Welcome

“If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.”

That is an African proverb.

Is it true? Is it valid? It is, in that it doesn’t say that you can dance well or sing well.

High above mediocrity is where recording artists and professional performers reside.

“You can teach yourself to sing.”

You can teach yourself to sing only if you know how to teach singing.

The “if” is as wide as the ocean and as high as the sky.

There are “traditions” in teaching shared among too many singing teachers that unfortunately include: myths, lies, and incorrect information.

These are generations old and as worthless as an ashtray on a motorcycle.

Most singers already know that smoking is bad for the voice and health.

What do the best vocal coaches teach you to do?

How to use your air the most efficiently
How to sing in tune
How to not crack
How to improve your vocal endurance and your power
How to practice
What to practice
When to practice
How to take the best care of your voice
How to prepare for a winning audition
How to use all 18 factors that superstar singers know and can do

Bad Vocal Coaches:

Teach myths and incorrect methodology
Tell you to “sing from your diaphragm”
Say that you can see your diaphragm work
Say that you can feel your diaphragm
Tell you to “fill up your abdomen with air”
Ignore basic science, including basic anatomy
Have you do worthless vocal exercises which never help
Tell you to believe that you have two or three “voices”
Tell you to “place the sound” somewhere
Say that “your larynx goes up for high notes and down for low ones”

Practice singing intelligently:

How To Protect Your Voice – Physician-Reviewed Paper:

Simple singing self-evaluation sheet

Voice Evaluation

It is very difficult to be able to objectively and accurately evaluate your own voice. It’s not impossible. Once you know what needs work, you can take action to improve. You do have to know the purpose and the efficacy of specific vocal exercises for specific muscle groups, to gain strength, to have better coordination. You could potentially do the wrong thing or do it the wrong way or practice too much or too little.

I needed guidance. I found I could not do it without a vocal coach. It is not an issue of intelligence; it is one of knowledge and experience. If you do not know specifically and precisely what to listen for, you will be lost in a hurry. An analysis of the voice will include some of the following in the illustration below. Click here to enlarge the mind map below.

Assess your vocal technique.

About

For over 25 years, I have helped singers overcome a myriad of obstacles. Whatever you have in your way, I have probably helped someone else with the same issue. My first student was a singer in one of my bands way back in 1974. I began vocal coaching in Las Vegas in 1992, working mostly with professionals.

ABOUT CHUCK STEWART

Chuck Stewart has been called Renaissance Man. He is a composer, instrumentalist, singer, vocal coach, bandleader, actor, director, voiceover artist, commercial producer, writer, photographer, architect, engineer, builder, and visual artist.

Chuck grew up in a very small, quaint town in West Virginia, in a very musical family. His father, an engineer by profession, was a very accomplished musician, who played clarinet, drums, and piano. Chuck’s sister, a phenomenal pianist, was a child prodigy. His great aunt, a graduate of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, played piano to accompany silent movies in the 1920s. Chuck, himself, has been singing all his life. He began piano lessons at the age of eight and trombone lessons at the age of nine. He also plays piano, trumpet, guitar, bass, and drums, and is a composer and arranger. In addition, Chuck was an active thespian in high school, and stood out as having participated in more performances than any other student in the school’s history, as both an actor and a musician, including approximately 300 vocal performances. Chuck has also studied art and has done watercolor, drawing, and computer art.

Chuck attended Marshall University in West Virginia, after which he continued his music studies privately with some of the finest teachers in the world, studying in both Philadelphia and Las Vegas. He then went on the road with his own eight-piece band, touring twelve states in the Midwest and Southeast U.S. From there, he moved to Las Vegas, where he performed for eighteen years, singing in Las Vegas shows, playing trombone in some of the local big bands, and as a duo with his wife Sheree, a dancer and singer, working in major hotels. Later, the duo worked many venues in the Orlando, Florida area, where the couple ultimately relocated and raised their two daughters.

For three years in Las Vegas, Chuck also wrote, directed, and acted in radio plays, which were aired on local public radio. He did several voiceovers, radio commercials, delivering in the markets of Las Vegas, Nevada and in Orlando, Florida, as well as jingle production.

Chuck has written several publications and books, some of which are available on Amazon. He has also written two novels, four screenplays, and a musical stage play.

Along the way, Chuck has done extensive vocal coaching, using unique, innovative, and highly effective teaching methods; production, arranging; and composition, having written over 2,500 songs. He has worked with several thousand students in Florida and in several foreign countries via the internet. Some of his students have performed on Broadway, some have had recording contracts, and some have been on television in singing competition shows such as The Voice and Sing-Off.

Chuck believes in the old-fashioned way of developing an artist, but also feels that talented people should be able to get a leg up in the business, as long as they have done the work. Being prepared is part of paying the dues and earning the right to be on stage.

Chuck has travelled all over Europe, utilizing his highly trained eye in taking tens of thousands of photographs of architectural wonders, as well as feeding his passionate interest in foreign cultures and languages. He now makes his home in The Netherlands.