Singing Lessons with Musicality and Expression | Berklee College Educator

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Private lessons - Mari Aoki

Bachelors degree

$35

$32

/ hour

Voice coach with a personal touch

88% students love how each voice lesson customized to their need

Vocal coach who listens and adapts

The teachers flexible approach earns praise from parents

Voice lessons that build stage readiness

Students report better comfort and control during live performances

About your vocal coach

If you’re reading this, I take it that you want to free some kind of block within you! My name is Mari Aoki, singer, songwriter, and dancer. Be it a confidence block, creative block, or simple a technical block, I’m interested in work through it together. Aside from the vocal pedagogy, I specialize in live performance, movement, and over all stage presence and expression. To support this, I will provide you with proper vocal exercises, practice methods (to build stamina for a disciplined artistic practice), and performance prep methods. I want to help you embody the story teller you really are inside. I recently graduated Berklee College of Music with a M.B in. Professional Music in 2023. I have also been singing live for over 10 years, On stages like the Fenway Baseball Stadium, to Churches, to Bars, to even DIY basement shows. I want to share the wisdom I wish I had when I was starting out. So check my profile out and let’s get to work!

Your vocal coach specialities

Vocal Training

Rhythm & Beat

Ear training

Singing

Melody & Pitch

Singing lessons overview

As both a dancer and singer, My focus will be on making you a better performer on stage, as well as meeting your personal goals. To accomplish this, I start my lessons with each student by discussing what your over all goal is. We will also set a “deadline” (if you have a performance to work towards, even better) to accomplish this goal by. This is important as, accumulated knowledge and muscle memory will dissolve without being applied in real life. From there, I ask the student to select a piece or two to focus on. Using these pieces, we can pin point where the student is running to road blocks. I will select appropriate drills or warm ups to address each issue! This will include a diaphragmic conditioning excersizes, breath support excersizes, pitch accuracy excersizes, rhythmic excersizes and more.