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    Singing Coach Secrets
    Singing Coach Secrets
    Singing Coach Secrets
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    Singing Coach Secrets

    By Alex London

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    If you love singing and want to sing well, this book offers you a lot for very little. When I started researching the subject of voice improvement seven years ago, one singing lesson was about $25. At that time I paid $150 for DVDs with 4 lessons a couple of times to different well known coaches who were very good but the information and the number of lesson and exercises was minimal and was a lot of money for many people. One to one training is a very expensive way to learn anything, and the written word plus a few videos is often all most people need. In my opinion, it would very helpful if a person had all of the information and all the techniques and exercises in this book available, to improve his or her voice. People need to know why they are doing a certain exercise or why they should not do certain things. A lot of facts need to be easy to reach, to study and remember. That is why ebooks are so good. My aim is to make as much information available to people, for as little money as possible. Remember all the techniques and exercises are the same or similar, to ones people pay $30 per hour for. I will continue to look for more techniques and exercises which I can try out and add to this book to make it as complete as it can be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex London
    Release dateFeb 5, 2016
    ISBN9780993529832
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    Singing Coach Secrets - Alex London

    Singing Coach Secrets

    Alex London

    Improve the Range and Strength of Your Voice

    10 Basic Training Lessons

    Plus; 44 training sounds, 24 techniques, 98 voice exercises

    Years of Voice Training in this Book

    Singing Coach Secrets

    Alex London

    Copyright ©Alex London 2016

    Published by Alex London

    Date of publication 2016

    ISBN 978-0-9935298-3-2

    No portion of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, by photocopying, recording, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher.

    Contents

    Acknowledgements

    Preface

    The purpose of this book

    How the exercises work without straining the vocal cords

    Voice training guidelines

    Middle C

    Your comfortable range

    The scales

    Links for free piano apps.

    Video Links for beginners demonstrating the First Four Training Sounds and Scales

    The Ten Basic Training Lessons

    The Lessons include;

    1. Working on the first four Training Sounds

    2. Training Sounds with easy scales

    3. Training sounds with difficult scales

    4. Strengthening the high notes

    5. Practicing the open throat

    6. More work on the high notes

    7. Low larynx training

    8. Developing a strong connected sound

    9. Using Training sounds to help difficult vowels

    10. More work on the connected sound with vowels

    Technical information

    How the vocal cords work

    The muscles involved in breathing and singing

    How the Vocal exercises help

    Methods of Training the Vocal Muscles

    The Main List of Training Sounds and Techniques

    44 Training sounds

    24 techniques to improve the voice.

    98 exercises accompany the techniques

    Interesting Authors

    Authors E Behnke and C W Pierce plus various exercises

    Author Roger Kain plus various examples of exercises

    Adding more exercises yourself

    Warming up and warming down

    Vocal improvement lesson list

    How the vocal cords work (more detail)

    Acknowledgements

    I am grateful to all the singers, songwriters and vocal coaches who have helped me to enjoy singing and playing. I also say thank you to all the folk clubs and musicians who have kept supporting live music and singing, and given us so much enjoyment over many years.

    Special mention regarding Authors E Behnke and C W Pierce, and R Kain who have recommended many different exercises, and Vocal Technique Expert Karyn O’Connor whose writings made a complicated subject more understandable.

    (I have no connection whatsoever to the authors mentioned).

    Preface

    In order to improve your voice you need the information that explains how this is achieved. The more informed you are, the more able you are to understand the process of vocal training.

    There are many important details that need to be taken into consideration and it is not just a matter of having the odd lesson here and there. It is a matter of having a reasonably wide knowledge of the subject. A little information will not get you very far. Sooner or later you will have to jump in at the deep end if you are serious.

    You must know how to warm up your voice and the rules you need to follow to protect your voice when singing or training. This subject is quite complicated so you must know at least what is in this book to start with.

    Nothing in this book is presented as recommended for every single reader. The readers must evaluate the information and decide if the information is likely to help them. Everyone is different and some exercises will help more than others.

    I have tried to provide enough knowledge to interest you in being your own vocal coach. Even if you want to have a professional vocal coach, you will save yourself a lot of time by already having learnt some of the information yourself. It will also show your coach that you are serious about improving your voice.

    I was motivated to write the book because I felt that the information available to improve one’s voice was too expensive, too complicated, and too difficult to access for most people.

    This included myself for many years as well, so I thought I would research the subject and produce a book with a lot of information, but the same information that the professional voice coaches use, at a fraction of the cost.

    This book contains all the techniques that I have discovered over the past six years that singers will find useful, and that can help them improve their voice. It contains a lot of valuable professional guidance from a variety of vocal experts, relating to looking after your voice, warming up, and many techniques for improving the range and quality of the voice.

    The 10 basic vocal training lessons in the book are shown as examples of how to make up a training lesson and to start your training in an easy way.

    After reading the book and trying all the techniques and exercises, it will be up to you to modify the 10 lessons as you wish. You can also create new lessons or exercises, using any of the 24 voice strengthening techniques, the 44 training sounds, the various types of scales and the 98 exercises.

    This book contains far more information than you will get from a singing lesson for $30 or a series of 4 lessons on DVDs for $150.

    This book has enough information for years of training which could save you at least, many hundreds of dollars, but more importantly there is every chance it will actually improve

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