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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

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

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

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.

Warming Up Your Voice

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Bonus: Special Guest

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

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

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.

Christina introduces herself and breaks down the techniques, skills, and exercises you’ll learn over the next 30 days 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.

Introduction

Warm-Up Your Voice

Find Your Unique Style

Take the Stage

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

Perform like a pop star in 30 days 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.

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Christina Aguilera

Craft a vocal performance with

Music

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Petra shares how she got comfortable with camera settings and lighting techniques. Then she gives an overview of the technical expertise you’ll learn to hone in this section.

Understand Your Camera and Lighting Techniques: Introduction

Make sure to comment on your peers’ natural and source light photos so they can see what you loved and found interesting!

Give Feedback for Peers’ Natural and Source Light Photos

Petra outlines the camera settings that impact the exposure of your photographs, such as aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. She elaborates on each one to provide a foundational framework so you can feel confident taking photographs of your own. In the Guides, you’ll find a mini glossary containing the terms introduced in this activity.

Follow Along: Get Familiar With Your Camera Settings

Amid the rays of golden hour, Petra demonstrates how to adjust your camera settings to capture natural light. Then she asks you to practice shooting on your own to see how you can affect the exposure of your photos. When you’re done, watch the next lesson on taking photos using source lighting before you share what you’ve captured with the community.

Follow Along: Operate Your Camera in Natural Light

Petra demonstrates how to create your own studio lighting using flashlights, headlamps, and fluorescents. After showing how to adjust your camera settings for source lighting, she encourages you to shoot some photos of your own.

Follow Along: Operate Your Camera Using Source Light

Once you’ve developed the photos you took in this section, post your favorite natural light and source light shots to the community. Please share your photos as .jpg or .png image files. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Your Natural and Source Light Photos

Your camera’s settings are meant to expand your creativity, not inhibit it. Petra takes you through the various modes in which she operates her camera to effectively capture natural light and source light.

Understanding Your Camera and Lighting Techniques

Petra emphasizes the importance of continuous learning, reflection, and curiosity when generating new ideas. Then she challenges you to identify what inspires you outside of photography.

Expand Your Creativity

Petra gives you a rundown of the session format and offers a preview of everything you’ll learn in the next 30 days. In the Guides section, you’ll find a glossary packed with terms all photographers should know. (There will be several guides and PDFs for you to access throughout the class, so be on the lookout!)

Sessions Overview

Petra introduces herself and takes you through her decision to pursue film photography.

Meet Your Instructor

Petra familiarizes you with her unique photography starter kit and explains how you can build your own. Get to know the cameras, lenses, and materials that will help you expand your aesthetic.

Compile Your Photography Starter Kit

Make use of this handy checklist to gather and organize all the film photography essentials you’ll need for the rest of Petra’s session. 

Complete Petra’s Essential Checklist


Get familiar with the technical steps for loading film into your camera. Use this step-by-step guide to ensure you’re set up for success when you’re out shooting. Also, check out the Guides section for a directory of local photo businesses across the U.S. that can help you develop your photos.

Learn to Properly Load Film Into Your Camera

Petra shares her journey to becoming an influential photographer, and empowers you to begin your own path. She introduces you to the technical tools and creative inspiration that you’ll be harnessing throughout her session.

Gearing Up for Inspiration

Petra introduces the photographic form that defines so much of her work—portraiture. She explains how to understand the broad definition of portraits, and how to capture the specific essence of a collective feeling between you and your subject.

Understand Your Subject: Introduction

Petra dives deep into the visual layers that affect portrait photography. She breaks down how every decision you make—from choosing locations to angling your camera above or below your subject—influences the meaning and impact of your composition.

Follow Along: Choose your Location and Lighting

Petra combines everything you’ve learned thus far to demonstrate how to create a meaningful portrait and the importance of engaging with your subject to ensure that they feel comfortable throughout the process. Then she prompts you to take your first set of portraits.

Follow Along: Work With Your Subject to Create a Portrait

Petra shows you how she selects photos, and how she edits down her collection to select one final portrait. She’ll explain why this process is vital to becoming a better photographer.

Follow Along: Choose a Final Portrait From Your Roll

Your creativity has culminated in one final portrait. Now upload your final portrait so your peers can celebrate your work. Please share your photo as a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB. As always, be sure to ask your subject for permission before sharing.

Share Your Final Portrait With Your Peers

Check out the work of your peers, and ask them how they went about capturing their visions. Connect with fellow photographers about lighting, location, and composition decisions.

Explore Your Peers’ Portraits

Using her sister as her subject, Petra explains her own step-by-step process for capturing light, choosing locations, and creating meaningful compositions. Then she has you shoot a set of portraits on your own.

Portraits and Understanding Your Subject

Petra introduces you to the concept of a photography series—and how a series expresses the larger picture of a single image. She explains the roots of one of her most profound and personal series.

Learn How to Approach a Photography Series

Through introspective analysis and reflection, Petra demonstrates how to develop a vision for your photography series. Then she propels you to develop a unique vision for your own series.

Bring Your Vision to Life

After you’ve nailed down your vision and compiled visual inspirations, share your plans with your peers. Whether via a mood board or a short paragraph, post your vision for your fellow photographers to see. Please share photos as .jpg or .png image files. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Your Vision

When Petra creates a photo series, she builds an environment, a story, and an entirely interconnected world. Join her as she guides you through the development of a nostalgic series that became one of her most impactful works to date.

Build a World With Your Photography

Petra demonstrates the various techniques she uses when creating a series of photographs. She ties together all that she’s taught you in this session as she photographs a series featuring her sister as the subject. Then she invites you to shoot your own photo series!

Follow Along: Learn Techniques for Photographing a Series

It’s all been building to this! Let your creativity run wild as you shoot your very own photo series. Develop and share your photos for the other photographers who have been on this journey with you. To upload, please save your photos as .jpg or .png image files. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Your Very Own Photo Series

Now that you’ve completed your very own series, take some time to look at your peers’ submissions. Comment on their hard work and creativity.

Check Out Your Peers’ Series

The time has come for you to create your own original photo series. In this section, Petra interweaves the technical and creative skills she has taught throughout her session, encouraging you to use your photo series as a means to capture your unique artistic vision.

Creating Your Series

Petra shares her parting thoughts as she wishes you the best of luck on your photography journey. She explains why it’s important to keep experimenting, creating, and iterating.

Continue to Create

Congratulations! You’ve completed your session. Reflect on all that you’ve achieved and hear Petra’s tips on how you can keep growing through photography.

Set Up Your Camera

Prepare For The Shoot

Create Your Photo Series

For this session, you will need an SLR film camera. In addition, you will want to purchase film and possibly gather some light sources from Petra’s suggested starter kit.

Become the photographer you’ve always envisioned yourself to be with hands-on instruction from acclaimed artist Petra Collins. In 30 days, you’ll shoot an original photo series that captures your vision.

Acclaimed artist Petra Collins is known for her dreamlike, emotive photography. Her whimsical style has influenced artistic trends while probing the nuances of femininity, identity, and vulnerability. In her session, Petra leverages her unique expertise to help you express yourself with your camera.

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