kiran

It's working out very well for me. I started training with the four pillars in late april, and have since taken 10-12 lessons with Robert over skype (at least I think so, I stopped counting). My only experience as a singer was school choir and backing vocals in bands, so Robert has pretty much trained me from scratch. The workouts are pretty tough, but I'm gradually getting better and have started to like my voice more and more. The most noticable thing is that I seem to have added 4 or 5 notes into my 'comfort zone', and the tonal quality and resonance has improved. The four pillars program is very thorough and informative, but I think the lessons I take are an equally essential part of the training. There are several reasons why.. 1 - you avoid wasting time or injuring yourself by performing exercises incorrectly, 2- sometimes you need to be told the same thing 100 times before you get it (at least in my case), 3- I find the lessons keep me motivated. I'm enjoying training with Robert so much that I'm flying to Germany for one of his masterclasses.

I chose the digital copy becuase I live in Norway and didn't want to wait for it in the mail or pay the massive import duties we get here. It's a big download, but I just read the ebook while I waited for the audio and video content to download. I did two things with the ebook, I printed it out and filed it, and then later put it on my iPhone so I can refer to it using a PDF reader. The digital version also came with DVD quality videos and also lower quality versions of the same files so you can store them on an iPad/iPhone or something else similar. So to conclude, the hard copy is probably nicer with a nicely printed book and discs, but the digital copy is very easy to use and organize once you've downloaded everything

Thanks for listening Ron! I'm gonna try to record the whole Song tomorrow evening. I didn't intentionally change the vocal melody, so that is purely accidental. I didn't feel like I was straining, but I can't say I found it easy either. I tried very hard to modify vowels where appropriate, but at this stage I find it hard to sing totally relaxed when I'm focussing on my mouth and tongue position, and vowel modifications. But i suppose that's just a case of practising until these things happen naturally. I'm going to use this song for the next few months to monitor my progress, as the exercises and lessons are definitely giving noticeable results. Thanks again for listening, and I'll try to record a full version for you to hear! Kiran

ahh sorry, first time using box.com this should work! https://www.box.com/s/d4f97adfa137f2e7358a

Here is my contribution, a little bit of I dont believe in love.. https://www.box.com/s/d4f97adfa137f2e7358a Don't expect too much, I'm a beginner and this song is not exactly in my comfort zone I started taking lessons with Robert in April, and before that I had no experience other than singing back up vocals in various bands (guitar is my main instrument).. So even though it doesn't sound fantastic, I'm still quite happy because I couldn't sing this song at all a few months ago.. If anyone could give me some constructive feedback, I'd be really happy and would like to work on it and record a full version.