Pro Secrets of Heavy Rock Singing (Music Sales America) by Bill Martin
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Book Reviews of Pro Secrets of Heavy Rock Singing (Music Sales America)
Book Review: Be advised on what you buy
Summary: 3 Stars
I agree with Gregg in previous review. The book (or should we call it a magazine?) consists mainly of interviews with rock stars on techniques they're using. There are no vocal lessons as stated in description. If you're looking for vocal excersizes, this is not quite the book.
The picture of the product is deceptive - it's actually white, with the fill of what's displayed here and this fill takes on only 1/3 of the front cover.
Again, I agree, the title should be changed.
Book Review: Pro Secrets of Heavy Rock Singing really helps
Summary: 5 Stars
I gave this book to friend that has been singing for a long time. He indicated that he learned so much from the book in such a short time. He knew he was doing things differently too as he was getting sore muscles from singing in a more appropriate fashion. He has improved and is very happy to have such a reference book in his collection!Book Review: "Jaime Vendera, Author of Raise Your Voice"
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first vocal instruction book for rock singers, which addresses the voice from the professional singer's point of view. Pro Secret's of Heavy Rock Singing contains 25 interviews from professional rock singers, such as, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, Geoff Tate of Queensryche, James Labrie of Dream Theater, and David Draiman of Disturbed.
This book presents the "secrets" of professionals that will help you to sing like a professional, improve your range, increase your power and avoid vocal burnout. Bill covers the basic aspects of a rock singer's voice starting with voice types. He discusses voice range classifications and differences between male and female voices. He explains breath control and utilizing resonance for power. He then moves on to explain how to warm up the voice. Rock singing is about range and rasp, both of which are covered in detail. Finally, Bill touches on vocal health, discussing such important factors, such as hydration and sleep.
This is an excellent book for getting the basics of rock singing. The book is worth buying for the interviews. What better way to learn how to sing rock, than by words of wisdom directly from the masters. Many of the singers discuss singing metal music by way of falsetto. I am not a big fan of using falsetto for singing all of your upper notes because I know that you can develop your full voice to achieve the same range. Regardless of each individual vocalists approach, each interview has several gems detrimental to developing your voice. I recommend this book for all serious rock and hard rock singers.
Book Review: unfair!!
Summary: 2 Stars
The title is unfair, because it leads you to think that you will actually have a solid vocal lessons book on heavy metal,
It ain't true. the book should have been titled "Interviews with heavy rock singers". Now "Bill Martin" who ever you are, your book !!sucks!!. If the title would have been another, then it probably wouldn't suck. I wish somebody would write a real book on heavy rock singing. There are a lot of kids outhere that would love to learn this technique, and it is not fair that jerks that aren't even singers, take advantage of this by putting misleading titles to there books just to sell them.
Book Review: True Metal vocal techniques to the max!
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is overall a great read. I am not a lead vocalist, I am a guitarist, but I know a lot about singing and other instruments. A few things I suggest you skip over are anything said by Chuck Billy(although I'm a huge fan of Testament, his vocal techniques are very harsh and damaging on your vocal chords)and the guy from Disturbed(he apparently damaged his voice so bad that he needed surgery). Other than that, this is a great book. Winger-haters, don't skip over the Kip Winger interview...Although Winger had horribly cheesy music, Kip is a very knowledgable musician and gives great advice. Bruce gives awesome but common warm-up tips, and James Labree obviously knows what he is talking aboot, eh? Geoff Tate's advice did not impress me. I expected more out of such a vocal god. I do recomend this book for any lead or backup vocalist. It gives great insight to whatever style you are playing, especially Metal. Well, I hope this review helped you. My Metal Hails hgo out to all of you!
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