One to one Lessons

Are you looking to get the best out of your voice? Do you want to improve your voice? Whether its range, tone, power, strength or stamina our lessons are tailored to your individual needs. Plus! If you’re after something a little different it’s not just singing lessons we offer, with everything from artist development to singing teacher training there’s something for everyone! Click Here for a full list of our services! and check out what Hannah has to say about her work with Sally in her video here:

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Why Take Lessons?

People take singing lessons for various reasons; because they love to sing, and want to be the best they can, to improve their confidence and set themselves goals, some are professional singers who are noticing the wear and tear on their voices and know that in order to protect their career and an income they need to learn how to maintain their instrument! Whatever your reason for wanting to improve your voice, we are here to help!

We help you build the voice you want!

Gigging regularly? Singing or using your voice a lot at school, college, uni, work or home? Find yourself getting sore throats or sounding croaky? Well you shouldn’t! Repeated sore throats and croaky voices could be signs of bad technique that could lead to vocal damage, our lessons help you to avoid this, and help you build a healthy vocal technique whilst doing what you love!

Opportunties

At The Contemporary Voice Academy, we pride ourselves on providing our singers with as many opportunities as possible! We believe that the more musical environments and experience our singers can get, the better for their development! From gigging opportunities, to recording sessions, to songwriting or even photoshoots, we are here to help you get experience and have fun doing it!!

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THE IMPORTANT BITS

Learning to sing is a very personal thing, with The Contemporary Voice Academy we look to offer a wide range of services to help you achieve your goals (a full list can be found on our services page here)

  • All levels from complete beginners to professional gigging musicians are welcome.
  • Lessons are taught online or in the comfort of your own home or from a Havant based venue
  • All lessons are completely tailored to each students needs and will move at their own pace.
  • Singers from all genres welcome, we have experience in all contemporary genres, such as Pop, Soul, Jazz, R&B, Rock, Metal and Musical Theatre and much more – Together we can also choose appropriate repertoire in order to help your voice develop.
  • We can provide vocal session logs to help track your progress and to document main notes and exercises from each session.
  • Vocal help and advice alongside lessons.
  • All of our students benefit from discounts from services and packages in recording, photoshoots, video shoots and artist development .
  • We also coach students in studios during their own privately arranged recording time.
  • We offer half day or full day workshops for organisations and vocal groups in all areas from specialised technique to vocal health
  • Lessons are charged at a competitive hourly rate.

WHAT WE COVER

  • All areas of contemporary and commercial Vocal Technique, Including Breath, Support, Pitching, Range Building, Placement, Projection, Registers, Thick and Thin Fold Technique, Twang, Laryngeal position, Diction, style, performance and much more
  • Vocal Safety / Voice strengthening / Vocal Hygiene
  • Vocal Recovery
  • Artist Development
  • Song Writing
  • Beginner Keyboard / Piano
  • Singing Teacher Training

We help you build the voice you want.

Gigging regularly? Singing or using your voice a lot at school, college, uni, work or home? Find yourself getting sore throats or sounding croaky? You shouldn’t! Repeated sore throats and croaky voices could be signs of bad technique that could lead to vocal damage, our lessons help you to avoid this, and help you build a healthy vocal technique whilst doing what you love!

Do I Need Singing Lessons?

So You’ve read about us, and our lessons but are singing lessons for you? See if you answer yes to any of these questions:


  • Ever been told you can’t sing?
  • Looking into Singing as a career?
  • Wish you could sing higher / louder / for longer?
  • Experiencing pain, strain or discomfort when singing
  • Finding your voice giving out easily during singing
  • Unreliable Voice? – Sometimes you can sing those high notes? Sometimes you can’t?
  • Do you get sore, dry, or croaky throats when singing?
  • Ever been told your voice is “small?” or “too quiet”?
  • Do you lack confidence in your voice?
  • Do you want to improve your general vocal technique?
  • Gigging professionally? Is singing your career and therefore your voice is your main money earner?


If you answered yes to any of the above - we are here to offer you vocal tuition with a teacher who specialises in contemporary vocal technique, confidence building and vocal health. Everything you need to build and maintain the voice (and career) you've always dreamed of!

ANYONE CAN LEARN

I constantly find people worried about asking for lessons, Some feel their voice will just never be trainable, Some worry that I will think they’re awful and will just laugh, Some worry they are not at a high enough standard yet, and some just haven’t built themselves up to sing in front of others yet. It’s important to know – My aim in life is to teach singing and music to anyone who is willing to learn. Regardless of your current ability, anyone can learn to improve their voice!

As a wonderful teacher once said to me, “If you can speak – you can sing!”

To be honest I have never found a singer I couldn’t offer help to, I work with beginners to pros and always find something each week to teach them! Your voice is a very personal thing, its understandable if you happen to be self- conscious, For singers who are worried about starting lessons – you need to realise, I’ve probably seen it all before – I’ve worked with singers who struggle with grasping the basics of singing all the way up to those who have had lessons for years. So whether you’re struggling with your pitch or are working with more advanced techniques I am sure I can help!

So if you have any concerns about starting lessons, drop me a message and we can discuss how to make things a little easier for you!

"Having singing lessons with Sally has been a life changing thing!"

“Having singing lessons with Sally has been a life changing thing. For many years music has been my passion. I’ve written music but only really ever played my songs for my parents. I remember being told if you can’t sing well naturally there is no point in having lessons and I took this to heart. After a difficult time I decided to make music a bigger part of my life and sought out singing lessons with Sally. I soon learnt the myriad of techniques people can use to improve their voice. 5 years later and I now have a whole register I wasn’t even using, hitting notes I never dared try and understand almost instinctively now how to control my voice and make the sounds I want. This has been huge for me. But the biggest improvement I have seen is my confidence. I remember being petrified to open my mouth. Because of Sally’s lessons and courses I have: joined a vocal group, sang collectively at gigs, played at her student showcase, performed regularly at open mic nights and finally performed at victorious festival. Sally teaches technique brilliantly but also is part counsellor. part promoter and part social media guru. She’s helped me launch myself online, record in a studio and continue my song writing. So as I said life changing. Without her I would still be sat in my room writing songs for no one to hear but because of her I share my passion for music whenever I have the opportunity, to top it all off she is one of the loveliest people! Thank you Sally.”

– Bethany

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