Your Instructor
Dianna St. Hilaire is an award-winning composer and singer. She has been on the Grammy Ballot multiple times, has had her music played on popular radio stations like KROQ, KCRW, and many other college radio stations across the United States. She has been in movies such as Lockdown by Master P and sang on the show Star Tomorrow for David Foster.
Currently, she plays music under the name Opāru and has her music placed in various Libraries and Sync Agencies across the US and overseas. She has a degree from The Musicians Institute of Hollywood.
Dianna has been writing songs and playing the piano since she was 5 years old. Singing since she was 2.
With over 40 years of experience, she has learned various ways to control the voice and work the voice in a studio and on a stage setting.
In addition to the 13-week vocal program for beginners, she does offer 1 on 1 training for the voice, songwriting, and music business classes. Also more advanced training on setting up your home recording studio.
Beginning Vocal Course
What you will learn!
- Best Vocal Practices
- Foods to avoid
- Before show dos and don'ts
- Intro to Notation, sheet music, and beats
- Find your vocal range
- How to use your breath
- The various parts of breath control
- How to use the Soft Palate
- Ear Training
- How to relieve anxiety and stress
- Proper Posture
- Various Exercises to keep your voice in tip-top shape
- Vocal Vocabulary
Example Curriculum
- Types Of Voices Workbook Download
- Voice Types (4:12)
- Reading Music (4:29)
- Acronyms (1:50)
- Note Values (5:23)
- Dotted Note Break Down (2:01)
- Whole Notes And Dotted Half Notes Clapping (3:06)
- Half Note Clapping (1:13)
- Quarter, 8th, 16th Notes Clapping (3:20)
- Dotted 8th Note Clapping (1:55)
- Dotted Quarter Note Clapping (2:38)
- Micro breakdown of dotted counting and clapping (6:49)
- Homework (1:48)
- Consonants Workbook Download
- Voiced and Voiceless Consonants (2:39)
- What are Soft Palate Consonants (2:17)
- Tip Consonants (2:29)
- What are Lip Consonants (3:11)
- How To Work With R (1:37)
- The THs (2:06)
- What are Blended Consonants (2:26)
- Homework (1:06)
- Soft Palate Consonants Exercise (2:53)
- Tip Consonants Exercise (3:03)
- Lip Consonants Exercise (3:25)
- Combination or Blended Consonants Exercise (3:02)
- Different Voices Workbook Download
- Chest Voice Introduction (1:48)
- Chest Voice Exercise (3:17)
- What Is The Middle Voice (1:12)
- Middle To Chest Voice Exercise (2:15)
- What is Head Voice (1:49)
- Head Voice Exercise (1:50)
- Homework (1:18)
- 5ths Homework 2 (6:24)
- Homework Smoothing Between Middle & Chest Voice (3:14)
- Homework Smoothing Between Middle and Head Voice (2:58)
- Expand Your Voice Workbook Download
- Expand Your Voice Introduction (4:32)
- Messa Di Voce (4:12)
- Octave Leaps Explanation (3:06)
- Octave Leaps Exercise (3:52)
- Staccato Explaination (1:54)
- Staccato Exercise (4:03)
- Keeping The Jaw Down With Ghe (2:06)
- Ghe Ghe Ghe Exercise (3:37)
- Fast Scales (1:59)
- Fast Scale Exercise (7:05)
- Moving Between Registers and Blending Vowels (1:07)
- Moving Between Registers Exercise (4:18)
- Blending Registers Explaination (3:10)
- Blending Registers Exercise (3:39)
- The Final Shebang Workbook Download
- Lesson Overview & Lip Bubble Demo (1:53)
- Lip Bubbling Exercise (4:13)
- Soft Palate Stretches (4:20)
- Lay lee li lo loo Demo (0:59)
- Lay lee li lo loo Exercise (4:24)
- Be Be Be Demo (0:56)
- Be Be Be Exercise (4:22)
- Nah Nah Nah Demo (1:16)
- Nah Nah Nah Exercise (4:47)
- Staccato Demo (1:27)
- Staccato Exercise (3:21)
- He he he Demo (1:20)
- He He He Exercise (3:49)
- How to Glassado (1:02)
- Glassando Exercise (3:09)
- Do Rey Mi Demo (1:34)
- Do Rey Mi Fa So La Exercise (2:40)
- Fast Scales Demo (1:24)
- Fast Scales Exercise (4:53)
- Blending Registers Demo (1:05)
- Blending Registers Exercise (5:36)
- Complex Scale Review (0:51)
- Complex Scale Exercise (5:50)
- You're Done!!! YAY!! (2:01)
Get Better Singing Skills For Life
Many people think singing is easy. You just open your mouth and sound comes out right?
Wrong.
Singing is an exercise just like anything else. It takes practice and work. Just like learning Yoga or Baseball or any other daily activity singing has basic building blocks that you must learn first before moving into becoming a fully capable singer.
This 13-week course will take you about 3 months to complete. Each chapter focuses on different parts of the learning process and the last chapter gives you daily exercises to take away and continue on your own.
You can do this course at your own pace. If weekly is too fast for some of the courses just take a few weeks on that course so that you thoroughly understand the process first before moving on to the next chapter.
If at the end of this course you still would like to have additional 1 on 1's, I do offer 1 on 1 courses weekly or monthly whatever you are most comfortable with.
