If you’re comparing AM Vocal Studios and 30 Day Singer, you’re really comparing two different ways to learn: live coaching with daily feedback versus a library of pre-recorded video lessons. Both can work. Which one fits you depends on your budget and how much guidance you actually want.
Here’s the honest breakdown, with real prices for both.
The core difference: feedback vs videos
30 Day Singer is a subscription video platform. You get a structured 30-day beginner program, style-specific courses, and warmup routines, all pre-recorded. You watch, you practice, you move to the next lesson. Nobody hears you sing unless you post in their forum.
AM Vocal Studios is a coaching school. Our coaching programs are built around live weekly Zoom lessons with a coach who hears your voice and adjusts the plan to it. Between lessons, you send practice recordings through Coach-in-Your-Pocket and get feedback on them daily, so mistakes get caught in days, not months.
That’s the trade you’re weighing. Videos are cheaper and fully self-paced. Coaching costs more because a real person is listening to you every week, and that’s exactly what fixes the problems videos can’t catch, like a pitch drift or throat tension you can’t hear in yourself.
One thing worth saying plainly: 30 Day Singer’s videos are professionally made and the instructors know their craft, and our full 30 Day Singer review goes through the curriculum piece by piece. This isn’t a “their product is bad” comparison. It’s a “these products do different jobs” comparison.
Pricing, side by side
30 Day Singer runs on a subscription: a 14-day free trial, then $29 per month, or $129 per year if you pay annually (that works out to $10.75 a month). AM Vocal Studios uses one-time course purchases plus coaching programs billed in 4-week or 4-month blocks.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Day Singer trial | 14 days of full access to the video library | Free |
| 30 Day Singer monthly | Pre-recorded courses, warmups, forum access | $29/month |
| 30 Day Singer annual | Same as monthly, billed once a year | $129/year |
| AMVS Confident Singer entry course | Beginner foundations course, yours to keep | $49 one-time |
| AMVS 30 Days to a Better Voice | Structured 30-day program, yours to keep | $99 one-time |
| AMVS Advanced Singing Course | Full advanced technique curriculum | $249 one-time |
| AMVS semi-private coaching | Live weekly small-group lessons + daily Coach-in-Your-Pocket feedback | $400 per 4 weeks, or $1,100 per 4 months |
| AMVS private coaching | Live weekly 1-on-1 lessons + daily Coach-in-Your-Pocket feedback | $800 per 4 weeks, or $2,800 per 4 months |
Two things jump out. First, 30 Day Singer is clearly the cheaper monthly line item. $29 a month buys a lot of video content, and the free trial means you risk nothing to look around.
Second, the math changes over time. A year of 30 Day Singer monthly is $348, and when you stop paying, access stops. AMVS courses are one-time purchases you keep. And coaching, while a genuinely bigger investment, buys something a subscription can’t: a coach who knows your voice.
Who each one actually fits
Pick 30 Day Singer if…
- You’re a casual learner who wants to sing a bit better for fun, not chasing a specific goal.
- Your budget caps out around $30 a month. That’s a real constraint, and this is the right answer for it.
- You’re self-motivated and honest with yourself about whether you’ll practice without anyone checking in.
- You want to test whether singing lessons interest you at all before spending real money. The 14-day trial is perfect for that.
Pick AM Vocal Studios if…
- You’ve tried video courses or YouTube and plateaued. That plateau usually means you need ears on your voice, not more content.
- You want accountability. A weekly lesson on the calendar and daily feedback on your practice recordings makes it much harder to quietly quit.
- You have a specific target: singing on pitch reliably, hitting higher notes, performing without freezing up.
- You’d rather start small: our beginner path starts with a $49 course, so coaching isn’t the only door in.
If you’re on the fence, here’s our honest tiebreaker. If singing is a curiosity, start with 30 Day Singer’s free trial or our $49 entry course. If singing is a goal, coaching gets you there faster because someone corrects you before bad habits set in.
The proof we can show you
Comparison pages are easy to write. Results are harder to fake, so we’d rather you judge those.
On our vocal coaching page you can listen to before-and-after recordings from real students, same singer, weeks or months apart. Pitch, tone, and confidence changes you can hear are a better argument than anything we could write here.
Beyond the recordings: AM Vocal Studios holds a 4.8 rating from 135 Trustpilot reviews, and founder Adam Mishan has taught 70,000+ students since 2010, with 500,000+ subscribers following his teaching on YouTube. If you want to see how coaching students train together, our community is open to look at too.
Bottom line
30 Day Singer is a good, affordable video library for casual learners. AM Vocal Studios is for singers who want a coach listening to them every week and feedback on every practice session. Cheaper isn’t worse and pricier isn’t better. They’re built for different people, and by now you probably know which one you are.
Frequently asked questions
Is 30 Day Singer good for beginners?
Yes, its 30-day beginner program is well structured and the 14-day free trial makes it easy to sample. The limitation is feedback: no one hears you sing, so errors in pitch or technique can go uncorrected. If you stall after the basics, that’s usually the reason.
Can I try AM Vocal Studios without committing to coaching?
Yes. The Confident Singer entry course is $49 one-time, and Singing on Pitch is also $49. Many students start with a course, then move into semi-private coaching at $400 per 4 weeks once they want live feedback.
Which is cheaper over a full year?
30 Day Singer, clearly: $129 on the annual plan versus $1,100 for 4 months of AMVS semi-private coaching. The honest caveat is that you’re buying different things. One is video access that ends when you cancel, the other is weekly live lessons plus daily feedback on your singing.