Online Singing Lessons With 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.
TUTORIALS
Sustaining Long Notes For Lower Voices
By Abram PoliakoffSustaining a note is objectively more difficult than just hitting that same note. Join Abram in this three part lesson on sustaining long notes.
Daily Chest Voice Workout For Beginning Tenors And High Baritone
By Abram PoliakoffChest voice is used for the pitches at the lower end of your range - although for male or lower voiced singers, chest register usually takes up more of your range over all. Join Abram for a daily workout to help create, and strengthen your chest voice!
Singing With Richer Tone For Low Voices
By Abram PoliakoffSinging with a thin, small sound is common in beginning singers. Work with Abram in this lesson series and learn how to make a fuller and richer tone.
Daily Head Voice Workout For Tenors And High Baritone
By Abram PoliakoffEven if you don’t foresee yourself using a lot of head voice in the songs you sing, it’s crucial that you spend some time in head voice when you warm up. Head voice not just for high notes: it’s also for flexibility! Join Abram for this daily voice workout.
Daily Chest Voice Workout For Beginning Bass And Low Baritone
By Abram PoliakoffWhat is chest voice? How can you keep it from feeling forced, or strained? Join Abram for the answers to these questions, as he helps you find and strengthen your chest voice.
14-Day Performance Course With Abram
By Abram PoliakoffThis course is designed to give you lots of tips and strategies to improve your ability to perform with ease and confidence. Even if you don’t plan on being a professional performing musician, learning to perform with charm and grace can be a skill that transfers to many other aspects of your life.
14-day Pop Vocals Course With Abram
By Abram PoliakoffDo 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.
14-Day Vibrato Course With Abram
By Abram PoliakoffWelcome to your 2-week course on developing vibrato! Each day, you’ll learn 2 new exercises focused on a specific aspect of vibrato development. We begin with the foundations of vibrato development, then on to kickstarting your vibrato, next, vibrato control & troubleshooting, and finally the course will wrap up with some real song application. Join Abram as she guides you in learning this exciting and crucial skill!
Perform Like a Pro with Abram
By Abram PoliakoffAre you already a singer who regularly performs for an audience? Do you find it hard to find the right warm-ups to get yourself ready? Sometimes our best performance can be in the shower and yet we find ourselves distracted and disconnected when its time to get on the stage. Many professional singers have a warm up strategy to bring their “A game” when it counts most. In this tutorial you will find strategies and warm-ups to help you bring your best performance to your audience.
Performance Warmups with Abram
By Abram PoliakoffDo you have a performance coming up? Maybe an audition? Before it’s performance time, you’ll want to make sure that you warm up your voice. But what kinds of warm-ups should you use? Keep watching for my tutorial on performance warm-ups!