Vocal Technique - a Guide to Finding Your Real Voice : A Guide to Finding Your Real Voice

Introduction 5(2) Your Voice (and How it Works) 7(5) A Scenario: Is This You? 7(1) How the Body Produces Sound 8(2) The High and Low Voices 10(1) Breaks 11(1) All About Breathing 12(6) Why Squeeze, Hold, or Push? 12(1) Pitch 13(1) Controlling the Flow of Air 13(1) Right Breathing, Everyday Breathing 14(1) The Four Breathing Rules 15(1) Mental vs. Physical Effort 16(2) Right Placement 18(6) Speaking and Singing Are Similar Actions 18(1) Resonance 19(2) Working with Vowels 21(3) Scales 24(19) Scale I: Working the Registers 26(8) Bad Habits 28(3) Going through the Break 31(1) Placing the Voice 32(1) Keeping the Throat Open 33(1) Scale II: Stretching the Cords 34(4) Special Needs Too Breathy 36(1) Too Sharp/Shrill 37(1) A ``Trashed'' Voice 37(1) Scale III: Working the Break 38(2) Scale IV: Bridging the Middle 40(3) Special Needs A Weak Chest Voice 41(2) FOR ADVANCED SINGERS: The Pharyngeal Voice 43(7) Singing Songs 45(5) Open Up Your Voice! 45(1) Phonetics: How Words Sound 45(1) Rewriting Your Lyrics: A Sample 46(2) Emotion & Songs 48(2) CLOSING 50(9) APPENDIX A: Nodes & Your Health 51(4) B: The Scales (In All Twelve Keys) 55(4) CD Index 59(1) About the Author 60(1) Acknowledgments 60