The Absolute Beginners approach has been designed to make learning to sing easier than ever before! Suitable for both male and female beginners, this step-by-step guide takes you through the basics, from how to stand and breathe correctly, to singing your first song.

This comprehensive, incredibly popular course is for anyone who loves to sing, beginner to advanced. The ability to read music is not required. Easy-to-follow instructions guide the student through hundreds of recorded vocal exercises. The first half of the course, Technique, covers breathing, support, focusing on the vocal cords, articulation, volume control, vibrato, placement and resonance, lower and upper registers, the pop sound and the classical sound. The second half, Style, deals with improvisation, resonance and dynamics, pronunciation, phrasing, musical theater, jazz, vibrato, and individuality. A vocal workout CD is included, perfect for daily voice training.

Basic Library
Using over 60 brief vocalises in a variety of keys and meters, the authors of this outstanding method cover every aspect of correct vocal production, text enunciation and musical expression. A superb resource that in every respect lives up to its claim - to build beautiful voices!

Potent and empowering voice exercises by the master teachers who devised them! One of the constants that any actor, director or theatre teacher needs is a strong vocal warmup. This valuable, first-of-its-kind resource contains 75 exercises for both solo and group work, contributed by some of the best professionals in the world. There is a brief description of the history and purpose of each exercise followed by the exercise itself. The Voice & Speech Workout comes with a training CD that will be especially helpful to the student or theatre professional working alone. Here master teachers run through each exercise in real time (leaving enough time for response). Among the contributors are such important voice teachers as: Frankie Armstrong, Mary Corrigan, Marian Hampton and Dorothy Runk Mennen. The exercises are divided into nine different areas: Getting to Know Your Voice; Stretching, Centering, Releasing, Aligning; Breathing and Supporting; Making Sound (Resonance and Articulation); Exploring Pitch; Projecting and Calling; Integrating Voice, Breath and Text; Integrating Voice and Movement; Exploring Character Voices and Dialects. Editor Janet Rodgers is past president of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and an associate professor of theatre at Virginia Commonwealth University.