I developed Activation Voice Control – AVC because it became obvious that even with the most powerful, effective,time-proven technique on the planet, singers would often get to the point where they just couldn’t go any further with their voice. I finally realized -  it wasn’t about the voice.

Over 20 years of experience as a voice teacher has given me the ability to run someone’s voice. (That’s actually not as far out as it sounds).

An analogy would be as if you had a plane but didn’t know how to fly it. The teacher would sit on the pilot’s side with the controls and he/she would be flying the plane, and you’d be on the co-pilot side with the other controls in your hand and you’d have all the feelings, experiences and sensations, but you wouldn’t really be flying the plane. The teacher would be in control.

And that’s pretty much what I do with the voice.

When I run somebody’s voice through a specific vocalization regime it takes them into different areas of the voice they’ve never been in, different experiences they’ve never had and different parts of themselves they’ve never experienced. And that’s the most important point. Because if they’re inner subconscious belief about themselves isn’t consistent with the new vocal potential they’re experiencing – they won’t accept it. It’ll make them uncomfortable.

If I guide them into new heights of vocalism quickly but they’ve been told (and believed) that they “can’t sing that way”, or they’ve been nervous singing before, or they’ve never experienced these great things about themselves or they’ve been embarrassed, self-conscious or humiliated; then their inner belief about themselves, their subconscious belief, doesn’t match with what they’re experiencing vocally, they’ll figure out a way to sabotage it. And they just won’t do it. They won’t accept it. I’ve noticed for years and years how somebody will just go so far and not further. Or somebody keeps coming in with the same baggage. Or somebody gets so close but doesn’t get the major part. Or why somebody can come in every week and I can run their voice beautifully and show them what their potential is, but they can’t find that on their own and they can’t utilize it in song. They can’t use it in an audition or in a performance. I’ve seen the mental blocks and I’ve seen many people reach their limitations. I’ve seen them come up to “this is what I believe about myself and I can’t take this any further.”

And I was yearning to be able help these people. I thought, here I have the best vocal technique on the planet – I’m a master teacher, but this isn’t about the voice!
This was always fascinating and frankly, sad to me – and I realized that something had to be done. So I did a tremendous amount of research on human potential, the latest brain research, learning strategies and techniques that have been used by the US Olympic Team and NASA, and I took these and  customized them and put them into a synergistic package of
vocal technique and mindset called Activation Voice Control. And the synergy between them makes learning and progress unbelievably accelerated and predictable.