How to Become a Famous Singer


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Your beautiful voice has made fans out of your friends and family a long time ago. No special occasion in your community is complete without you belting out a couple of songs. You've been told time and time again that you should pursue a career in singing, and you're finally starting to take the suggestion more seriously. Why shouldn't you develop a career doing something that you love? This book is designed to help you bridge the gap between being an amateur singer and one who's using their voice to make a living (or even a killing). You'll learn how the internet has opened up new opportunities to aspiring singers like you, and you'll also be guided on everything from making your own original material to networking and marketing yourself, and signing up with labels. Sure, singing at your cousin's wedding and getting thunderous rounds of applause is satisfying; but isn't it time for your passion to meet your purse? It's time to start dreaming bigger! There are so many new ways of making it big in the music biz, and the pages of this book are full of the tools you need to help make your dreams of becoming the next big thing a reality.




The Functional Unity of the Singing Voice


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This expanded edition of Barbara Doscher's seminal vocal pedagogy work includes a new introduction by John Nix as well as a new appendix with reflections and practical insights from singing teachers. This classic text describes the anatomy and physiology of breathing and phonation and examines acoustics for an understanding of resonation.




Towards Success


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‘Towards Success’ is a book that deals with the mental growth of human beings. It’s about transformation of the soul, a journey towards success. With simple changes in one’s thought process, one can uplift one’s soul and be lead towards ultimate success. Every success and happiness depends upon one’s thought process. This is a self help book that targets everything that happens when you are in a negative or passive state of mind to regulate and redirect your energy in a positive way. All the chapters are followed by simple exercises through which a person can practice being more positive in life. These are simple steps that can help you lead a successful, happy and prosperous life.




Your Band Is a Virus - Expanded Edition


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Independent musicians in 2012 find themselves more confused than ever before and finding good information can be a challenge. This guide gives information on advocating and presenting the right product to the world, timing a release properly, promoting music blogs and publications with a personal touch, outsourcing and freelancing, and thinking outside of the box.




Great Singers on Great Singing


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The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory


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"An utterly satisfying examination of the business of popular music." —Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic There’s a reason today’s ubiquitous pop hits are so hard to ignore—they’re designed that way. The Song Machine goes behind the scenes to offer an insider’s look at the global hit factories manufacturing the songs that have everyone hooked. Full of vivid, unexpected characters—alongside industry heavy-hitters like Katy Perry, Rihanna, Max Martin, and Ester Dean—this fascinating journey into the strange world of pop music reveals how a new approach to crafting smash hits is transforming marketing, technology, and even listeners’ brains. You’ll never think about music the same way again. A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book




How To Be Famous


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Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for her liking. Then John Kite, Johanna’s unrequited love, has an album go to number one. Suddenly John exists on another plane of reality: that of the Famouses, a world of rabid fans and VIP access. Johanna lacks the traditional trappings of fame (famous parents, mind-scorching hotness, exotic sandals, etc.), so she does the only thing a self-respecting Lady Sex Adventurer can do. She starts a magazine column critiquing the lives and follies of the Famouses around her. But as Johanna skyrockets to fame herself, she begins to realize that with celebrity comes sacrifice, and hers may mean giving up the one person she was determined to keep. For anyone who has been a girl or known one, who has admired fame or judged it, How to Be Famous is a big-hearted, hilarious tale of fame and fortune—and all that they entail.




Six Steps to Songwriting Success, Revised Edition


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What’s the secret to writing a hit song? It’s as simple as 1-2-3-4-5-6! Innovative, practical, and inspiring, Six Steps to Songwriting Success presents a surefire step-by-step approach to mastering the elements consistently found in hit songs. Author Jason Blume, a songwriter with the rare distinction of having had songs on the Country, Pop, and R&B charts simultaneously, has packed this book with such key aids as the three-step lyric writing technique used by the pros; lyric, melody, and demo checklists; and tools for self-evaluation–plus many other exercises that work. Blume’s warm, humorous style features motivational anecdotes and entertaining stories of how hit songs came to be written and recorded. Get Six Steps to Songwriting Success, and get on the charts!




The Contemporary Singer


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(Berklee Guide). The second edition of this bestselling, comprehensive guide contains improved vocal workouts and additional topics, including performance anxiety and healthy singing. The companion audio makes this guide an ideal tool for creating a singing course for students of almost any age or gender, who can practice technique along with lead sheets for such standard vocal pieces as "Yesterday" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." Topics covered include getting started, posture, belting and diction, maintaining vocal health, microphone technique, and much more.




Brett Manning's Singing Success


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"Topics include range extension, mixing the vocal registers, eliminating the 'flip' into head voice, more power with less effort, trills, licks and runs, developing vibrato, eliminating vocal strain, elements of modern style, mastering each musical genre, vocal fry, reaching the whistle register, and much, much more."--Container.