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The Fastest Singing Programme

Your voice is an instrument by Dr Voice

For many generations, singing has been practiced, naturally, by every
culture. Anyone can sing. Natural singing is what it’s all about. Each
of us can sing and when we have balanced our mind, body, emotions
and opened up to the elements of music, we can discover a sound that
is so unique and special to us that it is magnificent!

You will be taught the elements of music which will be the driving
force behind your voice and singing. Without this musical knowledge
of the necessary elements, you are like a ship without a rudder in the
ocean.

For some of us, it is more natural and seemingly very easy to do, but
for you it may be very difficult to even begin to use your voice as an
instrument for singing.

This programme will get you to understand how music works through
your voice. Practising daily as instructed on the CDs and in the book,
you will achieve a standard of singing and an awareness of your true
voice very quickly. The magic of this programme is the song itself that
I have entitled “Singing Inside Yourself” the title suggests we will be
singing inside ourselves, it is the fastest way to learn by the use of our
subconscious.

If you think that you are not a singer! That you cannot sing! You may
think you sound terrible when you sing. If so then the “Fastest Singing
Programme” will prove that you are wrong. It will help to uncover the
core sounds of your voice and increase your musical skills in the most
ingenious way. This process has been especially developed to instruct
your “Subconscious Mind” with simple broken down methods that have
never been presented in a learning to sing programme before, you will
be singing beyond what you thought was possible in a very short time.
For those of you who can sing, I promise you an easy journey to the
mastering of your voice, enabling you to sing any song that you choose
to learn, rapidly and more accurately than you have ever encountered
before in a singing programme.

I will be guiding you every step of the way with the book and CDs,
which contain full explanations of the elements of music including
demonstrations and performances throughout the song “Singing Inside
Yourself”. This programme will equip your voice with the necessary
passion in order for you to express the real you in your sound. It has
always been the challenge of musicians and singers throughout history
to express themselves musically. For example, to play piano, French
horn or violin, you need to understand where to put your fingers on the
instrument. You need to learn how much pressure or weight to use,
how to judge the right amount of air to blow over the mouthpiece, or
how much pressure to put on the bow of the many different types of
stringed instruments.

There is no substitute for practise to make these judgements
of pressure, weight and air flow. This has always been a definite
requirement in order to master these instruments of great colour and
texture.

So what of singing? Why do most people who sing not even
contemplate that their voice is an instrument? They too have to apply
the right amount of air pressure and imagination in order to sing.
This is exactly what is required to develop a great singing ability. Very
few have discovered that they are themselves in fact an instrument and
have truly embraced the art of singing. Here are just a few names who
have – Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, Barbara Streisand, Michael
McDonald, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and too many more to
mention. Frank Sinatra was known to have copied the trombone for his
phrasing and sound development. Ella Fitzgerald was known to imitate
a saxophone.

Before this happens, you may need help and encouragement. If you
are not sure how good your singing is (or could be), then how will you
ever know?

Thousands of pupils have passed through my studios over the last
25 years who were not aware to begin with, how good their voices
were. They certainly did not realise how to make their voice become an
instrument and to treat it like one. To get to grips with the voice is not
much different than learning how to handle a saxophone.
This is why so many of my students, especially those who had great
voices did not have that essential awareness or ‘the know how’.
They were not aware that their voice is an instrument and were just
concerned about what others thought. The question though is: Does
10 your voice convince you that you are a good singer? This programme
is all about you and how you want to sound or be as a singer.
I have developed a unique awareness over the years of the different
components of singing as a result of the many different voices and
personalities that I have had the pleasure to teach. Similarily through
my work as a composer/orchestrator with The Orchestra of London and
The Philharmonia, I have come to an understanding of each instrument
and what it can do and this can be paralleled with the singing voice.
You are going to discover the texture and tone of your voice, your
distinctive sound and who you are vocally in the amateur or professional
world of performing music, using your instrument, your beautiful voice.
All professional musicians know their instruments inside out. This
programme has been designed to help you get to know your voice in
the same way.

You should always be relaxed and unhurried when you sing. When
you are dealing with musical instruments, they are like robots, which
you make part of you. However, your voice is organic and is inside you
- it is you and is therefore unique, together we will train it and unlock
your natural voice with a few well-chosen techniques and then you can
sing to your satisfaction.

When you make strange vocal noises you do not recognise as being
you, it may feel false. Do not worry! The more you use the new sounds
the more you become used to them. As you begin the exercises and
listen to the subconscious meditation on a daily basis you will gain
confidence in using your voice.

As each day passes and you manage to put the necessary time aside
to listen and practise the programme you will gain a pace of learning
which will begin to yield incredible results. The key is to keep doing it
on a daily basis.

Make sure that you are focusing on being in a positive state by
listening to the beginning of the CD. This along with the feeling that you
are going to have heaps of fun can only drive you forward to successful
singing.

My desired outcome is to get you learning to sing faster than you
thought possible, whilst uncovering the splendid textured tones which
give the pleasant sound in your singing voice, all this, with the passion
and motivation to reach your desired goal sooner rather than later.

For your copy of the Fastest Singing Programme Click Here

Walking To A Different Beat

Walking To A Different Beat – “Inspiring and uplifting, this evocative tale is told in words, sound and vision in the sensational Docu-Video-Book”

Ziggi has been in showbiz 28 years, 22 of those years in the pop music business. She signed to her music management when she was 15 and is still with them 22 years later. Ziggi is a great performer writes the most amazing songs, been signed to, and dropped by, major record companies, recorded several albums and toured extensively. She has shown that not only can she walk to a different beat but also she can stay on that Beat – on or off the red carpet – for as long as it takes and no matter what’s thrown at her.

‘Walking To A Different Beat’ is a detailed diary kept meticulously by those around Ziggi over 22 years. It chronicles her journey through the music business to date just as she is about to start a new music chapter. Simultaneously, it exposes many unknown facets of the business including how it disposes of, in a heartless and indifferent manner, the creatives it once loved and no longer wants. Ironically enough the .disposers’ very often become the .disposees’ as the music business hires and fires without due care and attention.

This is not a sob story but a real chronicle of one person’s existence in the music industry. It’s about highs and lows, ducking and diving to survive and ultimately a story of creative endurance to which many people will relate. Its’ candid approach could qualify it for a career talk for songwriters and performers of the future.

This story is not unique but it is frequently hidden behind the mask of people’s perception of what making it in the music business is about, Ziggi demonstrates that there are many benchmarks for success.

Ziggi’s journey is the antithesis of our instant celebrity success culture and, as it unfolds, it clearly illustrates how our response to situations, and not the situations themselves, defines our onward journey and, ultimately, our future.

Read this journey at My Life On A Stick

I NT C

I love good music especially good, well-produced music, and even more so if I happen to have known the person who made said music since I was at university.

Let me introduce you, dear friends, to ziggi. The new album –
‘i n t c’ to which she contributes her stunning and ever-awesome vocals (awesome in the real sense of the word), is, I have to say, a work of art. In fact, it’s more than that: it’s a masterpiece.

Should it get the publicity it most definitely deserves, y good it will blast a hole in the stomach of commercialism bigger than Jupiter’s Red Spot. And a bloodhing, too. Too many people think being in a band is an easy route to big bucks. Umm, no. Let me clarify that, it ain’t.

This is where ziggi comes in. I’ve seen how hard she’s worked and, believe you me, making genuine, REAL music is no easy task. If the music press pass this one up, I will be forced to come to the conclusion that the people who run them and even those who write for them must be certifiably insane.

This music can pack out stadiums. Let ziggi prove, once and for all, that real talent shines through among the dross and it lasts and never leaves the person whom it inhabits. I’m going off on one. I can tell. But, though I would usually apologise, not this time. I’m not the least bit sorry for telling all who’ll listen about ziggi and I’m even less sorry for the blatant and unashamed plug which follows:

for lyrics the like of which you have no hope of finding anywhere else, go to www.mylifeonastick.com/shop. If you don’t do it now, I’ll follow your every move until you do. So, step to it.

Dawn Laker

New Female Music Artist Review – Ziggiville

Roll up, roll up – our first music review from new music artist enthusiast and guest writer Janie. We played her a few of new female pop artist Ziggiville’s new indie pop/rock tracks. The female lead Ziggi adds electric guitar adds rock to her new songs on latest album ’INTC’ – we thought it was a pretty cool new take on new indie pop music, so we thought we’d get a second opinion… get the album and her docu-video-book ‘Walking To A Different Beat’

New Female Music Artist – A Trip Through Ziggyville

“I arrived and some day will go. Now is all important.” -
Ziggyville.

All good music should do two things- say something we can all hear, and allow
listeners to relate what they hear to who they are, or hope to be. Exciting
new female pop music artist ziggyville delivers that experience with fierce delight
and unbridled honesty.

We arrive as children, grow into adulthood, and die. That is the immutable
fact of life. “Now” is what makes the journey worth the trip. Ziggyville knows
the road and its detours. She knows that you do, too. For such a new music
artist, she speaks in words that evoke new feelings about what is universal
and familiar. She drives the point home with urgent guitars, anchored backbeats
and vocal brilliance. It’s a perfect union of individual experience and collective
understanding.

“Breaks To Learn” reminds us “You gotta get up, you gotta find a reason to
live… you’ve got to find the strength to give up… you’ve got to find the
right door…”
That’s a good way to look at Monday morning, and the beginning of your work
week, when you shut off the alarm, make those feet hit the floor and do what
you gotta do to survive. What did you have to give up to do it? Have you found
the right door?

“Everybody Said It Was” delivers guitars and drums the way they ought to be-tight,
clean, loud and depth charged to guarantee you move with it, feel it when she
wails “Everybody said it was murder!” We can all hear that, but each of us
understands that deadliness in our own way.

“Who R U ” asks that question, and so much more of us! Where is your heart, you know what you know, but can you tell me who R U ?”

Those are good questions. Your answers will differ from mine. “We arrived
from different places, and we may go on alone, but for now we travel together” and
if you’re looking for new female pop music artist with an angsty rock attitude,
Ziggyville will get you there.

You can listen to all of Ziggyville’s latest new indie pop music at TheBestMusicShop.co.uk or ask Ziggiville about tourdates or prerelease material on our Free Stuff page.

Top New Indie Pop Music For 2010

An Inside Look at New Music Artists For 2010!

Top New Indie Pop Music For 2010
Recently I got in touch with some friends and new indie music anoraks that were able to tell us a bit from the ‘inside’ – so here are the new indie pop music names that are expected to have a huge impact on our ears this year, organised into three neat little categories for your reading pleasure.

New Indie Music with a Touch of Electro
You will have heard teasers of this new indie music pop genre, set for explosion, within the more classic indie and pop songs of 2009. If you liked it, get to know names like:

• Free Energy – inspired by late 1970s-early 1980s classic rock, they’ll give you the type of song you’d go on a road trip to. Think AC/DC, and Thin Lizzy
• Two Door Cinema Club – a young new indie pop music trio who’ve toured with well known names like The Wombats
• French Horn Rebellion – a great new electro-pop threesome featuring two brothers from Milwaukee, who’ve managed everything from recording to releasing themselves
• Wild Beasts – they’ve been compared to the brilliant Maccabees and already raved about for their crazy and playful sounds, plus they’re amazing live.
• Delphic – from Manchester in the UK, these guys have already had numerous appearances in top festivals and on TV. And they deserve it – creating sounds you can play over and over again, Delphic really stand out amongst the genre.

Indie Music Pop Folk – A New Genre
Again, more ‘traditional’ folk styles were even creeping into mainstream music in 2009, but is set to feature heavily throughout new indie music pop and some rock in 2010 and beyond. Hurry up and and get listening to these people for great new indie pop music with folky undertones:

• Owen Pallett – previously going by the name Final Fantasy, Owen Pallett is a composer, a violinist, a singer, and an all-round great artist when it comes to fusing folk music with new indie pop music sounds
• Dan Mangan – Itunes named this guy “Best New Artist” in 2009, and now Vancouver’s newest and favourite new indie music pop/folk-rock artist is going global – we can’t get enough of his music.
• Vandaveer – Check out the song Marianne, You’ve Done It Now. A great song on a great album, inspired by Dylan (who you’ll probably agree is one of the unofficial founders of new indie music!)
• Twilight Hotel – a Canadian duo producing exciting and varied new indie pop music within their genre. From the slower songs to the more fast paced vibrant tracks, don’t miss their stuff.
Lindsey Thompson - more of a gentle sound, Lindsey’s clear vocals blend perfectly with soft melodies, and her lyrics complement her style perfectly.

New Indie Pop Rock and Punk
If the slower paces of new indie pop music don’t appeal, or your love for new indie music stems from straight up punk rock, metal, and rock and roll, make sure you keep an eye on these bands: Screaming Females – although there’s actually only one Female in the band, these guys can deliver a brilliant performance consisting of passionate wailing and Jimi Hendrix inspired guitar playing.

• Dinosaur Feathers – you’ll definitely find something unique and lovable in new indie music if you listen to Dinosaur feathers, a trio who simply love experimenting with sound.
• Evan Voytas – a young singer/songwriter from Pennsylvania, this multi-instrumental solo artist has perfected out an EP of rich and classic songs.
• Internet Forever – female lead new indie music with slight rock undertones, this trio is probably the ‘gentlest’ option of the list – check out their single ‘Cover The Walls’.
• Ziggiville – producing vibrant, attitude filled new indie pop rock tracks, featuring some brilliant electric guitar and lyrics like poetry. Have a look at her first album for what I’m talking about here!

So Who Is The Favourite?
After much uhmming-and-aaaahhing, there was a collective decision over 2 artists that the indie pop music buffs have their bets on being top for new indie pop music in 2010

Ziggiville – A playful yet passionate and energetic new indie pop punk sound comes from this British female artist. You won’t see Ziggiville in the shops yet, but you can listen to all of her new indie pop music online before your friends and download it straight away. Go listen to some of her new music and read her docu-video-book ‘Walking To A Different Beat’!

Vandaveer – They’re making music videos as I type! And their new album Divide & Conquer is going to be loved by many, many people in the future – so the experts say! Visit Vandaveer official music site here

I suppose all I can do is remain a diehard indie pop fan, and watch this space for whether the prophecy comes true!