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What comes with the kit?
The Vocal Release, "Learn To Sing At Home, " Course is a step by step easy to follow course. It is an eight week program that will very easily develop your voice to it's best possible quality, in the shortest time possible.
In week one and two the singer will perform specific exercises that put the voice into a trainable state and release tension from forced vocal productions that may have been used in the past, such as belting, singing forcefully, or bad speech patterns.
In week three and four the singer detrains any bad vocal productions while learning to sing through the bridge easily and sing high notes with very little effort. The singer learns to use the right amount of pressure and the difference between high pressurized singing and a forced vocal production that uses to much volume of air. The singer learns the beginning of how to attack the voice into the mask.
In week five through seven the singer learns how to easily focus resonance. Resonance gives a voice harmonic overtones, easy of range, and loudness without sounding shouty or forced. Resonance is the deciding factor in the quality of a singers voice. This is achieved by learning to always produce the vocal tone by attacking the voice with the mask. You learn the actual physical things to do to always sing in the mask. Placement in the mask does not happen just by singing with a relaxed open throat at speech level or doing endless lip rolls and tongue trills. The voice does not just balance and fall into place by using trigger phrases. You have to know an exact attack that causes to the voice to work properly every time.
In week eight the singer applies the techniques to his own songs or songs that are sung for a cover act.
At week nine the singer starts the cycle over again. Much like going to the gym you work different parts of your voice at different times. Doing this you don't inadvertently overuse any one part of your voice, each part of the range gets just the amount of work it needs to progress.
This is all done with a sense of ease. The the singer learns to approach the voice in a natural healthy way. The voice develops extremely quickly. The singer learns to sing within a very high range almost as easily as they talk. Because of this, vocal problems like sore throats, a limited range and singing off key are eliminated quickly.
The course contains:
- Vocal Fry: The lowest register. Also used to add a rasp or scream to a vocal tone if wanted. If you want to learn how to scream or rasp this is the only way to do it without hurting your voice and causing pain in the throat.
- Chest Voice: Usually the voice most people speak in. This is the low end of your voice and when used in a mix will lend the bass end of the sound to the mix.
- Middle Voice: A mixed voice that has the harmonic qualities of head voice and the fullness of chest. This is the commercial voice most singers want even if they don't know it. It is full, yet has ring and a pleasing sound. You hear it in all types of commercial music.
- Head voice: A flute like voice used for lighter style songs. Head voice used lightly sound pleasing for lighter musical styles. Singing in a pure head voice loudly just sounds too over dramatic.
- Whistle Voice: The absolute top of a persons range. Usually only females will achieve this. Sometimes people mistakenly think they are singing whistle notes when they are simply singing in a very high head voice with lot of air.
- Falsetto: Otherwise known as false voice. Not to be confused with head voice. This is a stylistic part of the voice. You can hear it used a lot by artists like the Bee Gees and Justin Timberlake. It has very little power or real ring. It's best used as punctuation at the end of sung phrases. It is not a register and does not blend.
- The speaking voice: Singers often don't realize how important the speaking voice is. It is the root of the singing voice. A bad speech production will transfer over into a bad singing production. This is easily addressed. Vocal Release will show you how to adjust your talking voice to compliment your singing voice. In effect it will make talking improve your singing.
- Resonance and how it relates to tone and pitch: Many singers try to force or belt in an effort to achieve resonant tone, or just loudness. Resonance has to be trained with specific exercises so it comes out naturally and relaxed. Once focus of resonance is learned a great tone follows, as well as the ability to sing in a much higher range and be loud when needed, all with very little effort. Vocal Release will teach you how to achieve a resonant voice.
- The difference between high pressure singing and forcing your voice with lots of air: Singers often think that in order to be loud or sing high notes a singer uses a lot of air. What they are not understanding is that loud singing is the result of a combination of resonance and pressurizing the same amount of air, NOT using a larger volume of air and pushing it out with the diaphragm.
- How to achieve a relaxed resonance in your voice: Many singers realize they need resonance, but go about trying to achieve it the wrong way. Again, some singers try to push or belt air up into the resonant cavities of the head in and effort to achieve it. All this does is choke off the voice. Through specialized exercises you will learn to achieve resonance with little more effort than talking.
- Singing on pitch: Almost all singers don't have a problem with pitch. What they have problems with is their voice production. A strained voice production with breaks in it, makes it difficult to stay on pitch in a wide range. Once you sing with ease learning to sing on key comes very easily.
Smoothing out the Bridge/Break: Most singers have a break because of pushing chest and singing with too much force. When you learn to sing without pushing the break is very easy to navigate. Vocal Release will teach you how to sing relaxed and still achieve range and power in your voice. Other courses make a big deal about the break area. The new version of Vocal Release will teach you to eliminate your break area almost instantly. Breaks are produced by singers that use the inferior method of either the diaphragmatic attack or the registration method. Quite simply when you sing with the best attack, the attack of the mask, registers and breaks don't exist and voice sounds good at any pitch or tone in your range.
- Proper Warm Ups: When a singer does the proper warm ups their voice will work much easier. Often times singers hurt their voices by simply jumping into their most difficult songs without any warm up. It's like suddenly sprinting without stretching. Warming up helps to keep a singer from injury and reinforce proper vocal production before singing. Vocal Release will teach you how to warm up for a performance and be at your peak.
- Breathing Exercises for those with trouble extending notes: Most coaches will tell you that if you learn to control the diaphragm for singing then you will have a great voice. That is total nonsense. Singing develops proper breathing for singing, working just on breathing does not develop singing. You do not need an extremely strong diaphragm to sing well. Again, if you sing relaxed it develops naturally. Although, for the people who have developed bad breathing habits or do a have problem, the course has breathing exercises if you need them. Breathing for singing becomes perfectly balanced to only what you need when you learn the attack of the mask. You may have been on a free singing instruction site that talked about, "singing from the diaphragm," or "Singing like you are shouting at someone across the street breaking into your car." This a diaphragmatic attack and horrible for your voice. It makes you sound like are shouting instead of singing and will cause you to lose your voice every time you sing. These, "vocal coaches," don't know what they are talking about.
- Resonance focusing exercises: Vocal Release will teach you how to focus your resonance so that you can shape your tone in any way you desire.
- Cord adduction Exercises: The vocal cords stretch and then at some point zip up or adduct. Most singers push too much and instead of letting this happen they keep stretching when they should be zipping up. This is most noticeable when you hear a singer and at a certain point they seem to hit a wall and simply cannot go any higher in pitch. They may get louder by forcing more, but can't go any higher in range. Vocal Release will teach you how to cause the vocal cords to adduct when needed.
- Learning to Sing with The Right Pressure: You may be a fan of deva type singers and assume they use a lot of air or force. What you are really hearing is the ability to highly pressurize a small amount of air. This is where a lot of singers get in trouble. They try to imitate one of their favorite singers and assume they need more and more force because they aren't achieving it, and ruin their voice. Highly pressurized singing is something that needs to be built up slowly. After you learn to sing with little effort your voice will gradually be able to resist against a more highly pressurized voice. This is after you learn to sing with the right muscles and not engage ones that would choke off your voice. Vocal Release will teach you to gradually build up to high pressure singing without hurting your voice.
- Learning to Sing with a full resonant tone with very little effort: Vocal Release will teach you how to approach your singing so that you only use the least amount of effort you need for maximum output and range.
- Up Keep of the voice Once you get your voice into shape you still need a regular routine to keep it in shape. You either use it or lose it. Vocal Release will outline a simple routine you can follow to keep your voice in shape once you get it developed.
- Continually Improving Vocal Release teaches you how to continually improve your voice.
- No Scales Vocal Workout: Sometimes you may simply be sick of scales and songs and need to be doing other things. This is a routine that will allow you to work on your voice without the use of scales.
- Trigger sounds: Triggers sounds each have specific uses. Each one causes a different tonal aspect of your voice to come out.
- Transition from Singing Exercises to singing words: Many singers have used other courses or been to coaches and never seem to get past singing to scales. This part of the course will teach you how to take what you have learned and apply it to actual songs.
- Warm Downs: Warming down is the most overlooked aspect of singing. Warming down your voice will reinforce proper technique.
- Hitting High Powerful Notes: Hitting high powerful notes is misunderstood by most singers. Most singers assume it takes force and more air. The more you relax the higher your voice can go. Also, a lot of singers make the mistake of trying to hold on to the solid feel of chest voice as they go higher. When you learn to mix registers using this course you will come to understand that as you go up in pitch the physical feeling of high notes is very different as the resonance is allowed to focus. High notes actually feel much lighter than they sound. By using Vocal Release you will find out how easy it is to sing high notes. Also many people assume that for a man to sing high notes he must sing in falsetto. This is simply not true men can sing in very high ranges without singing in falsetto. When you learn the right attack, the attack of the mask, high notes are quite easy to sing in a full voice.
- What to watch for in your Listening Environment: Often times singers train and get their voice into good shape. They go out to perform in a new environment and get thrown. The course will tell you exactly what you have to watch for and how to be ready.
- Choosing a microphone: A microphone can make a big difference in how you sound as a singer. One size does not fit all.
- Microphone Technique: A good singer can hurt their performance with bad microphone technique. This course will show you the do's and don'ts.
- Keeping the Voice Healthy: things singers should avoid There are several diet and environmental things that can effect a singers voice. This course will tell you how the pros deal with them.
- Setting up A Productive Practice Schedule: The eight week course will show you exactly what exercises you should be doing and what they are achieving. You will get specific instructions on how to do them.
- Vocal classifications Often times singers get caught up in vocal classifications. Just because you were told you were a bass does not mean that you can't sing high notes with the best of them. All classifications mean is the area where your break point is at.
- Developing your own Style: Often times singers try to train their voice by singing to another singer. This is the worst way to try to develop your voice. Not only does it usually hurt the singers physically, it also ruins their ear as the singer learns to sing to another singer and not the music. Also, the singer never develops their own style and qualities of their own voice. Vocal Release will show you how to develop your own style and then later on sing other singers songs without hurting your voice.
- Covering other artists material: How to cover other artists material well without hurting your own voice. Even famous artists sometimes have bad vocal productions or voices that are just very different from your own. You will learn how to cover them without adapting any of their bad habits.
- The Vocal Release Course teaches a few special exercises that will allow you to copy the tone of an artist you are singing too so that you can be convincing when singing in a cover act.
- Mimicry: Different from just covering an artist is the act of mimicry. Mimicry is trying to sound dead on, exactly like another artist. This is useful artists who are interested in being in a tribute act. Mimicry is a skill all it's own separate from singing. Though having a resonant easy to use range makes it much much easier. Mimicry is a combination of already having a voice close to the original artists, and precisely listening to everything the artist does. Mimicry can be dangerous for a singer who wants their own career, as it can be hard to find your own tone that doesn't remind an audience of the other artist after years of Mimicry.
- Fundamentals of Singing: Breath Support, Cord Adduction, Larynx Control & Resonance.
- Dealing with illness, stage fright, equipment malfunction and less than desirable sound: The fantasy of being on stage and reality are very different. Vocal Release will tell you the things you need to watch out for and how to approach them like a seasoned pro.
- Definitions of common singing terms: The course is written from a standpoint that does not pre suppose any knowledge of singing. But, if there is a term you are unfamiliar with you can find it's meaning in the back of the Vocal Release Manual.
- Charts of where resonance is felt/directed: You will see visual charts of where the resonance is generally felt.
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