Thursday, 6 October 2016

Some Experiences And Trainings Needed To Become A Voice Coach

By Sandra Martin


Another common term for voice coach is vocal coach. These coaches are teachers that teach and instruct a singer to improve his or her techniques and as well as to take care and develop the voice. Some of the coaches privately teach master classes, lessons, and work shops. They serve as guides for the singers doing a practice or doing a song recording. Usually, coaches focus more on music that are either classical or popular. But some may focus only on the techniques for singing like breathing and word diction and pronunciation.

Mostly, the voice coach is both the writer and the producer of arrangements for harmony of the backup vocalists and the developer for the melody of secondary vocalists. Some serve as advisers to bands and to singers for lyric writing of musical productions. There are critics concerning on the issues of popular recordings in which it credits the singer for the work done by the voice coach Los Angeles and not acknowledging coaches who did the lyric writing for singers.

From year 2000, a lot of soft wares were developed that are now used in processing the vocals such as applying different algorithm types and devices which are used for correcting pitches. These soft wares are reducing the roles of most vocal coaches. The producers before will hire a not so good singer and will do vocal coaching to him or her for weeks. This is done for them to learn the new song and also to improve his or her diction and tone.

In Los Angeles, CA, training and education of the coaches varies widely. Most are former singers professionally and some also are singers currently. Some of them have formal trainings such as Bachelors of Music, Masters of Music, having Conservatory Diplomas, and having degrees related to posture techniques, foreign languages, breathing methods, and even human kinetics.

Others do not have that much experience with a formal training and they are often seen doing performances and consider as their experiences. While those that do not have even one training are often seen in a music style or in a classical milieu. One example is a language speaker who teaches diction to students in many different countries. In this way, that speaker will more likely improve his or her singing style.

Other coaches may also have the profession related to music like rehearsal pianists that accompanies the singers in musical theaters. And some do not also have music related musical professions. Example for this is having yoga techniques or other aspects medically concerning on vocal cords and the throat.

This profession became very competitive nowadays especially for those in higher professional levels. Their salary is highly dependent on the conditions of work. At times, they can demand their own prices.

Mostly, art and music professionals have lower salaries compared to other professionals. This is possible when both are required to have similar amount of education and experience. Other professionals are the economists and bank managers.

Conditions for work may vary. It varies on type of work in most recording or opera companies either you are a freelancer or part timer. In most universities and in most musical theaters, full time workers are given contracts.




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