Cari Cole - Vocal Technique & Coaching

Vocal Technique & Coaching

Cari Cole specializes in vocal technique and coaching exclusively designed for professional contemporary singers. For over two decades, Cari has been helping singers develop natural, strong and healthy voices. She guides singers through the process of strengthening their instruments and learning how to bridge the gaps in their voices. Her technique builds voices to last throughout the demands of a professional career, teaching artists how to:

	Eliminate vocal fatigue and tension
	Improve vocal range, tone and flexibility
	Develop diaphragmatic breath control
	Improve strength and endurance
	Bridge the gaps between chest & head/falsetto
	Clear up nasality, breathiness or tone imbalances
	Learn pop “sound” and style (all contemporary styles)
	Improve diction and phrasing (“sing like you speak”)
	Change from Musical Theatre or “legit” singing to Pop, Rock, R & B genres
	Find your own signature sound and style
	Improve vocal performance and develop persona

Cari’s method builds the singers' voice from the foundation up, or onto an existing technique. Using alignment, breath, tone and resonance, her technique reveals the "pure voice" unencumbered by compensatory muscles. Natural resonance, diaphragmatic breathing, breath control, laryngeal resistance, "building the bridge" and creating a strong, resilient voice are the hallmarks of her training coveted by Grammy winners, American Idol's and rock stars around the globe. Her Master Vocal Exercise Regimen with use of Hearfones™ garners results twice as fast as other programs. From warm-ups, to voice building and strength training to voice saving cool downs, Cari gets singers on the road to vocal strength and freedom quickly and effectively.

Cari also knows how important individual style is in a contemporary sound, and she specializes in bringing out each singer’s individual qualities and natural sound.

Cari uses Pro Tools software and state-of-the-art vocal mics and studio gear regularly to record her artists’ vocals in her private vocal sessions. This recording process lets the singer hear with the "outside" ear exactly what the audience hears. Cari’s method trains her artists to hear their voices more accurately, make changes more quickly, and develop more effectively their sound and style.

Cari’s Coaching gives singer’s the professional edge to deliver a more powerful message to their audience. Cari gives artists a place to tune in to their craft and work every note and phrase. She’ll give you the straight “truth” about your voice and style and help you feature your strengths and bring out the best in your sound.

“Helping singers find their style is something I’m particularly passionate about. As a singer myself, it took me many years to find my sound. It’s all about coaching artists to go in the direction of what is naturally theirs and showing them what to feature.”

Vocal Health & Care

“Vocal health and care is all about balance of the body, mind and spirit.”
(Excerpt from Cari’s book, Heal-thy Voice, Heal-thy Self).

Staying vocally healthy is a constant in a professional singer's career. In the high stressed demanding schedule of a touring artist, nothing is more important than keeping a voice healthy and strong. Unlike a guitar player that replaces a string when it breaks, a singer cannot replace a broken vocal cord. Vocal health and care is a key ingredient in a singer’s longevity and success.

Over two decades of coaching singers, and being one herself, Cari specializes in keeping voices healthy with natural holistic methods. Her knowledge of vocal health, together with her varied studies in alternative medicine and extensive experience preserving singer’s voices, makes her one of the top stops on the touring schedule of artists in and out of NYC.

Every singer struggles with occasional stress, colds or flu's or from lack of rest, poor diet (touring food – slim pickin’s) and overall dehydration. Cari coaches her singers to understand all the components of vocal health from diet and lifestyle to vitamins, supplements, herbs, homeopathy remedies to help out. She also utilizes modalities such as massage, yoga, acupuncture among others methodologies to help restore balance and improve energy. Knowing how the instrument works and what it needs under certain circumstances helps artists saves countless hours, ample frustration, canceled concerts and chronic vocal loss.

Check out Cari’s Vocal Health Checklist to find out where you are in the spectrum of health and learn some life-saving tips and techniques for keeping your voice in great health! To receive the Vocal Health Checklist, fill in your name and email and click Submit.

Vocal Recovery

Cari helps singers restore their vocal health. In Vocal Recovery, the singing voice is realigned to make the sound flow correctly, eliminating extraneous tensions and promoting the return of agility and flexibility. Learning to use the vocal instrument properly and reducing tensions can help prevent vocal issues and help recover lost voices partially, or completely. Cari has worked with countless vocalists suffering from vocal loss or vocal problems such as nodules and cysts. She has helped many achieve full or partial recovery with her natural methods that can be used alongside traditional medical approaches.

Diet and lifestyle are major contributors to vocal fatigue and loss. In Recovery, Cari designs a diet and lifestyle program for each individual. Her program consists of using fresh foods (avoiding processed foods), a regimen of yoga and exercise, 8-9 hours of sleep, extra hydration and humidity, homeopathic medicine, herbs (Western and Chinese) and other natural healing modalities such as massage, acupressure and acupuncture.

Whether singers are struggling to maintain vocal health or starting to experience vocal loss or fatigue, the path to recovery involves determining the key factors to your decline, eliminating them, and restoring health.