Free Your Voice Free Your Self - The Potty Mouth Guide to Vocalese Led by Lorraine Ferro

1 – the first of three  modules- is the “getting it out” phase, which is titled “THE POTTY MOUTH GUIDE TO VOCALISE” – in this series, we will explore what it feels like to sing vocal exercises on curse words and phrases. This is done, not for the gimmick of it, but for the actual release that comes with cursing, plus the benefit of those juicy consonant and vowel sounds that work so well when a student is trying to get the sound out of his mouth rather than swallow it. No one can sing “fuck, fuck, fuck, WHAT-THE-FUCK, what the fuck!!” on a arpeggiated scale up and down and not find the energy it takes to really SING! It’s great for vocal artists who have taken a million lessons and not achieved the freedom in their voices they crave, and it’s great for people who have never taken a lesson and have been afraid of studying voice because they think they’re not good enough. “Sing-cursing” changes the vocal game and therefore it bypasses those critical voices in one’s head telling the person they can’t sing or they’re not good enough. It’s exciting, great fun, and doesn’t sound like a chore or like a discipline, even though it is. It tricks the brain into making that person breathe fully, and find the effort it takes to authentically emote. The exercises will be tailored to fit the student or group - those who would rather start out with less controversial phrases, such as “What the Heck?” Or “Damnit!” may choose to do so, to get acclimated to the process. Each exercise has a designated purpose, with the focus on hard consonants that catapult sound out rather than swallowing it down, while riding certain vowel sounds that carry the breath forward.

Lorraine Ferro Multi-Platinum Hit Songwriter is also a passionate artist coach, having taught songwriting and performance workshops for the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in NYC and has been giving voice, songwriting and performance lessons and workshops in NYC and NJ with a career that  spans over 35 years.