Singing
With Sonna
COURSE CONTENT
Lesson 1 - First Things First
✓ Regulate your breathing
✓ Regulate your emotions through singing
✓ Learn professional singing techniques through breathing
✓ How your whole body is an instrument.
Lesson 2 - Warm Ups
✓ Get your vocals moving with flexibility
✓ Incredible vocal warms for vocal agility
✓ Learn how to improve your range
✓ Vocal Hygiene and protecting your voice
Lesson 3 - Breathing II
✓ Why Breathing is one of THE most important things as a singer (also good if you are a swimmer)
✓ The art of Mindful breathing – many of us don’t think about how we breathe, and that’s part of the problem.
✓ Freaky breathing – you will be amazed at what Sonna can do with her body and lungs, she’s going to teach you some epic secrets.
✓ Control and choosing the right breathing for recording and performing
Lesson 4 - Fear of Failure will make you fail (L) Part II
✓ Spotlight affect Discovering your Alter Ego
✓ Self-Sabotage – how Sonna nearly ruined her own career, because she was scared of failing.
✓ Learning to fail and picking yourself up
Lesson 5 – Find your voice
✓ Finding your singing style – why you are unique and how to embrace your own style.
✓ MMM – The secret exercise of the stars – why the Masseter Muscle matters?
✓ Finding your voice – Sonna shares how she had to dig deep to find her voice and connect with it. Imitating vs Emulating
✓ Phrasing, Portamento, Falsetto, Sustain and Vibrato – why the technicalities matter
✓ Singing from your heart – how to sing and make people feel your emotions.
✓ Protecting your voice – an insight into Sonna’s daily routine!
Lesson 6 - Becoming Cinderella
✓ Sing like a Disney Price/Princess/Zhi/They/X
✓ Bringing dreams to reality – From a young girl singing Disney songs in her bedroom to Disney Stardom, how Sonna made it happen.
✓ Balancing opportunity, luck, and hard work
✓ How not to get lost in the magic – Discover Sonna’s ability to keep her feet grounded
Lesson 8 - The industry - how to break as an artist without being broke
For Sonna this is one of the most important Workouts in her course, she wants everyone especially girls and women to protect themselves from the dark side of the industry.
✓ Top labels and how to get noticed
✓ Do need a label?
✓ How to avoid the Dark Knights of the industry
✓ Why a million-dollar deal might cost you more than your life savings
✓ Red flags and lines – be clear what yours are
Lesson 7 – The truth about Riffs and Runs
In this Workout, Sonna breaks down some the wildest and CRAZIEST runs from some of the biggest of stars, and how you can learn how to nail them!
✓ Mariah
✓ Ariana
✓ Beyonce
✓ Christina
Lesson 9 How to blow up on Social
✓ How to become a Viral Sensation – cutting through the noise.
✓ Creating and editing content – an analytical breakdown of some of Sonna’s highest engaged with content.
✓ Beating the Algo – why “good” content doesn’t always get good views - Quality vs. Quantity - I got a feeling.
✓ Dealing with external validation – how to protect yourself and mental well-being from both success and failure
Lesson 10 - Improving your Improvising
In one of the most exciting of Workouts, Sonna will live improvise with you, and give you an opportunity to improvise back.
✓ Learning to trust your voice and where it takes you
✓ The 4Ps - Varying pitch, power, pause, pace on demand
✓ How to come up with lyrics on demand - practice makes perfect.
✓ How the brain works – Unconscious Incompetence to Conscious Competence