Teach Voice by Chris Johnson

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31/08/2026

NEW TEACHER WORKSHOP - Teach Beyond Your Type -£19

Want to know more about how other voice types are put together anatomically and acoustically, and how that changes your approach to their voice/break/register/range?

Maybe some other voices confuse you because they are just so different to yours?

Whatever you want, it’s very helpful to dive deeper in this for a few reasons:
1. Confidence in taking each voice as it comes, and trusting you’ll find helpful things for the individual
2. Avoiding roads that might lead the wrong voice type down a dead end.
3. You look more cleverer 😁

Perfect for teachers at any stage who love to get into the detail, but with a practical purpose! On zoom, with replay 👍🏻

There’s more to say, so if you want to join me for an un-boring training session then either comment TYPE or go-to the link in my bio! You’ll get the full workshop detail there!

Or drop me a line with your question and I’ll answer it.

See you there!

22/06/2026

Singing teachers… are you up to speed?👇

Love it or hate it, AI has become one of the primary ways people search for what they want. They are asking ChatGPT about their voice trouble and who it thinks could help them.

And your case study related content is AI’s quotable source for recommending you or not.

They might even see an AI recommendation as more objective than a friend. Especially as AI tends to come with evidence that aligns with the original question.

If you want to grow and help more people, making sure you have sources to quote is an easy job really. Especially if you don’t have masses to spend on ads, and also not wait years for word of mouth goodwill to build.

This totally comes from personal experience. I’m not parroting biz coaches. Instead, I’m looking at the happy accidents in my career that AI seems to love and reverse engineering them.

It starts with the question: “where did you hear of me”.

We talk about this stuff frequently in my teacher program. After all, when you develop even more effective skills you’d like to think it would benefit your biz! And it will with a bit of intention.

Let me know in comments or DMs if you’d like to find out more. I’d also love to hear your own stories or epiphanies about AI. It’s a fascinating development in the world!

Joining us for Summer Conference, you probably already know our CCM speaker, from . Trusted by West End performers, maj...
15/06/2026

Joining us for Summer Conference, you probably already know our CCM speaker, from . Trusted by West End performers, major-label artists, and vocal coaches alike, Chris brings over 15 years of professional performance and voice care experience.

In his thought-provoking session, Chris will be presenting on Voice Placement Doesn't Exist – And Here's How To Do It! On Saturday 18 July, he will dig into the possible mechanisms behind placement, such as acoustics, neuroscience and motor learning. He'll be sure to leave you with practical ideas on how this can form a part of any teacher's studio, whichever side of the debate you're on.

🎟️ Tickets are available on our website until midnight on Sunday 14 June 2026.

https://aotos.org.uk/events/summer-conference-2026/

27/04/2026

TEACHERS - I haven’t done this since 2022… and you’ve only got 3 days to join me this time.

Acoustics & Resonance For Voice Teachers
Comment ACOUSTIC and I’ll send the date/details.

This was a really popular 3-part course 4 years ago, designed to do the things I know us teachers really want:

- To understand this science-y subject in a way that is the key to everyday singing problems.

- To boost problem solving, as resonance issues are HUGE in singing... but are often the missing piece in the solution… as teacher Emily Hatch mentions in her review.

- To attend something in resonance/acoustics that isn’t dry, classical or academic and is relevant to what we do in the trenches with singers.
After all, if you deal in singing, you deal in acoustics. Beginner or pro.

You cannot escape the fact that in EVERY problem and EVERY goal, there will be a resonance aspect that’s not being leveraged.

Not addressing the acoustics can make progress slower, or even work against the goal so it doesn’t even get ticked off the list.

And often, you only really find out how important this is when you dive (kicking and screaming, sometimes) into the world of physics.

But rest assured, it’s my job to help you understand and then apply it. It’s not nearly as difficult to get as you might think. In fact, when I run my real world images and explanations past the scientists, they say - “yeah, that’s basically it”.

It just needed someone who’s not a scientist to sit and think like the individual this is supposed to benefit - the singing teacher!

If you want to see singing training in a new light, have worried about techy language, and truly bring this powerful tool into your studio everyday... save your seat by commenting ACOUSTIC!

- Live or replay
- 30% earlybird for the next 7 days
- Baseline knowledge with practicality and usefulness
- I’ll give you everything back if you don’t agree
- 4 additional course come free with enrolment

Any questions about it? Let me know. If not, don’t hang around! Comment ACOUSTIC.

Singing teachers - Would anyone like 4 free courses and workshops❓👇 Comment or DM me TEACHER and I’ll get it to you In t...
27/03/2026

Singing teachers - Would anyone like 4 free courses and workshops❓👇

Comment or DM me TEACHER and I’ll get it to you

In the approach to World Voice Day, I'm opening up 4 of my most and useful popular workshops for free. Lifetime access and things you'll be able to include in your lessons straight away (link to join at the bottom).

Here's what's open:

1. Movement Assessment (Full Course) - use physical movements of the arms, head, articulators, shoulders and whole body to remove vocal barriers. Great for kick-starting stagnant progress, resolving stubborn voice trouble that exercises don't help, and identifying productive things to work on.

2. Dynamic Breath Support - How to train flexibility in the breathing system, so that the body has a chance to manage breath intuitively. Great for reducing overwhelm, taking pressure off the voice, breathing health and function, and reversing some of the breathing limits that life tends to serve up (like sitting a lot and posture).

3. Y-Buzz - A fundamental how-to on this incredible exercise for chest voice development, resonance, recovery, and sensory awareness. It is the Swiss army knife of my entire toolbox, and becomes a go-to for the teachers who work with it.

4. Melodic Improvisation - A step-by-step process for teaching singers how to navigate free improvisation and make songs their own. I developed it from the point of view of someone who didn't take naturally to vocal musicianship (👋) and had to work on it. So it becomes very accessible and powerful for anyone wanting to build more confidence in creativity, whatever level they're at.

You also get a free support community if you have any questions about how to apply the concepts - I won't leave you hanging!

Teachers say:

I was blown away. Students noticed an immediate improvement in their tone. It was as if a light switch had been flicked by simply moving! - Zoe Stibi

I just wanted to say a huge thanks again! I saw a patient yesterday with quite long-standing muscle tension dysphonia. The movement was so useful. It really showed her (and me) that actually she can produce a significantly clearer sound and guided our session from there. Really useful for her to experience that clearer sound in her body - Elissa Finn

Been using your movement assessment this week with a few clients and aaah the breakthroughs... literally had singers in tears who had previous training and it just opened them up in whole new ways - Hannah May

Comment or DM me TEACHER and I'll get 'em to you.

Always in your corner!

Teachers - We're CLOSING THE DOORS on our teacher development for a long period (approx 1yr+), so if you've been waiting...
12/09/2025

Teachers - We're CLOSING THE DOORS on our teacher development for a long period (approx 1yr+), so if you've been waiting and lurking... NOW is the time to get involved.

I'm taking the time to pause and focus inward on the teachers in my programs already, deliver the value to them, and to focus on other exciting projects for SINGERS.

Honestly, the reviews and teacher results are awesome. So if you want to discover the same big breakthroughs and get a lifetime of support, talk to me ASAP and I'll show you how it works: https://www.teachvoice.com/free-consultation

Doors close in October. So don’t wait!

Very proud to have been asked by Dr. Ingo Titze to be an affiliate for the National Center for Voice and Speech. This me...
08/09/2025

Very proud to have been asked by Dr. Ingo Titze to be an affiliate for the National Center for Voice and Speech.

This means, in collaboration with their INSANELY SKILLED board, I can bring even more really valuable voice education to singers and teachers.

Just on another level!

I’m totally aligned with their mission to take current voice research/discovery and help it to be as useful as possible to the enormous world of voice users.

Our experience as a coaches on the ground are as valuable in creating education, because it’s US who create the pedagogy. We are the translators!

As NCVS have acknowledged, that means there needs to be a two way street between science and art for the best stuff to emerge.
Where both are as valuable as each other, and I’m so excited to be part of this mission.

Keep your eyes posted for upcoming workshops starting this autumn. Obvs I’ll start with acoustics 😁

Check out the brilliant boards here:
Board of Directors - https://ncvs.org/board-of-directors/

Board of Advisors - https://ncvs.org/advisory-board/

Voice pedagogy summer program… I’m coming for ya!
16/08/2025

Voice pedagogy summer program… I’m coming for ya!

28/07/2025

You can blow singers minds when you have some powerful tools under your belt!

And the journey through learning them is so fun, where the weeks are full of these breakthroughs.

I couldn’t be happier supporting these guys, and I'd love to show you these tools too.

If you’re a singing teacher and you’d love to know how we do it, book a free call and I’ll show you!

Message me ‘CALL’ and I’ll send you the deets.


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24/07/2025

BREATHY singing and the SITTING analogy...

The argument that breathiness in singers isn't healthy use is a common one. In a recent workshop for teachers, I shared this sitting analogy around breathiness (see clip).

It's not a problem on it's own, but what goes around it can make it a challenge. But we can work with that, rather than default to correcting it... because the pop world is firmly with it!

It's the same for lots of ways of singing where variety is missing.

And we never know when we'll need that variety. It might not even be in singing...
..it might be when we need to call out in an emergency...
.. it might be when we're on a noisy stage with rubbish sound...
.. even playing a team sport where you need to communicate across a field.

That's where singers who haven't built in some variety in their capability can come unstuck.

Just building in 20-30% variety in voice qualities (like call, whoop, groan, cry etc) is enough to keep a voice working well without training the singer out of their signature sound.

Are you a singing teacher exploring your options? Let's talk and I'll show you exactly how you can stack breakthrough after breakthrough with your students. Book a free exploration call here:
https://calendly.com/teachvoice/free-zoom-discovery-call-ref

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