Singing Shammos & Gelt That Grew

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Product Description Here's a course that will sharpen your sense of pitch and enable you to sing harmony with the best professionals. Includes sing-a-long exercises where you fill in the missing note in an interval or chord. Topics included are: Scales - major, minor, blues, pentatonic, chromatic, whole tone, and modes; Intervals - all intervals are included in this section; Chords - major, minor, diminished, augmented, 7th chords, dominant, add 9 chords, 6th chords; Rhythm & Meter - time signatures, simple rhythms, dotted rhythms, triplets, syncopation; Charts & Transpositions. Review . . .fills a big need especially in private voice studios like mine. -- Robert Edwin - NATS Journal ...excellent for ear training - well structured, worth including in any music studies program, especially for singers. -- Kari Windingstad - President, NATS - L.A. Chapter Adjunct Associate Professor of Voice, UCLA -- The exercises are melodic and musical. The invisible teachers are friendly and encouraging. --John Glenn Paton - Editor Your Vocal Harmony Course is great! It's fun and encouraging too. For the first time we have something other than just a book for the kids. Having both male and female voice to listen to and match makes all the difference ... and filling in the missing notes of intervals and chords andgetting immediate feedback is just what we need. Thanks --Jayne Campbell - Westlake - Harvard School Thanks to Austin & Howard, we finally have a practical training program in Vocal Musicianship. Scales, intervals, chords, rhythm & meter are the building blocks of music. ABCs of Vocal Harmony gears to the human voice and helps you play your vocal instrument with greater skill while learning the language of music. A member of my choir found it at Amazon.com and now I have everyone using it. My choir has never sounded better. Be sure to get the CD version for maximum effect in accessing any subject or exercises at the tuch of a button. --James A. Way, voice teacher from West Virginia About the Author Howard and Elisabeth are both members of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) for whom they have conducted numerous master classes. They are the authors of the Born To Sing series of instructional books and tapes as well as Sing Like A Pro and Learn To Sing Overnight DVDs, now distributed world-wide. Their Music Reading / Ear Training course, The ABCs Of Vocal Harmony is well on its way to becoming a popular text for music programs across the country. As a team, Howard and Elisabeth were signed to MCA as singer-songwriters and performed extensively throughout the United States. They have had several singers signed to major labels including RCA, Columbia, Geffen, Capitol and MCA. Howard Austin is a versatile vocal artist whose work includes a variety of starring roles on the musical stage as well as night club performances and recordings. His own vocal training has been with some of the great vocal teachers of all time including, John Motley, Gertrude Arnold and Dr. Peter J. Wilhousky. Howard has been a popular radio and TV talk show guest with his vocal demonstrations and instant 'on the spot' analysis and instruction to callers-in and studio audiences. In addition to his private clients, he has conducted numerous seminars on singing and voice training for NATS and Music Teachers of Los Angeles County Unified School District, Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase and others. His clients have included Tiffany, Holly Fields, Don York of Sha-Na-Na and several Star Search contestants including an International Junior Grand Champion. Ms. Howard holds a B.S. and M.S. in voice from the Juilliard School of Music. She has mastered many vocal styles used in her own varied singing career and in her teaching.