Vocal Assessment · Live online
The Vocal Assessment
A scored diagnostic of your voice, not a trial lesson.
Designed in 1998 · Based on research at the Vanderbilt Voice Center
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The PCC Vocal Assessment focuses on accurately mapping a singer's innate talent, current function, and overall potential.
This comprehensive diagnostic was designed in 1998 based on the testing models of integrative medicine blended with pioneering research conducted at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Voice Center under renowned otolaryngologist Dr. Robert Ossoff.
The vocal assessment allows singers to not only understand the strengths and weaknesses of their instrument, but also what specific repertoire, genres, exercises, and curriculum will help them achieve maximum results in the least amount of time, potentially saving years of study.
The assessment comes in two levels, standard and advanced.
Each assessment culminates in a numerical score. This score determines the musician's current overall level. Specific recommendations will then be given with regard to ideal genres, training focus, and next steps.
The PCC Vocal Assessment is the most thorough diagnostic and recommendation plan of its kind.
Having helped over 5,000 singers, songwriters, and musicians achieve vocal control, performance confidence, and technical skills rapidly, many within a few weeks.
But more importantly, the aim of Performers Career Center is to help well-rounded artists create an impact outside of the shower.
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How it works
What to expect
One live online session with Patrick Michael Wickham, V.P.P. Medically trained. Juilliard trained. The standard assessment runs 60 minutes. Bring one phrase from a song and one question about what happens when you sing it.
Preliminary interview
We start by talking: your training so far, the music you love, what you like and dislike about your voice, and your goals. Then we map out where you are and where you want to go.
Application assessment
You sing a simple song or a few phrases in a calm, free environment.
Musicianship assessment
Fun music games that test your ear: pitch, rhythm and harmonic comprehension.
Technical assessment
We assign and evaluate exercises. The teacher makes silly sounds and you repeat them, measuring range, registration, agility, resonance, vibrato, volume control, breath management and more.
Functional assessment
You breathe and phonate (make sound) in various positions while the practitioner checks for compensatory tension and misalignment throughout the system.
Results
We go over your results and recommendations: your ideal voice type, repertoire, training regimen, ideal teacher and more.
Assignments
You leave with assignments that already help your instrument along and give you a head start.
What you take home
Yours to keep
Written score report
Your scores for every part of the assessment: application, musicianship, technical and functional. Together they add up to one overall score that shows your current level.
It also spells out your recommendations:
- Your ideal voice type and repertoire
- Your training regimen: how often to train, for how long, and what to focus on first
- The teacher best suited to you
Exercises
Specific vocal exercises chosen from your assessment scores, aimed at what your voice needs first.
They are also your first assignments. They start helping your instrument right away and give you a head start on your training.
Song recommendations
Songs, genres and styles recommended from your scores, matched to your ideal voice type and repertoire.
Your Google Drive folder
Your exercises and song recommendations are uploaded to a Google Drive folder shared with you, so they are in one place whenever you practice.
From a real assessment
Inside the session
In their words
“I won’t lie, I am still in disbelief from that assessment yesterday.”
“Now I know what I can focus on and my confidence has improved so much.”Elise B. · Real PCC student Filmed the day after her assessment.
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