Welcome to Mixed Voice 101! Mixed voice, also called mixed registration or "your mix” is the holy grail for most singers. It’s also a topic fraught with confusion, and people have different definitions for mix.

In this tutorial, Camille will walk you through a warmup, and three sections to help you form your own mixed voice. In part 1, we’ll cover the foundation and prerequisites for mixing: what you need to already be doing in order to develop your mix. In part 2, we’ll assess what your natural tendencies are and assign different mix-building warmups based on those tendencies. In part 3, we’ll cover mixing with vowels, which will help you sing songs with greater ease and balance.

While every jazz singer has their own unique tone and style, there are a few common elements we can practice to embody traditional jazz vocal style. Here are some common styles: swung rhythm, smooth, easy tone, gravelly, even choppy tone, smooth, effortless tone, and last, we have vibrato & embellishment. With each lesson in this series, we’ll take a jazz standard to practice with.

Join Camille for a warmup focused on chromaticism, another important element of jazz music!

Here are the lead sheets for the songs discussed in this tutorial:

Join Camille van Niekerk for level 2 of the beginners course! This course builds upon her previous 30-day course, so we recommend completing that first. Camille will review concepts as you go, but you’ll get the most out of this course once you’ve completed level 1.

If you grew up listening to American or European music, chances are you implicitly know the major scale - without anyone having to teach it to you.

In this 3 part lesson, Camille will guide you through the major scale. In part 1, we’ll cover stepwise motion through the major scale. In part 2, we’ll cover leaps in the major scale with some fun exercises I know you’re going to love. And in part 3, we’ll learn chords within the major scale.