A I N O E L I N A
  • Home
  • About
  • Gallery
  • Gigs
  • Contact
  • AE Music tuition
    • Vocal Coach Prices
    • Primal sounds
    • Vocal Settings - examples
    • Skype Lessons
COVID 19 update:
I will start face to face lessons in Leith as soon as we come out of lockdown and are in Level 0-3 again here in Edinburgh. Contact me for more information.
Online lessons continue as normal.


Singing with ease & emotion!
Singing is communication - I want to help my students find their own, natural voice.
​

VOICE TUITION
​
Aino Elina Music offers singing lessons for pop and musical theatre singers

​​from beginners to advanced


CCM (contemporary commercial music) vocal coaching at Aino Elina Music - any ages welcome!

FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS: 
- Versatility! Learn to master all vocal settings/modes and switch smoothly between them 
- Learn the safe belt and the easy curbing/whinging/mixed voice 
- Build your head voice stronger, leaning on twang 
- Vocal health check, concentrating on support and larynx issues 
- Vocal effects 

FOR BEGINNERS: 
- Find you own, natural healthy voice 
- Start understanding vocal settings and how to navigate between them 
- Learn the relaxed way to breath 

KIDS: 
- Gain performance confidence 
- Learn to use the voice in fun different ways (vocal settings) 
- Build up support for strong voice 
- Record demos (optional) to follow the progress 
Picture
© www.mariaalzamora.com
"☆☆☆☆☆"
​​"Mari is a friendly and skilled singing teacher who has helped me with both technique and confidence. She gets a good balance between making it fun and helping you dig in and do the work that's needed to get rid of old bad habits and consolidate good new ones. "

YOUR COACH: MA (Mus), singer-songwriter, electro-pop artist Mari Aino Elina Raekallio 

​STYLES: CCM (Pop, Rock, Musical Theatre etc) 

​EDUCATION: MA in Popular Music Performance & BA in Musical Theatre Performance 

TEACHING LOCATIONS: Aino Elina Music, EH11 1AH, Shandon, Edinburgh. You can also book a lesson with a PA at DC Music lessons in Leith

Skype lessons also available - worldwide!

There's a possibility to join a group lesson every couple of months for £5 to get performance experience. 

Joint lessons and workshops are also available. So if you have a band, choir, vocal group, or you would rather take lessons with a friend, ask for a quote. ​​

ABOUT LESSONS: 
Lessons at AE Music are all about finding the easy, natural way of singing. Sessions usually consist of breathing exercises, warm up, technique, interpretation and performance exercises. 

Sessions consist of:
-  breathing check/exercises
- warm up
- vocal technique
- vocal health/quality check

- interpretation and performance skills

Optional:
- harmonising, 
backing vocals
- audition prep
- songwriting
- sound unity inside a group
- microphone technique* 
at Music Base with mic and PA

​Mari started vocal lessons with classical singing, continued to musical theatre and has now found her vocal home within pop music. ​
​
​Mari teaches using primal sounds, but is also familiar with the Complete Vocal Technique.
What are primal sounds?


​Past vocal coaches include: Dane Chalfin, Kim Chandler (both former Presidents of British Voice Association)

LOCATION​:

Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 8pm at Sinclair Place, EH11 1AH

I also teach at DC Music School in Leith: www.dcmusiclessons.co.uk

Skype also available - worldwide!

​EDUCATION:

MA in Popular Music Performance (Leeds College of Music, UK, 2014)

BA in Musical Theatre Performance (Lahti Institute of Music and Drama, Finland, 2011).

EXPERIENCE:

Mari has worked as a private vocal coach and free lancer singer-songwriter since 2014.

She has been songwriting and performing as an electro pop solo artist Aino Elina since 2015. Mari also has 5 years of performance experience in Musical Theatre, and a long history of performing both solo and with choirs and vocal groups around the world.

PRICES

vocal coaching edinburgh.
singing lessons edinburgh.
vocal coach edinburgh.
singing teacher.
vocal coach.
Proudly powered by Weebly