Singing For Dummies

by Pamelia S. Phillips

Take your voice to the next level and grow as a performerWhether 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.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction, Reference

368 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2003

Reviews

[Lynda Hunter · Rating 4 out of 5]

As someone who has just joined a local choir I needed something to help me understand all the intricacies of the world of singing for pleasure that I just don't understand.....this book and the accompanying cd is great for me. If your needs are similar then I feel sure you cannot go wrong. I bought it on the strength of recommendations on Amazon which were all first class.

[Mike Parkes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Signed this out from the library, and unfortunately it was missing the accompanying CD that included lots of vocal exercises. I didn’t find the text alone all that helpful, but probably not fair to review without the CD.

[Wiseman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think it did help me sing better!

[Gina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty thorough and well-organized with lots of examples.

May be more information than you need.

[Sah · Rating 1 out of 5]

i think this book really does not help you with singing because most of the time, instead of singing your reading which kinda weird because supposedly when you desire to sing you'd practice it on hand instead of reading it and nothing seems to help you improve your singing but words written on a book describing what is the proper way of singing.

Well, this book is boring and nothing does help me to improve my voice.

And what's more this book has too many words, too many flowery words that makes you want to close the book forever. The author say to much, is it to inspire you? well, that is not what happened to me, it annoys me and wanted to skip those parts.

[Eszter Beáta · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very useful book for everyone who want to learn to sing. You can find a lot of good tips for every type of singing, for the practicing, for the breath and for all the activities which have to do something with singing. You will receive answers for you questions about singing.

[Elizabeth Fama]

I only skimmed parts of this to try to improve my voice for our Boswell Sisters band.

[Barbee]

High time I learn the lingo and the how's of what makes my voice do what it does. Maybe I could then teach this stuff... I love helping people learn!

[Tammy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book it helped me a lot!

[Sierra · Rating 3 out of 5]

It does exactly what it says it does. I feel like it leaves out a few techniques that are especially important to the demographic of folks who would read these. Although, I didn't expect an encyclopedia on vocal techniques so I consider it forgivable.