The Zen of Screaming: Vocal Instruction for a New Breed

Buy This Item The Zen of Screaming: Vocal Instruction for a New Breed by Warner Brothers Pub.  Available from Amazon  $24.95  on 11-28-2008     The first of its kind, this DVD offers comprehensive but easy-to-follow vocal instruction and information, plus step by step exercises. Convenient menus allow you to navigate easily and effectively through the 30+ segments. The instruction includes invaluable tips on vocal maintenance, actual vocal cord footage, and explicit and helpful animations which illustrate and illuminate the specific vocal exercises. Interspersed is exclusive backstage and performance footage of today's most exciting artists, with candid offstage interviews and opportunities to see these artists actually working in-studio with Melissa. Featured vocalists include Andrew W.K., Lamb of God's D. Randall Blythe, Shadows Fall's Brian Fair, Every Time I Die's Keith Buckley, God Forbid's Byron Davis, Melissa Auf der Maur and more. Also included is an Audio CD & Booklet with a clearly itemized vocal practice program for each range. This DVD is as entertaining as it is informative and a must-have tool for vocalists of today. "the Bible for any extreme music vocalist." -Tom Beaujour, Editor In Chief, Revolver Magazine Reader Reviews The introduction part does come across like an ad, but once it gets going there is a lot of useful stuff. Instruction is interspersed with pieces of interviews with students of Melissa's, which is not instruction per se. But I think the interviews are very helpful in showing how it's put to use, as well as demonstrating the importance of vocal health. Most of the concepts Melissa reviews are things you'll encounter with a more traditional singing instructor, but she has her own way of describing them and explaining how they relate to screaming. She also has some unique exercises, tailored to heavy vocalizing. I think this DVD is most beneficial in conjunction with lessons/other instruction. The reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5 is because it only scratches the surface, and it's only designed to scratch the surface. I think this is fine for what it is, but it isn't everything. That, and the first 20 minutes are self-indulgent.

The Zen of Screaming: Vocal Instruction for a New Breed Available from Amazon Price: $24.95 Updated on 11-28-2008.

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