Private Music Lessons

UPDATE: I am no longer taking new students, but I can recommend an excellent teacher: Kathryn O'Shea.  She is the best singer I know - really! - and she just happens to be my daughter.  On stages since childhood, she is currently a professional singer-songwriter-entertainer, using both her music and theatre backgrounds, with an attitude of compassionate creativity and enthusiastic support. Her students report rapid progress and new confidence.  She teaches virtually (online), working with students of all ages from all over the country. 

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Invest in your singing with private voice lessons, with an emphasis on coaching, interpretation, stagecraft, and a light-hearted enjoyment of music and life.  I have a classically trained background and degree, but I also offer a wide range of experience, including rock, jazz, blues, and broadway styles. Lyte's Bio. 

My purpose is to help you find and develop your best vocal sound, increase your confidence and performance abilities, and have fun with music on a regular basis.  It's not about some external idea of perfection; as my friend David Roth says, "Practice makes Progress."  It's about finding joy in music, letting the real You shine through, and being motivated to grow into your best self.   

If we haven't laughed at least once, the lesson was incomplete.  If you can't laugh at yourself, please find a different teacher.  Life is too important to be taken seriously.

If you choose, your lesson can also contain elements of music theory and/or improvisation (for any instrument).
  • Lessons are given at my home in Mills River (7 minutes from AVL airport)
  • Flexible daytime or early evening schedule
  • Lessons are usually weekly (bi-weekly or occasional can be arranged)
  • I only teach adults or high-school ages.
  • You are welcome to bring a digital recorder or iPad to record your whole lesson or record accompaniments for your songs.
  • Investment: $25 for a 45-minute lesson

Contact Lyte for openings: 828.606-6749  or lytingale(at)gmail.com
MusicNotes is an excellent source for downloadable sheet music for popular songs
To learn some Basic Music Theory especially useful for Choral singers,
musictheorybasicssamples.pdf
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Sing for Joy!

Get to know your voice, stretch vocally, emotionally, or whatever way is poignant for you personally, sing solo in front of others, all while focusing on the positive aspects of your voice, your sound and your expression. 
  • Voice Classes are open to ALL LEVELS of ability.  
  • Our students have ranged in age from 14 to 79 years old.
We sing together, then each person sings solo, giving a little performance sizzle to the experience, as we learn from and for each other. Listening to other voices in an intimate and safe setting is an invitation to become more aware of your own voice, what it can do, how it can change and grow... and magical results can happen! Come on and sing a little!

A variety of voice work is covered, whatever is most supportive of overall progress. This means the class is "tailor made" to the participants, and no two "Voice Class" series will be alike! Each person declares a list of personal goals so the content will support where you are and where you are going.
  • Vocal workouts & exercises for flexibility and strength.
  • Performance - each week you will sing for the class in a loving & supportive environment, with an accompanist, and receive feedback and tips.
  • Learn new songs & a variety of ways to practice your songs
  • Sound Games and improv exercises to get you out of your head and into your experience.
  • Vocal Anatomy - the miracle of making sound.
  • What is "Twang"?  What is "Nasality"?  What is "Belting"?  How and when do you use various voice qualities?
  • Breathing & Posture - supporting a free sound
  • Vocal toning. How is it valuable? When to use it and why?
  • Vocal improvisation. Find your vocal feet with no road map. What could possibly be more fun?!?
  • Simple physical yoga-type exercises to "open the heart" and chest, to engage your whole body, and keep core vocal support muscles strong and ready to help you sing your best.
  • Being "in the song" - finding & telling the story & the emotion
  • Vocal tips and tricks - best fixes for vocal issues and performance
Why do we call it "Sing For Joy"?  
  • Because you are singing to experience more joy into your life.  
  • Because you are singing to remember the joy that you are.
Experience a Sing For Joy Voice Class!