Post-Event Recording - Mastering Contemporary Vocal Tools with Chris Johnson

Access these recordings for an exclusive opportunity to enhance your vocal teaching skills with internationally acclaimed voice teacher, Chris Johnson. This series of workshops is designed with both the early career and experienced voice teacher in mind, with tools to empower CCM singing voice practice and pedagogy. Through these events, you will gain insights into balancing the scientific with the experiential so as to approach vocal blocks from many different angles.

Developing a Training Toolbox of Voice Building Techniques
Recorded on Sunday 11th August in Adelaide, SA
Description: Voice building can sound to many like a muscular thing. Make it stronger, and it won’t fail you. But, this muscle centric idea can often lead to burnout as the burden on the vocal folds or larynx can be too high. However, a more flexible and safe voice building option involves synergising the vocal folds with vocal tract shape for a powerful output with much reduced effort. This approach can also allow breath and voice to be managed indirectly through energy and sensations of sound. Expect us to practically explore areas like placement, mix, belt, basic registers, resonance and emotion from this viewpoint… all of which you can take directly into the studio!

Movement and Vocal Assessment: Using the Body to Assess and Resolve Vocal Trouble
Recorded on Sunday 18th August in Hobart, TAS
Description: Movement serves many purposes. One is how it alters the relationship between muscles and bones (and posture), and how that then directly alters vocal results. We can use this approach to understand how and why singers are struggling, and how we might resolve these issues through a process of physical assessment. The result is that we can often discover that a problem we’ve been trying to resolve vocally, has its solution in movement…. And that becomes a revelation for most teachers who bring in this approach. Movement also allows us to reinforce vocal outcomes, because gesture and voice are so closely linked in the brain. That means we can use it to not only assess common singing roadblocks, but also continue to develop singers vocal abilities. In this workshop, Chris will give you his complete process for assessing voices in this way, which is almost instantly applicable in your singing lessons. Due to the influential nature of the body on the voice, you will also see stark improvement in some of your singers immediately… and enjoy the excitement in the room when it happens.

Why View Both Workshops?
These workshops are designed to complement each other, offering unique content tailored to each location. By viewing both events, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of contemporary vocal tools without repeating information. Whether you're just starting your career in CCM vocal teaching or are seeking to refine your expertise, this series promises invaluable insights and networking opportunities.

About Chris Johnson
West End leads, backing vocalists, major labels artists and vocal coaches all put their trust in Chris to take good care of their instruments. Has even been awarded a gold disc for his input on commercial studio projects.

Chris also thoroughly enjoys the work he does with singing teachers all over the world. Through his training company TeachVoice.com and his ‘Evolve’ singing teacher program, he helps coaches to up-skill and navigate the overwhelming amount of pedagogical options today.

He has presented on these pedagogical principles internationally at the Pan American Vocology Association, British Voice Association, ANATS, Vocology In Practice, AOTOS, and NATS (US).

In compliment to coaching, Chris has trained in laryngeal manual therapies and studied extensively with scientists in vocal acoustics, physical and somatic therapy, and laryngology. Through his popular podcast and blog, The Naked Vocalist, he has also had the opportunity to connect and share with many progressive voice researchers and pedagogues.

All this rests on a 15 years stint on the road as a professional performer, which allows Chris to understand the demands and pressure of a pro schedule on singers today.

Testimonials

Singing teachers have adopted pedagogical methods that are defended with scientific rationale. With this merging of art and science, Chris Johnson has become an international leader. He has an open mind about diverse approaches, often leading the discussion into new directions for contemporary singing education. It has been rewarding for me to become familiar with honest reflections on studio successes and failures, many of them brought to light by Chris - Ingo R. Titze, PhD. President, National Center for Voice and Speech, Utah. 

As a colleague, I find Chris important to my own growth. He is the kind of guy that you want on your team, as he will push himself to the point that it’s contagious and infectious and causes others to want to learn more - Dave Stroud, Vocal Coach (Justin Bieber, Kelly Clarkson, One Direction)

Chris is uniquely talented in being able to transform complex scientific concepts into careful, individualized guidance for training singers to achieve their potential as vocalists. His continual pursuit of new knowledge attest to his dedication and desire to provide the best possible vocal training. I give Chris my strongest recommendation - Brad H. Story, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona

Since my first meeting with Chris back in 2008 it was obvious that he was one of those teachers who was not satisfied with a superficial understanding of voice and how to teach singers. He has a great knack of figuring out a way to make very heavy technical and scientific information very accessible to learners, no matter what level they are at - Line Hilton, Vocal Coach, Founder of BASTTraining.com