You Can Sing [With CD]

This book /CD is worth the price just for the first 20 minutes of warm ups. Mr. Stone is an excellent teacher, and I use these exercises with my vocal jazz students. They're very helpful for female students who tend to push the chest voice, encouraging the head voice approach from above, and there are challenging tempos and scale figures. The playbacks sound pretty corny, due to the synth/ piano but he chose good titles.

This is a terrific book. The exercises provided with the CD will quickly build one's vocal strength. I started to notice a big difference in 2 weeks only. The exercises are a lot of fun and I no longer tire out anywhere near as quickly as I used to. Mr. Stone is an engaging author, and his book is informative about different singing styles. For people who want to do musical theater, he explaings "belting" in a way that will avoid harming one's voice. He also gives good information about singing falsetto. Overall, Mr. Stone's method combines intelligence and fun and will be of great benefit to anyone who uses it.

I recommend this book for voice beginners. Take it slow and use it in repition.The guarenteed you will get the hang of pitch and singing ranges.I have this book and I'm still using it after 3 years.

YOU CAN SING is a book that packs a lot of basic instruction about singing into a wonderfully concise format. Anyone who can read will finish this book in two hours or less -- honest! It has just enough text to do the job. By the end of those two hours you will know your personal range, how to enunciate vowels and consonants for best effect, and how to put expression into your voice. You'll also learn about breath control, posture, and warmup exercises. The text is supported by the included CD. The focus here is on pop, country, jazz, or theater singing rather than classical. As one who had private voice lessons in college and recorded two albums, I can testify that you can learn all the basics from YOU CAN SING. I find it a handy reference even now.