Singing Problems That Can Be Easily Overcome Using The Vocal Release Singing Manual.
The Three most common problems in Voice Production are:
1. Singing with an inferior attack. There are three attacks in singing. The Diaphragmatic. The Glottal. The Attack Of The Mask. The best voice in a singer is produced using The Attack Of The Mask. Almost all vocal production problems, such as breaks and a limited range are because of not using the Attack Of The Mask. The other two attacks are inferior and quite simply bad for a singers voice.
2. No placement. The attack of the mask causes placement. If a singer isn't using the attack of the mask they will have no forward placement or resonance. Any resonance will be a happy accident and forced. Placement in the mask makes the voice easy to use and have ear pleasing upper harmonics.
3. Unbalanced breath support. An unbalanced breath support is usually due to singing using the diaphragmatic attack and or approaching singing like extended shouting. Some singers sound good using this method because they have natural range or some natural mask attack. But, then they unbalance their voice by pushing and forcing with the diaphragm. This causes the voice to tire easily and usually sound very shouty and more like they are bellowing. You will see this often on shows like American Idol when a singer tries to sing loudly their voice suddenly flattens out very badly in tone quality. It gets louder but sounds worse. If the singer had a strong grasp on mask attack they would focus more into the mask and get much, much louder but still keep the pleasant upper harmonics in their voice. You CAN NOT shout your way to a great voice.
Karaoke Singing Syndrome
I've taught many students who could sing well from the start, tonal wise, but when they attempted to sing something of their own creation their voice fell apart.
This is due to the fact that they never sang on their own before, it was always along to another singers voice. They end up depending on this like a crutch. Singing along to another singer is one of the worst ways to train your voice.
Singing Songs Before You Develop Your Voice
I have become aware that their are a few systems out there that claim they can develop your singing voice by having you sing famous artists songs.
This is the worst way to develop your voice. If you could do it that way, all you would have to do is buy a karaoke machine and go at it.
Songs only go over a given number of pitches, so you will see no vocal development from singing songs other than development of personal style. Which is easily developed after you have control of your voice.
And if you can already sing the song what good does it do your voice to sing it?
None at all.
Before singing songs, a singer should learn how to get through his or her registers without breaking and hit the high end of his or her range without pushing. Otherwise, you end up practicing bad habits that will hold back range development or even hurt your voice.
More often than not, even famous singers have poor technique that is covered up by studio magic, or the fact that the singer could sing the song in the studio over and over until it was just right.
Trust me on this. Like many performers, I myself used to be guilty of this. I spent the first two years of my development trying to sing along to tapes and CDs because scale work that my coaches tried to get me to do was not nearly as fun as singing along to songs.
But, I came to the realization that this did nothing for me and started finding specialized exercises that trained my voice to do what I wanted it to.
Scale work may be boring, but done the right way, with the right exercises will result in very quick development of the voice. For scale work to be effective you need to directly learn the attack of the mask and place your voice. Simply singing Ah, mum or no to a scale does nothing for your voice without first learning the attack of the mask.
Within a month of that, my vocal range grew more in a month then it did in the previous two years.
So, if all you want to do is sing karaoke, and probably sound bad at it, train by singing songs. If you want to develop, you need the specialized exercises found in the Vocal Release System.
Chronic Fatigue, or Tightness Of The Cords (Tightness In The Throat And Or Larynx When Singing)
Even a good singer will experience these if they don't do the proper warm-ups and warm downs.
But, for those who already have these problems, the Vocal Release manual teaches exercises that will massage and loosen your vocal cords to get them back to a healthy state that can be worked with. This alone results in reclaimed range or an increase to a range that you may have never sang before.
Overpowering Your Singing
Many untrained singers are guilty of this. Most often, singers pull up chest voice to create sound and don't know how to make a resonant powerful tone without forcing excess air out. With the Vocal Release Manual you'll, learn how to hit the same pitch, both powerfully and gently with very little physical effort.
Singing Off Pitch
Singing on pitch once you sing using the attack of the mask is very easy. There are only a few reasons someone can't sing on pitch.
Either they are singing using the wrong attack or they have not allowed themselves to absorb and hear the tones first before attempting them while doing scale work or they have not even done scale work. All of these issues are addressed in the Vocal Release Singing Manual.
Assuming That Because You Can Sing In A High Pitch Your Voice Sounds Good
I've seen a lot of this on the TV show American Idol that is now so popular. Particularly with the people that got rejected. Many of the people that got cut, broke horrendously into head voice when they went for a high note. They had no placement forward into the mask.
They sounded silly, like church choir singers, trying to sing R&B. Unfortunately, what happens is people assume that because they can sing on pitch in the car to the radio, that they sound good on their own. You can be on pitch and still sound bad.
When Paula Abdul tells one of the contestants that they went off pitch or sound pitchy, what she really means, although I don't think she knows it, is that the singer broke into head voice when they should have hit the same pitch with a more tonally solid voice placed in the mask.
What these singers lack is the ability to shorten their cords and properly place their tone so their voice breaks into an unplaced head voice register, instead of blending it, because their is no mask placement.
Limited Range Or A Weak Singing Voice
Again, this has to do with cord shortening and a voice resonantly place in the mask. If you have no mask placement, you have to force your chest voice and shout the voice out. Singing with this wrong approach, you hit a wall and your range is limited.
The same applies to having a weak voice. People who sing very airy or gently and break apart if they try for a more powerful tone, simply don't have good control over cord adduction and mask placement.
Because when they try for a full tone, they have not trained their cords to withstand the air flowing over them in a shortened position and the cords break apart. Mask placement causes the vocal cords to adduct and shorter where they should by reflex action. Without placement it doesn't happen.
You could spend years gathering the information contained in the Vocal Release singing manual like I did.
Or, you can order it and be minutes away from fully understanding exactly what it is takes to be a great singer.
You can't expect someone else to do it for you. The best singers understand the voice and know how to train themselves. No matter how good a vocal coach is, they can't be there all the time.
And even if they could, you very likely couldn't afford it. If you truly want a star quality voice, you have to approach voice like an instrument. It can either be played poorly, with no fault of the instrument or it can be mastered and played with a stunning quality.
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