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Vocal Pedagogy for Popular Styles: 

NeuroVocal Professional Training
& Certification

It's a fact:

Most voice students want to learn to sing popular styles.

You ready to do something about that?

You’ve found a big problem.

Teaching popular styles to other people feels hard.

You get inconsistent results from your students.

Sometimes you feel like an imposter.

Of course it's hard!

Because you learned how to sing “properly” according to the rules you were taught in university

OR

you never learned to "sing properly" and got your singing degree from the university of life, singing into a mic on stage.

Meredith Colby

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You might have been taught...

  • that pop singing can “ruin” a voice.

  • that classical technique can be applied to all styles of singing.

  • that you "should have" a college degree in music if you want to coach singers.

  • that you shouldn't need to learn how to teach or coach popular styles.

Sick of that baloney yet?

NeuroVocal is a groundbreaking approach to training the singing voice.

IN TRADITIONAL SINGING  INSTRUCTION...

there's an implication that we need to sing, listen, and appraise at the same time. This approach is:

  • neurologically inefficient (so... not a brain hack)

  • slow: it takes a whole-lotta time for your brain to integrate these skills

  • not applicable to popular, microphone-based genres where singers perform in environments where they cannot hear themselves well or at all.

WHY IS NEUROVOCAL DIFFERENT?

Specifically for microphone-based genres and based on neuroscience research, this adaptive approach

  • trains the brain to respond to an internal experience of singing.

    • this creates reliable and sustainable singing in challenging sonic environments (like...most live gigs). 

  • engages the nature of the brain to alter the existing "muscle memories" for singing.

  • utilizes the predictive power of the brain to create ridiculously efficient phonation.

    • Phonation -> singing. When singing is efficient it feels great! It's sustainable in all the performance situations!​

  • opens up new and powerful new sound possibilities for singers of popular styles.

  • uses a coaching model to grow the artist & the singing voice based on their goals.

NEXT CLASS STARTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2025!

Ready to find out if you're ready for the magical, this-is-a-hoot kind of change that NVM offers?

Let's find out if NeuroVocal training is right for you. This is a free, 30-minute session with Meredith. 

Join the
over-100
NVM Certified Coaches
around the world!

Brain Science Applied to Achieve Popular Singing Voice Proficiency

NVM is based on the aesthetics of popular styles, voice physiology, and neuroscience.  Based on over 25 years of independent study and performance application, this approach is road tested! 

NeuroVocal helps singers “rewire” their brains to make sound in the most sustainable and efficient way possible. 

 

Your students will be amazed at their range, volume, and stamina!

Your students will think you’re magical.

They’ll talk about you as the teacher who finally gave them their voice. 

I have a DMA and I've done a lot of continuing education.
NVM is THE most worthwhile pedagogy-based training I've ever done.

Dr. Bethany Turpin

Singer, Voice Teacher, Studio Owner

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

People who take this course are:

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  • classically trained singers & teachers.

  • self-trained band singers & singer/songwriters.

  • independent & adjunct teachers with students singing popular styles. (rock, pop, contemporary music theater, R&B, indy, hip-hop, country, etc.)

  • excited by learning new, rock-your-world + science-y things.

  • psyched to add coaching skills to their teaching.

  • committed to serving their singers of popular styles.

  • interested in understanding the role of neurology in singing.

Not a reader?

This video is about:​

  • Who this course is for.

  • Where did NVM come from?

  • What we do in class.

  • How is teaching popular styles different?

  • Secrets about your pop/rock clients.

NeuroVocal Method Pedagogy Training: 24 Weeks of Fascinating Learning Modules!
And Private Coaching!

UNIT 1: The Brain & Singing

Week 1: Brain Basics: What Brains are For

Week 2: An Inside Job: Interoceptive Awareness

Week 3: Doing the Math: Your Brain Figures It For You

Week 4: The Neuro & The Vocal: Building on Neurological Tools

Week 5: Coaching Observation: Application of New Tools

Week 6: Peer Coaching Workshop

UNIT 2: Singing Popular Styles

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Week 7:  The Nasty Triangle: Blending High in Popular Styles

Week 8:  Registration: Vocal Camouflage & Textures

Week 9:  Style: How's That Going to Happen?

Week 10:  Stylecraft Tool Belt: The Tool You'll Use With Your Students

Week 11: Coaching Observation: Application of New Tools

Week 12: Peer Coaching Workshop

UNIT 3: The Respiratory System & Singing Popular Styles

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Week 13:  The Parts & The Whole: The Respiratory System

Week 14:  Breathe Like a Chimp: Breath As Part Of An Integrated Whole

Week 15:  Connecting the Dots: A Reliable High Mix

Week 16: Putting It Together: IRL Applications of NVM

Week 17: Coaching Observation: Application of New Tools

Week 18: Peer Coaching Workshop

UNIT 4: How Brains Learn

Week 19:  Your Brain Sings Before You Do: Now that you know...

Week 20: The Hands of Time: How Attention Molds Learning & Behavior

Week 21:  A Different Ball Game: Empowering Coaching for the PM Singer

Week 22: Coaching Observation: Application of New Tools

Week 23: Peer Coaching Workshop

Week 24: Finale: Singing for Joy & Connection

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NEXT CLASS STARTS FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Let's find out if NeuroVocal training is right for you! 

This is a free, 30-minute session with Meredith. 

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