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Please note! I do NOT offer lessons shorter than an hour. Half-hour and 45-minute lessons ARE NOT AVAILABLE. I also don't generally accept children under ten years old unless they're unusually mature for their age and exceptionally talented.
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The extremely effective approach I use requires working very closely with you. As a result, I only teach ond-on-one live, here in my home studio. Please continue reading below to better appreciate the very high value my approach offers:
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If you want to free your potential as a singer and let it blossom fully, at Voice Instruction Charlotte you’ll get the understanding and experience you need to do exactly that. I'm an experienced professional singer and instructor. I had the great good fortune to study under a genius who was widely considered in Europe to be one of the few top vocal teachers in the world. I'm standing on the shoulders of a giant.
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I also worked in audio electronics for years. I understand voice science and how it sheds light on traditional voice teaching. Special techniques help you rapidly develop natural, efficient, and powerful but relaxed, healthy singing.
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Typical voice teachers understand nothing to very little of the principles and techniques that really work to advance your technique rapidly. The key: strain-free, relaxed skill fully uses the amazing power of breath from your diaphragm and the right acoustic adjustment in your vocal anatomy that takes advantage of the laws that govern the optimized production and transmission of sound from your larynx out into the performance venue.
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You’re freed from vocal strain even on very high notes. You project easily without a microphone. My many past and current students have experienced this for themselves.
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I work in all major musical genres, including Classical, Blues, Jazz, Scat, Rock and Country. Students range from amateurs to professionals, children ten years old to middle-aged adults and beyond---at all skill levels. We work comfortably, enjoyably with each student to reveal the relatively effortless vocal power and beauty anyone with a normal, healthy vocal anatomy has hidden within.
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Here at Voice Instruction Charlotte, solid, practical principles help you vastly more than learning a few new songs and pronunciation techniques. Careful observation and guidance helps you greatly improve the way your voice works.
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Extensive knowledge of the cream of traditional technique and the science behind it makes this possible. You won’t just stop wearing your voice out. You’ll build it with use!
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Come to Voice Instruction Charlotte to unlock the true power of your natural voice. I look forward to working with you!
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Christine S.
Jul 11, 2014
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Robert Wendell is a nice guy with a lot of talent to share with his students. He will take the time to explain what he is doing to help your child sing better and his voice instruction fees are fair too.
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Patti K.
Mar 25, 2017
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As a seasoned singer, with no previous professional instruction, I am THRILLED with what Robert has taught me thus far. He is exactly what I needed - learning the basics to enhance and improve upon what I already knew.
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Jennifer A.
Mar 23, 2013
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Very knowledgeable when it comes to the human voice, how it works and how to make it better. Within 2 months I saw a big difference in my singing as well as an ease and a free-ness in my singing. His techniques REALLY WORK!!
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Joshua I.
Nov 30, 2014
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Robert is a lovely man knowledgeable about all aspects of voice instruction - musical, acoustic, scientific, and more. I'm really looking forward to future lessons. He explains his approach thoroughly and makes you feel like a collaborator every step of the way.
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Brian D.
Jan 7, 2017
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Robert Wendell is an amazing teacher. Not just in voice, but in general, he always makes sure you know what you're doing as you're doing it so you know how to fix it if you begin to do it wrong or make proper adjustments to fix things. This is the least I can say about the guy, I could seriously type a full-length multiple page essay about how and why he'll teach you how to use your voice to the best of your ability and all the genius he uses to do it
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What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
The investment in your voice is $60 per lesson, one lesson per week. Pay as you go: cash, check Paypal, or Zelle only.
What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
I listen for healthy, efficient vocal function. I don't just go for a "nice sound". The goal is to optimize functionally the interface between vocal anatomy and the laws that govern the aerodynamics of vocal sound generation and the acoustics of sound propagation from the larynx out into the hall.
I have unique exercises that are anatomically, aerodynamically, and acoustically informed to set up the voice. They give it practical, charming incentives to attract it toward its best possible function.
By enjoying what already feels good, sounds great, and is much easier than any other way to get that kind of high quality result, it naturally starts to self-refine.
The student doesn't need to know all the technical details of this process. To be genuinely effective in solving vocal problems for the student, though, the teacher must.
The student fully understands the laws on a practical level only by noticing and remembering how it feels when it's working right.
When it feels really good, sounds great, and it's relatively effortless (no physical strain) even on high notes, then the voice is working properly.
When the teacher deeply understands the best vocal traditions and modern voice science, they illuminate and reinforce each other. The five steps of progress as I have formulated them are: Listen, Feel, Notice, Enjoy, Remember.
When a student remembers how it feels when it's right, the student can do the same great things with his or her voice at will.
What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Well over two decades of intense experience as both a voice teacher and choir director. I have a master's degree in choral conducting from the University of Florida. My undergraduate major was violin with a minor in voice.
I then studied classical voice for three years with Lav Vrbanic at the New England Conservatory in Boston. I already had excellent diction in my native English, as well as Italian, French, German, and Spanish. I speak Spanish with near-native fluency. Native speakers often mistake me for one.
Before studying with Professor Vrbanic I was already an excellent sight reader, so he could put anything in front of me without ever having to teach me the words or the music.
For those three years we focused exclusively on optimizing vocal function. I'm also a jazz, blues, and R&B lover, and have been an expert at scat ever since middle school.
