Online Singing Lessons With Abram Poliakoff
Intro to Vocal Registers
Today we’re talking about the registers of the voice, and we’ll try a few exercises to strengthen our voice within these registers. Many beginning singers have at least heard the terms “chest voice” and “head voice”. But if those terms are new to you, fear not! When we talk about registers, we’re referring to a section of the voice (or a collection of pitches) in which sound is produced a certain way and results in a specific tone quality. Continue to learn more about vocal registers!
Range Extension
Do you want to increase your range? Do you find yourself straining for high notes or scooping for low notes? This tutorial is all about range extension. I'll give you principles and exercises to help you gradually increase your range in a healthy way. Let's get started!
How to Sing Pop
When I say pop music, what do you think of? Michael Jackson? Madonna? Ed Sheeran? Ariana Grande? Pop music emerged as a distinct style in the 1950’s, although it’s evolved a lot since then, and it continues to change as music evolves. A lot of sub genres could be classified as pop; so for our purposes, we’re gonna take a broad look at pop singing and define some characteristics present in the majority of contemporary pop styles. I think you’ll have fun. Let’s get started!
Performance Warmups with Abram
Do you have a performance coming up? Maybe an audition? Before it’s performance time, you’ll want to make sure that you warm up your voice. But what kinds of warm-ups should you use? Keep watching for my tutorial on performance warm-ups!
All About Tone
What would you say if I asked you to describe the difference between Freddie Mercury’s voice and Elvis Presley’s? What about the difference between Ariana Grande’s voice and Adele’s? Each of these singers has a unique sound; and answering that question will get us talking about tone or timbre. While we all have a general sound that comes naturally to us, we can develop and explore different tone qualities within our voice. Keep watching for a tutorial on tone.
Perform Like a Pro with Abram
Are you already a singer who regularly performs for an audience? Do you find it hard to find the right warm-ups to get yourself ready? Sometimes our best performance can be in the shower and yet we find ourselves distracted and disconnected when its time to get on the stage. Many professional singers have a warm up strategy to bring their “A game” when it counts most. In this tutorial you will find strategies and warm-ups to help you bring your best performance to your audience.
Foundations of Vibrato
Listen for the difference between these two phrases: [Sing phrase straight tone, then vibrato] What did you hear? The first time, I sang with straight tone [demonstrate], and the second time, I added vibrato [demonstrate]. Vibrato is the natural oscillation that occurs in healthy singing. It adds life and helps us convey emotion when we sing. Although some styles use more vibrato than others, it’s present in virtually every genre. If you’d like to learn more and work on developing natural vibrato, check out this tutorial!
Foundations of Vibrato Part 2
Are you ready to take your vibrato training to the next level? If so, check out How to Sing with Vibrato: Part 2! We’ll cover common vibrato issues and vibrato usage in different musical genres. See you there!
30 Day Beginner Course Level 2 With Abram
Join Abram Poliakoff for level 2 of the beginners course! This course builds upon the previous 30-day courses by Camille, Jonathan, and Jon, so we recommend completing one of those courses first! We will review concepts as we go, but you will get the most out of this course once you have completed level 1.
Daily Chest Voice Workout For Beginning Bass And Low Baritone
What is chest voice? How can you keep it from feeling forced, or strained? Join Abram for the answers to these questions, as he helps you find and strengthen your chest voice.
Singing With Richer Tone For Low Voices
Singing with a thin, small sound is common in beginning singers. Work with Abram in this lesson series and learn how to make a fuller and richer tone.
Daily Chest Voice Workout For Beginning Tenors And High Baritone
Chest voice is used for the pitches at the lower end of your range - although for male or lower voiced singers, chest register usually takes up more of your range over all. Join Abram for a daily workout to help create, and strengthen your chest voice!
Daily Head Voice Workout For Tenors And High Baritone
Even if you don’t foresee yourself using a lot of head voice in the songs you sing, it’s crucial that you spend some time in head voice when you warm up. Head voice not just for high notes: it’s also for flexibility! Join Abram for this daily voice workout.
Sustaining Long Notes For Lower Voices
Sustaining a note is objectively more difficult than just hitting that same note. Join Abram in this three part lesson on sustaining long notes.
How To Strengthen Your Voice
Is your singing voice weak? Do you sing too quietly? Would you like to sound more powerful while singing? This week Abram will be showing us how to strengthen your singing voice.
Head Voice/Falsetto for Male Singers
Work on your upper vocal register, your head voice, your falsetto, and all things high-vocals with this lesson from Abram. While this lesson might be geared towards male singers with a lower range, these exercise will work for all singers with all voice types!
Am I Singing In Tune?
Are you singing in tune? How can you tell if you're singing on pitch? Abram will show us some ways in which we can strengthen our ears and our voices to be able to tell when we are singing out of tune.
How To Sing With A Smooth Tone
Would you like your voice to sound smoother? Are you having trouble singing with a smooth tone? Abram will show us some ways in which we can sing more smoothly!
Performance Anxiety: How To Fix A Shaky Nervous Voice
When you get nervous while singing, does your voice start to shake or get wobbly? Do you get the pre-show jitters? Abram will show us how to calm our nerves and strengthen our shaky nervous voice!
14-Day Vibrato Course With Abram
Welcome to your 2-week course on developing vibrato! Each day, you’ll learn 2 new exercises focused on a specific aspect of vibrato development. We begin with the foundations of vibrato development, then on to kickstarting your vibrato, next, vibrato control & troubleshooting, and finally the course will wrap up with some real song application. Join Abram as she guides you in learning this exciting and crucial skill!
Daily Intonation Practice For Low Voices: Pitch Matching Focus
What is intonation? It’s a fancy word for singing in tune and with accuracy. You can think of this tutorial as a way to work on musical target practice with your voice.
Daily Intonation Practice For Low Voices : Major Scale & Interval Focus
Because most popular Western music is built on the major scale, exercises like this can help you to recognize steps and skips in the songs you sing. You’ll begin to develop an awareness of what “fits” within a given scale, and what doesn’t.
Vocal Strain, Pain and Health
This week we will talk about vocal strain and pain. The signs that you might be pushing your singing too hard. And ways to heal yourself and stay healthy!
What Is Mixed Voice?
Learn all about mixed voice, what it is and what it isn't. How to harness it and use is to the best of your ability.
Common Frustrations for Beginning Singers
As a beginning singer, there are frustrations that are common across everyone. Learn what those frustrations are and how to get around them.
Vocal Agility Exercises
Are you working on your riffs and runs but hitting walls? This week we will work on your vocal agility and built your singing voice!
Fix Common Issues with Vocal Tone
Here are some simple and easy fixes for common vocal tone issues.
Daily Head Voice For Beginning Bass And Baritone
Even if you don’t foresee yourself using a lot of head voice in the songs you sing, it’s crucial that you spend some time in head voice. Head voice not just for high notes: it’s also for flexibility! Join Abram for this daily exercise.
How To Sing Classical
This series is an entry into the world of classical singing. If you sing in a choir, you’ll use this technique constantly. If you sing pop, rock, r&b, or another seemingly unrelated style, you are encouraged to incorporate classical technique into your warm ups and vocal training!
14-day Pop Vocals Course With Abram
Do you love pop? Then this is the course for you! This course focuses on our basic pop tone, agility, with exercises for falls & scoops, “turnarounds”, and riff patterns with up to 5 pitches. You will focus on distinct registration including falsetto, pop flips, and different types of onset, like vocal fry. We’ll use two mini-songs called “This is the time” and “Never leave you” to practice each technique.
How To Sing Like A Pro - Christmas Edition!
There are standard tips, tricks and techniques that the pros use to sound as best as they can. In the holiday spirit, we will be applying these techniques to Christmas songs!
How to Sing in a Group - Christmas Style!
Singing with other vocalists is a joy, and sometimes a challenge. In this live lesson we will use Christmas songs to discuss different approaches to singing in a group setting.
How to Sing Better in 2023
New Year, new singing! Start the year off right with these singing tips going in to 2023.
How to Release Vocal Tension
As we sing, we can lose track of how tense our body and vocal muscles become. Usually we are having fun and getting in to the song, not even realizing that we tightening and restricting our body. In turn, preventing ourselves from sounding even better! In this lesson, Abram will show you how to keep this in mind while singing, and what you can do afterwards if you are too tight.
14-Day Performance Course With Abram
This course is designed to give you lots of tips and strategies to improve your ability to perform with ease and confidence. Even if you don’t plan on being a professional performing musician, learning to perform with charm and grace can be a skill that transfers to many other aspects of your life.
Better Breath Control
Are you looking for more vocal power? Does your voice crack? Do you run out of breath before a vocal line is through? Want just a bit more volume while singing? All of these issues can be solved with proper breath control.
Vibrato Singing HACKS
Use these singing tips to develop your natural vibrato. Vibrato is a bit counterintuitive, in that it only happens properly when you aren't trying too hard to do it. You need to allow your vocal muscles to vibrate in a way which results in vibrato. And everyone's vibrato is a bit different!
Classical Singing Exercises
Are you working on your classical singing voice? Looking for a stylistic challenge? In this live lesson Abram will break down classical vocal tone, classical singing techniques and much more!
How To Belt the RIGHT Way
Working on your vocal belting? Learn to get that volume and power without adding strain or damage to your voice. Develop healthy singing habits which allow you to belt it out!
Pop Vocal Warm Ups
Working on your pop singing style? There are specific sounds and techniques used in pop vocals. Here are some warm ups to help you sound like the pop singing greats!
Head Voice Troubleshooting
This class is for those struggling with head voice. We are going to focus on how to identify what is out of balance with tone and support and lots of tricks to sing comfortably in this register.
Consonants and Vowels
In this lesson we are going to map out our main vowels and consonants, discussing the most efficient way to sing each shape and what habits to avoid.
Music Theory For Beginners
This lesson is a beginner friendly intro to music theory and why it's so important for intonation, harmony, and reading music. We will go over notes, intervals, scales, and some basics about key and time signatures.
Minor Scale Exercises
This class is all about the minor scale. I'll teach the minor scale pattern and then adapt a bunch of exercises to this scale.
How To Grow Your Voice
This class is about the process of developing your voice. I will discuss range extension and voice size for both the lower and higher registers and what types of routines are most effective to achieve this.
Emotion and Vocal Expression
In this lesson we will go over tips and tricks to bring more emotion into your voice using both vocal technique and some mental tricks used by actors to better stimulate and convey emotions while performing.
Rhythm for Singers
Having trouble singing in time with the music? This lesson will cover how to master finding the pulse and staying in time while singing as well as what it's like to be behind or ahead of the beat.
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