Expressive Singing, Level 2 , (you must have some singing experience to join this 10 week course, not for beginners!)

This course will be run online via Zoom!!

Come and Explore genres such as: Modern / Contemporary / Pop Songs / Neo Soul / R'n'B / Gospel/ Jazz in this 10 week, Safe distance mixed ability - Intermediate level class.

You do not have to be able to read music to join this class because we will be working from the African American Aural tradition so most of the training will be aural, listening and repeating - call and response.

Increase your confidence, know who you are and develop your singing skills in a safe enjoyable and creative atmosphere with others.

This course is limited to up to 6 participants and is tailored to your needs. The aim is to further your skills development with positive personal feedback from Brenda and other members of the group.

The techniques and training are from a holistic perspective, which includes: Warm up techniques, What to practise and how, exploration of placement singing, individual and group singing, finding the right key, finding harmonies, grounding yourself, balancing or releasing your emotions and total expression from quiet singing to belting as we safely explore a range of challenging repertoire together. Tuesdays 6.30pm - 8.30pm.

10 week courses: Only 6 places available!

This course is normally taught face to face safe distancing but will be taught online this term!

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: We at Voice Expressions recognise that people are hurting and that life is tough, so to make our work accessible to all, we are reducing our fees (for this term only), January - April, for those who are financially challenged! So if this is you and you wish to learn with us the fee is now £300.00 - (£60.00 discount).

For those of you who are in full time emploment and can pay the full rate, we're happy for you to invest in your personal development and us by supporting the work that we do - so please continue to support us by doing just that.

For more details or if you would like to have a conversation before you book please email Brenda: Reallynicepeople@icloud.com

Live accompaniment when face to face!!

Fun, expressive, interactive, practical, scales, major/minor, Improvisation, find a harmony!!

Brenda chooses repertoire for us all to learn and you choose two songs of your own to explore.

Student Ashley who completed the course just before Christmas says:

'The challenge which Brenda introduces in this course is to bring your most authentic self to every lesson. Coupled with the breadth of the course (soul, gospel and jazz) this was a great opportunity to push myself out of my comfort zone and Brenda and Will do an amazing job of creating a safe environment to practice improvisation and experiment with different sounds and techniques.

The smaller group set up really helps to develop group work and practice harmonies and you quickly learn the style of the other singers. Some great modern songs to practice with which ensures every session feels fresh and current.

By far the best part of the course is to see the development over the 10 weeks; both at an individual and group level, and the final performances are always pretty special!

As a repeat student I would have no hesitation in recommending this course to any budding singers out there.

Voice Expressions Team, Founder Brenda Rattray joined by William Serfass.