of the above techniques and rudiments should be taught with the teacher playing the piano/keyboard or guitar for you. She/He should teach the vocal techniques using scales, and various melody patterns, while checking your pitch against the piano/keyboard/guitar. How will your teacher and you be able to tell if you are in pitch except if you pitch it against an instrument? She should be able to accompany you while you are singing. Teachers who teach singing using only instrumental tracks and are not able read and play music themselves to play the scales and accompany you, are just teaching you TO MIMIC and COPY SOUNDS LIKE A PARROT!

CLASSICAL STYLE SINGING IS DIFFERENT FROM POP/JAZZ SINGING!!!
Classical singing techniques and tones are different from pop and jazz technique and tones! Your teacher cannot let you be doing pop/contemporary songs with your head or choir voice only. These are used mainly in classical music! Vice versa, neither should she teach you to sing with your chest voice only. Pop and jazz and R&B call more for a "conversational" style of singing, with some head voice thrown in, and that calls for special belting techniques THAT DO NOT MAKE YOU SHOUT. Shouting is bad for the throat and proper singing teachers should not let you shout and hurt your throat. Note: Please do not listen to classical singing teachers who say singing pop and belting is bad for the voice. No. 1 – there is a way to belt SAFELY and FROM THE DIAPHRAGM that is safe for your throat. No. 2 – Your classical singing teacher probably does not know how to sing pop nor to belt, that is why she says this. Just as to play classical piano has a different style and approach from playing jazz piano and pop piano, you cannot be using classical techniques and approach to sing pop and jazz songs!

SINGING EXAMS SHOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE
If you might want your singing lessons to be accredited or certified, you should have the option of taking the Trinity Guildhall or ABRSM or Rock School Singing Exams!

Vocal Lessons at $75 per session from a Trinity Guildhall-Certified teacher of 16 years teaching at local and international schools, and a seasoned professional singer of 30 years local and international performing experience. Performance/Vocal coaching is also available for semi- professional and professional singers, or for those going for a singing audition. Email at ladybirdworks@gmail.com for any more enquiries, or call 96512921!!
 
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