Ted's Voice Academy

10/14/2026

I built 21 self-paced online voice courses for singers, speakers, and people who do both, from my own books. In every lesson you practice out loud, and you record yourself at the start, the middle, and the end of a course so you can hear what changed.

Any three courses are $49.99, or get every course with the All-Access Pass for $149. Start with the free course at tedsvoiceacademy.com/courses

Music: "Inspired" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0

10/11/2026

Here is a one-minute look at everything I offer at Ted's Voice Academy: personal coaching for singers and speakers, online courses, practice tools, the PASS Profile and my book, AVF: The Adaptive Voice Framework.

Lessons are in person in Lacey and online anywhere, Monday through Friday during the day. Call 253-414-2267 to book your first lesson, or start with a free 15-minute discovery call.

tedsvoiceacademy.com

10/07/2026

Weekly singing lessons in Lacey, with support for your practice in between.

After each lesson in my studio, I email you a summary of what we worked on, usually the same day. You don't have to remember all of it or stop to take notes while you sing.

While you take weekly lessons, you also get full access to my Online Voice Studio:

🎵 Practice apps that listen while you sing

🎧 Recorded warm-up programs and sheet music

📱 Open it on your phone, tablet, or computer

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: one hour, once a week, in my Lacey studio, Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽: a free 15-minute discovery call. Call me at 253-414-2267, or use the link in the first comment.

What would you love to be able to sing? Tell me in the comments.

If someone you know has wanted to take singing lessons, send this to them.

09/30/2026

Whatever you sing, you can start private voice lessons in Lacey with the voice you have today.

Church and gospel. Classical and opera. Musical theater. Rock, country, and pop. Those are some of the styles I coach. You use the same instrument in every style, and you adjust your breath and your sound for each one.

I'm Ted Chamberlain, a vocal coach in Lacey, WA. We start your first lesson by listening to your voice. We talk through what you'd like help with, then build a plan around your voice and the songs you want to sing. After every voice lesson in my studio, I email you a summary of what we worked on and the exercises for the week.

𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀:

🎵 All singing styles, all experience levels
🎵 Weekly lessons, with lesson packages available
🎵 Weekday daytime lessons, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹. Call 253-414-2267, or use the contact form linked in the first comment.

If someone came to mind while you were reading this, send it to them.

09/07/2026

Wherever you are with your singing, we start from there.

Maybe you've never sung anywhere but the car and you're not sure you can match a pitch. That's a starting point. Maybe you've been singing for years and you want a stronger top, a smoother break, or more control on a long phrase. That's a starting point too.

Where you are today isn't good or bad. It's where you are. We work from there.

I teach beginners all the way through professional singers, in any style: pop, musical theatre, country, rock, classical, jazz, gospel. Ages 14 through adults of every age.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:
🎵 I teach weekdays, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5, and I have daytime openings right now.
🎵 You work with me one-on-one, on the songs you actually want to sing.
🎵 In the first lesson we build your plan together, based on what you want your voice to do.
🎵 After every lesson I write up what we worked on, what to practice this week, and what changed, then send it to you. You have it in front of you when you sit down to practice on Thursday.

🎵 You also get into the members-only site, where I keep the daily practice tools. Use them between lessons, on your own schedule.

𝗔 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴:
🎵 I earned National Board Certification in Music in 2005.
🎵 I wrote the book on this method: 𝘈𝘝𝘍: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬.
🎵 BusinessRate has ranked me second among vocal instructors in Washington State two years running, and first in Thurston County.

Call or text 253-414-2267.

09/01/2026

**Why do I use straw phonation, humming, lip trills, and similar exercises with so many singers and speakers?**

They belong to a family of techniques called **SOVT exercises**, short for *semi-occluded vocal tract exercises*.

The name sounds technical. The basic idea is simple: we partially narrow the opening where the sound exits. That might mean singing through a straw, humming, using a lip trill, or sustaining sounds such as “V” and “Z.”

This creates gentle resistance above the vocal folds and gives the voice helpful feedback. It can encourage the airflow, vocal folds, and resonating spaces to coordinate more efficiently.

Depending on the person and the exercise, SOVT work may help you:

🎵 Warm up the voice gradually
🎵 Find greater ease and resonance
🎵 Coordinate airflow and sound
🎵 Reduce unnecessary vocal effort
🎵 Smooth transitions between registers
🎵 Explore range and flexibility
🎵 Develop clearer, more efficient projection
🎵 Build stamina for singing or speaking
🎵 Reset a voice that feels tired, heavy, breathy, tight, or unpredictable

SOVT exercises can also tell me something about your voice. How your voice responds helps me understand what may be happening and what we should explore next.

That last part matters.

**SOVT is one valuable tool set within a much larger approach to vocal development.** The real goal is to carry that improved coordination into your songs, presentations, performances, teaching, conversations, and everyday communication.

Vocal coaching helps us determine which tools serve *your* voice and how to turn a helpful exercise into lasting, usable skill.

What would you most like your voice to do more easily?

If you are ready to understand and develop your voice, I would be glad to help.

**MASTER YOUR VOICE**

Explore private coaching, the free *Master Your Voice Monthly* newsletter, the PASS Profile™, the AVF™ books, and **Master Your Voice Saturday on September 12**:

https://tedsvoiceacademy.com

08/28/2026

People come to voice lessons for all kinds of reasons.

Some want to finally learn to sing.

Some are preparing for a musical theater audition. Some sing in church, a chorus, a quartet, a band, or just for themselves. Some want more range, freedom, consistency or confidence. Some are adapting to changes in a voice they've used for decades.

And every once in a while, the “voice” someone brings me is the one they use for a presentation, a podcast, a sales conversation or their work.

I've coached people in all of those situations.

That's one of the things I love about this work. There really isn't one kind of person who takes voice lessons, and there isn't one reason to come.

There's simply something you'd like your voice to do better.

If you've had that thought lately, send me a message and tell me what you'd like your voice to do.

That's a very good place to start.

Ted's Voice Academy
Lacey/Olympia • In-person coaching
Virtual coaching is also available when it's a good fit.

08/25/2026

The core of what I do is 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬, one-on-one and built around 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 voice and 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 goals.

Lessons are open to any adult, any style, any level, whether you are focusing on speaking skills, sing musical theater, church music, classic rock, barbershop harmony or jazz, or you've never taken a lesson before. Weekday daytime lessons run Monday through Friday, 9 to 5, with packages of 5, 10 and 20 lessons also available.

The first step is a free discovery call. DM me here or complete the simple contact form on my website.

Also, just around the corner, is something special and extra: Master Your Voice Saturday, September 12, from 8 in the morning to 9 at night. Sessions run 20, 40, or 60 minutes for individuals, or an hour or two for a group or quartet of up to four. Booking closes at the end of the day on September 11.

𝗔 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 to MASTER YOUR VOICE at Ted's Voice Academy:

📖 The framework behind my teaching can be found in my book: 𝘈𝘝𝘍: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, on Amazon.

📋 Get your PASS Profile, a communication assessment that measures 40 traits across six domains of how you naturally communicate. There is nothing else like it anywhere!

💻 NEW!! Work through the self-paced courses on your own schedule.

📬 Subscribe to Master Your Voice Monthly, the free newsletter, for practice routines and technique notes on the first of every month. Instant access to all previous issues.

Lacey, WA. Call or text me at 253-414-2267.

Tell me in the comments about any vocal issues you'd like help with, or where you're hoping to grow. I read every comment.

Voice coaching for singers and speakers. Grounded in the Adaptive Voice Framework (AVF) by author Ted Chamberlain. Creator of the PASS Profile.

08/14/2026

Saturday, September 12 is a full day of one-on-one voice coaching at my studio here in Lacey.

I teach weekdays year-round, which works well if your schedule has some give in it. This one Saturday is for everyone whose week is already spoken for. I'll be teaching from 8am to 9pm, so there's a time in there that fits almost any Saturday.

You can book twenty minutes, forty, or a full hour. A small group of up to four can book an hour or two together.

Bring whatever you'd like to work on. A song you're learning. A note you'd like to reach more easily. A presentation you want to feel good delivering. Or just curiosity about what a voice lesson is actually like. Twenty minutes is enough to come away with something useful, and plenty of people start exactly there.
Singers and speakers. Every level of experience, every style.