Voice Lessons

"Merrill is excellent! She works with you to bring out the best in your voice, and lesson after lesson, she teaches you not only technique, but also ways to really connect with your music and bring it to life. She uses humor--lessons are FUN!--and obviously doesn't have a cookie-cutter approach to teaching. Merrill gets to know you, and makes sure that she is teaching you and working on your voice, and every aspect to make it your best. Together you and Merrill set measurable goals, and as a student, I can say that I am defeating "vocal demons" and reaching heights that were only pipe dreams before. Thank you, Merrill, for taking my voice and music to a whole new level--and for making it so much fun in the process."
                                                                                                                             - Norlisa

"Merrill has an uncanny ear for nuance and pitch (that's a good thing and something very few people have)."
              - Tim Hunnicut

"I have been singing for about 35 years.  The first 20 years of that time, I either did not take voice lessons, or had voice lessons that were ineffectual (didn’t help much) or bad (made things worse).  I was taught genres I did not want to learn (learn this first to learn that later), poor placement, distorted vowels, poor support, a strained or affected sound, and so on.   There was a complacency of mediocre teaching that is, to some extent, changing today.

Over the past 12 years, I have studied with vocal Masters – people who know how to free and enhance each individual voice at a rapid pace.  (See Music Training below.)  I have taken their lessons onto the stage and into my own teaching studio and used my experiences of what does and does not work – and what is most effective in the least amount of time – to benefit my students.

I excel at mending breaks, achieving tonal accuracy from ‘sloppy’ or ‘off-pitch’ singers, strengthening the voice where it is weak and sweetening it where it is harsh, expanding range toward its physical possibilities, focusing the voice, bringing ease where there was strain, and bringing confidence where there was worry.   In short, I teach students how to remove the obstacles that block us from joyfully expressing our hearts in song.”            
                   - Merrill Leffmann

Merrill Leffmann Voice Studio

(480) 348-1607