Download Page - Teaching Materials

I have turned some of my teaching materials into downloads which you are welcome to sample. I would love to hear from anyone who finds using these downloads helpful, so please email me and let me know if you think they are helping you to practise your singing.


Click on this link for my Teaching Materials  playlist.

Some of the tracks are being sung by one of my students, and some of the tracks are repeated as intrumental only. The way to practise is to sing with pure vowels - AH, AY, EE, OH, OO - over and over, at first in imitation of the singer and then on the unaccompanied tracks once you have memorised the exercises.

By allowing you to focus solely on tone when you sing (ie without the distraction of words) this should help you improve the quality of the sound you produce. The exercises all gradually extend the range up, and this steady approach is the healthiest way to access the top register.

Downloads - Harmonised Major Scales

These tools to assist practising have been provided by YourAccompanist.com Singing scales can be dull and quite difficult without an accompanist. We have designed some scales which we hope will help you practice. They're harmonised so that you have a context for your singing. They will help you to sing in tune until you feel confident enough to sing your scales on your own.

There is no hard and fast rule about how to use them. Many people like to use vowel sounds on their own or single syllables like lah, loo, maw, me, (give pew a try!).

Breathe comfortably to begin with - and take a breath wherever you have to. Take fewer breaths as your control increases, until you can do the whole exercise in one breath.

Practice singing them smoothly (legato) or make each note detached (staccato). Have fun making up your own exercises.

Downloads - Interval Studies

Intervals are what melodic lines are made from. We hope we can help you with these basic building blocks of music. These are good exercises for developing your 'ear'. You might like to use them also as breathing exercises. Try each one in as many breaths as you need. Then fewer and fewer until you can sing along with the whole track in one breath. Try different vowel sounds or syllables too.

When you listen to them you will hear:

• first the two notes played separately
• next, the second note added to the first
• then, the effect created by the two notes played together
• lastly, the notes harmonised over and over so that you can hear them in different contexts.