Nehemiah 2:20
“The God of heaven will give us success;
therefore we His servants will arise and build…”

Micah 7:11
It will be a day for building your walls and raising up stones.
On that day will your boundary be extended.

As some of you have heard and seen recently,  we’ve had a home reno project in the works. I’m happy to report that as of this writing, the work is complete.

What hadn’t sunk in was how similar the process of remodeling is to that of “Voice Building.”

At one point a few days into the project, I made the mistake of going outside to walk the property and look at things.

Yipes…

A pile of busted concrete was over there, a stack of rotted lumber and deck boards were strewn in another place. In still another place, the crew had dug up rotted fence posts and the old concrete footings, chipped, worn and broken from decades of use and weather damage lay in a pile. It was “UH”gly to look at…..

Then, in a session this week, I was talking with a client about the ‘rebuilding’ process of how vocal training works. Yes, sometimes Vocal Training can be … rubble-y …..

For those of you who have been doing this for a while, there are rotted boards here and there, piles of broken concrete, sometimes “UH”gly sounds to be worked through, unearthed and discarded.

I’m thrilled to say that after a couple years of planning, several months of testing different designs, and several weeks of actual construction, our reno project looks amazing.

And so it goes, MaJoVTA Members, with your Vocal Training.

Some of you thought about Vocal Training for years. You spent months looking at different voice teachers. You decided to move forward. By now, people newer to The Academy have accumulated weeks of training. Others of you are in your second, third or even fourth year.

Still our work continues.

As in the Biblical references above, building an ancient city by hand took time. Sometimes even several generations of workers. Right – there was no app for that, and there’s no app for this, either.

It takes time.

But here’s the great thing: I hear gratifying improvement in each of you every week.

This happens when *you* do the hard work of dedicated, determined Vocal Training on  your own between our training sessions.

And I look forward to each weekly session as you ‘lay the foundations,’ raise up the stones’ and ‘extend the boundaries’ of your Vocal Artistry.

#arise
#build
#dothereps
#majovta