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Want to learn to sing like a pro? Then you need to learn from a pro - with many years of world-class experience from the stage and from both sides of the studio glass, as a singer and as a producer
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About Roger
As a 'Record-Maker', I have been enormously fortunate to have worked in the studio with a multitude of great singers, across a wide range of pop, rock, CCM, and R&B styles, including a few notables.
And just what is it that I mean by my use of the term, "Record Maker"?
Well, that job description was comprised of wearing many hats including (but by no means limited to):
- Producer
- Engineer
- Mixer
- Songwriter/co-lyricist
- A&R advisor
- Technical advisor and co-owner/chief engineer of a world-class, multi room recording facility in North Hollywood, CA, USA
- Performance coach and tour prep to younger artists and bands who didn't have the benefit of playing hundreds of shows before they had to go out and perform their recorded work with confidence, conviction and authority at a pro level.
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WHERE AND HOW DID I LEARN TO DO WHAT I DO (how did I formulate the methodology that enables me to help singers improve what they do while working towards mastery)??
IF YOU WANT TO GET GOOD AT SOMETHING, YOU REALLY NEED TO PRACTICE/DO THAT THAT SOMETHING EVERY DAY, AND IT ALSO HELPS TO BE ABLE TO OBSERVE AND LEARN FROM THOSE WHO HAVE ACHIEVED MASTERY OF THAT SKILL...
My credits include work with Celine Dion, Don Henley, Rod Stewart, Alanis Morissette, KD Lang, Sheryl Crow, Mandy Moore, Jon Bon Jovi, Jeff Keith (Tesla), David Coverdale (Whitesnake/Deep Purple), Christina Aguilera, Pat Benatar, Desmond Child, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett, Linda Perry, Mariah Carey, Gwen Stefani (No Doubt), Macy Gray, Tracy Chapman to name a few, and a far longer list wonderful singers, bands and artists that sadly, never got the breaks and market recognition their work deserved.
I also worked under/alongside some legendary record producers, songwriters and musicians.
Sometimes I was wearing all of the hats and sometimes I was
a member of a larger production team, but for over twenty years I was in the room (usually 14-16 hours a day...), participating in the crafting and completion of the finished work, work that would be forever immortalized in 0's and 1's, work that would be played on radio on TV, and would live in the collections of fans.
SINGERS TEND TO TRUST OTHER SINGERS:
But I was a singer prior to shifting my professional focus to the production side.
And it was my training as a singer that provided the foundations for me to build the specialised expertise to help others find their voices, make their records, and to develop their uniqueness of style and artistic personality.
And, in the case of many of the established artists I worked with, it was my background as a singer that most often led to the building of all-important trust, allowing them to accept my technical and creative feedback, (singers tend to trust others who can sing before they will trust those who can't...) when working on a vocal that they knew they would need to live with for eternity.
I'd been a singer from a very young age, acquiring many years of formal technique-focused vocal training with several of the top-tier vocal coaches in NYC and L.A. (including Katie Agresta, Ron Anderson, Nate Lam, Faith Rumer, and Seth Riggs).
I learned the value of the many traditional scale-based support, placement, resonance and mental-visualisation exercises and fundamentals, gradually integrating that knowledge and muscle-memory into both live performance and studio environments, which is no easy feat, especially when the vocal coach doesn't sing your style of music and simply can't demonstrate by example.
- STILL READING? Well then... you must be rather serious about all of this learning to sing stuff then, so by all means, please read on...
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(NOTE: This is a LONG read, because we must respect the website's requirement not to include any URL's or other links, which would otherwise provide the information delineated below).
I specialise in contemporary singing, as opposed to more traditional or classical styles.
Which is to say that if your goal is to develop confidence and facility in opera or musical theatre styles then, unfortunately, I will not be able to help you.
However, if your interest is in the performance and understanding of essentially all genres of melody-centric commercial music (for lack of a better term...), of the last six or seven decades, then keep reading.
LEARNING TO SING THROUGH EMULATING THE WORK OF OTHERS YOU ADMIRE:
In my experience, the most effective and by far the most rewarding and satisfying way to learn to sing well is to do it through the lens of songs, chosen from a repertoire that best suits the client's abilities and artistic preferences and helps to develop confidence.
And just as those enrolled in Fine Art study will dedicate many hours carefully making reproductions of certain masterpieces, to "get inside the head of the artist", the process of learning how to deliver a song like the original artist, often putting their work under the microscope, is the best way to supercharge the learning, figure out who you are as singer, set realistic goals for improvement and stay excited about it.
Sure, all of the traditional syllabic-vowel, warm-up/warm-down routines and resonance/placement exercises are an important part of the work, but the enthusiasm and motivation for doing that (let's face it, rather boring...) stuff every day, increases exponentially with the realization that annoying your neighbours/parents/housemates/children with seemingly non-sensical and non-musical sounds will indeed bring the aspiring vocalist closer to hitting the pitch, tone and conviction of the elusive "money notes" and nailing the vibrato on the sustain of those notes.
(Still reading and not scared you away yet? Okay good, then keep reading...)
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