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Artist Business Coaching with Zelda S.

4.9
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Teaches online
Teaches all skill levels
Age: 6+
Speaks English
Teaching since 2008
Master Life Coach Certification

    Launch Your Artist Career Fast with This Seasoned Coach's Advice

    Zelda S. provides a clearly defined pathway and strategy for artists embarking on a music career.

    Instructor details

    Location:
    Teaches Online
    Teaches Online

    Teaching Hours

    Monday
    8 AM-11 AM
    12 PM-1 PM
    3 PM-5:30 PM
    Tuesday
    8 AM-1 PM
    2 PM-5:30 PM
    Wednesday
    11 AM-1 PM
    2 PM-5:30 PM
    Thursday
    8 AM-9 AM
    10 AM-1 PM
    2 PM-6 PM
    Friday
    1:30 AM-2 AM
    8 AM-11 AM
    2 PM-4 PM
    Sunday
    10 AM-11 AM
    Times are shown in your local timezone (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
    Pricing
    30 minutes
    $60
    55 minutes
    $100

    About Zelda S.

    4.9
    (54)
    Are you here because you want to be a better singer or speaker or musician? Do you lack confidence in your voice? Have you wondered if your voice is capable of improving? If you said yes, you're in the right place to get the help you need to be a confident and dynamic singer and speaker. As a professional singer, speaker, and voice coach Zelda has been delivering a high level of training for 14+ years to students of all ages and levels across the world in private lessons. She is currently available to teach weekly singing, speaking, performance, and music lessons online from her home studio in Nashville MUSIC CITY, TN, USA. She provides a dynamic, holistically structured training curriculum for people who want to love their voice and sing and speak with confidence and control. Her students enjoy learning how to use their voice more powerfully for both singing and speaking, accent reduction, conversational and professional English and speech, ear training, performing and presenting as well as musicianship - songwriting, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar and ukulele. Zelda started learning and playing guitar at age 7 and she she shares her passion for creativity, communication and lifelong learning with students from 5 to 97. Her lessons are refreshingly different - centering on the individual student and their unique needs and has helped many students improve their abilities for professional communications, confident performances, succeed in auditions and competitions, become more effective with media and workplace interviews, presentations and events, working in a team, joining and playing in a band, creating dynamic setlists, singing karaoke and in recording audio and video and a lot more. HOW ZELDA'S LESSONS ARE STRUCTURED Zelda's coaching is student-centered. Lesson ONE is where you discuss your goals and then your voice or current skill level is measured for both the coach and student to clearly see the baseline of where you are now so that the progress you are making each week is clearly seen and heard. Then in the following lessons, the foundational coaching tools for voice, speaking and music mastery are introduced one by one, explained, and demonstrated, which you then practice yourself and then show what you've learned by demonstrating your understanding and ability to use the new tool. You then apply all the tools you are learning to the material and projects that are relevant to you so that you can master each tool and technique in real-life application. You are given practice activities and homework to help you progress even faster and your success is monitored so you can see how far you've come. Students love this super-organized and systematic approach to learning to master using their voice and musical ability because they can easily see their breakthroughs, successes, and progress in each lesson and celebrate how they achieved marvellous milestones of accomplishment. WHO ZELDA WORKS WITH She's worked with speakers, vocalists and musicians of all kinds - from all over the world with both professional and personal learning goals. Her students are speakers and singers including English as a second language speakers; speakers in high profile professions; professional touring and recording artist singers; soloists, lead singers, karaoke singers, duos, choirs, singer-songwriters; guitarists and songwriters who don't call themselves singers; singers who don't call themselves musicians, children, pastors, professors, professionals and people with a passion for learning the strategies for loving their voice and loving to play music. Zelda is a professional performer who works as a musician, singer, speaker as well as a singer-songwriter, music, and performance coach, author, and creator of the highly effective voice warm-up program 'Zelda's Voice Warm Ups' for anyone who uses their voice - teachers, coaches, actors, singers and is available on iTunes for purchase to use anytime for keeping your voice in peak condition. As an award-winning songwriter, Zelda has been a performing professional musician for over 40 years and has enjoyed a well-rounded career in communications and entertainment including live performing, studio performing and directing singers, speakers, actors and musicians, and music education program development. She continues to work in recording studios with professional speakers, singers, and musicians across all the pop music genres and her award-winning works continue to be broadcast on television worldwide. An expert in her field working in the high end of commercial broadcast production, Zelda looks forward to helping new students enjoy their learning experience and prepare for the many opportunities as they arise. Her students range in age and include adults of all ages, teens, children, and a wide range of skill levels. She works with speakers, singers, musicians, songwriters, and producers across many genres and styles. Some of the musical styles she regularly teaches include Pop, Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Americana, Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Gospel, Punk, Blues, Jazz, Funk, Soul, R&B, Broadway and Musical theater. For Speaking and communicating, Zelda helps her students and clients gain confidence in their personal communications and professional careers. Students love Zelda's fun, encouraging and systemized lesson format and enjoy reaching learning milestones and achieving their goals. What do you want to do with your voice and your music? MORE Zelda is a professional speaker, singer, musician, songwriter, and coach with a mission - to change the way people think about creative talent. She knows first-hand that when students get into the right headspace they can make amazing breakthroughs with their voice, their musicianship, their careers, and themselves in all areas of their life. As a young child, Zelda was extremely shy with her voice. She was so unconfident she could not sing in front of anyone else, not even her family. She started learning guitar at age seven, but it took her many years to gain the confidence to actually sing and perform. This is why Zelda loves working with shy singers, speakers and musicians, because she knows firsthand what is stopping the shy singer from letting themself come out of their shell. She knows what the shy singer needs to gain confidence step by step in a supportive environment. Zelda believes it’s not just about talent you're born with - but rather passion to master easy-to-learn skills to advance to the next level. She’s right at home with people at any level from raw beginners to shy speakers and singers to high-level professionals. Her encouraging style helps speakers, singers, musicians, and songwriters develop their unique voice for any situation - workplace, live performance, audio and video recording, auditions, presentations, and any type of event. Zelda's students range in ages from 6 to 97 and come from all walks of life, from children to teens, to recording and touring musicians, to adults in professional careers, to teachers and current and retired professors. If you're looking for life-changing coaching and Zelda's story resonates with you - then you’ll love lessons with Zelda.
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    54 Reviews
    Victoria
    Teacher's studio
    Never thought accent reduction could be so productive and fun! I’m absolutely happy to have met Zelda! She’s very flexible, understanding and very fun to work with. Her explanations are very clear and she is very attentive. I wish I had met her much earlier, I would’ve had no accent by now.
    Posted Mar 15, 2023
    Karen
    Teacher's studio
    I cannot say enough wonderful things about Zelda! I've been working with her for 6 months now and I have learned so much. She is a wonderful teacher with a positive attitude. I played instruments years ago in school but I never had voice training before so it was all new to me. Zelda's learning plan is great, each week we build on knowledge from the week before and put it into practice. She is also very flexible with homework, as she says, we can still get a lot done in a session even if you didn't have time to work on it, because life happens. My confidence in my singing has grown tremendously and I look forward to singing karaoke with a live jazz band soon. Her techniques with warmup, breathing, and exercises have also helped me professionally as I do a lot of speaking at work. I look forward to continuing lessons with Zelda and encourage anyone who is brand new to book a session with her, you will not regret it!
    Posted Jan 12, 2023
    Karen
    Online
    I love working with Zelda, she is a wonderful teacher especially for someone brand new to singing! I'm 53 and new to singing and Zelda makes every lesson fun as well as giving me solid lessons and homework to work on for the next week. So far I've learned posture, breathing and vocal health exercises that will also help me as a trainer who often speaks for long periods during the work day. But the best part is that I'm really enjoying singing and feeling more confident in my voice all the time! I'm looking forward to continuing to work with Zelda and I highly recommend her to others just starting out.
    Posted Aug 10, 2022
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    Experience

    Vocal Coach

    Jan, 2006 - Sep, 2012

    Sydney Singing Lessons

    Curriculum design and implementation for singing students of all ages and levels

    Certified Trainer and Training Curriculum Designer

    May, 2012 - Dec, 2014

    How To Sing School

    Curriculum and training modules design for all ages of students to achieve high level learning outcomes.

    Ukulele Coach

    Jan, 2010 - Sep, 2012

    Ukulele Lessons Today

    Curriculum design and implementation for ukulele students of all ages and levels

    Early Childhood Specialist Performer

    Jan, 2007 - Aug, 2012

    Ukulele Baby

    With her brand Ukulele Baby she is a specialist performer in early childhood music and movement classes and concerts for ages one through five years. She has performed in a wide variety of shows including major Festivals, council and community centers, libraries, early childhood centers, family-friendly venues and private parties. She also designed a weekly curriculum for 12-months and facilitated each week for 60 children ages 2 to 6 in her hometown Sydney Australia and has received rave reviews for her shows.

    Education

    Bachelor Arts Communications maj Psychology

    Feb, 2001 - Nov, 2005

    University of New England

    Stress Management Coach Certification

    Jan, 2020 - Nov, 2020

    Get Results Coach Academy

    Master Life Coach Certification

    Jan, 2020 - Dec, 2020

    Transformation Academy

    Law

    May, 2017 - May, 2017

    Harvard

    Certifications

    Workplace Training and Assessment Certificate IV

    Oct, 2004

    TAFE

    This government program enables teachers, trainers and coaches to create, implement and assess student-centered training across multiple disciplines to a vocational level.

    Certified Stress Management Coach

    Oct, 2019

    Get Results Academy

    Who better to talk about Stress Management coaching with Zelda than someone who has experienced it first hand themselves. "Zelda was like shining a light in a dark corner, bringing things to the forefront and helping me understand myself better. I'd certainly recommend Zelda as a trusted guide leading me through the process. I liked the interactive approach. process, the writing -the different activity - the charts, drawings, timelines, I looked forward to seeing each week what was new and different in the activities. It's helped me understand my beliefs that don'' serve me, helped me put words to beliefs that I couldn't find words for, helped me feel safe, help me create the emotional life that was calm and at peace.It addressed my compromising beliefs that kept me stuck.  took me to a place of more power. This was amazing - thank you so much. I'd recommend Zelda's coaching to others if you are ready to look inside yourself and participate and find new beliefs that serve you in growth."

    Awards

    'The Elegant Solution' TV Series Song of the Year Nomination

    Nov, 2002

    AGSC Australian Guild of Screen Composers

    Couples Choice Wedding Officiant

    Jan, 2020

    Wedding Pro

    Affiliations

    Nashville Songwriters Association International

    Feb, 2008

    The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) is the world’s largest not-for-profit songwriters trade association. Established in 1967, the membership of more than 5,000 active and pro members spans the United States and six other countries. NSAI is dedicated to protecting the rights of and serving aspiring and professional songwriters in all genres of music.

    Folk Alliance International

    Sep, 2017

    To nurture, engage and empower the international folk music community — traditional and contemporary, amateur and professional — through education, advocacy and performance.

    BMI

    Feb, 2013

    Broadcast Music Inc. was founded in 1939 by forward-thinkers who wanted to represent songwriters in emerging genres, like jazz, blues and country, and protect the public performances of their music. Operating on a non-profit-making basis, BMI is now the largest music rights organization in the U.S. and is still nurturing new talent and new music.

    SESAC

    Feb, 2013

    SESAC currently licenses the public performances of more than 400,000 songs on behalf of its 30,000 affiliated songwriters, composers and music publishers, which include such familiar names as Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, RUSH, Charli XCX (PRS), Disclosure (PRS), Zac Brown, Mumford & Sons (PRS), Lady Antebellum, The Avett Brothers, Shirley Caesar, Paul Shaffer and Thompson Square. SESAC has long represented the music on some of TV’s biggest shows including Grey’s Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, Parenthood, Dateline NBC, Dr. Phil, Seinfeld, and The Doctors among many others and is the PRO of choice among many of Hollywood's most sought-after film and television composers including Christophe Beck, Danny Lux, Jon Ehrlich, Dennis C. Brown, Bruce Miller and Paul Shaffer among many others.

    ASCAP

    Jan, 2012

    ASCAP is a membership association of more than 625,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. We uphold the value of our members’ music, and help them thrive alongside the businesses that use their music every day.

    Languages

    English

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