Welcome! Carol Clary provides voice lessons in the greater Los Angeles area, San Diego and Northern Baja, Mexico.
Dr. Carol Clary has maintained a private voice studio in Los Angeles for over 35 years. She believes, and can prove with video footage, that anyone can learn to sing who truly wants to! Singers, at all levels, will improve their vocal technique, range, and performance skills under her guidance. She will provide you with knowledge of how your vocal instrument works. She will guide you with simple, progressive exercises that diagnose vocal issues and are prescriptive to resolve those issues and will make singing more fun with less effort.
In your lessons you can expect the following:
• You will strengthen your vocal instrument, giving you more flexibility, range, stamina and comfort.
• You will learn the mechanics and techniques of effective breath support and postural alignment that will immediately improve singing ease and intonation.
• You will learn how your sound is made, amplified and text is articulated.
• You will become aware, that as a singer, you are a small muscle athlete.
• You will learn how to learn rhythms, melody and text more quickly.
• Many exercises and ideas will be presented that are tailored to your own personal needs, and will increase your confidence, appearance, organization, ease and joy in singing while still working at something you love.
• You will learn to practice more efficiently and joyfully, with worksheets provided, if you find them useful.
• Handouts will be provided with diagrams, pictures, health ideas, practice and performance tips and general information all singers need to have.
• You will learn how to find your own meaning in a song and communicate that most effectively and honestly.
• You will learn at your own pace and observe and enjoy your personal progress.
• Your lessons, although challenging sometimes, will always be a positive experience with lots of encouragement from your teacher.
• You will receive constant, helpful feedback from your teacher that you will be able to observe with your eyes, ears and physical feelings.
• You will learn to listen and observe yourself positively, from outside yourself, as others hear you.
• You will learn to not listen through your critical, negative, inner ear.
• You will learn to love your voice and singing even with your personal challenges.
• You will learn to be a more effective, and communicative performer, if you so choose.
• You will improve: sometimes slowly and sometimes very quickly.
• You will be offered suggestions for performance and other learning opportunities.