Description

 MANUAL
This manual encompasses fifteen years of research on how to sing correctly. 
What I mean by correctly is the ability to sing anywhere in your range without
strain, or hoarseness and without forcing your voice. And moving correctly 
through ones bridges, or what some people term registers, so easily that it 
sounds like one connected voice.

EXERCISES
No matter what style of singing it is, if you want to build your voice and keep 
it in shape, vocal exercises are paramount. Singing songs is not the same as 
exercising and will not build your voice. Let me say that again many 
performers donÂ’t realize this. Singing songs is not the same as exercising. 

CONTENTS
Foreword ..................................................................... 2 	 
Exercises	 
Singing on pitch ........................................................... 3	 
Warmups .................................................................... 3	 
Humming .....................................................................4	 
Slides ..........................................................................4	 
Muscle massage ...........................................................4	 
Cord massage ..............................................................5	 
Breathing exercises........................................................5	 
Cord adducting exercises................................................6	 
Stuttering DÂ’s ................................................................6	 
The grunt ......................................................................7	 
Slide with grunt added ....................................................7	 
Smoothing out the bridges ..............................................8	 
Larynx control exercises .................................................9	 
Vibrato .........................................................................10	 
Warmdowns .................................................................10 	 
Actually singing .............................................................11 	 
How to write a song without music ..................................12 	 
How the voice works (Read this first) ...............................14 	 
Resonance (real or fake?)... ............................................16 	 
Tone .............................................................................17 	 
Vocal health ..................................................................18 	 
The speaking voice .........................................................19 	 
How, and how often to train .............................................20 	 
Vocal classifications .......................................................22 	 
Style .............................................................................23 	 
Fundamentals of singing ................................................ 24 	 
The right coach ..............................................................25 	 
Practicing bad habits? ....................................................25 	 
Scale work ....................................................................26