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Murray, Dena Vocal Technique-A Guide to Finding...

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This book and CD set by Dena Murray is like spending a Saturday afternoon with a friend - a very knowledgable friend who knows what kind of problems you're having with your voice, and has lots of ideas on how to fix them. Her style is casual, yet firm in the instructional CD that comes with the book. The text is broken up into short sections that even the most attention-span-challenged of us can absorb. She starts the book off almost right away with dispelling a "myth" about breathing that has been propogated throughout the singing community for years. She also addresses things like the physiology of the vocal mechanism, basic scales and musical terms, and actually singing songs (pronunciation, lyrics, emotion in performance). The second CD includes scales that the singer can use as vocal exercises to apply the techniques used in the book. All in allTable of Contents:
Introduction
1. Your Voice (And How it Works),br>- A Scenario: Is This You?
-How the Body Produces Sound
-The High and Low Voices
-Breaks
2. All About Breathing
-Why Squeeze, Hold or Push?
-Pitch
-Controlling the Flow of Air
-Right Breathing, Everyday Breathing
-The Four Breathing Rules
-Mental vs. Physical Effort
3. Right Placement
-Speaking and Singing are Similar Actions
-Resonance
-Working with Vowels
4. Scales
-Scale I: Working the Registers
Bad Habits, Going Through the Break, Placing the Voice, Keeping the Throat Open
-Scale II: Stretching the Cords
SPECIAL NEEDS: Too breathy, Too Sharp/Shrill, A "Trashed" Voice
-Scale III: Working the Break
-Scale IV: Bridging the Middle
SPECIAL NEEDS: A Weak Chest Voice
For Advanced Singers: The Pharyngeal Voice
5. Singing Songs
-Open Up Your Voice!
-Phonetics: How Words Sound
-Rewriting Your Lyrics: A Sample
-Emotion and Songs
Closing
Appendix:
A. Nodes and Your Health
B. The Scales (In All Twelve Keys)
CD Index
About the Author
Acknowledgements
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