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Karla Welch, celebrity stylist, teaches you how to identify and own your personal style whether you’re discovering your signature look or refining your capsule wardrobe.

Teaches Building and Owning Your Personal Style

In her MasterClass, Issa Rae, the creator and Emmy-nominated star of the hit HBO show “Insecure,” teaches you how she develops content and builds multidimensional characters.

Teaches Creating Outside the Lines

Perfect your cup of Joe in the morning then master pizza night at home with lessons on the new MasterClass series, G.O.A.T. World Barista Champion Dale Harris and 13-time World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani share their secrets to help you master your favorite sips and dishes at home. 

The Greatest of All Time

Rosalind Brewer, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, teaches business innovation on @MasterClass. Learn how to get buy-in from your team and innovate from within. 

Teaches Business Innovation

In a new Masterclass Original Series, Talking Shop, watch Neil Gaiman, Kevin Smith, and Gloria Steinem discuss those who have impacted their career journeys.

Icons and Their Influences

Duke Basketball’s Coach K has led some of the world’s greatest basketball players to victory. Now he’s teaching you how to bring out the best in your team, on or off the court.

Teaches Values-Driven Leadership

Plan Your Dream Wedding

On MasterClass, learn crypto from market experts: Emilie Choi, Chris Dixon, Paul Krugman, and Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. Get the breakdown on blockchain technology, crypto investment, and the future of cryptocurrency.

With Noted Experts

Naomi Campbell shares how she became one of the world’s biggest supermodels, and how developing a confident walk and finding your angles can empower anyone.

Teaches Modeling Fundamentals

How would you react in an emergency situation? On Masterclass’s Crisis Story, learn how Chris Hadfield, Chris Voss, and Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley took decisive action when it mattered most..

Chris Voss and Noted Co-Experts

Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” teaches eating with intention. Discover his tips for following food rules, not diets.

Teaches Intentional Eating

John Douglas, groundbreaking FBI special agent, teaches how to think like a criminal profiler. Learn how to predict motives and behavior to make more informed decisions.

Teaches How to Think Like an FBI Profiler

The Startup Playbook

Alexis Ohanian

Teaches Singing

Christina Aguilera Teaches Singing

Teaches Photography

Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography

Teaches Cooking II: Restaurant Recipes at Home

Gordon Ramsay Teaches Cooking II: Restaurant Recipes at Home

Teaches U.S. Presidential History and Leadership

Doris Kearns Goodwin Teaches U.S. Presidential History and Leadership

Teaches Dog Training

Brandon McMillan Teaches Dog Training

Teaches Interior Design

Kelly Wearstler Teaches Interior Design

Teaches Chess

Garry Kasparov Teaches Chess

Teaches the Science of Better Sleep

Matthew Walker Teaches the Science of Better Sleep

Teaches the Art of Negotiation

Chris Voss Teaches The Art of Negotiation

Teaches Creative Writing

Margaret Atwood Teaches Creative Writing

Teaches Conservation

Dr. Jane Goodall Teaches Conservation

Testimonial quote from student Floriana A.

Testimonial quote from student Michelle O.

Share your vision for your performance with your peers. Whether it’s a mood board, a journal entry, a collage, or a performance, your inspiration might inspire your peers on their own vocal journey.

Assignment: Share Your Vision for Your Performance

You did it! You delivered a performance that shows who you really are as a performer. Now share a link to your recorded performance with the community so they can see this powerful version of you as an artist.

Assignment: Record and Share Your Final Performance

Beyond your song itself, your performance tells an entire story and reveals who you really are as a performer. Christina describes how journaling, collaging, and research into your favorite singers can help you develop a one-of-a-kind vision for the final performance that you’ll deliver at the end of this section.

Envision Your Performance

Now that you’ve developed a visual representation of your performance, it’s time to express that vision through sound. Christina explains how to collaborate with your network of musicians in order to build a passion-filled performance. Then, you will combine all the techniques you’ve learned throughout her session to deliver your final performance.

Delivering Your Final Performance

A round of applause for you and your fellow performers! Share your thoughts on their final performances as you continue to be each other's newest fans.

Give Feedback to Your Peers on Their Final Performances

It all comes down to this. Christina prepares you for your final act as you visualize your performance through mood boards, journal entries, and collages. Then you’ll translate your creative vision and record your biggest performance of the session.

Visualize your performance through mood boards and then do your biggest performance yet.

To wrap up her session, Christina offers a few more essential tips for protecting your voice, following your vision, and choosing the right support system to keep harnessing your unique abilities as a singer.

Conclusion

Christina offers additional advice for future performances, and encourages you to continue to pursue your singing dreams.

Christina shares advice for future performances & encourages you to pursue your singing dreams.

Surprise! Christina is not done yet. She welcomes a special guest, Puerto Rican pop star and producer Jean Rodriguez, to discuss the importance of emotion and soul in music. Analyzing a song that inspired her latest Spanish-language album, Christina shows how technique is just one element in creating a truly memorable performance.

Special Guest: Emotion and Soul in Music

Christina explores her latest Spanish-language  album with a very special guest. They discuss the inspiration behind the vocal performances and ways to foster a soulful connection to one’s music that transcends language.

Christina explores her latest Spanish-language album with a very special guest. 

Bonus: Special Guest

Now that you've shared your own performance, take time to give some love to others. Comment on your peers’ videos, and celebrate their unique style.

Give Feedback to Your Peers on Their Performances

Christina guides you through key considerations for choosing songs that not only fit your voice but also inspire something deep within you.

Selecting and Connecting to a Song

Adding your own style to a song is both a personal and technical process. Christina dives deep into vocal techniques such as phrasing, riffing, and bending to guide you through making a song your own. She demonstrates her own interpretation of these strategies by breaking down one of her favorite songs—“At Last” by Etta James. Then she challenges you to take all that you’ve learned to perform a unique version of your own chosen song.

Making a Song Your Own

Let’s see (and hear) all of your hard work! It’s time to share a link to your first recorded performance on the community page for your fellow singers to watch. Take some time to watch and comment on your peers’ performances, and share vocal techniques that you found helpful in your process.

Share Your Recorded Performance With Your Community

In this section, you’ll evaluate songs that you love in order to develop a stronger emotional connection to the music. You’ll learn how to add your own unique style to a chosen song, hit record, and share your first performance with your community of fellow MasterClass singers.

Learn how to add your own unique style to a song and share your performance with the community.

It’s officially time to try the custom vocal warm-up that Christina designed just for this session. Follow along as Christina demonstrates how to warm up everything in your range, from the highest note in your head to the lowest note in your chest. Then give it a go on your own.

Follow Along: Christina’s Custom Warm-Up

As a singer, you must nurture and care for your lungs. Christina demonstrates two of her favorite, most restorative breathing exercises—the Breath of Fire and Breathing Into Your Body—to help you release tension and reach your full singing potential. Also, check out the Guides section for a PDF on voice-freeing yoga poses.

Follow Along: Breathing Exercises

Accessing the full power of your vocals requires understanding how they work. Christina explains the difference between chest voice and head voice. Then she walks you through the best sounds to use when warming up your voice. Head to the Guides for tips on how to lift your soft palate and approach one of the most challenging vowel sounds.

Understanding Your Voice

Diaphragms up! Record yourself performing Christina’s custom warm-up and share a link to your video with the community. If you’d like, feel free to also share link a recording of other vocal warm-ups you love.

Assignment: Share Your Favorite Warm-Up Exercises

Now that you’ve mastered Christina’s custom vocal warm-up, it’s time to lock your own routine in place. Christina shares additional tips on how to get the most out of your vocal warm-ups and how to stick to them whenever you perform.

Vocal Warm-Up Tips

Your vocal range is defined by the range of notes you are comfortable singing, and it can affect which songs you choose to perform. Determine your own unique range as Christina guides you up and down the piano to determine your vocal classification.

Finding Your Vocal Range

Share your identified vocal range with your fellow singers. Did you land where you thought you would? Connect with your peers about what you learned.

Assignment: Share Your Vocal Range With the Community

Christina explains the importance of properly warming up your vocal chords. She shares the custom vocal warm-up she created exclusively for this session and encourages you to practice it on your own.

Learn the importance of properly warming up your vocal chords and vocal warm-up exercises. 

Warming Up Your Voice

Christina introduces herself and breaks down the techniques, skills, and exercises you’ll learn in the session as you prepare to perform and share your own version of your favorite song. Get ready to take your next performance from standard to stunning.

Session Overview

Christina shares how she evolved from a “little girl with a big voice” into a six-time Grammy Award–winning superstar. Then she explains why success requires staying true to who you are.

Meet Your Instructor: Christina Aguilera

Where you practice is just as important as how often you practice. Christina explains how a creative space can help to preserve your energy and improve your performance. She then invites you to design a comfortable creative space where you can feel free to make mistakes and experiment with your voice.

Designing Your Creative Space

Christina breaks down the details of the class, shares her personal story, and helps students design a comfortable, private space that will boost creativity and help them preserve their energy so they can develop and grow as artists.

Christina shares her personal story and helps students design a space to boost their creativity.

Introduction

Warm-Up Your Voice

Take the Stage

Find Your Unique Style

For this session, all you will need is your smartphone to record yourself trying out various techniques.

Perform like a pop star with Grammy Award winner Christina Aguilera. Practice the vocal warm-up she made just for this session, pick the perfect song, and deliver a powerful performance.

Christina Aguilera’s uniquely powerful voice has earned her six Grammy Awards and a spot on Rolling Stone’s list of the Greatest Singers of All Time. Beyond her acrobatic vocals, Christina’s stadium-slaying stage presence has made her an undeniable pop culture icon.

Christina standing in front of microphone

Christina Aguilera

Elevate Your Singing and Stage Presence

Craft a vocal performance with

Music

A close-up of chocolate chunk cookie center.

Chocolate cookies cooling on on a wire rack. 

A close-up of sticky buns in a baking dish with glaze and pecans. 

A close-up of three golden brioche buns with sesame seed toppings. 

A whole vanilla meringue cake with strawberries and sliced almond toppings. 

A close-up of a whole vanilla cake with melted chocolate icing. 

Joanne shares the story of how she went from being a Harvard graduate working in the corporate world to a celebrated baker and cookbook author.

Meet Your Instructor: Joanne Chang

Joanne sets the foundation of what to expect during her Session, her basic baking philosophy, and which baked goods and techniques you'll learn.

Find out which essential baking equipment is needed for this Session and get Joanne’s tips for having a baker’s mindset.

Essential Tools and Tips

Get ready to bake with Joanne by assessing what you already have in your kitchen and what else you’ll need. This list covers the entire Session but activity-specific checklists will be available for each project. The optional links below will direct you to an Amazon product page that is not affiliated with MasterClass. Look through the “See Similar Items” section on Amazon if the product is not readily available, or buy locally or even used. 

Prepare to Bake With Joanne

Joanne introduces herself and shares what you’ll learn in this Session, including her baking philosophy, her passion for the science of baking, and what you need to get started.

Learn Joanne's baking philosophy and what you need to get started.

Introduction to Baking

Enjoy a congratulatory moment with Joanne as she reviews all the incredible things you’ve learned in the session.

Session Wrap-Up and Review

Joanne recaps what you’ve learned in the session with congratulations and a toast to your future baking successes.

Recap what you’ve learned in the session and toast to your future baking successes.

Joanne gives an overview of what you’ll be learning in this section, including the science behind cake, making fillings, frostings, and soaks, and the backstory of her Vanilla Vanilla Cake.

Introduction to Cake

Learn how to make Swiss meringue buttercream, then assemble, fill, crumb coat, frost, and decorate your cake together with Joanne.

Follow Along: Making Buttercream and Decorating Your Cake

Share your cake with the community and see what others have created.

Please share your project in the form of a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Pictures of Your Vanilla Cake

Check out what your fellow bakers have accomplished and give them some feedback.

Give Feedback to Your Peers on Their Showstopper Cakes

Joanne shows you how to make ganache and glaze a cake and teaches you about all kinds of decorating techniques such as soaks, chocolate curls, stacking cakes, script writing, piping, and more for creating your own custom cakes you’ll love and want to share for special celebrations.

Learn Ganache, Fillings, and Soaks, and Custom Create a Cake

Follow along with Joanne as you combine your ingredients, mix your cake batter, and get it into the oven to bake.

Follow Along: Mixing and Baking Vanilla Cakes

Give Feedback to Your Peers on Their Vanilla Cakes

Joanne demonstrates additional piping tips for decorating cakes.

Cake Piping and Decorating

Go get the ingredients and equipment you will need to make your cake and buttercream frosting. The optional links below will direct you to an Amazon product page that is not affiliated with MasterClass. Look through the “See Similar Items” section on Amazon if the product is not readily available, or buy locally or even used. 

Gather Your Cake and Frosting Materials

It’s time for you to bake your own showstopper cake! Remember what you learned from Joanne about fillings, frostings, and soaks, and gather your ingredients to start creating.

Bake Your Showstopper Cake

Share your showstopper cake with the community and see what others have created.

Please share your project in the form of a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Pictures of Your Showstopper Cake

In this section you’ll follow along with Joanne to make a simply delicious vanilla cake and learn a variety of ways to coat, soak, stack, frost, and decorate it however you’d like.

Learn a variety of ways to coat, soak, stack, frost, and decorate a cake.

Cake

Take a look at your fellow bakers’ custom cookies and let them know what you think!

Give Feedback to Your Peers on Their Custom Cookies

Watch as Joanne shows you all the ways to make this Chocolate Chunk Cookie recipe your own by swapping out chocolate for other ingredients. She offers tips for customizing your recipe and shares how you can use your creativity to make a cookie that you will love and want to share.

How to Make a Custom Cookie

Go get all the ingredients and equipment you will need to make your cookies with Joanne. The optional links below will direct you to an Amazon product page that is not affiliated with MasterClass. Look through the “See Similar Items” section on Amazon if the product is not readily available, or buy locally or even used. 

Gather Your Cookie Materials

Joanne shares why her version of chocolate chip cookies is a great way to start your baking journey with her, including all the fundamental skills you’ll learn in this section.

Introduction to Cookies

It’s time to bake your own custom cookies. Keep in mind what you learned from Joanne about flavor combinations and ingredient ratios. Once you’ve finished your masterpiece, share photos of your custom creations with the community and check out everyone else’s cookies!

Bake Your Own Custom Cookies

Follow along as Joanne takes you through the proper way to measure out ingredients and teaches you step-by-step how to make your Chocolate Chunk Cookie dough. Then, you’ll let the dough rest and hydrate overnight.

Follow Along: Making Chocolate Chunk Cookie Dough

It’s time to share your cookies with the community and check out how others did. 

Please share in the form of a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Pictures of Your Cookies

Take a look at your fellow bakers’ cookies and let them know what you think!

Give Feedback to Your Peers on Their Cookies

Follow along with Joanne as you scoop your cookie dough onto baking sheets, get the cookies into the oven to bake, and even taste your cookies together.

Follow Along: Baking Your Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Share your custom cookies with the community and see what others have created.

Please share your project in the form of a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Pictures of Your Custom Cookies

In this section, you’ll follow along as Joanne makes her famous Chocolate Chunk Cookie recipe. Then, riffing off her recipe, you’ll learn how to create your very own custom cookie.

Follow along as Joanne makes her famous Chocolate Chunk Cookie recipe.

Cookies

Go get the ingredients and equipment you will need to make your pie dough. The optional links below will direct you to an Amazon product page that is not affiliated with MasterClass. Look through the “See Similar Items” section on Amazon if the product is not readily available, or buy locally or even used. 

Gather Your Pie Dough Materials

Share your pies with the community and see what others have created.

Please share your project in the form of a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Pictures of Your Pies

Take a look at your fellow bakers’ pies and let them know what you think!

Give Feedback to Your Peers on Their Pies

Joanne shares why pâte brisée is her go-to pie dough and what new techniques you’ll learn in this Session. She also discusses the ideal fruits to use in your pies and why.

Introduction to Pie

Follow along with Joanne to learn the proper way to make pâte brisée pie dough, including a demonstration of the fraisage technique.

Follow Along: How To Make Pâte Brisée (Pie Dough)

Go get the ingredients and equipment you will need to make your pie filling. The optional links below will direct you to an Amazon product page that is not affiliated with MasterClass. Look through the “See Similar Items” section on Amazon if the product is not readily available, or buy locally or even used. 

Gather Your Pie Filling Materials

Follow along with Joanne as you prepare your dough to be turned into crust, make your blueberry-lemon and apple fillings, create the different tops for your pies, then bake and taste them together.

Follow Along: Assembling Blueberry-Lemon and Apple Pies

In this section, you’ll follow along with Joanne to learn how to make pâte brisée—a delicious dough used for pie crust—and then learn step-by-step how she uses this dough to make both blueberry-lemon and apple pie.

Learn how to make pâte brisée, a dough used for pie crust in both blueberry-lemon and apple pie.

For this session, we suggest having a standing mixer, cake pans, and pie dishes. You will receive a full list of equipment and ingredients needed once you sign up.

Take your baking to the next level with James Beard Award winner Joanne Chang. During her session, Joanne will help you transform into the baker of your dreams. You will walk away from this experience with 5 award-winning bakes, 3 original recipes of your own, and a new set of professional baking skills.

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Gain New Skills in 10 Minutes

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