Audio Lesson 1 - Introduction and how to understand your own voice
This first section will help you Get Started as a Singer. You’ll come to understand your own voice, where you are at, and what you are capable of. You'll also find out what exercises you need to do to warm your voice up before we get into the more nitty-gritty vocal technique.
   Audio Lesson 2 - Warm ups and strengthening the voice
In this lesson, we will focus on warming up and teach you some great vocal strengthening exercises. We hope that you are excited to get into the great content we have for you. This lesson is going to be very beneficial to you as a singer. The warm-ups and strengthening exercises we have for you in this lesson can be learned and when you have mastered them - they will keep your voice strong and ready to sing. The ability to warm up and the strengthening your voice are paramount. You will dramatically improve most areas of your voice if you take the time to practice these techniques.
   Audio Lesson 3 - Breathing and Posture
Your breathing will affect your vocal tone as well as your pitch. That's why today we are focusing on Breathing and Posture. While Lesson 2 is about learning incredibly easy and effective warm ups that help strengthen your voice and add flexibility, the third lesson covers breathing techniques and correct posture for singers.
In the last couple of lessons, we talked a little about breathing and just how important it is to have the correct support and control. As a singer, your breathing greatly affects your performance because it’s the flow of air which makes it possible for you to produce sound in the first place!
   Thus, the goals for this lesson are to:
• Understand the importance of correct breathing technique and posture
• Learn how to breathe from your entire body
• Learn the effects of using proper breathing techniques
• Learn how to “ground” yourself to produce a fuller sound.
   Audio Lesson 4 - Tone
Now we’re moving on to the nitty-gritty of vocal technique. From this section onwards, you’re going to learn everything you need to know about tone, pitch, as well as your chest and head voices. This stuff may seem easy to brush off, but these lessons will actually give you the best basis for producing a professional sounding voice. After all, the foundation is the most important aspect of singing.
   Audio Lesson 5 - Pitch, Staying in Tune
The first goal for this lesson is to understand the difference between pitch and tone (terms which are often confused with each other), and how to avoid singing sharp or flat. We will teach you how to use your newly acquired support and control techniques to achieve this.
Then we’ll tell you about perfect pitch, which is a rare gift, and “relative pitch,” which is something every singer can aspire to AND achieve. So the overall goal for this lesson is to develop your own “mental ear.” Then you can understand relative pitch and hear when a sound - most importantly your own singing voice - is not reaching notes or singing over the pitch it should be.
   Audio Lesson 6 - Chest voice and head voice
This next lesson is about your two different voices: your chest voice and your head voice. The overall goal for this lesson is to understand the difference between these two so-called “voices” you have. But more importantly you want to learn how to bridge and blend your two voices so you have a connected voice throughout your entire vocal range.
   Audio Lesson 7 - Bad Habits to AVOID
There are probably bad habits that you can't help but make and will be destructive to your voice. Here is where you discover the most common bad habits that many singers have. This will make you more aware of them and avoid falling into the same old traps in the future. Not only will you learn how to identify bad habits (and learn how to avoid them), you’ll also establish GOOD overall practice habits when singing.
    Audio Lesson 8 - Extending your vocal range: Part 1
Although other lessons in the Singorama course will certainly help improve your vocal range, this lesson (along with Lesson 22) is specifically focused on how your vocal range actually works. It also includes several powerful exercises that you can practice with AND ultimately increase your vocal range in the process - most likely by an octave at the very least!
   Audio Lesson 9 - Time signatures, key signatures and rhythm
This lesson marks the start of the next section of the course which covers the technical side of music. The goals for this lesson are really important and will be very worthwhile if you wish to train further as a singer. After this lesson you should be able to:
• Understand the different technical elements of a piece of music, not to mention…
• Learn how to visually recognize different time signatures
• Learn how to hear the difference between different time signatures
• Learn how to identify the key signature of the music
• Learn the different types of musical notes
• Understand how to learn the rhythm of a piece of music
   Audio Lesson 10 - Major and minor keys; Solfege
By this lesson, we'll be well into learning about the technical side of music and music theory. This lesson is all about major and minor keys and scales, as well as a system called Solfege. Much of this lesson will be building on things that we talked about in the previous lessons about time signatures, key signatures and rhythm.
The goals for this lesson are to understand the difference between major and minor keys, scales, and to be able to hear the differences as well. Also, an important goal is to learn and understand the Solfege system and how it can help you in your singing training now and in the future.
   Audio Lesson 11 - Intervals and Solfege
In this lesson, we’ll focus on the Solfege system and how to ingrain it into your memory. As you gain a better grasp of Solfege and put it into practice, you’ll find that reading music, picking up harmonies and learning songs is a breeze. We have taken the difficulty out of all that dry music theory and come up with some fun and easy ways to get the competitive edge over all those other singers out there.
The goal for this lesson is to understand the importance of learning Solfege when trying to “memorize” intervals and learn the tricks for remembering different intervals.
We will be teaching you the tricks to learn a song without having to hear it first. This will benefit you greatly as it will improve your musical ear and help you with harmonising as well. This way, you’ll be able to sing the correct notes in the right keys.
   Audio Lesson 12 - Different styles of singing
This lesson provides an overview of some of the different ways you can use your voice to produce various sounds. We will be exploring how to manipulate and change your voice to produce exciting and different effects.
When flicking through different radio stations that play rock, opera, jazz, musical theatre or pop, you’ll find an amazing variety of songs and voices which differ greatly from each other. The art of manipulating your voice and accompanying differently arranged backing instruments is something that you can learn. When you learn to how to use your voice more fully, you will increase your versatility as a singer and make yourself more employable to boot!
The ability to sing a variety of different styles can be especially useful when auditioning for musical theatre. Often performers will need to sing a range of styles within a show.
   Audio Lesson 13 - How to Become Sensational At Singing Harmony -
Everyone will want to sing with YOU!
Very few singing courses deal with harmony since it’s not as easy as it sounds. Luckily, we’ll break it all down and make it easy for you to understand – not to mention provide numerous tracks for you to listen to and practice with.
With Singorama, you'll discover how to make your harmony sound like a true professional. We'll also familiarize you with different chord progressions and cadences. Hearing melodies and their harmonies within the chords will eventually become second nature to you!
You'll also learn the important things to avoid when singing harmony. This is to eliminate clashing between parts and allow you to sing your harmony to the composer's desired effect!
Whether you’re singing as part of a church choir or a barbershop quartet, there are many reasons why you may wish to learn harmony. Whatever they are, Singorama's harmony section contains a comprehensive, practical guide to the topic.
   Audio Lesson 14 - How to Sing Different Genres of Music
We will look at how vocals are used in different genres and some of their defining characteristics. We will also touch on the difference between different styles of singing and different genres of music.
Audio Lesson 15 - Understanding the meaning of a song - Part 1 lyrics and overall tone
These next few lessons will cover everything you need to know when it comes to learning a song from scratch all the way to adopting your own style of performance. Of course, we’ll also give you some great tips on how to make a song your own. So the goals for this lesson are:
• Understand the significance of learning the meaning of a song — you want to make a connection with the audience
• Learn how to read into the meaning of the lyrics themselves and understand the message
• Learn how to recognize the overall tone of the piece
The most amazing musical performances (whether live or recorded) are those where the performer makes a connection with the audience through the words and music while conveying a message through the song.
Audio Lesson 16 - Understanding the meaning of a song (Part 2): emotions conveyed through music and how to put your personality into a song
In Lesson 15, we began looking at understanding a song’s meaning. We focused on the lyrics and the overall tone of a song. By this lesson, you will have already interpreted three poems and decided on the writer's overall feeling and message. This will enable you to move on to the second part of understanding the meaning of a song.
This lesson is about conveying emotions through music and how to put your personality into the song. Now that you know the overall feel of the music and have the lyrics, it’s time for you to know how to express them to the audience
   The goals for this lesson are to:
• Understand the role of the singer: to convey a message to the audience
• Learn how to recognize the different emotions expressed in a song through both the music and the lyrics
• Learn how to understand the flow and movement of the song, and
• Learn how to express the emotions in your own performance of the song.

Scale Weapon 3: Three-Note-Per-String Scales...
This is an approach used by many guitarists. It is one of the best approaches for anyone interested in speed and fluidity. It allows you to learn almost any scale over the entire fretboard. It's also an approach that can be used for all styles of music. I've personally used it for styles ranging from speed metal to traditional jazz. :-)

Here are a few of the things that you'll learn...

        You will learn how to create your own three-note-per-string fingerings. This will give you the confidence to construct fingerings for almost any scale.

        You will learn the detailed 4 step method for memorizing any scale fingering. Isn't it frightening how many scale learning methods give you scale fingerings, but don't tell you the best way to memorize them? This does NOT help you one bit. :-) In this lesson, I tell you in great detail about how to easily and permanently imprint any fingering into your brain.

Imagine how this will help you learn scales faster!

       You will learn 8 foundational exercises using the 3-note-per-string approach. These are designed to quickly program scale fingerings into your muscle memory. They also help you to improve your alternate picking, pull-offs and hammer-ons.

       You will learn 8 very powerful triad arpeggio exercises. Guitarists often struggle to combine arpeggios and scales together in a musical way. These 8 exercises help you visualize diatonic triad arpeggios within scale fingerings. This really helps you learn to integrate arpeggios into your playing...which will make your soloing sound more interesting and melodic.

       You will learn 8 specific 7th arpeggio exercises. Anyone wanting to solo in a jazz or fusion style needs to learn these exercises. :-) They help you program cool sounding arpeggios into your fingers. They will also help your picking and fret hand technique tremendously!

        You will learn my 8 most favorite intervallic exercises. They sound great and really help you improve your technique...especially your string skipping!

        You will learn how to apply melodic patterns to different fingerings. This helps you to adapt the ideas you learn to any fingering. What does this do? It helps improve your technique, scale knowledge and your ability to improvise.

Scale Weapon 4: Ear Training...

     Many guitarists sound like they are just running up-and-down scales when they improvise. Their solos can sound boring, rigid and unmusical. They just don't make music when they solo.

     So what's the solution? Easy...

     Ear Training!!!

     It is the master key that unlocks musicality. Seriously. When you do Ear Training everything about your improvising improves. Why is that? Music is sound. Music is a hearing art! Doesn't it make sense that as your ability to hear improves, everything improves with it?

      Over the years, I've studied many different approaches to Ear Training. Some worked...some were frustrating and boring...

       From this intensive study I've developed some of my own unique methods that really work. What you get with this section of the website are the "cliff notes". You learn only the most effective, powerful and practical approaches to Ear Training scales.

      Let's take a look at what you'll learn...

      You'll learn the 4 step process of effective Ear Training. Using these 4 steps means you'll learn the sound of scales faster and more easily.

      You'll learn 4 foundation exercises. These simple exercises quickly imprint the sound of any scale into your brain.

      You'll learn exactly what to do if you can't sing a note at all. Many Ear Training methods skip this vital step.

      You'll learn 8 pivot exercises. Don't know exactly what every note of a particular scale sounds like? These exercises solve that problem!

      You'll learn to sight sing 32 different melodies...all without having to read music! By the time you finish this step, the sound of a scale will be tattooed in your brain for life. Just imagine how this could help your soloing.

      You'll learn two powerful reinforcement exercises. These help you learn the sound of a scale on an even deeper level.

Scale Weapon 5: Applications...

        This is the fifth component of The Guitar Scale Mastery System. This section ensures that you actually gain experience using the scales that you learn. This is vital! What's the point of learning scales if you don't use them in a musical setting?

Guitar Scale Activators are special backing tracks. They are designed to bring to life (activate) the sound of any scale that you are practicing. This is very powerful. Some of the benefits of using the Guitar Scale Activators include...

You'll eventually program chord/scale relationships into your brain. This means that when you hear a chord you'll be able to automatically hear the scale that works over that chord. Obviously, this is a useful skill for any improvising guitarist!

You'll enjoy practicing scales more. Scale exercises and licks sound much more interesting when played over the correct Guitar Scale Activator.

You'll learn to internalize the sounds of scales much faster. This will help you to improvise more confidently in a much more musical way.

You'll imprint the sound of chords into your brain. This is done on a subconscious level. As you practice your brain will be absorbing the sound of the chord used on the Guitar Scale Activator.