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Intermediate Vocals Evening Course

Intermediate Vocals

  • Evening Course
  • 6 weeks part-time

A 6-week part-time evening course developing singing talents for those with existing vocal experience, covering vocal anatomy, healthy voice techniques, stylistic embellishment, and live performance.

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Course Overview

ICMP’s Intermediate Vocals course is ideal if you already have some singing experience or have recently completed our Introduction to Vocals course. Across six weeks, you’ll develop your singing talents and expand your vocal knowledge on your journey towards becoming a unique, versatile and confident performer.  

You’ll explore the voice in both a technical and practical context, gaining a more thorough understanding of how vocal anatomy can enrich your singing ability. You’ll discover simple techniques to keep your voice healthy, and learn to embellish songs with different vocal styling as you improve your confidence and enhance your stage presence. 

This part-time evening course is taught in person at ICMP campuses in London, Liverpool or Leeds. You’ll sing each week – on your own, as part of an ensemble and, at the end of the course, accompanied by a live session band. After each performance, you’ll receive personalised professional feedback from your ICMP vocal tutor and peers.

Course Features

Care for your voice Learn to look after your voice with practical exercises to help you warm up and cool down.

Improve your vocal qualities Get an impressive knowledge of colour, register and style as you strengthen these unique elements of your voice.

Perform as an ensemble Explore how to create and blend your vocal timbre and harmonies, with in-class group performance exercises.

Jam as a band Improve your performance confidence by singing a track of your choice from a selected list with a live session band.

Key Facts

  • 6-week evening course
  • Intermediate level
  • Small group instruction with professional vocal tutors
  • Includes solo, ensemble, and band performances

Course Progression

The techniques you’ll learn on this six-week course will grow your knowledge and vocal skills, and help you sing with presence, confidence and versatility. 

Other ICMP vocal courses you may enjoy include:  

Entry Requirements

Ability Level: Intermediate – students must have successfully completed ICMP’s part-time Introduction to Vocals course or be able to demonstrate previous singing experience to our Admissions team.

Learning Outcomes

  • Perform with a confident stage presence
  • Enhance your relationship with your voice through a knowledge of vocal anatomy
  • Develop bespoke vocal warm-ups
  • Perform basic harmony and blending in an ensemble 
  • Embellish your songs using creative stylistic techniques
  • Incorporate storytelling into your performance

Course Details

Weekly Modules

Our Intermediate Vocals course will provide you with the tools, tips and techniques to take your talent for singing to the next level. You’ll analyse the unique qualities of your voice, and learn the effect vocal colour, balance and style can have on your music.  Throughout the course, you’ll sing solo, as part of an ensemble and with a live session band. You’ll receive high-quality, personal feedback to help your performance technique improve week on week.  By the end of the six weeks, your confidence will soar as you learn to become a gifted and skillful creative performer. 

Prepare for the next six weeks by studying the relationship between your body and your voice. Learn how fundamentals like posture and muscle tension can impact the quality of your singing, and arm yourself with vocal wellbeing techniques such as breathing, warmups and vocalising. 

  • Agree your goals for the next six weeks  
  • Establish the key principles behind a healthy singing voice  
  • Practise exercises to help keep your voice safe and well

Understand the methods and techniques used to ensure a smooth vocal transition when singing across your vocal register and through a passaggio or vocal break. Discover the difference between balance and colour, and know when to use them to achieve the perfect vocal blend. 

  • Learn how to move effortlessly across your registers 
  • Explore different vocal set-ups for effective storytelling  
  • Demonstrate register changes in a group performance

Define what is meant by vocal colour, and identify the choices in your vocal toolkit that can impact a song’s performance style. Discover how managing your posture can alter the creative effects of a song, and experiment with dynamic sounds like the cry, sob, and lower and higher larynx positioning techniques.  

  • Explore the unique elements that make up your vocal toolkit 
  • Understand how your technical vocal choices can impact a song creatively  
  • Confidently integrate dynamic sounds into your performance

Broaden your awareness of pop vocal styling. Identify the typical sounds and stylistic techniques of contemporary pop songs and demonstrate them to the class with a performance.  

  • Recognise basic pop sounds like vocal fry, flips and breathy onsets 
  • Learn to create these styles in your own voice   
  • Perform basic pop stylistic techniques within a song

Discover the importance of storytelling in the context of performance. Learn to emotionally connect your voice to a song’s lyrics to enhance its meaning, and understand how body language and eye contact can further strengthen your storytelling. 

  • Explore how stylistic choices in the voice can improve your performance  
  • Experiment with eye contact and body language on stage  
  • Bring the story of a song to life in a practical exercise

Build vocal and performance confidence by adapting techniques from previous lessons and making them your own. Understand how the technical choices you make will impact your creative performance.  

  • Learn confidence-boosting techniques for your warmups and practice routines 
  • Explore how technique and performance mutually reinforce each other  
  • Enjoy a final course performance with a live session band

Upcoming Dates

Liverpool

Starts Wednesday 22nd July
£249.00
12 spaces available

Liverpool

Starts Wednesday 10th June
£249.00
12 spaces available

London

Starts Tuesday 23rd June
£249.00
12 spaces available
Starts Wednesday 24th June
£249.00
12 spaces available
Starts Tuesday 11th August
£249.00
Available
Starts Wednesday 12th August
£249.00
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