Online Singing Lessons With Abram Poliakoff
Abram Poliakoff is a singer, guitarist, pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer. He received a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Arts from USC’s Thornton School of Music and has been teaching music for 8 years. He is currently both the Associate Artistic Director and a tenor in the L.A. Choral Lab, which recently released its first studio album Sonic Visions in the fall of 2019. Abram teaches and performs a wide range of genres including Classical, Jazz, Folk and Popular music in the Los Angeles area. He has also sung with the San Francisco Opera and Pocket Opera in the Bay Area. His teaching mission is to help his students utilize vocal technique to find their authentic and healthy voice while maximizing genre flexibility and a naturalness of expression.
TUTORIALS
Crooning Vocal Style
By Abram PoliakoffDiscover how to sing the smooth and intimate vocal style commonly referred to as “Crooning.” We’ll sing some old-fashioned songs and discuss how this timeless style has reemerged over the years in popular culture.
Folk Music
By Abram PoliakoffExplore contrasting techniques and stylistic choices that are commonly used when singing folk music. We’ll then apply these stylistic elements to some of my favorite folk tunes!
Intro to Sight-Singing
By Abram PoliakoffDiscover the skills necessary to become a solid sight-singer. We'll review a methodical approach to learning new music with a particular focus on understanding visual information on the page and translating it to recognizable auditory patterns. We'll also discuss best practices when it comes to mastering unknown pieces with very limited rehearsal time.
How To Find Your Vocal Registers
By Abram PoliakoffLearn what vocal registers are and how they can help you expand your range, change your tone quality, and sing in a healthier way. We’ll cover exercises and strategies to help you find each register in your own voice and learn to transition between them.
Minor Scale Ear Training
By Abram PoliakoffThis tutorial focuses on ear training with the minor scale to help you hear, sing, and recognize it with accuracy. Across five lessons, you’ll explore the differences between major and minor, practice targeted exercises that lock the scale into your muscle memory, and learn to sing a traditional folk song, “Wayfaring Stranger.” You’ll finish with a test that challenges your tonal memory and ability to adapt familiar tunes into minor. By the end, you’ll have the skills to recognize and sing minor melodies confidently and in tune.
Minor Scale Riffs
By Abram PoliakoffThis series teaches you how to sing and improvise riffs using the minor scale. You’ll start with warmups for agility, then build from simple 3-note riffs to more complex 5-note riffs with turnarounds. After learning the core riff patterns, you’ll apply them to the folk classic “Wayfaring Stranger” to hear how riffs can enhance songs with minor melodies. Finally, you’ll practice improvisation over minor chord progressions to build confidence and creativity in your vocal runs.
Practice Singing in Harmony
By Abram PoliakoffThis lesson explores how to sing in harmony using the folk classic “O Susanna” as a model. Across five parts, you’ll learn melodic harmonies in 3rds and 6ths, chordal harmonies built from the song’s progression, and how to mix the two approaches into dynamic harmonizations. With guided exercises, scale degree breakdowns, and practice singing both upper and lower harmonies, you’ll gain practical tools to create harmonies that work in a wide range of musical contexts. By the end, you’ll be able to confidently sing harmony parts, adapt to chord changes, and experiment creatively with your own songs.
Confidence Building Warm-Ups
By Abram PoliakoffThis lesson is designed to help you build true confidence as a singer—not by eliminating nerves, but by learning how to channel them into energy, focus, and power. Across five parts, you’ll move through energizing body and vocal warmups, grounding techniques for strength and stability, focus drills for precision, and a final recording challenge that simulates real performance conditions. Along the way, you’ll also practice the song “This is the Time” with lyrics and chords provided, reinforcing your ability to stay present and resilient under pressure. By the end, you’ll have practical tools to strengthen both your voice and your performance confidence.
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