Six-Week Soprano to Mix-Belt Estill Training Program

Abstract

In April 2021, I undertook a six-week training program with six classically trained sopranos to provide a series of exercises to strengthen their contemporary mix-belt using basic principles derived from Estill Voice TrainingTM (EVT) (Estill et al. 2010b; Estill Voice 2021). The program was positive, with the singers demonstrating an average stable semitone gain of nearly a perfect fifth and five out of six singers reporting “having a brand-new sound.”