Singing lessonsEffective for anyone looking to improve their voice.

Singing lessons give you awareness, control, and understanding of your voice. Regardless of your level, age, or experience, singing lessons can help you take a step forward. Train your voice, and use it the way you want.

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Discover the power of your voice, singing lessons are for everyone.

What do you learn in a singing lesson?

Singing lessons provide you with the tools to strengthen your voice and deepen your musicality. Voice training is about muscle control and motor skills. Estill Voice Training and Universal Voice System are two methods our teachers use to help you with that. In our studio, a singing lesson is all about your development and growth as a singer.

Are singing lessons for me?

Are you curious about what you can do with your voice? Do you want to improve your singing technique? Would you like to start working on singing and improving songs? Then singing lessons are definitely for you! Do you already have experience with singing? We are happy to help you broaden and deepen your knowledge and skills.

Where can I take lessons?

Our team consists of coaches with diverse backgrounds. They teach or have taught at conservatories both in the Netherlands and abroad, perform on stage in various genres, are speech therapists, and/or are qualified in singing methods used worldwide. At the moment, you can take lessons with us in Amsterdam or online.

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Singing Lessons for Beginners

Where to start?

Are you curious about what you can do with your voice? Do people often tell you that you should really do something with your voice? Or do they say that you really can't sing (we have strong opinion about that!)? Whatever your reason is that made you start looking for singing lessons, remember: Singing lessons are for everyone, and everyone can learn to sing!

Everyone can learn how to sing!

It's true: everyone can learn to sing, hit the right pitch, master their breathing, and make their performance more dynamic. Singing lessons not only help you learn this, but also ensure that you start with a strong foundation and head in the right direction from the beginning.

What you'll do in a singing class

Zangstudio Roel Bakkum offers customized singing lessons for beginners, led by experienced coaches who have extensive expierience on how to train a voice.

In the lessons you will learn essential singing techniques, breathing exercises, pitch control and a wide range of exercises, focused on what you need. With personal attention and expert guidance, we help you develop your voice and build confidence.

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Singing Lessons for Intermediate Singers

Continue Where You Left Off!

Have you already taken some lessons but feel stuck or want to pick up singing again? Refining techniques and applying them in interpretation and musicality can be quite challenging. You work with your body and muscles, and your awareness and control improve gradually, making it sometimes seem like there's no progress. But it's important to remember that your voice can get stronger, your interpretation deeper, and your performance more convincing!

Take a change and challenge yourself!

For every singer, it's a challenge to take their skills to the next level. We're all looking for ways to expand our skills and range, deepen the connection to a song both emotionally and musically, and develop a unique sound.

Singing Lessons Work!

We understand the specific challenges singers face. In a singing lesson, the goal is always to further develop your voice. This development can be in vocal technique, but also in improving your interpretation or musicality. We offer detailed coaching in vocal technique, breathing, vocal health, interpretation, and performance. During a singing lesson, you work with experienced vocal coaches who know exactly what you need to make progress. We are here to support you in achieving your singing goals, whether you are pursuing a professional career or singing as a hobby.

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Singing Lessons for Advanced Singers

How Can You Continue Growing?

Are you already an experienced singer, but looking for ways to further develop your performance, interpretation, and technical skills? Advanced singers can often get stuck in their growth, struggle with finding new colors in their voice, breaking old habits, or discovering their identity within their vocal sound.

At this point, you need singing lessons that are fully tailored to your voice. In other words, a few basic vocal techniques are unlikely to make a difference.

Deepen Your Knowledge!

To take this step, you need both knowledge and skills. A good understanding of what the voice is and isn't, helps you understand what you can do to improve. It enables you to completely overhaul your practice methods and make your training meaningful and measurable.

Together with our experienced coaches, you will deepen your knowledge and skills, develop a high level of expertise, and elevate your voice to a higher, more professional level.

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Singing Lessons for Professionals

Elevate your voice!

As a professional singer, you are always looking for ways to improve yourself and elevate your career to the next level. It is a constant challenge to deliver top quality and to improve or refresh your repertoire.

Elevate your voice!

Coaching sessions for professionals are dynamic. You focus on performances, auditions, studio sessions, and deepening your skills in both technique and interpretation. Coaching at this level revolves around attention to detail and a thorough understanding of the singer, style, and body awareness to achieve progress.

Our coaches, with extensive experience in the music, theater, and TV industries, offer personalized guidance and highly detailed training to help you realize your artistic vision.

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Singing Training Topics

Singing Technique

Singing technique is essential for every singer. During a technique lesson, you focus on the parts of your body that produce your voice. There are various methods for this. Within our studio, we work with Estill Voice Training and the Universal Voice System.

Effective voice technique is essential not only for learining how to produce a variety of sounds but also for protecting the voice from damage and fatigue. Professional singers dedicate many years to refining their vocal skills.

Having control over your voice gives you the option to choose how you want to sound in any part of your range. This is really important for every singer. Voice quality goes beyond just technical skills; it's about discovering and developing a unique style or making your voice adaptable to different styles.

Performance

A strong performance requires more than just technical singing skills. Performance is about connecting with the audience, your story, and your body.

Developing the “x-factor” is a learning process. This includes working on self-confidence, musicality, audience interaction, and improvisation. It's advisable to work with coaches who often perform or have performed on stage for a long time.

Want to work on your performance? Send us an email to see if we can help within your style! If we think our team isn't suitable, we always know someone who can help!

Interpretation

Interpretation is mandatory for every singer. It's about telling the story and making musical and stylistic choices. These choices are often, if not always, imspired from the story you want to tell.

How do you place your words in such a way that they keep their value without compromising from the style and rhythm of the music?

How do you make stylistic choices that fit within the style you are singing, and how do you bring your unique sound to life in a song?

There are countless tools that you, as a singer, can use to answer these questions. Timbre, diction, vibrato, and rhythm are just a few examples. When working on interpretation in a lesson, all these topics almost always come up.

Timbre

Training timbre is quite specific and heavily dependent on the singer.

If you like to sing pop, jazz, rock, then developing an unique sound is often very important. Do you like to sing musical-theatre? Then your own voice sound is still important, but it also has to be able fit within all the styles that musical-theatre offers these days. For musical-theatre, you have to be able to transform from one style to another.

Style and identity are deeply connected to timbre and voice quality.

Breath & Voice

Breath is inseparably linked to singing. 'You must have excelent breathing control when you sing'. It's one of the first things people say when they think about singing, and that's certainly true.

Breath is the fuel of your voice, just like gasoline or electricity is for a car. It enables you to use your voice, and is best used "passive". By allowing it to react to how you use your voice, you allow function to thrive.

Control over breathing shouldn't be about 'How can I control the breath?', but rather about 'How can I allow the breath to react to my voice use'.

Singing methods

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Estill Voice Training

Estill Voice Training is a model of function, outlining the function of each body part involved in voice production. We believe it to be the most transparent model available, clearly describing both the workings of the voice and effective training methods.

This unique model identifies the structures that produce the voice, as well as the structures in and around the throat (vocal tract) that further shape and modify the sound. This leads to a consciously chosen, reliable, and predictable control over voice production.

Developed by Jo Estill, a singer and scientist, Estill Voice Training divides voice training into two levels. Level one covers exercises for voice control, while level two deals with timbre and voice qualities.

Coaches Who Work with Estill Voice Training

Docent zangtechniek, vocal coach & stemtraining bij Zangstudio Roel Bakkum

Roel Bakkum - Estill Figure Proficiency

Roel about Estill Voice Training

"Estill Voice Training is undoubtedly the best out there in terms of information and transformation. It not only teaches you how your voice works but also how to use your voice in ways you have never done before."

Docent zang & stemtraining Anne van Zandbergen

Anne van Zandbergen - Estill Figure Proficiency

Anne about Estill Voice Training

"As a vocal coach and speech therapist, I find Estill Voice Training to be a model that provides each student with an insight into their vocal use unlike any other technique I have worked with."

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Universal Voice System

The Universal Voice System (UVS) is an approach to voice training that simplifies the complexity of vocal production, making it accessible to every singer. Developed by voice experts, it is characterized by its clarity in improving and understanding the voice.

Together with the teacher, you create a so-called Personal Voice Plan. This gives you a clear picture of what you want to achieve and with which exercises from the UVS system you will succeed.

Coaches Who Work with Universal Voice

Docent zang Fréderique Sluyterman van Loo

Frédérique Sluyterman - UVS Master Teacher

Frédérique on Universal Voice

"Universal voice is a simple, concrete, and insightful system to maximize your voice's potential. Whether you sing for a full audience or just in the shower."

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