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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

Ziggi Baker is ‘Walking To A Different Beat’

Ziggi Baker’s ‘Walking To A Different Beat’

Inspiring and uplifting, this evocative tale is told in words, sound and vision in the sensational new Docu-Video-Book

‘Walking To A Different Beat’ is a chronicle of Ziggi’s journey in the music business over 22 years taken from diaries kept throughout. This is not a sob story but a 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.

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 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 she can not only Walk To A Different Beat but she can stay on that Beat – on or off the red carpet – for as long as it takes, no matter what’s thrown at her.

Walking To A Different Beat in its’ candid approach could even qualify it for a career talk for performers of the future. It’s important that anyone at the start of their journey be aware that all skills and talents require development, mutual respect, courage, self-belief, support and ’stickability’.

Ziggi’s journey is the antithesis of our instant celebrity 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.
Walking To A Different Beat

Get Your Story Published @ My Life On A Stick

Are you in a band, an orchestra or you a musician, singer, songwriter. Do you want to write your story about the trials, tribulations and joys of your life in the music business and, at the same time, maybe help, guide or inform others. My Life On A Stick will publish your true story…..

By the way – for one such exciting story of the journey through the music business by one Artist/Band see ‘Walking To A Different Beat’

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Got to My Life On A Stick multi-media publishers to find out more……. it’s a great opportunity to have your say and tell your story

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

Your Life On A Stick

A new multi media publishing house has just gone live.  My Life On A Stick offers to tell your story…. or at least give you the platform.

Their first effort is a diary representing a 22 year journey in the music business, the artist Ziggi Baker, a great insight and great music to boot.

If you have something to say or a story to tell get along to My Life On A Stick

Celebrity is not enough for these guys and they say they have some great people they are working with….. so watch this space as I think this could be BIG

A Single Symphony

other ziggi activities
‘A Single Symphony’ & University Campus Suffolk

As always, dedicated to keeping music live and accessible, ziggi
continues to look to collaboration with other artists and art forms to
take music and the arts to a broad range of audiences. One such
project is ‘A Single Symphony’.

“The whole is greater than the sum of its’ parts – collaboration is the
key element and truth to its’ success”

‘A Single Symphony’ promotes a shift in the thinking applied to our
arts and industries. A Single Symphony is a creative society
developing opportunities, not waiting for them.

Young film-makers are invited to create a series of filmed mini pop
operas, highlighting social issues in the community, using a narrative
provided by carefully selected pop songs….”art with social
awareness”.

Special thanks to Dr Paul Nicholas for much, not least of all for
introducing ‘A Single Symphony’ to University Campus Suffolk.

University Campus Suffolk is the Flagship University for ‘A Single
Symphony’ and their video productions will be published and
archived as original work of the project.

Following the lead of University Campus Suffolk, ‘A Single
Symphony’ will be offered, as a module, to other Universities

Justin Bieber

Here for good or just a young flash in the pan….. ?

Justin Bieber is a Canadian accompanist boy who was apparent by Usher.

Justin Bieber Biography

His climb to the top of the music charts seems to have happened overnight, but the Canadian pop-R&B sensation has taken four years to reach the summit.

Still a young man, he has developed so much as an artist that he’s already deserving of a Justin Bieber Biography.

Justin Bieber Biography – The Early Days

Born in Stratford, Ontario, on March 1, 1994, Justin didn’t consider singing until he was 12, after a second-place finishin a talent showin 2007.

“I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol,” he says. “The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn’t taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.”

Soon after, the only child from the marriage of the now-divorced Pattie Mallette and Jeremy Jack Bieber started posting videos on YouTube for family and friends to enjoy.

However, videos of him covering songs by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Ne-Yo and a star that was to have a major influence on his career, R&B singer/songwriter Usher, attracted a few more hits than expected – about 10 million more!

But this Justin Bieber Biography subject also came to the attention of former So So Def marketing executive Scooter Braun, who would soon fly the now 13-year-old to Atlanta to meet with colleagues at the Raymond Braun Media Group.

Bieber says, “I put my singing videos from the competition on YouTube so my friends and family could watch them. But it turned out that other people liked them and they started subscribing to them. That’s how my manager found me. He saw me on YouTube and contacted my family and now I’m signed!”

It was seven months after first posting on YouTube that Braun – checking up on another artist – mistakenly clicked on a Bieber video. But he was quickly convinced he had uncovered a musical gem.

Justin Bieber Biography – Deal Me In

Braun realized he had to get to Bieber swiftly, before anyone else spotted this obvious talent. He located Bieber’s mother, Pattie, and asked her permission to take her son to Atlanta. Initially reluctant, Pattie allowed Braun to fly Justin to Georgia to record some demos.

“Right when we flew into Atlanta, Scooter drove us to the studio and Usher was there in the parking lot,” recalls Bieber. “I went up to him and was like, ‘Hey, Usher, I love your songs, do you want me to sing you one?’ He was like, ‘No, little buddy, just come inside, it’s cold out’.”

But Usher was also quickly convinced of Justin’s star qualities when he saw the youngster’s self-made videos, noting that the kid had taught himself to play drums, guitar, piano and trumpet.

“A week later Usher flew me back to Atlanta,” says the star of this Justin Bieber Biography. “I sang for him and his people and he really wanted to sign me then and there, but I still had a meeting with Justin Timberlake, who also wanted to sign me. It turned out Usher’s deal was way better.”

Usher arranged an audition with Antonio ‘LA’ Reid, of Island Def Jam Music Group, and, suitably impressive, Bieber was signed to Island Records in October 2008.

Justin Bieber Biography – Moving On Up

Late in 2008, Bieber and his mother – who still travels with him –made the move to Atlanta, where he still lives, and Braun officially became his manager.

His first single, One Time,made a big impact. Released in July 2009, the song made number 12 on the Canadian Hot 100 during its first week before hitting the heights of 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

One Less Lonely Girl was an iTunes exclusive release three months later, although it was released to more websites and radio in November and peaked at 15 in the UScharts and 10 in Canada.

Two more singles from his upcoming debut album, My World, were brought out – Love Me and Favorite Girl – but without as much sales success.

The first half of a two-album debut, My World came out in November, with production credits from the likes of Tricky, who was behind the smash hits Umbrella for Rihanna and Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) for Beyonce.

Generally well received, the album topped the Canadian charts and peaked at five in the US Billboard 200. My World has since gone on to become a Platinum seller in the USA, Canada and the UK – adding more weight to the need for a Justin Bieber Biography.

My World 2.0 – the second half of his two-album debut – hit the stores in March of 2010, but was preceded in January by Billboard Hot 100 top five single Baby, featuring Ludacris. Digital singles Never Let You Go and U Smile followed, before April 2010 saw Somebody To Love brought out as the album’s second single. U Smile became the third track released in August this year.

Justine Bieber Biography – There’s Much More To Come

Bieber started working on his follow-up album in July, with British singer/songwriter Taio Cruz contributing songs for the 2011 release, while hip hop legend Dr. Dre produced two songs with Bieber in July.

But the prodigious talent is not sticking solely to singing as witnessed by his September 2010 appearance on CBS crime series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, where Bieber guest starred as a ‘troubled teen’. He will be a recurring character on the television show.

A 3D film about his life is also in production, with a February 2011 release date set for the John Chu-directed movie.

With so much more to come from the young man, a revised Justin Bieber Biography will certainly be needed soon. But the star himself just wants to be a role model for other kids.

“I’m looking forward to influencing others in a positive way,”he says. “My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it. I grew up below the poverty line; I didn’t have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person; it built my character.”

You decide?

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Fashion Week London 2010 Funny

ziggiville Lifts Pressure of London Fashion Week 2010

One of our featured new music artists, ziggiville, has surprised us all with this video inspired by Fashion Week London 2010. The london fashion week parody video, featuring lead singer ziggi dancing around and really getting into David Bowie’s Fashion is her own interpretations of current fashion trends(!). It was initially only intended for friends and family, but when it leaked on youtube, she just laughed.  ziggi hopes  it will bring a smile to the face of  those feeling the pressure of fashion, whether they be guests of spring fashion week london 2010 or average people like you and me worried about what spring fashion 2010 will bring.

Want a London Fashion Week Laugh?

ziggi is supporting whole thing after receiving some great feedback by feautring the fashion week london parody video, and also posting the hilarious outtakes of her video, onto her youtube channel!

Want to see whats so funny in full? Watch the london fashion week 2010 funny on youtube!

You can also spread the laughs throughout Fashion Week London 2010 while this video is still pretty exclusive, and share it with your friends by clicking one of the share buttons below this post.  You can also listen to Ziggi’s lastest album ‘I N TC and read her docu-video-book ‘Walking To A Different Beat’