October 12th, 2008 by admin
Science has explained all the processes of the vocal organs in their chief functions,
and many methods of singing have been based upon physiology, physics, and phonetics. To a certain extent scientific explanations are absolutely necessary for the singer–as long as they are confined to the sensations in singing, foster understanding of the phenomenon, and summon up an intelligible picture. This is what uninterpreted sensations in singing cannot do; of which fact the clearest demonstration is given by the expressions, “bright,” “dark,” “nasal,” “singing forward,” etc., that I began by mentioning and that are almost always falsely understood. They are quite meaningless without the practical teachings of the sensations of such singers as have directed their attention to them with a knowledge of the end in view, and are competent to correlate them with the facts of science.
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August 20th, 2008 by admin
“I’ve gone from being a pure beginner to coming third out of 100 competitors where 40 or so were quite strong singers!”
My name is Adam and I’ve been singing for about a year now and have gone from being a pure beginner to coming third out of 100 competitors where 40 or so were quite strong singers!
When I first started to learn how to sing I just went to karaoke bars and blasted out a tune, a lot of the time in a very strained way, because I never new how sound worked in the first place.
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August 9th, 2008 by admin
If you want to learn how to sing you have two choices. The first is to try to find a local vocal coach and the second is to choose Singorama singing lessons. In this review of Singorama I first want to go over the first choice, a local vocal coach.
A local vocal coach has it’s advantages. The main one being that you will be able to get real time feedback for what you are doing wrong. But it also has some big drawbacks. The most obvious one being that it’s very costly. You will need many lessons to become a great singer and a vocal coach of course will charge you for each and every lesson. You could end up spending well over $1000 on vocal lessons. But the high cost is not the only disadvantage. Another one is that many vocal teachers don’t actually use the best methods and may actually train you in ways that make it harder for you to become a great singer. A big disadvantage for many people is that if you hire a singing teacher you will have to sing in front of someone before you are ready. Plus the truth is, some people are just hard to work with. What if you hire someone and you find out they are not a very nice person?
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