"I'm a DIY singer-songwriter, meaning I perform, record, produce and master my own material. By far my biggest challenge has always been my voice.

Over the years I've taken 4 highly regarded paid online courses, one paid offline course (with cd’s), and a few years of one-on-one voice lessons. While those lessons all helped, progress was pretty glacial. So I signed up for Linor's course Make singing click. This course is far and away the best I've ever taken.

So many things can go wrong with our voice without us realizing it. It can result in singing off-key, or in having poor tone or instability, or in tiring and destructive vocal strain.

I knew entering the course that good support is crucial, and that muscle tension is a killer. But the translation of that knowledge into better singing had been elusive and slow. We are often simply unaware of habits that block our progress. For the first time, Make singing click gave me a set of tools to detect, isolate and correct the problems.

The results have been fantastic for me. I am excited about my progress, and about feeling less blocked.

The course is very well organized (not all courses are!). Also, Linor provides one-on-one assistance, via the comments, and in a part of the course where she assesses (privately) your own submitted video. No other online course I've taken did that and this personal assistance alone puts her course head and shoulders above the rest - the individualized tips are priceless.

This course employs a scientific methodology (i.e. it uses evidence based reasoning to detect and correct problems, and to stack correction routines on top of each other), which makes it very powerful and, again, sets it apart from the rest.

Last but not least, the course videos are just fun to watch - they have a light touch, and are sometimes hilarious! 

Linor is both an experienced performer and an experienced teacher and this course is clearly the result of years of accumulated wisdom. I cannot recommend this course highly enough."

Besides being a blues guitarist and a guitar teacher, I am in a band where I am the lead singer. But the other band members used to gently let me know that my singing wasn’t stellar, to say the least. So I had to make a decision: get a lead singer or get better myself. I decided to go for the second option, but only after thinking it through. This would be a project.

I knew I had something going for me, because whenever I played and sang in small gatherings, people liked it. But my voice wasn’t nearly there yet to perform on big stages, on tours. Sometimes it would sound ok, the next time it wouldn’t - and I would be clueless why. My throat would often hurt, I felt I was pushing. On stage, I would overcompensate for my lack of technique by overdelivering in terms of emotion.

As guitarists, we can study other guitarists by careful observation. So I started listening and watching closely some singers I admire. I could figure out the musicality of what they were doing well enough: the phrasing and the dynamics. But what was going on behind the scenes, so to speak, kept eluding me. Singers operate much more in the dark than guitarists. It kept puzzling me how they could sing such long or high notes without forcing. I needed a teacher.

Around that time I chanced upon a YouTube video of Linor reacting to Freddie Mercury at Live Aid. I’m not that into reaction videos but it touched me. I loved the combination of Linor's professionalism and empathy. I decided to schedule lessons with her. But weekly lessons weren’t an option and I decided to also take the course. The combination of lessons and course proved to be a winner.

Linor’s concept of ‘sticks in the wheel’ was an eye opener. To view and analyse my body, my posture, as an instrument. To track down the body part that is the major issue and then to experiment with tricks to remove it. And then to move to the next.

As a guitar teacher (and still a student of the instrument) I like the approach of fully digesting baby steps in a practice sequence. I like to dive deep and really get the routine or exercise before I move on. I play guitar in my band, and I call this approach to learning: making something stage proof. In order for a routine to be stage proof, it has to be drilled in pretty darn well. Linor's course allows for that. I could take all the time I needed to dive deep in different aspects of technique.

I didn’t rush myself to finish a module within a week. Instead, I took it slowly and carefully. The course’s clarity and structure is the foundation for progress. And Linor's energy and sparkle lift me over the bumps and lazy days.

It’s starting to pay off....  there have been really great moments: three or four times at home when it was flowing, real gems of singing sessions. Such a blast, when it comes together."

To explain just how much Linor has helped me, I need to give a bit of context. Singing means everything to me, but because of a mix of reasons, my voice never really worked properly. Among other things, I had classical singing classes, and then modern classes, and I got completely confused because the methods and theory I was taught by both teachers totally contradicted each other. I was even more lost than before I started singing lessons.

That's why, when I moved to Amsterdam, I chose to take a lesson with Linor - her website mentioned that she worked with both techniques, lyric and variety, and I thought she could help me overcome my confusion. And I was right.

But she transformed my voice and singing for more reasons: I used to only work on my voice when I went to classes, and to just follow the teacher. I never took ownership of my own learning. I was spending some money, getting some temporary results, but nothing lasted. It completely changed with Linor: she told me from the start that I had to practice between lessons, monitor my own progress, pay attention to how I felt more than how I sounded, and take action based on that. I was reluctant at first (out of sheer laziness, I'll admit), but I gave it a shot.

I bought Make Singing Click, and practiced her 10-minute warm-up 3 times a week. And, slowly but surely, the magic happened. Because her method helps you identify what's blocking your voice, I got super aware of what was going wrong - and what was going better.

I was able to properly close my vocal cords for the first time ever (I used to choke regularly while drinking or eating, and that almost completely stopped as my vocal cords got stronger!). I gained so much confidence, I started singing at the coffee break at work

I have to do a lot of public speaking for my job, and I used to lose my voice after each conference - now I do Linor's warm-up before every event, and even if my voice is still strained, I don't have to stop speaking for days afterwards. I took her advice and started yoga - that transformed how I feel every day, but also my voice. I started having a vibrato I never felt before.

Then I started working on my posture, and, following Linor's online class, I identified myself which sticks I had to work on. I started feeling that space for the voice that Linor talks about in her classes. I even started to feel the difference between operatic, chest and head voices! As I keep practicing, I identify new things to work on, and new progress I've made.

I still have a long way to go, but for the first time in my life, I trust that I can make progress with my voice in a sustainable and independent way, and that I can achieve my goal (which is to be able to perform in public).

And besides all of this, Linor is just incredibly nice. She makes you feel safe and pushes you to do your best at the same time, and that is rare in teachers!

Thank you for everything Linor

“I had been taking real life lessons with Linor when she launched the course. She was the first singing teacher I fully trusted. I felt totally comfortable singing in front of her. I’m timid in those situations.

The course was a revelation, even for me as a regular student. See, in lessons, you work on an issue that pops up while singing one particular song. But in the course, every vocal issue that could cause problems is covered and experimented with. And it turns out I have most of the issues, haha... Having this course makes me spot and solve so many more ‘sticks in the wheel’, as Linor calls them.

I remember one early moment of insight while viewing a course video. It was about ‘killing the moments of hesitation’. She teaches to trick yourself to not tense up before a note. I recorded myself several times and could actually hear the difference.

The course keeps amazing me. I still occasionally go back to it, more than eight months after signing up. Let’s say I’m practicing at home and feel something is off - maybe the sound is too airy, or the consonants cause me trouble. I will then go to the video that covers that topic and be reminded of the tricks that solve it.

What has changed for me since taking the course is that I can now make sure I’m a better singer each time I go to a real life singing lesson. Between lessons, I will use the course to focus on improving one technical aspect: to drill that in.

This way of working makes my lessons more effective, as we can skip the basic stuff and focus on interesting aspects of the song at hand, like phrasing.

So instead of taking lessons like crazy, I now pick my spot only when I’m ready, and make the most of them. The online course has saved me a year’s worth of voice lessons.

Last week I was jamming/auditioning with a jazz pianist. It was a lot of fun, it felt great. Only after the session I realized: I didn’t worry about how I sounded, I didn’t have doubts. I’m not saying I sounded amazing, but it felt amazing. That’s a huge difference from how I felt 1.5 years ago.

I’d recommend the course to pretty much any singer. Advanced singers can use it to keep in shape across the board. And beginners will notice a massive increase in the progress they make from real life lessons. They’ll go from knowing nothing to having an impressive foundation.”