Meredith Colby
Yes, I'm the nerd who started NeuroVocal method.
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It came from my own vocal journey, my intention to do the best I could for my vocal coaching clients, and a fascination with neuroscience.
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It grew into something that could serve singers, empower vocal coaches, and keep the joy in singing. That's the stuff I get excited about!
Cred
While maintaining a career as a busy freelance singer, I built a successful Chicago voice studio where I taught popular technique to band singers, music theater singers, and singer/songwriters. I worked consistently for over 20 years as a band singer - rock, jazz, pop - and have more than 30 years of teaching experience. To get my B.M. I was trained classically; so I get that. I also did post-grad study in pedagogy at Northern Illinois University, spent years as Director of The Center for Voice in Chicago, and have been certified by the Neuroscience Academy (Melbourne, AU).
My story
Though I never wanted classical training, I ended up with eight years of it through high school and college. Because that's what there was. Unfortunately, those lessons taught me to sing in a way that was both unsustainable and inappropriate for the work that had been my dream all along, and the work I did after college: fronting a band 5-6 nights a week for 3-4 hours a night. After nine months of touring my voice was trashed.
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Six months (of vocal recovery) later, I began lessons with a voice teacher who was also a working singer in Chicago. He had learned both classical and pop pedagogy, and applied that to his experience as both a concert and studio singer. That experience was transformational. It set me on the path of wanting to train singers of "microphone music".
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Because I was singing in bands every weekend, I knew that kind of singing was typically performed in an environment where the singer could not hear themselves. As an independent researcher, I found a connection to solve that problem; I found that tapping into the nervous system to exploit existing neurological responses could create a short path to healthy singing for all microphone styles. I wrote Money Notes to share my work.
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Ten years later, I continue to learn more, teach, and share the magic of neural didactics for singing; the intersection of education, neuroscience, and the singing voice.
I'm not about being a guru. I'm about working with fellow professionals to solve problems and create new tools. That's my groove. And I love my job.
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