Susan Eichhorn Young

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Three Classes of Cross-Training

I am thrilled that my ONLINE ON DEMAND Cross-Training Series now has THREE STAND ALONE CLASSES!

Belt for Opera Singers

Legit for Belters

and the newest class released yesterday: Belt for Legit Music Theatre Singers!

You can find them all here: sey.fyi/courses

These classes will introduce a cross-training specific to what you might do. It doesn’t mean you will have to “become” a belter if you are an opera singer, or a legit theatre singer!

It doesn’t mean you will become a legit singer if you are a belter first.

What it CAN do, is introduce you to how the other positions work, and how the voice is shaped in that position and architecture, in order to develop more balance of muscular awareness, and more resonance and flexibility in the voice when embodying the styles and genres you inhabit.

These are classes that you can revisit, and build upon. You are encouraged to get messy with them! It’s not about “perfection” - whatever that means. It’s about curiosity, and discovery in order to explore and enhance what you already do!

I am passionate about vocal cross-training, and every singer in the SEY Voice Studio explores it. There is cross-training within each and every genre and style, and then into the larger cross-training of pure physicality and acoustic.

Each class is about 30 minutes long and I lead you through different exercises specific to the cross-training topic. The exercises also allow many kinds of modification and development as you need and as your physicality will allow.

For those of you who teach, these can also be teaching tools you could utilize and modify into your own teaching style!

I would love to hear from you after you’ve worked with a class, to hear how your voice and physicality are responding - not just to the specific positions, but how your voice RE-responds to the style and genre you are primarily focused on.

That’s the beauty of cross-training: the ENTIRE VOICE responds positively!

Just like sports athletes, we need to cross-train to keep all aspects of our athletic instrument healthy, flexible, and adaptable.

Enjoy getting messy with me! The beauty of ON DEMAND is that you can come and work with me at any time, anywhere! You can wear your pajamas or your kaftan, have bedhead and be in your bare feet!

I hope you find tools and ideas that you can utilize and develop further! I hope you continue to find curiosity and creativity as you allow your voice to reveal itself fully in the physicality it wants to reside in!

Can’t wait to see you inside and hear about YOUR discoveries!

with fondness & fierceness,