How this App Will have you Training Your Voice from Day One, Whatever Your Motivation

What do you want from your vocal training? Are you trying to expand your range? Do you want to beef up your low end or clear up the high end of your voice? Maybe you'd like to have a stronger diaphragm and a deeper breath so you can finish your phrases. Maybe you’d like your belt to be stronger or your falsetto to be higher. Whatever your motivation, there's an app that’ll have you training your voice from day one.

BY KEN COOPER
May 14, 2018

It's called Vtrain. This little app is rocking the vocal training world. It's a collection of slides containing photos, video illustrations, and detailed descriptions of the vocal training exercises that our students learn in their video voice lessons. As a singer at AoV, you cover a new exercise in your online voice lessons each week, and a new vocal exercise unlocks within the Vtrain app, becoming part of your practice session. Each day as you train your voice along with VTrain, there's no confusion about what comes next or how to do the exercises, since everything is laid out neatly for you, just like you learned it in your lesson. VTrain’s clear instructions with illustrations, videos and audio make it easy to practice frequently anywhere you go so you can quickly achieve your vocal goals.

The audio files in the app are custom-fit vocal training exercises, created to fit each singer’s voice, based on their vocal profile, which is measured at the beginning of training with a test called the Voicessment. This is probably the coolest aspect of the VTrain app.   The exercises begin in a comfortable part of your range so it's easy to find the notes and match them. Next, they move to more challenging areas of your range, encouraging your voice to grow into places  you couldn't comfortably reach before. When you’ve been training for a while and want to check out your progress, you do the Voicessment again, and your VTrain exercises are generated anew to fit your larger, improved range. As your voice grows with training, your exercises keep up the pace, growing with you.

One of the most exciting features of the app is the Repertory Area, a place within the app for lyrics, PDFs, and audio files of karaoke tracks or accompaniments you'd like to sing along with  during your vocal training practices.  Say you’re working on a Johnny Cash song. You can add the lyrics and a backtrack to the Repertory area, hit the road, and practice singing anywhere you can take your phone. You can open the app, breeze through posture, breathing, and tongue exercises, train with your custom-fit vocal exercises, and then sing that that Johnny Cash song,  followed by a cool-down exercise… all with just your phone, tablet, or laptop.

Unlike the old days, it’s suddenly convenient, easy, and super effective to train your voice from anywhere at any time. What’s your excuse?

About KEN COOPER

Ken is originally from Massachusetts and studied English and voice at Colby College before developing interests in writing, editing, media production, web development and photography. He has worked as a photographer as well as on startups and other businesses, and studied nutrition, carb restriction, and ketogenic diets. As a long time musician and performer, Ken has an extensive catalogue of his own songs and plays throughout Massachusetts and New England. He is very interested in songwriting and instrumental composition, musical performance, and online vocal instruction. Follow him on Twitter.

Ken is originally from Massachusetts and studied English and voice at Colby College before developing interests in writing, editing, media production, web development and photography. He has worked as a photographer as well as on startups and other businesses, and studied nutrition, carb restriction, and ketogenic diets. As a long time musician and performer, Ken has an extensive catalogue of his own songs and plays throughout Massachusetts and New England. He is very interested in songwriting and instrumental composition, musical performance, and online vocal instruction. Follow him on Twitter.

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