Tools for SINGERS

Online Resources

APPCOMPANIST

(for your phone at www.appcompanist.com): Student subscriptions allow you to practice with accompaniments to all of your songs and is especially helpful to have on your end for SKYPE/FACETIME lessons.


Noteworthy Music

Local sheet music store at 4012 Dupont Cir #112, Louisville, KY 40207


MUSIC NOTES

https://www.musicnotes.com

Online music where you can print sheet music at your convenience at home. Please consult with us about what key you should print your music.


ZOOM

www.zoom.us

Please set up an account with Zoom for online lessons and we will contact you with lesson times, ID, conversation number and password. Please have headphones on your end. For the best possible experience online, turn on your Wifi or have your computer or laptop directly plugged into the wifi, no not position yourself in the basement, and have an additional phone for playing your accompaniments.


Please be sure to have a set of wire headphones and to be in a good, standing position for your online/Zoom lessons. For the best sound, iPhones are a great choice. To view screen shares, large computer screens are a good choice. Sound is often good on gaming headphones too.



ForScore: App for phone or iPad for storing your music digitally

Online Piano Lessons with Simply Piano

Hal Leonard: Music publishing website where you can store music and accompaniments in an online library

Theatre Trip: Site were you can find appropriate audition songs for various musical theatre shows and characters

Backstage: Lists professional auditions (often in NY or LA)

PlayBill: Auditions, news and casting

Voice Record Pro: Phone app for recording lessons and notes. Ability to slow down and speed up playback.

Sight Reading Factory

Headshots (School-ages do not need professional headshots for auditions - not even Broadway. But they may need one for a show.)

Film Acting

Treble Cat or Bass Cat for the Iphone (Solfege and Letter settings)

OTHER TYPES OF TRAINING

What else should I do, besides voice lessons, to help me be a better singer?

  1. Piano lessons! Even two years will make singing so much easier.

  2. Record your lessons and listen to them.

  3. Join a choir (school, church, LYC, community choir)

  4. Acting, Film & Dance classes

  5. Languages classes

  6. Music Theory classes

  7. Audition for a community theatre or school musical

  8. Listen and watch professional singers or musicians, live or on the internet. Always have music playing.

  9. See list of local auditions and competitions on our AUDITIONS page.


Feeling sick?

See your physician or pediatrician

Ask your physician about the following:

  • Try a warm air humidifier, especially when sleeping

  • Lie in prone position for coughs while sleeping

  • Get lots of rest and sleep

  • Hydrate with Pedialite and juicy fruits like berries and apples

  • If voice is dry, breathe through the nose

  • Plain Mucinex

  • Limit use of voice or go on full vocal rest

  • Hydration/ Recovery after being sick or big show


International Performance Reviews & Publications

The Village Voice

Wall Street Journal

New York Times

Opera News: Metropolitan Opera news and reviews from around the world

Opera America: Many opera resources and reviews. Keep up with the world of opera

Opera Today

Financial Times

Washington Post


Stage Monologues: Contact Shannon Woolley Allison for private monologue selections and coachings at LookingforLilith@gmail.com