How to Find Singing Classes for Your Child?

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. Rumi

If you are like many other parents who are warming up to the idea of letting your children take singing lessons, you would have realised how much music can help improve children's memory, coordination, and listening skills.

While we often think that singing is entirely separate from academic-related subjects, enrolling your child in singing classes could certainly mean an improvement even in their academic performance. Finding a singing teacher for your child could also mean helping your child get more control of his or her emotions.

Music is generally good for all and while you may have allowed your child to learn how to play an instrument, like the guitar, you will certainly be doing your child a favour if you get him or her to learn how to sing as well. Allowing your child to have an enjoyable music journey is certainly a great decision.

You may be considering getting a singing teacher for your child who is extremely keen on learning how to sing. You should be keen about teaching your child how to sing too as once your child knows how to sing, his or her self-confidence will improve as well. There is no reason why you can't approach a singing teacher to teach your young child to learn how to sing. Very young children can surely learn how to sing and perhaps it's better to get your child to learn how to sing from a very young age.

Read the article on easy songs to learn with your children in order to understand how fascinated young children are with simple catchy songs.

At a very young age, your child is enjoying singing along to nursery rhymes and catchy songs, so it would be the perfect time to get your child enrolled in singing classes where the right singing teacher can help to refine your child's voice and focus on his or her pitch as well.

While learning how to sing with a singing instructor, your child will learn that learning how to sing extends to learning all about correct body posture, confidence, and performing well when in front of an audience.

If you are still in doubt about whether singing classes is for your child or not, we plan to answer all your burning questions in this article.

What Do I Need to Know About Singing Classes?

The only thing better than singing is more singing. Ella Fitzgerald

If you don't have any doubts about teaching your child how to play a musical instrument, there should be no doubts about why you should teach your child to sing. Of course, there are several benefits to getting your child to learn how to sing from a young age. One of the many avenues available is to find a private singing teacher to help your child to sing.

Allowing your child to take private singing lessons with a professional singing teacher could mean that you are giving your child the chance to learn how to sing at his or her own pace and develop his or her own singing style.

There are many instances when teaching a child how to sing helps the child to overcome speech barriers and even stage fright.  Plus, getting a child to sing is also a way to allow the child to open up and come out of his or her shell.

When you think about choosing private singing tutorials for your child, it might seem like a rather costly affair at first. However, as a parent you will realise that leaning on a private tutor could be the most cost-effective way to help your child to learn how to sing.

Private lessons make a huge difference in comparison to group singing lessons or choir groups simply because a private singing tutor works to tailor the child's lesson according to the child's singing abilities and talents.

With a private singing instructor, your child will have the option of taking lessons at the tutor's home, at your home, or even online. The private singing instructor will always be willing to cater to the needs of the individual student. The private tutor will also go over and above to challenge your child but will still work with songs and singing techniques specifically meant for your child's voice.

The idea of reaching out to a private singing tutor to help your child to sing well is a great one, but where can you find the right private singing instructor?

As a parent, you can find a private singing tutor by:

• Looking for a singing teacher advertisement online or in newspapers and magazines
• Asking around. Word-of-mouth feedback makes a huge difference in determining which singing tutor you choose and which one you don't choose

Once you are more settled about the idea of getting your child to learn how to sing, find out more about singing for children.

Do Singing Lessons Work?

Sing connects the mind with the heart and the heart with the soul. So, sing, I dare you! Neale Donald Walsh

If the above quote teaches us anything it's that our minds and souls are interconnected. Singing may also be a soothing activity for your child. You can read reviews on the Superprof website for all of our singing tutors. These reviews are from the point of view of previous students. It is from these reviews that people get convinced whether a tutor is the right one for them or not.  From tutor profiles on the Superprof site, you will be able to tell if our Superprof tutors will provide the best possible singing lessons for you or not. You will be able to assess the available tutors based on their training, experience, rates, timetable, and where they teach.

Singing lessons are great for refining voices, but they also work simply because you can always adapt the lessons to your child's capabilities and teach a child what he or she would like to learn. In this way, singing lessons don't seem less like a chore, but they seem far more enjoyable.

Generally, private singing tutorials can cost anything up to R600 per hour. Well, it may seem like quite a lot at first, yet there are many tutors on the Superprof platform that offer the first lesson for free.

Why don't you give our Superprof tutors a try? Opt for your child's first free singing lessons and perhaps you will be able to answer the question of whether singing lessons work or not.

You might also find a singing tutor who offers holiday singing workshops whereby all the tutor's singing students get grouped together to perform a vast range of singing activities.

If you want your child to have more hands-on learning, we advise you to settle for in-person singing lessons. There is also an option of online singing lessons for students who are more reluctant to attend hands-on tutorials.

You can always encourage your children to sing from home, and you could even sing along with them. 

Can You Learn to Sing with Singing Tutorials on YouTube?

When your soul is singing in joy then you know you are doing it right. Abira Mukherjee

With educational content being so accessible, there is no reason why you can't get access to singing-related resources. Singing can also be taught remotely via online classes or even through video tutorials.

Many expert singers have realised that they can teach others to sing via YouTube and hence they create videos regularly for their subscribers. There is one specific downside to learning like this as the videos may not keep the children focused and concentrating on learning content.  If your child has a limited attention span or gets distracted easily, you can opt for new forms of learning. While YouTube learning is a fun and easy way to teach new things to eager children, it can in no way substitute hands-on learning and interacting with a teacher.

Video tutorials will serve as an excellent enrichment source for children who are already taking singing lessons. The tutorials will allow the reinforcement of the singing theory that has been covered in their face-to-face classes.

When you let your child watch a YouTube video, there must be a fair amount of parental control that you enforce. If your child watches a YouTube video to learn how to sing, he or she must have at least learnt one thing at the end of the video.

The bonus of exposing your children to YouTube videos is that you can always rewind the video if there's something that they didn't grasp the first time. Your child can always re-watch the singing videos that were extremely helpful.

If you have realised that singing classes will be more helpful than YouTube videos, find out more about the cost of children's singing lessons.

Is Singing a Skill or a Talent?

Some people may argue that singing is a skill. Others may state that singing is certainly a talent.

Well, singing has to be a bit of both skill and talent. You need to have talent in order to master the singing skills required to sing well. Your child may have singing talent but it is inevitably hard work that will allow your child to gain the necessary skills to foster his or her singing talent.

You do need to have a natural singing ability in order to sing well, but your talent will mean nothing if you don't learn the necessary skills such as coordination and pitching.

A child who sings is a happy child. Elder Enrique Falabella