The Contemporary Singer: Elements of Vocal Technique with CD (Audio) (Berklee Guide)

I purchased this book as I already play guitar and I wanted to sing while playing. I recorded myself before using this book and then again after reading and following the advice in the book. I noticed a massive improvement after about four months practicing for about a hour a day. This book covers every aspect of singing as far as I know.

To improve this book they could have included some more recent songs to practice, although you can apply the techniques in this book to any song which is what I did. The CD that comes with the book has many vocal excercises on it from easy to hard and is good, but I think a DVD showing you how the professionals do it would have been better aid.

I also purchased Total Singing Tutor by Carrie

im 13 years old and i luv singing,and im really good i wanted to improve my voice without spending a fortune on singing lessons so i brought this book.

I found the book very hard to read and understand its a bit complicated about how to breathe and it uses hard words i think the book is more for adults and complex singers,but the cd on the other hand is quite good it has a number of singing excercises to improve your voice and i think they have helped me a bit and made my voice stronger.but i dont think its made a major improvement.

I wouldnt recomend this book to people my age kids/teenagers because its quite hard to understand and i think there are better singing books you can get.

I would reccomend a kareoke machine more than this to improve voice and practice singing.i brought one soon after the book and it has improved my voice a lot more and now i have a really good strong voice.

ANYWAY IF U WANNA BUY THIS BOOK HERE IS SOME STUFF IN IT...
=it has song words to YESTERDAY BY THE BEATLES
IM BEGINING TO SEE THE LIGHT BY(unknown)
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

it also includes.........
-advice on performing
-how to use a microphone
-how to breate when singing
-techniques and warm ups

I wouldnt say this is a bad book but its just quite hard to understand and a bit complicated but the cd is great!

Thanx 4 reading my review
Hope u found it helpful
xX Luv lauz Xx

The best vocal book I have found yet covering many aspects of vocal technique. If you want to learn about breathing, warm up, looking after your voice, tone, expression, etc..then this book explains it in an easy to understand way and in detail. Great value and a book I recommend to all. I am a vocal coach myself and it has been very useful. The cd I use time and time again to continue to develop as a singer myself. It has hundreds of scales for low and high voices, for beginners through to advanced. Excellent!

This has deffinately been one of the best vocal books i have read. Being a vocal teacher myself it has been really useful to me for my own research and compared to other books, i haven't found one that quite matches this (and I have read a LOT of vocal books!) It is informative and easy to follow, with a fantastic warm up cd which I have used time and time again for my own warm up. It is for beginners to advanced. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to sing, and for teachers, particularly the cd. Excellent value.