Singing Success Review - Before and After (Two Month Update)

I've been working with the Singing Success program for about two months now, so I wanted to do a before and after video of my current status. This was filmed using my Motorola DROID phone, Blue Icicle XLR to USB adapter, Shure SM57 microphone, and touched-up the audio with Audacity. The song clip is from a song I wrote entitled "You Guide My Way."

Noisy Kung Fu
http://www.noisykungfu.com/

Singing Success
http://www.singingsuccess.com/cmd.php?af=1238288

Pharyngeal Exercises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIDJNUBVHfc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppRXC_R46RY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FPcX3zjkQ

Entertainer's Secret
http://www.entertainers-secret.com/

Blue Icicle (XLR to USB adapter/pre-amp)
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Microphones-Icicle-Converter-Preamp/dp/B001EW5YQS/

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[xoxovirtuososue]

how can you be sure that you're doing the exercises correctly, and sound correctly?

And what if someone really cannot distinguish between a mixed head and chest voice and only a chest voice? How is this taught in the program ?

[noisykungfu]

@xoxovirtuososue Great questions! It's kind of hard to describe, let alone teach! lol

When doing the exercises, make sure you have consistent airflow and that your larynx has little or no movement. Try sliding up and down throughout your range without it moving. As far as the sound goes, record yourself and listen back, comparing that to the exercise demos.

The program doesn't teach the different resonance chambers as much as it teaches exercises in those chambers.

[noisykungfu]

@xoxovirtuososue You'll develop your chest voice and bring it up, and then your head voice and bring it down. Where they overlap is the mix.

If you bring chest voice up too much it'll cause throat tension and/or make you have to yell to hit notes (more of a mouth resonance where vowels splat).

Start of by saying the words, feel how they feel, hold it out as a note, keeping the same resonance. Then raise/lower to a different note, but try to get it to feel/sound the same.

[Arturostunes]

You can delete this messages afterwards lol i type a lot but, you've bought and seen the material of Brett Manning; do you think I'll be able to raise my vocal range and quality to what i said in my previous messages? Do you think it's worth it? - I bought Pers Bristow's Singing Success and Ian Aussie Castle's Vocal Coach program. Pers Bristow's really opened up my voice but was useless. It didn't teach me about vibrato or anything; just how to start out my singing lmao.

[noisykungfu]

@Arturostunes Did you watch the other updates (this was only at two months)? With Singing Success I got minimal range increase, but more control and better tone. For the first six months, I worked 30 minutes to an hour 3-5 days per week. For the next 4-5 months, did practical applications (analyzing and singing songs) and their warm-ups. Lately I've been working though their Top 7 series to get higher mix, less tension, and more style freedom. New band name is Jericho March!

[exesfr]

Awesome!! I'm doing the course, I'm on the second lesson and I don't feel any change :(

wht?? :'( could you help me or give me and advice?

[noisykungfu]

@exesfr It takes time and persistence. Be sure to have the first lesson pretty well down before moving to the next. Sometimes it helps to start over again to catch stuff you may have missed. Check out their tips on YouTube. Make sure you have consistent air flow and the least amount of strain. Try adding an "NG" sound to your humming. Try to keep your larynx stable and your neck relaxed while doing the exercises.

[midgetsrule93]

@kadeemdexter dude whats your deal? hes just trying trying to learn something new, no is going to be good when they first start off. And who are you to say is interpretation of brett is wrong? do you know him?

[noisykungfu]

@afropagangirl11223 Haters gonna hate, but this singer's gonna sing! ;o)

[Arturostunes]

@Arturostunes and it was 110 dollars >.>

[Arturostunes]

To be honest, if I can hit an A, sustain it and end it with vibrato I'd be really happy and satisfied lol. I've also mastered vocal riffs. - If you don't know what riffs are, check out sam tsui. You can mostly see the riffs in his cover of lil wayn's "How to love". He mixes it up a bit and has some fun with vocal riffs; going up and down notes in between your words, and really having fun with vibrato, are riffs. :P.

[Arturostunes]

My max note is a G; my vocal range has not changed since I started...But the quality of my voice definitely has. I have vibrato and I've learned how to use falsetto correctly; I've also mastered mixed voice. I can't get head voice down nor can I change that limit of range that I've got. So i'm hoping , if i buy brett manning's singing success, do you think I'll raise up to perhaps a B?

[Arturostunes]

You should really change the name of your band lmao. Sorry had to say that. But your voice is improving; I haven't seen the 'before' but i can hear your vibrato kicking in and wow...You can hit an A. I can sing, and i've been singing for a while now...And that was only in 2 months? how many hours in agiven week do you say you put into that program?

That was an awesome song. You would sound a lot better if you learned about vocal riffs; perhaps that program hasn't taught you about it yet.

[exesfr]

@noisykungfu Oh thanks a lot for answer :) I'll try it