Popular Singing and Style
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Popular Singing and Style

2nd edition

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Popular Singing and Style

2nd edition

About this book

This second edition of the highly successful Popular Singing serves as a practical guide to exploring the singing voice while helping to enhance vocal confidence in a range of popular styles. The book provides effective alternatives to traditional voice training methods, and demonstrates how these methods can be used to create a flexible and unique sound. This updated and thoroughly revised edition features a new chapter on training for popular singing, which incorporates recent movements in teaching the discipline across the globe, taking into account recent developments in the area. The book also features a new section on 'bridging' - ie. using all the technical elements outlined in the book to help the singer find their own particular expressive style to inspire more playfulness and creativity, both for the individual singer and for the teacher in practice and performance.

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Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781472518644
eBook ISBN
9781472518668
Edition
2
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music
CHAPTER 
ONE
Cultivating 
style
To 
train 
or 
not 
to 
train?
I’ve 
never 
had 
a 
guitar 
lesson, 
I’ve 
never 
had 
a 
singing 
lesson, 
I’ve 
never 
had 
a 
bass 
lesson. 
. 
. 
. 
Some 
people 
sound 
good 
when 
they’ve 
had 
lessons. 
But 
I 
have 
to 
say 
– 
all 
the 
people 
I’ve 
really 
admired 
have 
not 
had 
a 
lesson 
in 
their 
lives 
to 
my 
knowledge. 
That 
may 
just 
be 
something 
to 
do 
with 
my 
taste 
but 
I 
think 
that 
you 
will 
find 
generally 
that 
people 
who 
are 
really 
moving 
music 
on 
– 
say 
the 
early 
jazz 
musicians 
in 
New 
Orleans 
– 
these 
guys 
generally 
weren’t 
taught.
–PAUL 
M
C
CARTNEY
1
In 
the 
years 
since 
I 
first 
started 
to 
teach 
voice, 
and 
certainly 
since 
this 
book 
was 
written 
9 
years 
ago, 
the 
rise 
of 
the 
popular 
singing 
teacher 
and 
popular 
singing 
courses 
has 
been 
notable. 
There 
has 
also 
been 
a 
huge 
growth 
in 
the 
number 
of 
websites 
focusing 
on 
singing 
which 
have 
done 
much 
to 
encourage 
1
This 
quotation 
is 
from 
an 
exclusive 
interview 
done 
for 
the 
first 
edition 
of 
this 
book, 
and 
is 
included 
here 
as 
an 
Appendix.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Preface to the Second Edition
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 Cultivating style
  8. Chapter 2 Anatomy and sound
  9. Chapter 3 The complementary elements of style
  10. Chapter 4 Blues, gospel, jazz and what came after
  11. Chapter 5 Practice, performance, artistry and finding your own style
  12. Appendix
  13. Song Index
  14. Index