Singing lessons for adults
Complete beginners welcome, and no, you’re not too old. One-to-one lessons in Pascoe Vale, with nobody listening and nothing to prove.
The things adult beginners worry about
- “I’ll be the oldest person there.” You won’t be there with anyone. Lessons are one-to-one. Students range from 2 to 65 and the adults never meet the eight-year-olds.
- “I can’t sing.” Roughly two people in a hundred are genuinely unable to match pitch. Everyone else has an untrained voice, which is a completely different thing and entirely fixable. Most people who believe they can’t sing were told so once, by someone unqualified, a long time ago.
- “I’m too old to start.” The voice is muscle and habit. Both respond to training at any age. You may not be heading for a West End career, but that probably wasn’t the plan.
- “I’d be mortified singing in front of someone.” Most people are, in the first lesson. It passes faster than you’d expect — usually by the second or third — because nothing bad happens.
- “I don’t want to perform.” Then you never will. Plenty of students sing only ever in the studio, and that’s a perfectly good reason to have lessons.
“As a newbie singer who was a little anxious and confused about where to start… Phoebe was so warm and encouraging, she immediately put me at ease.”
— April, Google review
What a first lesson is actually like
Thirty minutes and $20.
We talk for a bit — what you’d like to be able to do, what’s put you off, whether you’ve had lessons before. Then we make some noise: a few gentle exercises to hear what your voice already does, and probably a bit of a song, if you’ve got one in mind.
No sight-reading. No scales under interrogation. Nobody says “let’s hear you sing” and then waits.
At the end you’ll have learnt something concrete about your own voice, and you’ll know whether you want to come back. If you don’t, that’s genuinely fine — no follow-up, no pitch.
What people come for
- Some want to sing at a wedding, or a funeral, or in a choir they’ve been invited to join.
- Some sang at school, stopped, and have missed it for twenty years.
- Some want to get through karaoke without dread.
- Some want to sing in the car without wincing.
- Some just want one thing in the week that’s theirs and isn’t work.
All of those are good reasons, and none of them is more legitimate than another.
Prices
| Lesson | Price |
|---|---|
| Trial lesson (30 min) | $20 |
| 30 minutes | $35 |
| 45 minutes | $55 |
| 60 minutes | $75 |
Most adult students settle on 45 minutes, fortnightly or weekly. Ten-lesson blocks work out cheaper — see full pricing →