Hi there, I'm Richard Fredricks and I am going to tell you what I offer as a voice teacher/ coach ... and how I can raise your vocal/professional level, no matter what it presently is, at least 20/30% ... in the first lesson!

Firstly, I'll teach you how to take a proper breath. Seven out of ten singers, per my experience, breathe backwards. Even though a few of them have the talent to overcome this fact, have significant careers and are able to produce an acceptable package ... doing it with my technique is dramatically easier. My technique allows 15/20% more air with each breath and ... it actually gives you ample time to purge the body of accumulated tension, between phrases.

Then, I'll teach you how simple the process is, to produce proper flexible support, for the myriad of vocal challenges any song/aria/opera may present!

Most of you probably don’t know exactly how vowels are made or how to focus all of them, so they resonate in exactly the same pocket ... to sing seamless spinning lines of legato phrases, all the while with the best diction on the stage. I'll also show you how and why the singing of pure vowels, fully focused and ringing “up and forward,” is a function of the technique of the singing of high voice. Once you understand it ... you can never lose it! At USC, I raised every voice of my predecessor’s eleven students, at least a third and at least doubled the apparent voice ... in their respective first lessons. I do it with everyone.

In addition, in the first lesson, I’ll show you how to keep your throat fully “open,” with the palate high, acting just as a conduit, through which the sound rises–with your natural sound–to then be properly balanced to spin the tone, either with full-out increased overtones, for the big stuff–opera/concert–or just a spinning conversational sound ... for pop. (Go to my Audio/Video page and listen first to my Tonight Show “Granada” or “Figaro” aria ... and then play “Spring is Here.” It’s the same voice ... in two totally different styles.)

If you are a soprano with limited high voice, perhaps suffering from the “smile” technique, with thin and sometimes strident high notes ... I’ll show you a whole new place into which to rotate those notes, with the added effect of making them easier and dramatically lovelier! The same concept works for tenors ... and all of the other voices ... I make it sound better ... while making it easier. Listen to my videos ... and a whole bunch of performance Audio at the bottom of the page. (You might enjoy the Cabin scene, from Unsinkable Molly Brown, with the lovely Ruta Lee.) Listen, always ... to how easily I sing, even the hardest pieces. I spin the tone ... and add whatever the repertoire dictates, without ever driving the voice. That’s my technique of flexible breath-pressure, on demand. Flexible ... is the key. The next time you sing something ... check to see just how flexible your belly-button is ... You may be surprised at just how rigid it is ... Then think seriously whether you would like your support working for you ... or against your singing, as it maybe doing now ...

It’s what I do ... and what I’ll teach you to do, as well!

Call me 310 838-3355

Those things happened to Andy Williams, Pat Boone (See Testimonials page), Renata Scotto, Georgio Tozzi, Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Jerry Vale, Constance Towers, and a host of others, who came to me for help. Constance Towers sent Howard Keel to me, who hadn't  been able to sing over a middle C, for over seven years. He was on tour, singing "La Mancha" transposed down a fourth! I lined up his support, sang right with him, toe-to-toe and he was singing solid high G's ... in 30 minutes! (He was very competitive, in the best way!) I just had to remind him of what he used to do, when he did it right ... having lined up his breathing and support! In just 13 days, he was singing "La Mancha" IN KEY, for the first time, ever! Andy Williams sang a solid operatic high A - in 20 minutes. by the clock, after "losing" his voice in the middle of a Gala. His voice was back up to speed, in six lessons! They had all lost their natural ability to support and, since they had never had to think about it before, they had never identified the process. Their respective voices had always just been there, all those years ... until it just wasn't there, anymore. I fixed them by showing them how they used to do it ... before they lost it!

I was having dinner with Mezzo Soprano, Marlena Kleinman and her husband Spiro Malas, one evening and asked, if she was still singing. She said, "No ... I've lost my voice!" "You're speaking voice is just fine." She told me that her singing voice had finally just quit, one day. She had subsequently asked her voice teacher, "If I come in two or three times a week, how long will it take you to bring my voice back?" He told her the he "could probably bring it back, seventy percent, in two to three years!" I told her I would give her two lessons and would guarantee her a high B natural, in the second lesson. She sang her high B in the first lesson, but most importantly ... I had taken out that wobble she had had, for the bulk of her career and replaced it with a lovely vibrato. She came in on my cancellations, for about seven more lessons ... and then just stopped coming in. A few months later, while we were on Met Tour together, Spiro told me she that while she was now singing soprano, she had decided to retire and had begun teaching voice.

You've found the vocal coach in Los Angeles who has done it all (Go to my Credtis page). I have the experience you need, from Rap. Pop to Grand Opera--I sang forty-five leading roles and over twenty Musicals. As a former leading baritone, I will provide you with my "Mechanics of Singing" technique, along with the vocal coaching you need, right here in Los Angeles. I will give you the technique I have developed and used during my career, to help you attain the best singing voice of which you are capable. Whether you are starting out as a  beginner, or as a professional in trouble, or one who just needs that extra edge. As a music therapist, I fix pitch problems. Georgio Tozzi had one for ten years.I fixed it in thirty minutes with my support and focus technique!

My studio is centrally located at the intersection of the I-10, and National Blvd, one half mile east of the interchange with the I-405. If you live or work in Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Bel Aire, Santa Monica, or the Valley ... you are in my back yard.

If you need to improve your high voice, as a classical or pop singer--I've done both (Check my Audio/Visual pages for me on The Tonight Show and the videos of my singing Opera), for Musicals, to perhaps to strengthen your voice for the theater or public speaking ... or, if you are a beginner who just wants voice lessons, for a shot at American Idol ... give me a call!