THE PERFECT BLEND Book/DVD Set

by Timothy Seelig

What's included:

• The Perfect Blend: Over 100 Seriously Fun Vocal Warmups (6673)
  Do your rehearsals need a jumpstart? Do YOU? This book's for you. Fun to read, but very practical and filled with ideas on every aspect of vocal and choral warm-ups, as well as rehearsal tips, things they didn't teach you, vocal health, the aging voice, and an appendix of other tools. 75 photos demonstrate the concepts.
  From a solid introduction we move to Warm'Er Up (or down); Posture (holding your musical instrument); Motor (rev your engines); Vibrator (The most powerful ¾";" in the world); Register (head,chest, shoulders, knees and toes); Resonators (woofer & tweeters); Choral Singing (eclectic blender); Your Conducting Profile (physician, heal thyself); TMI (rehearsal tips); TLC (things they didn't teach you); Vocal Health (soup to nuts); The Aging Voice (it's gonna happen); Appendix 158 pp.
  Paperback
• The Perfect Blend DVD (5014)
  Soup To Nuts—From Rehearsal the Performance! Using material from his book. Seelig gives us 2 hours of warm-ups demonstrated by adult singers—a 5-course meal, he calls it. Appetizer is Posture; Soup is Breathing; Salad is Phonation; Entre is Resonance; Dessert is Blend. We visit a vocologist at Baylor Medical Center where we see vocal folds in action and hear tips to keep them healthy. He also touches briefly on 'things they don't teach you'. Presented with humor and good pacing. 2 hr.
  DVD. Purchase includes public performance rights.