Will taking voice lessons for one month make my voice possibly better?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgBHfWGLno

(look at me I'm sandra dee)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpy6DHDbCC4

(star spangled banner)

Right now that is all my family can afford I would love to go for longer but I got to work on college and what not. Btw I am eighteen years old.

Answer 1

most likely

having a good choir teacher helped me

so one on one training will most def help you

but you're pretty good=)

Answer 2

I won't say that you will magically be better by taking lessons. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. You don't get better from going to lessons for a short amount of time.

But...

Do it anyways. Go in and ask what you can do to improve over time. Work with the teacher, explain your situation, and set up a daily set of excersizes and some repertoire that you can work on to improve. Save up and put a little money aside and go back for a lesson every now and then. Going back will help you stay on the right track and continually improve.

Answer 3

In short, yes, it will.  Quite a bit, actually.  Your vowel shaping and breath support are adequate right now, but your tone will get a lot fuller once someone helps you to raise your soft pallet and get out of your nasal cavity.  

My advice:  spend the money on someone good because the habits you lay down here will be terribly difficult to undo later on.  (Rural are:  about $50 per hour.  Urban/suburban:  $75-$100 per hour.)  

Also, explain exactly what you hope to accomplish in this period, and have the person lay out a four week plan to accomplish this.  

Find someone with experience coaching in the particular style (e.g., classical, musical theatre) in which you imagine you will most immediately require proficiency.

Finally, don't expect miracles in this amount of time.  The best you should hope for is one of two things:  either working directly on two or three minor issues (e.g., a wavery vibrato--which you don't have) or acquiring a handful of good techniques for using you precise instrument to approach a song.  If, as I suspect, you're readying yourself for auditions for a HS musical, this time might be best spent working directly on your audition song (either 16 or 32 bars of something that shows you at your best and is in the style of the show) and a song or two from the show you might be asked to sing at callbacks.

Remember:  the best thing about a vocalist is individuality.  Not everyone can sweetly hit the right notes.  But enough people can that HOW you do it plays a major part in any equation.  A good voice teacher will pull out your own gifts.

Answer 4

If you let the teacher know, he or she could give you things as a base and teach you exercises you could do on your own. So yes. One month could make it better than it is now, but after that, those exercises won't improve your voice any more than they already have.