14-day Pop Vocals Course With Abram
by Abram Poliakoff
Description:
Do you love pop? Then this is the course for you! This course focuses on our basic pop tone, agility, with exercises for falls & scoops, “turnarounds”, and riff patterns with up to 5 pitches. You will focus on distinct registration including falsetto, pop flips, and different types of onset, like vocal fry. We’ll use two mini-songs called “This is the time” and “Never leave you” to practice each technique.
Lessons:
- Day 1: Welcome & What To Expect
- Day 2: Establishing A Chest-dominant Mix
- Day 3: Breathiness To Belting: Vowel Modification
- Day 4: Tongue Position And Twang
- Day 5: “Pressing In” (Body Engagement)
- Day 6: Falls & Scoops
- Day 7: Turnarounds
- Day 8: 3-Note Ending Riff
- Day 9: 5-Note Pentatonic Riffs
- Day 10: Falsetto Dominant Mix
- Day 11: Onsets
- Day 12: Abrupt Register Shifts & The Pop Flip
- Day 13: Stylizing A Song
- Day 14: Performance & Congratulations!
Instructor: Abram Poliakoff
Abram Poliakoff is a singer, guitarist, pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer. He received a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Arts from USC’s Thornton School of Music and has been teaching music for 8 years. He is currently both the Associate Artistic Director and a tenor in the L.A. Choral Lab, which recently released its first studio album Sonic Visions in the fall of 2019. Abram teaches and performs a wide range of genres including Classical, Jazz, Folk and Popular music in the Los Angeles area. He has also sung with the San Francisco Opera and Pocket Opera in the Bay Area. His teaching mission is to help his students utilize vocal technique to find their authentic and healthy voice while maximizing genre flexibility and a naturalness of expression.