Music By Melissa
8959 W. Acoma Dr.
Peoria, AZ 85381
ph: 602-770-9685
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A VOICE TEACHER WITH A MASTERS DEGREE - A VOCAL COACH WHO IS A PROFESSIONAL PIANIST WITH PERFECT PITCH AND WHO CAN PLAY ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO PERFECTION - BY EAR! ALL IN THE SAME PERSON! MELISSA IS THE PIANIST FOR ALL VOCAL LESSONS AND PLAYS ALL OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS BY EAR - NO NEED TO HIRE A PIANIST!! IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A STUDIO WHERE YOU SING ALL TYPES OF MUSIC WITH A PIANIST WHO CAN PLAY EVERYTHING TO PERFECTION (BY EAR!!!) - THEN THIS IS THE PLACE TO BE. MELISSA CAN ALSO TRANSPOSE YOUR SONGS BY EAR IN ANY KEY TO FIT YOUR VOICE!
NO OTHER TEACHER IN THE PHOENIX AREA HAS PRODUCED AN AMERICAN IDOL WINNER - ONLY MELISSA WITH JORDIN SPARKS. MELISSA ALSO HAS A GIFT ONLY VERY FEW HAVE - PERFECT PITCH!
CONTACT MELISSA - missyjblack@yahoo.com
602-770-9685 - SEND ME A TEXT!!
(NOTE: Melissa gives either Voice Lessons or Voice/Piano Combo lessons for the most part) Melissa does, however give consideration to certain piano students who are interested in learing to play by ear and/or read chord charts. My piano students in this studio never have to do scales! What??Yeah!!
MELISSA'S HOURS OF OPERATION IN HER HOME STUDIO:
MONDAY - every week or every other week (2 - 4 00)
TUESDAY - every week or every other week (2 - 6 00)
WEDNESDAY - every other week (4 - 6 00)
THURSDAY - every other week (4 - 6 00)
FRIDAY - every other week ( 4 - 6 00)
MELISSA BLACK owns and runs her music studio and she spends hours a day recording,mastering and distributing cover tunes to her fans all around the world. She is a pianist who can play anything and everything by ear - in different keys - and in many different styles.
Melissa currently has over 650 releases in her CD BABY Music Store BY EAR! Rarely do you find a VOICE TEACHER and VOCAL COACH in the same person - but with Melissa - thats what you get! AND you also get a three-time Grammy Nominee for Music Educator Of The Year!! Melissa specializes in contemporary style singing and can help you increase your range and control while building a healthy instrument. And Melissa is known by everyone to have the most up-beat personality you will ever find!! Melissa is one of the few voice professionals able to bridge the gap between classical “Bel Canto” vocal technique and the demands of a contemporary recording artist, regardless of genre. Her career experience as both a conservatory trained classical singer and a pop recording artist & songwriter gives her a unique perspective well suited to technically nurture and artistically inspire the vocal artists she works with. Melissa coaches ACTORS as well since they must be able to sing many times in film and on stage. VERY IMPORTANT FOR TODAY'S ARTISTS - Get out of your "COMFORT ZONE" - Get ready for new adventures for your voice and career! It can be a scary process to let go of the ways you’ve been performing and to be vulnerable in front of an audience. But that’s when the magic happens! BE READY TO DO ALL KINDS OF MUSIC! Thats the fun part! Be ready to study improvisation in this studio - you will be asked to not only do songs like the original artists and cover artists - but you will need to know how to make a song "your own"; In other words - change keys - change tempos - change the style of the song - etc... All very important for today's voice competitions - its no longer good enough to know how to sing - you need to know style and most important - "delivery" of the material. Come get started with Melissa!
MELISSA IS ALSO AN EXPERT "MUSIC ARRANGER" SPECIALIZING IN ALL TYPES OF MUSIC - SHE CAN TAKE A PIECE OF MUSIC AND COMPLETLY RE-ARRANGE IT TO FIT THE STYLE THE SINGER IS LOOKING FOR. MELISSA DOES EXPERT CUSTOM VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR SINGERS ALL OVER THE WORLD. IT'S SO EASY! JUST EMAIL HER WITH WHAT YOU NEED AND USUALLY WITHIN ONE DAY YOUR PROJECT IS DONE AND SENT TO YOU AS AN MP3.
BACHELORS DEGREE - VOICE AND PIANO - OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY
ADVANCED STUDIES - AIMS INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL STUDIES - GRAZ,AUSTRIA
CERTIFIED SUBSTITUTE TEACHER WITH THE PEORIA, ARIZONA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
MELISSA BLACK HAS BEEN FEATURED SEVERAL TIMES IN "CLASSICAL SINGER MAGAZINE" AS ONE OF THE U.S.' FINEST VOCAL COACHES - SPECIALIZING IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC.
A PIANO TEACHER WHO PLAYS ALL TYPES OF MUSIC AND CAN TEACH YOU TO PLAY ALL STYLES AND BY EAR!! NO SCALES - (yeah!) PIANO STUDENTS OF MELISSA'S APPRECIATE THE FAST PACE OF THE LESSONS AND THE FACT THAT AFTER USING THE BOOKS FOR A WHILE - SHE HAS THEM PLAYING THEIR FAVORITE SONGS THAT THEY ARE SINGING IN THE LESSONS - BY EAR TOO! ALL SINGERS WHO WANT A CAREER IN OPERA OR BROADWAY - YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO PLAY THE PIANO AND HAVE AN EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC THEORY. THERE IS NO "TEACHING YOU THE NOTES" IN BROADWAY - YOU DO IT YOURSELF AND YOU DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME - IN OTHER WORDS - YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO READ A SCORE.
SAMPLE SONG LIST!! (I can play ALL of these by ear and hundreds more!) MALE SINGERS - I can play all of your favorites too!! IN YOUR KEY!!! By Ear!
BRANDI CARLILE
The Joke
The Story
Looking Out
Pride and Joy
THE PRETTY RECKLESS
Just For Tonight
House On A Hill
DANIELLE BRADBERY
Worth It
LADY GAGA
Is That Alright
Before I Cry
Shallow
I'll Never Love Again
Always Remember Us This Way
Million Reasons
Angel Down
Speechless
LAUREN DAIGLE (Christian Pop)
You Say
How Can It Be
Remember
Love Like This
First
Loyal
Still Rolling Stones
Tremble
Light Of The World
I Am Yours
MOLLY SKAGGS (Christian Pop)
Ain't No Grave
HILLSONG UNITED (Christian Pop)
Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) Cover - The Voice
JULIA MICHAELS
Issues (cover artist version)
ZARA LARSSON
Uncover
JESSIE J
Reflection
Killing Me Softly
Who You Are
My Heart Will Go On
I Will Always Love You
CHLOE KOHANSKI (Winner of The Voice!)
Total Eclipse Of The Heart
JESS GLYNNE
Take Me Home
BEBE REXHA
Gone
Meant To Be
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (MOVIE)
Never Enough (Loren Alred)
Million Dreams (Pink)
CAMILLA CABELLO
Never Be The Same (Cover)
CHARLIE PUTH
One Call Away (female cover)
LAMBRITH
Beneath Your Beautiful (Female Cover) The Voice - Addison Agen
DUA LIPA
Homesick
Scared To Be Lonely
HARRY STYLES
Sign Of The Times (Female Cover)
Two Ghosts (Female Cover)
BISHOP BRIGGS
River
KESHA
Praying
IMAGINE DRAGONS
Stand By Me (female cover)
Demons
Believer (female cover) The Voice
Radioactive
Bleeding Out (female cover)
ONEREPUBLIC
Love Runs Out (female cover)
Stop And Stare (female cover)
Secrets (female cover)
ONE DIRECTION (female covers)
Night Changes
5 SECONDS OF SUMMER (female covers)
Amnesia
THE FRAY
How To Save A Life (Female Cover)
Heartbeat (Female Cover)
THE SCRIPT
Breakeven (Female Cover)
COLDPLAY
Fix You (female cover)
Viva La Vida (Female Cover)
The Scientist (Female Cover)
Fix You (Female Cover) The Voice
TEARS FOR FEARS
Mad World (Female Cover)
SHAWN MENDES
Cold In California
In My Blood (female cover)
Stitches (female cover)
Mercy (female cover)
SIA
Unstoppable
Alive
Chandelier
Bird Set Free
BIRDY
Wings
LANA DEL REY
Love
Black Beauty
Young and Beautiful
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
Twice
Mercy On Me
Blank Page
Bound to you
The voice within
Hurt
Beautiful
You lost me
GRACE POTTER
Stars
RIHANNA
Love The Way You Lie
Take A Bow
Half Of Me
Stay
GRACE
You Don't Know Me (Leslie Gore cover) from the 60's
THE VERONICA'S
You Ruin Me
DURAN DURAN
Ordinary World
ADELE
Remedy
Hello
Sweetest Devotion
When we were young
Someone like you
Set fire to the rain
Don't you remember
Turning tables
One and only
Take it all
AUDRA DAY
Rise Up
CAM
Burning House (Emily Ann Roberts Version) The Voice
KELSEA BALLERINI
Peter Pan
ELLE KING
Ex's and Oh's
BIRDY
Skinny Love (The Voice) cover
LITTLE BIG TOWN
Girl Crush
RAELYNN
God Made Girls
EMILY ANN ROBERTS (THE VOICE)
She's Got You
I'm That Kind Of Girl
FALL OUT BOY (female cover)
Young Volcanoes
LUKAS GRAHAM
7 Years
BEYONCE
If i were a boy
Listen
MEGHAN LINSEY (The Voice)
Love Runs Out (OneRepublic)
MAROON FIVE
Sad (female cover)
She Will Be Loved
HOZIER
Take Me To Church (Sofia Karlberg Cover)
MACY KATE
Radioactive
Demons
USHER/DAVID GUETTA
Without You (female cover)
SAM SMITH
Stay With Me (female cover)
Writing's On The Wall (female cover)
JOHN LEGEND
All of me (female cover)
CHRISTINA PERRI
Human
A thousand years
Jar of hearts
Miles
The lonely
MARIAH CAREY
Vision of love
Against All Odds
Without You
Hero
Vision Of Love
AVRIL LAVIGNE
Head Above Water
Tell Me It's Over
It Was In Me
Let me go
Imagine
Knockin on heaven's door
Hush hush (New)
My happy ending
Remember when
Innocence
Slipped away
When you're gone
Keep holding on
How you remind me
4real
TAYLOR SWIFT
MOST ALL OF HER SONGS
CASSADEE POPE (the voice)
I wish i could break your heart
Wasting all these tears
My happy ending
Stupid boy (Keith Urban)
Cry
Are you happy now
ANGIE MILLER (Amer Idol)
Halo
MIRANDA LAMBERT
VICE
KEEPER OF THE FLAME
Smoking Jacket
Getaway Driver
Roots and Wings
Girls
Automatic
Over You
White liar
Guilty in here
Heart like mine
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
Something in the water
Good Girl
I told you so
Before he cheats
Cowboy casanova
Last name
Wasted
So small
Flat on the floor
More boys i meet
SUGARLAND
Tonight
Stay
Baby Girl
Settlin
Something more
MARTINA MCBRIDE
Independence Day
How far
Broken Wing
Anyway
Whatever you say
Where would be you
Wild angels
This one's for the girls
SARA EVANS
Stronger
Perfect
Real fine place to start
I keep looking
Suds in the bucket
As if
Backseat of a greyhound bus
JENNIFER HUDSON
And i am telling you
PINK
Million Dreams
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
The Great Escape
Try
Who knew
Perfect (Clean)
White Rabbit
What About Us
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD
Try
KELLY CLARKSON
A moment like this
Already Gone
MICHELLE BRANCH
All i wanted
Goodbye to you
Are you happy now
DEMI LEVATO
Stone Cold
Confident
Warrior
Heart Attack
Skyscraper
Lightweight
Fix a heart
Believe in me
SARA BAREILLES
Brave
Uncharted
COLBIE CAILLAT
Hold on
I never told you
80's MUSIC!! (I also have 60's and 70's)
Heart,Pat Benetar,Cindy Lauper,Cher,Bon Jovi,Skid Row,Guns n Roses,Carole King,Janis Joplin, Linda Rondstadt, The Beatles, Belinda Carlisle, The Go Go's, Bonnie Tyler, Cher,The Bangles, Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart,Queen, Motley Crue, U2,Heart, Metallica,Bryan Adams,Whitesnake,Journey,Annie Lennox,Aerosmith,Journey,and TONS more!!
R&B SONGS!!
Beyonce,Alecia Keys,Jennifer Hudson,Leona Lewis,Mariah Carey,and more!! TONS of Celine Dion too!
8959 W. Acoma Dr.
Peoria, AZ 85381
ph: 602-770-9685
missyjbl