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Summary: Helpful book, but: don't use it without a vocal coach!
Review: I'm a singer from The Netherlands. I bought this book in order to sing better. I did all the exercises and read the complete book. I have to say: it gives an answer to a lot of questions about singing. But when I decided to take lessons, my vocal teacher had to begin all over again with me. I thought I was doing things right, yet I had created a lot of tensions in the larynx area instead. So my experience is that you definitely have to have a coach who corrects you. This book is a good manual for experienced and trained singers, but not for beginners! It also speaks to much in imaginary terms like 'singing into the mask', etc. I also think that the yawn-feeling, as described, can be interpreted very quick in a wrong way, so that it causes very easy extra tensions. That sort of things is for beginners very hard to understand by themselves. I was trained in Europe by the Koblenz-method (abspannen = let go of the belly muscles in order to fill with air automatically) and the Pahn-methode (Nasalieren = singing nasal as a tool in order to use the larynx area relaxed). This kind of things I don't find in the book. At the moment I am researching the Speech Level Singing method (SLS) by Seth Riggs and I am still waiting for a good book about the EVTS-method. I heard a lot of good things about it.
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Summary: Buy this book, it solves all problems
Review: This book has clear text, but much more important is it's valuable CD for daily training and warm up. The CD includes very useful exercises like octave jump's, see-saw's, triple note runs for your ears, a great exercise for your diaghpram, exercises to build vibrato, for breath control, a very interesting best blend exercise, good hints for phrasing and supporting exercises like blending different wovels. Simply from A til Z it has every thing for your voice, it is the best vocal training book that I have, (I really have many but if I would find this before, I would probably have only one). There is two CD's one for tenor's and one for bariton's and basses, so you can choose the appropriate one for your voice (and make a backup copy it's really very valuable, make also a copy for your car...). Simply do these exercises everyday, thinking their purpose and wonder yourself. You will see how it improves your singing within a 3 months. And after this period you will be better and better...
Thank you very much Jeffrey Allen
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Summary: Buy this book, it solves all problems
Review: This is the best instructional book on vocal technique that I have come across. I do a lot of singing at church and I already have many exercises that I do, but the manner in which the author describes how your vocal instrument should feel, the shape of your lips, the imaginary route that the air takes on its way out your mouth, up to the imaginary target for the projection of your voice is outstanding. I feel much more confident of my own voice when I have been practicing the easy to understand techniques that the author furnishes. Novice and pro alike can benefit greatly from this book.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This is the best instructional book on vocal technique that I have come across. I do a lot of singing at church and I already have many exercises that I do, but the manner in which the author describes how your vocal instrument should feel, the shape of your lips, the imaginary route that the air takes on its way out your mouth, up to the imaginary target for the projection of your voice is outstanding. I feel much more confident of my own voice when I have been practicing the easy to understand techniques that the author furnishes. Novice and pro alike can benefit greatly from this book.
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Summary: Pretty good...
Review: To keep it simple, I think this book is pretty good, it sure did an excellent job with me, I can sing much longer without getting hoarse, more clarity and so forth. The reason why I am only giving it 4 stars is because it's pretty hard to get a grip on these imaginary stuff, like singing through a hole in the wall, face mask etc., it took me like 3-4 months, till once I grasped the actual method of projection he was talking about. But at least when I got it right I was able to identify it as being the correct way.I did gain much clarity and ease of singing by using the exercises on the CD, and can easily sing a 2-3 notes higher than I used to be able too, and I am still going for more. But you MUST practice if you want to see results, and make sure that you are doing things the right way, and if you feel any stress on your vocal cords, then obviously you are not singing correctly. The book also has many illustrations with a pullout of the complete vocal atonomy, which definitely makes it easier to understand to understand the whole concept.
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