Vocal Technique - A Guide to Finding Your Real Voice

Daily Vocal Workouts to Engage and Empower Young Men-This collection of daily Vocal workouts takes an inspired and fresh approach to building tone and ensemble resonance with male singers. With you as their personal trainer these workouts will help your guys to develop a vibrant healthy and mature sound through proper Vocal technique. This resource includes notated warm-up examples and photos with descriptive enthusiastic teaching ideas. Topics include Body Breath and Energy; Muscles and Movement; Exploring the Voice; Finding and Activating Resonance; Focusing the Resonance; Tuning the Resonance and Repertoire/Rehearsal Ideas. An appendix of ?tried-and-true? suggested repertoire for middle highschool and collegiate male Vocal ensembles is included. An enjoyable yet practical guide for anyone working with male Voices.

In this 102 minute (1 hour and 42 minutes) instructional DVD video Tim May and Dan Miller teach you how to find the chord progression and melody to any vocal song or instrumental tune by ear and then they show you how to embellishthat melody in order to create your own interesting and tasteful guitar solo. The techniques covered in Tim and Dan's unique and effective approach include: - Finding the chords by ear - Finding the melody by ear - Playing the melody and adding harmonic and rhythmic content by learning the basic 'Carter Style' approach - Learning how to 'supercharge' the Carter style by examining how to subdivide the beat with strumming variations andneighboring single string articulations adding crosspicking and using a 'toggle note' or drone string. - Learning how to use straight scale runs to embellish the melody - Learning how to use 'folded scales' -Learning how to apply the cross picking technique - Learning how to apply the use of harmonized scales in the form of double-stops and harmonized scale runs - Learning how to integrate all of the above and embellish allof the above with slides pull-offs hammer-ons slides and bends