Make Believe
You Are Love
Why Do I Love You?
Mary Ellen Pracht & Richard Fredricks
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
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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!
