Believe You Can Sing & Vocal Explorers Studio
Believe You Can Sing & Vocal Explorers Studio

Believe You Can Sing & Vocal Explorers Studio

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Introduction: "Connecting the Heart to the Science of Voice" AVAILABILITY: Please use my online calendar on my website, listed below to easily schedule your online session. You CAN learn how to sing & speak with more ease, volume, pitch control and breath support for a healthier voice. Take a deep inhale by expanding and opening your rib cage, relaxing your jaw and then exhale sounding 'aaahhh'. Have FUN with it so that you can hear and feel the difference sooner. My mission is to assist you in finding an easier way to sustain your best posture, breath support, resonance and pitch control by bringing awareness to existing vocal habits and giving you hands-on experience with adjusting those habits. Hi! My name is Arlys. I am a Voice Teacher | Performance Coach who grew up singing freely and naturally until I destroyed my voice thru improper, frequent overuse. I believed my career was over, but it was just starting. Private lessons with vocal professionals coupled with academic studies rebuilt my perception of how I was generating sound and their training gave me back MY VOICE, for which I am forever grateful. I can help you reach your goals. My cross-training in dance, yoga, Tai Chi, commercial & improvisational acting provides a well-rounded platform from which to deliver information, guide vocal explorers and also help develop talent. I help you understand why you're doing the exercise, how it will benefit your voice and become more aware or conscious of physical habits that are affecting your voice so that you can redirect them. Together, we find your most relaxed & elongated posture, breath support, resonance and pitch control, without losing our minds :-). Oh yeah, a ton of humor must be applied or it won't be fun, and doesn't everyone learn more when we're having fun? (Just nod, and agree, it's okay to enjoy life.) There are no long-term contracts, you can take a lesson at a time or sign up for a guaranteed weekly time. Please, if you've been waiting to take voice lessons give this a try. Brief Resume: over 20 years of private voice teaching; 12 years living & working in Los Angeles; 12 years of personal vocal studies with master teachers of bel canto & contemporary singing techniques. I am forever grateful to all of my teachers past and present, for their valuable gifts of knowledge, skill, grace and compassion. In-studio and online lessons available. REFERENCES & BACKGROUND CHECKS AVAILABLE Member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing 2014 - 2020 Proud partner with Take Lessons & School of Rock The most fulfilling thing about my job is hearing the difference in my student's voices and how that has affected their daily life, as well as celebrating their successes.
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Jonathan A.
Nov 17, 2014
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Arlys was very knowledgeable, attentive and enthusiastic despite my status as a novice singer. She teaches vocal drills by example and is good at helping the student relax and learn vocal exercises that would otherwise seem awkward to perform for that first time. I should have recorded my lessons and listened to them for practice and review during the time until the next lesson. She suggested that but I never got my recording device to work. Vocal miracles cannot be performed overnight but if you are serious and willing to work hard between lessons she will improve your singing ability as fast as anyone.
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Sarah K.
Apr 22, 2015
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Arlys was extremely welcoming and knowledgeable. I am a fairly shy beginner and she was very helpful in beginning the process of learning to use my voice - I highly recommend lessons with her!
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Clara R.
Feb 15, 2015
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She is a great teacher! After only 3 lessons, I can hear my technique improving and my range expanding. Love our lessons!
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Kaitlee F.
Apr 26, 2013
There are so many good things I could say about Arlys. I came to her with only a few weeks to prepare for an audition and with no previous lesson experience. In only the four and a half hours she taught me, I feel like it made a huge difference. She has wonderful teaching techniques that she learned professionally, but she's also wonderful at learning along the way. She work with you and suddenly there's a whole new way she finds to teach you. She seems to learn from every lesson she teaches and is so obviously enthusiastic about what she does. Even outside of our lessons, she did a bit of research into my audition song to try and find a way to make it easier to learn. She even called me after my audition to see how it went. Her wonderful teaching skills aside, she's also great at making you feel comfortable. I went to her full of anxiety and within the first few minutes I was immediately comfortable around her. She also was able to teach me an amazing meditation technique that's not only calming but also makes you more alert, something none of my therapists for my anxiety were able to do. In short: She knows what she's doing, she learns along the way, she's so easy to relax around, and she shows a great deal of care for her students.
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Valarie O.
Jan 24, 2013
My shy 14 year old daughter has been taking lessons with Arlys for several months. Arlys keeps my daughter focused with a sense of playfulness and fun. I have watched my daughter's singing confidence grow. I highly recommend Arlys for voice lessons.
Believe You Can Sing & Vocal Explorers Studio's reply
Valerie, thank you so much for sharing your experience!
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