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Demystifying Vocal Placement: A framework for Developing Resonance Strategies?

Thursday 25th May 2023, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (London Time)

In this practical class, Chris will take you through the process that is at the core of his teaching approach: resonance.

Specifically, how he's adapted speech techniques to be appropriate to CCM singing training, and how sensation is an organiser of the vocal tract.

This will even call into play the misunderstood, and unnecessarily slated, sense of ‘placement’, which can have an important role to play if it’s used in the right way.

Dovetailing with other resonance strategies, like twang for example, this workshop will give you an understanding and process by which to exploit this extremely important form of singing support.

🏷️ Price £30 (UK VAT inclusive)
🎥 Recording automatically sent to all who book (even if you cannot attend live)
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📜 Certificate of attendance available

Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson's performance career began in a casual choir, but then the joy (and, sometimes the fear) of stepping out in-front of hundreds of people...

 

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Attend this course for as little as £22 as part of the Voice Professional Training CPD Award Scheme.

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We have plenty of upcoming short courses coming soon. See details of some of them below or look at the full list of short courses.

Introduction to Vocal Acoustics for Spoken and Sung Voice
Monday 19th October 2026
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday 20th October 2026
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
(London Time)

Introduction to Vocal Acoustics for Spoken and Sung Voice

Gökçe Kutsal

This course is designed to break down the fundamentals of acoustics for both spoken and sung voice in a beginner-friendly, accessible way — so you can easily understand and apply these concepts to your teaching or research.

Practical Magic*: The Art & Science of Balancing Voices with SOVTs and VFEs
Tuesday 20th October 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)

Practical Magic*: The Art & Science of Balancing Voices with SOVTs and VFEs

Melanie Tapson

Through live demonstrations, group practice, and peer coaching, you’ll learn how to teach SOVTs and VFEs with clarity and precision, integrate their principles to support vocal health, recovery, and stylistic flexibility and troubleshoot challenges and adapt exercises for individualized results.

Pop Pedagogy - an Overview
Tuesday 27th October 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)

Pop Pedagogy - an Overview

Kim Chandler

Some successful pop stars are celebrating career lengths of over sixty years, having been around since the 1950s when pop music emerged and diversified from jazz, so pop singing has been in existence sufficiently long now that, for teaching purposes, we can observe and analyse what type of approach serves it best.