ADVANCED
Advanced-level singers have usually had a minimum of four (4) to seven (7) years of study during their prime development.  Students in advanced conservatories or who have completed a concentrated B.M. or M.A. voice program often fit this profile.  Exceptionally-talented commercial singers sometimes train their own voices to this technical proficiency, but this is the exception more often than not.  Advanced singers often display many of the following traits:

• Significant performance experience in principal roles or at major local venues
• Professional choral experience or paid regional work
• Excellent pitch accuracy and the ability to harmonize consonant tones within a chord
• Ability to sustain a held tone throughout the extremes of their range with little variance.
• Excellent register negotiation and significant strength in primary registration dominances, smooth transition.
• Vibrato rate is consistent and steady, exhibiting a "spinning" rather than a "punchy" quality, 4-8pps.
• Very little detectable laryngeal elevation except in extreme registers and during fatigue.
• Much more confident with vocalism.  Excellent focus on the "acting" of a song rather than the "sound."