THE OFFSPRING – Kristy Are You Doin’ Okay
One of the coolest singers I trained was Noodles from THE OFFSPRING. I had trained the drummer’s brother (Jim Welty) who used to tell me about his younger brother’s garage band. That band later became THE OFFSPRING and has sold more than 60,000,000 records – more than Taylor Swift! The band liked what I had done for Jim so one afternoon I got a call from Ron Welty, drummer for THE OFFSPRING. He told me their guitarist (Noodles) needed voice lessons, primarily to expand his range so he could sing harmonies above Dexter Holland (the lead singer). Dexter already sings pretty high so this was a tall order but on his first lesson I explained why anyone with a healthy voice could sing very high notes without straining. He understood the concept and by his second lesson I had him singing comfortably seven notes higher than he had ever sung before!

He got a copy of my book and went through my entire 12 hour Fundamental Series lessons. My success record for teaching singers how to sing a HIGH C without straining is pretty close to 100% so I wasn’t surprised about Noodle’s vocal achievement with my training, but of course I was really happy for him because I feel like I made a difference in his career. I also taught him how to sing with vibrato, how to get great sounding tone and how to breathe for singing. The band’s next record (Americana) sold more than 10,000,000 copies and they were kind enough to list me in the credits.