So You Want to Sing Rock ’n’ Roll: A Guide for Performers

Matt Edwards, one of the leading voice teachers for commercial music styles, shares his approach to coordinating the voice so that singers can focus on performing rock. Fully updated and expanded, this new edition gives specific advice for beginner, intermediate, and advanced performers as well as those crossing over from classical or musical theatre. It also contains the latest information on technological advances that singers must know to successfully perform this genre.

So You Want to Sing Rock provides a comprehensive guide and covers a wide variety of topics: rock history, voice science, vocal health, audio technology, technical approaches to singing rock, and stylistic parameters for various rock subgenres. The book is not only the ideal guide to singing professionals but the perfect reference work for voice teachers and their students, lead and back-up singers, record producers, and studio engineers.

The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

Matt Edwards is one of the leading voice teachers for commercial and musical theatre styles in the United States. He is currently an Associate Professor of Voice at Shenandoah Conservatory where he developed the first pop/rock training program for musical theatre majors in the United States. He is also Artistic Director of the Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute. He has been a recipient of the Van Lawrence Fellowship and a master teacher for the NATS Intern program where he collaborated with Dr. Aaron Johnson at NYU Langone Voice Center to measure vocal tract adjustments between styles using real-time MRI. His website is: https: //www.edwardsvoice.com/.