FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS!

Basic Skills that Will Support You as You Learn

Start here, but don’t wait to “master” these singing skills to explore and play in the Playground.
You’ll return to practice them over and over throughout your journey.

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Foundational Skills Lessons:

• Give Yourself Permission
• Gentle Stretching Warmup
• Breathing for Singing
• Sing with a Drone Note
• A Little Theory
• Practicing Using the 1-3-5
• Visual Feedback for Pitch Matching

A Simple Song to Start With:
• Bring Me Little Water, Silvie

Key Idea:

Introduce yourself to the basic skills of singing, and get familiar with the language of music to set the stage for success! 

These are simple steps that many “non-singers” and even many experienced singers are never introduced to.

You may find these lessons to be very simple or somewhat tricky, but remember — you probably already knew most of this stuff as a child.

Kids learn singing naturally — and a lot of what we have to do as adults is UNLEARNING — relaxing, and letting go of baggage so that we can sing freely and naturally, the way kids do!

GETTING FAMILIAR WITH THE BASICS GIVES YOU A “SAFE” HOMEBASE FROM WHICH TO CONTINUE LEARNING.