From my earliest memories, I’ve enjoyed singing. I took singing lessons as a teenager and sat exams until the curriculum began focussing on opera and classical music, then quit because those styles didn’t suit my musical taste and lighter-toned voice. Although I rarely make the time now, accompanying my singing with the guitar was one of my favorite pastimes for many years. I sang in school choirs and later joined a community choir.

Did you know that singing can improve your health? According to Healthline, singing’s many benefits include stress relief, improved immune response, and even reduced snoring! The British Lung Foundation claims that singing can improve lung health in many ways. It’s no surprise that many singing courses start with breathing advice and exercises.

If you enjoy singing and want to improve your breath control, volume, pitch, tone, or rhythm skills, there’s a course for you. I combed the catalog to identify the top online singing courses for this Best Courses Guide (BCG).

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BCG Stats

• 5 courses are free or free-to-audit and 3 are paid
• 3 courses offer a certificate of completion
• The most featured providers are Udemy and YouTube with 3 courses each
• The YouTube channels have a total of 1.8M subscribers
• The 5 courses with records of enrollment numbers have a total of 200K enrollments.

Best College-Made Singing Course

Singing Popular Music is the second course in The Singer Songwriter Specialization. Learn about:

• Vocal styles, tone quality, vowels, consonants, vibrato, legato, breathing, and dynamics
• Mix voice vocal register, powerful singing, genre and framing your music, improvisation, and recording a song of your choice.

Other courses in the Specialization are:

• Guitar for Beginners (featured in the Guitar BCG)
• Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics (in Class Central’s Best Online Courses of All Time list)
• Introduction to Ableton Live (part of multiple Coursera Specializations).

To understand how to access the free-to-audit option, see A Guide on How to Sign up for Coursera Courses for Free.

“Very clear and entertaining course where the very lively Instructor takes us on a beautiful vocal journey…” – S, Coursera learner.

Best Short Singing Course

SINGING MADE EASY (Level 1) : Complete Vocal Training System is taught by Gabriel, an award winning Broadway and national tour credited singing instructor with 20 years performing and teaching experience. He will teach you how to:

• Expand your vocal range, warm up your voice, prevent vocal damage and strain
• Utilize your breath efficiently, eliminate bad vocal and performing habits, sing with more emotion and feeling
• Sing more dynamically, with control and power
• Activities include breathing, humming / lip trills scales, spoken scales, legato and staccato scales.

Follow up this course with Gabriel’s SINGING MADE EASY (Level 2): Sing like a Pro!

Best Free Short Singing Course

Sing Like A Pro: The Free Mini Course is a free taster that leads into a paid course if you want to continue learning with Katarina. You’ll learn:

• How to sing boldly, eliminate breathiness, and increase your vocal range without forcing
• Techniques to sing in a healthy, safe manner, and exercises to support your vocal progress.

“I don’t know anything about music, and this … has been so easy to follow and fun…” – Cinthya C., Udemy learner.

Best Free Singing Course

Can anyone learn to sing? In more than 100 videos, Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy’s playlist Singing Lessons for Beginners covers myriad useful lessons and tips, singing Q&As, and cover songs. You will also learn:

• Vocal fundamentals: techniques to improve overall singing skills, importance of vocal warm-up, proper breathing techniques, expand vocal range and sing without tension
• Voice techniques: develop head voice and chest voice, address voice issues like cracking, croaking, and nasal tone, maintain pitch accuracy, develop vibrato with resonance, and improve overall vocal tone
• Performance mastery: overcome stage fright, persist on both good and bad days, and avoid choking while singing.

Also see Ken’s website and YouTube channel.

“Man I always wanted to do vocal lessons and I didn’t know it could be this easy🤯 You’re an amazing teacher and I love it!!! Thank you 🎶” – @FletchaVibeEnt, YouTube learner.

Also Great Free Singing Course

Free Singing Lessons for Beginners – Getting Started Course is a strong foundation to prepare for vocal training. Learn about:

• Parts of the body used to produce the singing voice
• Posture and breath control
• Lips and tongue positions for different tones
• Singing with a good tone and changing sound color.

More instructional videos are available on the Vocal Nebula YouTube channel and website.

“Hi! I’m a frustrated singer who wants to bring back the music in her life and was looking for something exactly like this.. Thank you so much for sharing your work ♥ …” – @sundari5953, YouTube learner.

Best Udemy Singing Course

With two decades of experience, Steve Glazer will help you have fun while finding your unique singing voice. In SINGING SIMPLIFIED #1: The Fast-Track to Singing Like a Pro, you will learn how to:

• Sing with more control, confidence, consistency, better tone and technique
• Sing higher and with less strain, avoid future damage
• Sing with more emotion but less fear about singing
• Understand how to use your voice and continue to improve after you’ve finished the course.

This course includes a free personalized vocal assessment from Steve, a 26-page singing workbook and a 66-page e-book titled “5 Shortcuts To Great Songwriting”.

“I will need to keep redoing this practice now and then but I can feel my singing improving!…” – Helen setiani I., Udemy learner.

Also Great Udemy Singing Course

Robert Lunte has trained over 100,000 people in more than 20 years of teaching online. This might not be an ideal course for some beginners who prefer more actual singing in the early videos, rather than the emphasis on technical aspects provided in this course.

This is what you’ll learn from BECOME A GREAT SINGER: Your Complete Vocal Training System, the most successful singing course on Udemy:

• Extend Your Vocal Range and learn how to hit the high notes without pushing or squeezing, develop your head voice
• Learn vocal distortion, vocal rasp and cry vocal techniques, singing vowels and onsets.
• Learn workouts to fix your unique vocal problems.
• Train your voice for contemporary styles.

Find more singing lessons on Robert Lunte’s website: The Vocalist Studio.

“He’s an amazing teacher, and the videos are super fun to watch…” – John N, Udemy learner.

Best Vocal Exercise Course

30-Day Vocal Challenge consists of one simple exercise each day to improve your breath control, tone, and pitch. It will only take a few minutes, although you can do several each day if you like. Note: the Singing Killer Quiz mentioned in several videos appears to be no longer available.

SuperiorSinging has more free courses on their YouTube channel plus paid courses on their website.

“Thank you! This’ll really help me and give me motivation. 🙂 I’M IN!” – @lynnbutterflyshy9060, YouTube learner.

Why You Should Trust Us

Class Central, a Tripadvisor for online education, has helped 60 million learners find their next course. We’ve been combing through online education for more than a decade to aggregate a catalog of 200,000 online courses and 200,000 reviews written by our users. And we’re online learners ourselves: combined, the Class Central team has completed over 400 online courses, including online degrees. I’ve personally completed over 150 online courses in a variety of topics.

How We Made Our Picks and Tested Them

Trying to find “the best” can be daunting, even for those of us who live and breathe online courses. Here’s how I approached this task.

First, I combed through Class Central’s Catalog and the internet to find a variety of free and paid open courses, some with certificates.

When choosing courses, I considered the following factors:

• Renowned Institutions: I looked for recognized institutions in singing
• Instructor experience: I sought instructors with extensive experience in singing and engaging presentation styles
• Popularity: I checked numbers of enrollments and views to find popular courses
• Course content: I examined courses that covered a range of topics and presentation styles, including the basics and more advanced topics. I watched some course videos to sample courses
• Learner reviews: I read learner reviews (when available) to get a sense of the quality of each course.

Then, I defined the scope for these recommendations. A singing course can teach in various styles, so I chose a range of top courses.

Ultimately, I used a combination of data and my own judgment to make these picks. I’m confident these recommendations will be a reliable way to learn how to sing.