{"id":1909,"date":"2007-07-19T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T19:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/skagit-valley-vocal-instructors\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T14:05:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T20:05:17","slug":"skagit-valley-vocal-instructors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/skagit-valley-vocal-instructors\/","title":{"rendered":"Skagit Valley Vocal Instructors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to improve as a vocalist it&#8217;s important you take private lessons. Voice is not like other instruments. It sounds different in your head than it does to other people. A good voice teacher will help  you to visualize and master your own vocal production anatomy, which is a difficult task. You can&#8217;t see the muscles that control  your voice like you can watch your own fingers on other instruments. That&#8217;s why you really need a trained ear to guide you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m often asked to recommend a vocal coach, but sadly it&#8217;s rare that people actually follow through. They seem to feel their voice is ok and getting better on it&#8217;s own. With few exceptions that&#8217;s just not going to happen. You can slide by in alternative recordings and live bands, but if you&#8217;re serious about musical theater a trained voice is needed. Please get a personalized coach.<\/p>\n<p>In the Mount Vernon, WA area, Camano Island, Stanwood &#8211; here are some voice teachers I recommend. This certainly isn&#8217;t an exhaustive list &#8211; just people I know personally that do excellent work (their students are top notch singers). If your name isn&#8217;t on the list or you want to leave contact info &#8211; please add a comment to this post so vocalists can use this as a resource for getting lessons from a good vocal coach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Voice Teachers <\/strong>(Alphabetical)<\/p>\n<p>Dianne Johnson (Skagit College)<br \/>\nKathleen Kournihan (Camano Island)<br \/>\nBrenda Mueller (Camano Island)<br \/>\nSharyn Peterson (Mount Vernon)<br \/>\nAnother good resource is to contact Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a voice instructor in Washington State located from Seattle to Anacortes to Bellingham, please leave a comment with your contact info as a resource to students. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to improve as a vocalist it&#8217;s important you take private lessons. Voice is not like other instruments. It sounds different in your head than it does to other people. A good voice teacher will help you to visualize and master your own vocal production anatomy, which is a difficult task. You can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-uN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}