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Vocal Workouts for the Contemporary Singer | Vocal Training Book with Online Audio by Anne Peckham | Singing Lessons for Beginners to Advanced Singers | Vocal Exercise Guide for Range and Performance
(Berklee Press). The vocal workouts in this much-anticipated follow-up to Peckham's bestselling The Contemporary Singer are based on Berklee College of Music's highly effective vocal method. This volume will help vocalists develop the voice through good vocal health, warm-up exercises, advanced techniques, stage performance advice and more. Also includes sing-along tracks to support your workout. Audio is accessed online for download or streaming and contains PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. 8-1/2 x 12
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128 pages, Paperback
First published July 8, 2005
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July 15, 2010
I've been singing in various choirs and vocal groups pretty much my entire life, and have gotten a good deal of training from the group work, but never took private voice lessons until now. My voice teacher got this book and CD for me and it is fantastic. The first half of the book is basic information about the voice, much of which I already knew, while the second half of the book contains a series of warm-ups, then a basic voice workout and an advanced voice workout. The idea is to warm up your voice and then, with the workouts, push yourself and stretch your capabilities. The CD has the accompaniments to sing along with and has separate tracks for high and low voices.
I like these workouts because they are clearly aimed, like the title says, at the CONTEMPORARY singer. It's hard to find vocal training resources that are not made for classical singing, yet if you're going to sing pop, jazz, rock, etc (my focus is jazz), you really need a different skill set than a classical/opera singer.
The warm-ups are helpful, and the workouts really are fun to sing, not just boring repetitive exercises.
I like these workouts because they are clearly aimed, like the title says, at the CONTEMPORARY singer. It's hard to find vocal training resources that are not made for classical singing, yet if you're going to sing pop, jazz, rock, etc (my focus is jazz), you really need a different skill set than a classical/opera singer.
The warm-ups are helpful, and the workouts really are fun to sing, not just boring repetitive exercises.
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