Your First Lesson:  For me to guide you in developing your singing voice, it's important that I gather some initial information about you and how your voice functions.  In your first lesson with me, I will ask you to tell me about the kind of music you sing, your musical background, and the vocal issues you'd like help with.

Early in the lesson I will also ask you to do a basic vocal exercise which will give me a good idea of how your voice currently functions.  I may ask you to sing a few lines of any song you know, which will give me some insight about how your voice works in practice.  (The actual song you sing doesn't matter at all - it can be Amazing Grace or America, the Beautiful, or anything.) 

After these diagnostic exercises, we'll discuss some basic goals for your singing, and then we get right to achieving them!  I'll introduce some specific exercises designed to bring you closer to your goals!

Recording:  I have equipment to create an audio recording of your lesson.   I encourage you to use this recording to practice vocal exercises at home.

My recorder uses standard SD cards.  If you bring your own SD card to the lesson, you can leave with your audio recording when the lesson is over.

If you don't have an SD card, I will record the lesson for you and email it to you.  However, with the number of lessons I teach and other commitments, I cannot guarantee when I can email it.  So, if you want the audio right away, bring an SD card.  512MB is the minimum size.   Amazon.com sells them for less than $10. 

Lesson Rates:

• 1/2 hour lesson: $45
• 1 hour lesson: $80

 For prepayment of 4 lessons at once, I am currently offering a 5% discount.

Lesson Policies: 

Please provide 24 hours notice if you're going to miss a lesson.  Otherwise, I would appreciate payment for the lesson time, since I have dedicated that slot in my schedule and it would be too late to offer that time to another student.