Hey, I have no time for straight-up legit in person lessons. Where can I get free online singing lessons that are free? Thanks.
Hello Donna and thanks for this terrific question!
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In addition to the general question of where you can get the best online free singing instruction, you’ve specifically asked about VoxTrain lessons, if I understand right. I strongly advise against this and in fact against any method of learning to sing, which does not permit you regular, ongoing, direct, individual access to a private singing instructor, a respected teacher of singing.
Why? What’s the big deal? Can’t you learn to sing just as well, or better, with prerecorded singing instruction?
It boils down to this: We cannot see or touch our singing instrument (vocal anatomy, inside of our bodies). At least we cannot do so in anything like the way a pianist or a violinist (or any other instrumentalist) can see and touch their musical instruments. A singer’s instrument is, in relevant part, the vocal anatomy, meaning certain organs inside the neck/throat as well as the resonanting chambers in the chest, in the head, and so forth. (This is not intended as a complete account or description of “vocal anatomy” but merely as a short overview.) Singers learn: “Your body is your instrument.” We use lower muscles of the abdominal areas (pelvic floor muscles and so forth) for purposes of breath support.
Now, yes, we can FEEL—and we must learn to feel as much as possible—of what is happening in our physical bodies, enabling us to sing. But we cannot touch or see our voices, as I’ve just defined.
To assist you in learning to sing, you and your private voice teacher rely upon verbal speech, upon vocal sounds, etc., to communicate back and forth, fluidly and in the moment, during your actual singing lessons. It has to be FLUID. It has to be you and your teacher interacting personally, relying upon good rapport, good strong communication for learning, which relationship you’ve cultivated between yourselves. What is cannot be—with any degree of lasting success— is a canned, do it yourself approach, whereby the person who sold you the prerecorded lessons never once hears you sing.
You see, we don’t know how you’re responding to the instruction you’re being given—do we? Since we’re so dependent upon verbal speech, for learning to sing, and since not all words mean the same to every single person, it is impossible to predict or to assume how you’re going to respond to singing instruction. Your teacher must monitor how you respond to instruction—a huge part of your teacher’s job, for heaven’s sake!
Your voice is special. It’s as unique as your fingerprint; no two human voices are identical. A violin, a piano, a trumpet—any such musical instrument—obviously can be replaced. But your voice cannot be replaced, Mr. Pickering. No surgical procedure in the world will give you your voice back, if it’s been badly damaged; there’s no such thing as a “voice transplant,” obviously.
Some singers routinely yell on their voices, as one quick example here. If we give them prerecorded lessons, they’re going to continue to yell on their voices. The instruction has no means of detecting the singer’s response to the instruction, remember, because no singing teacher ever hears the student’s voice. So the prerecorded lessons have no chance of stopping that person from yelling on his/her voice. And we’re to believe that the prerecorded lessons are effective and successful, even for those singers who systematically and constantly yell on their voices. This is merely one of many examples, of how individual singers vary widely in their approaches to singing in the first place, let alone how each singer responds to instruction. (Two different, separate, but essential components of learning to sing.)
I’m asking you to not take chances, where your vocal health is concerned, by allowing people to guess and to assume how you respond to singing instruction. It is unwise in terms of vocal health. Sure, it’s merely my opinion. But pleasd ask any classically trained singer if prerecorded singing lessons are a smart choice. At a bare minimum, where beginning students of singing are concerned, I want you to please ask classically trained singers and please ask any respected teacher of singing (classically trained) if they advise prerecorded lessons.
Eventually all singers must learn about vocal health. But for those of us classically trained, vocal health is numero uno, always and constantly. We know about vocal health. In short, what we know is that without consistently good vocal health we’ve got NOTHING. What good is a singing voice that is all ripped up with swollen vocal folds, dehydrated, and suffering from profound bodily fatigue? Singing sounds horrible, when afflicted with any of these common conditions. Classical singers realize we have to prevent vocal troubles. Once they’ve set in, it’s too late; the voice will not sound horrible, and we’ll have to try to “sing around” these miserable problems, which basically can’t even be done. Prevention is your only hope, for good vocal health. If you want vocal health advice, check first with a classically trained singer.
For no charge whatsoever and no strings attached, I can help you locate a good singing teacher in your local area, so you can have one-on-one private voice lessons. Or I can teach you myself, using “lessons on demand,” which assures that you receive individualized, personalized singing lessons, with specific instruction carefully tailored to your own needs as a singer.
The foregoing is offered because I actually do care about YOUR voice. If you want to sing, I want to help. Make sure you follow the two links below!
Hope to hear from you!
