Singing Lessons

newestUser

I'd like to take some singing lessons. I've never had any formal singing lessons before, and I've always wanted to be able to sing. Can anybody suggest somewhere I could take lessons?

MissEcho

Hi,
Waltons School of Music do singing lessons. It's about 270 per term and you get a half hour lesson a week. It's pretty good cos you can do the lessons on your lunch break (if you work anywhere near georges st.1)
Alternatively theres the Bel Canto School of singing (located somewhere near parnell st). I think it's about 2 grand per year but you go every day from 5 to 7 (or something like that). You get a private lesson once a week and the rest of the time you have group lessons. By the way the Waltons lessons are one to one.
Hope this is of some help!!

sanfran

however if you're not from d4+don't have the funds for waltons, kylemore college do singing lessons for a Very reasonable price..

Eoin Madsen

I went to Parnell School of Music on Sackville Place (off O'Connell Street). I think it's 60ish euro a month these days. Half hour lesson a week, one to one.

Ronika

Parnell School of Music on Sackville Place (off O'Connell Street).

Its now the Hollywood Academy ( I went to Parnell, it was good back then but I think its has changed alot).
I'd recommend Waltons, though it mite cost abit more its well worth it cos the teachers are fully qualified and have trained for years compared to other places. Good luck with where you chose:D

seamus

Depends on what way you want to sing. I've never gotten or even looked into singing lessons, but I assume some schools will do different styles, and other schools will just do one.
That is, do you just want to learn to sing in tune, control your breathing, learn some techniques for doing falsetto, etc etc or do you want to go the whole hog and develop a full operatic range?

The girlfriend went for training in the Irish Academy of Music (? or maybe the Royal Academy or something, down near Holles St.). She already had a perfect singing voice imo, but the one doing it insisted on trying to teach her to sing opera, and gave up after 4 lessons, claiming it was hopeless. She had her own opinions on singing and thought that anything but opera sounded awful. Frankly, I was completely unimpressed by her lack of professionalism, despite many people having claimed she was the best in Ireland. She had reduced many girls to tears over her years. My gf was more interested in learning to sing for stage musicals, so that probably made them both frustrated, since the teacher said in the first lesson that nobody has ever sung well in a musical.

So there's the other problem - you could get a teacher with an ideology and a set way of thinking, instead of one who's teaching because they love it, and will teach you what you want instead of what they want.

Something to look out for.

newestUser

Firstly I'd like to thank everyone for their helpful suggestions.

Secondly, Seamus asked what I was looking to gain from lessons. I don't want to learn to sing in a particular style, I just want to be able to sing in tune. If this is my only goal, and I don't want to develop my operatic range, or learn to sing falsetto, is there any point in taking lessons at a more expensive school?

Ronika

no not really, the only thing is where ever you go they will help you with tuning problems but will also bring in other areas which is not a bad thing, and you'll be suprised how well your voice sounds when you bring those things altogether. Just tell them the main area you want to work on and go from there and if you feel its not working or you've gotten what you wanted then you can just leave.

Good Luck

Ron