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    Singing For Dummies
    Singing For Dummies
    Singing For Dummies
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    Singing For Dummies

    By Pamelia S. Phillips

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    Take your voice to the next level and grow as a performer

    Whether you're a beginning vocalist or a seasoned songster, Singing for Dummies makes it easy for you to achieve your songbird dreams. This practical guide gives you step-by-step instructions and lots of helpful tips, hints, vocal exercises, reminders, and warnings for both men and women, including advice on the mechanics of singing, discovering your singing voice, developing technique, singing in performance, maintaining vocal health, and performing like a pro. This Second Edition is an even greater resource with additional vocal exercises, new songs, and information on the latest technology and recording devices.

    • Covers comprehensive singing techniques, finding one's pitch, the importance of posture and breath control, and taking care of one's voice.
    • Discover how to sing alone or with accompaniment.
    • The updated CD features new tracks and musical exercises, as well as demonstrations of popular technique, scales and pitch drills, and practice songs for singers of all levels

    Singing for Dummies, Second Edition contains all the information, practices, techniques, and expert advice you need to hone your vocal skills with ease!

    Note: DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. These materials are available for download upon purchase.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateDec 10, 2010
    ISBN9780470934173
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      I usually trust the "Dummies" series to provide a clear and simple overview of the topic being covered, but "Singing for Dummies" falls a bit short of the mark. The book is a bit overly technical in the exercises it offers to students, such that if you happen not to have the accompanying CD or to be trying to read without listening to the CD, you can get completely lost. A few of the exercises on the CD did help me begin to feel concepts that just don't quite make sense on paper, but they're not enough on their own to get you up to a quality singer without knowing how to augment them to develop your own practice. Phillips also seems to take for granted that one exercise on sliding around pitch will help any singer out of self-perceived tone-deafness, but this is probably not going to be sufficient for some beginners. There is too much assumption on the author's part that people are going to go out and seek for additional information (including private lessons), and little to no background is provided on basics of music theory. If I'm not mistaken, every book cited throughout the work is another "Dummies" book, which may be good salesmanship, but is just poor scholarship. Finally, as a sociolinguist I couldn't help but be irritated by the author's discussion of vowels and consonants (which is technically very accurate) with comments about dialects and accents that treat Standard American English as a more "correct" variety. This book may provide some help to those who already know how to read music and have a decent singing voice, but it will frustrate beginners, and if you're in the slim margin of people serious enough to make good use of it, you're probably better off just spending your money on a voice lesson.

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