There are only really three methods of teaching or learning singing.
The first method is to learn by ear without a coach or instruction.
Simply to sing along to other singers. This is a very bad way to learn to sing because as a singer you have to instinctively figure out the right attack.
Unless you already instinctively do the right attack, the attack of the mask, then you will be impersonating good technique with bad technique and harming your voice. Usually when singers do this they struggle for pitch and volume and use more air. Trying to learn in this way you may find that some days the voice comes out good when you sing along, but you don't know a real attack so the next day you struggle again.
The other way to learn to sing is using trigger phrases coupled with variations on tone value and singing by ear to another singer.
You would do things such as sing, "mum," with a yawn like tone or sing, "nay," with a nasal tone just like a singer in an example did. This method can sometime work. However this method does not actually teach a direct attack.
With this method you may do an exercise as instructed and your voice comes out nicely one day, the next day you try the same exercise and it does nothing.
The reason is that the trigger phrases with variants of tone sometimes cause forward placement into the mask to happen as a happy accident.
What further complicates this is that you would probably listen to the example singer and try to mimic the tone with a bad attack and further hurt your voice. When trying to sing using this method the singer feels as if they are wandering around tonally with their voice and hoping it just catches.
This method of learning to sing is inferior as it doesn't teach a direct and specific attack. Consequently, only singers who already instinctively do the attack of the mask may hear any real change in their actual singing voice.
Coaches who teach this method usually are proponents of, "singing from the diaphragm," or "The registration method," or , "Finding your middle voice." All these methods are unnatural and don't work very well.
The third and best way to learn how to sing is to directly learn the attack of the mask. This is what Vocal Release Teaches.
It lays it out in a very, "step by step, do this to make this happen, manner." I use some trigger phrases. But, I don't just tell you to sing,"mum," with a breathy or yawn tone. I tell you an exact attack.
I will teach you specific things to manipulate in your body and how to approach singing so that your voice resonates forward into the mask and always has a pleasing tone. You can't trick your voice into resonant forward placement by singing, "nay," in a nasal tone or singing, "mum," with a yawn like tone.
There are very specific things you need to learn that will place it there in just a few days of practice. When you attack the voice from the mask all singing feels as easy as humming resonantly with your mouth open. There are no register or breaks to worry about. Registers don't exist. They are an invention taught by bad vocal coaches that don't know how to teach a singer how to attack the voice into the mask.
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