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APEL: The Art of Purification and Enunciation of the Larynx © ICMA 1995 — 2003
CONTENTS
CONTENTS ...................................................................................................................3
PREFACE ....................................................................................................................10
PART 1: INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................11
WHAT IS APEL? .........................................................................................................12
A Fresh Start .....................................................................................................13
Wisdom of Planning .........................................................................................13
Two Hunters......................................................................................................13
The Most Unique Musical Instrument...................................................................14
What Voice Are You?.......................................................................................14
Conventional Singing........................................................................................15
Cultural Variations............................................................................................16
APEL — The Art of Playing the Larynx................................................................18
A Living Instrument..........................................................................................18
The Classical Voice ..........................................................................................18
The Language of Singing..................................................................................19
Medically Speaking...............................................................................................20
Dissecting Your Instrument ..............................................................................20
Your Instrument Is Fragile................................................................................24
APEL IS POSSIBLE .....................................................................................................25
A Little Boy's Dream ........................................................................................25
A Small Seed of Hope............................................................................................26
A Talent Denied ................................................................................................26
Light at the End of the Dark Tunnel .................................................................28
Who is Going to Teach Me?..................................................................................29
To Sing or Not to Sing ......................................................................................29
The Hunt for a Cure ..........................................................................................30
A Blind Man Leading Himself...............................................................................31
A Lot Of Research — A Lot Of Practice ...............................................................32
Two Years To Find A Cure ...................................................................................32
The Day Of Reckoning .....................................................................................33
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The Cat Out of the Bag .....................................................................................33

The First Performance In Two Years................................................................34
Teach Us To Sing Like You Do .......................................................................35
A Tutor Learning To Teach Others.......................................................................35
Night School .....................................................................................................35
Behold Once I Could Not......................................................................................36
The Prophet in his Home Town ........................................................................36
Thirteen Years To Refine APEL............................................................................37
EXCUSES AGAINST APEL ...........................................................................................39
Literacy .................................................................................................................40
Not Educated?...................................................................................................40
A Matter of Confidence ....................................................................................40
The Right Voice.....................................................................................................41
Creating Originals Out of Simple Things .........................................................41
The Uglier the Voice, the Better Apel Works...................................................42
Lack of Experience................................................................................................43
The Talent Excuse .................................................................................................43
God-Given Talent?............................................................................................44
God-Given Gifts................................................................................................45
Running Out of Breath ..........................................................................................46
The Opinion Excuse ..............................................................................................46
Common Problems................................................................................................47
A Good Cough ..................................................................................................47
Hot Water With Glycerine ................................................................................47
The Crutch Mentality........................................................................................47
Legitimate Ailments ..............................................................................................48
Acute Laryngitis................................................................................................48
Chronic Laryngitis ............................................................................................48
Other Disorders of the Larynx ..........................................................................49
Personality Challenges .........................................................................................50
Popular Sanguine ..............................................................................................52
Powerful Choleric .............................................................................................53
Perfect Melancholic ..........................................................................................53
Peaceful Phlegmatic..........................................................................................54
Temperament Combinations.............................................................................55
THE ARCHITECTURE OF MAN.....................................................................................56
Man Is A Spirit Being............................................................................................56
Spirit, Soul And Body.......................................................................................57
The Difference Between Soul And Sprit ..........................................................59
The Nature Of Our Person....................................................................................61
Returning to God...............................................................................................62
The Heart Is In The Spirit .....................................................................................65
THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTION.....................................................................................68
The Singing God ...................................................................................................69
The Power of Music ..............................................................................................70
City Walls Fell Down Flat ................................................................................71
Prison Walls Came Down.................................................................................71
Army Ambush...................................................................................................72
Therapy in the Asylum......................................................................................73

God's Glory Manifesting...................................................................................73
A Stream of Songs ............................................................................................74
Managing the Heart..............................................................................................77
Pouring Out The Music.....................................................................................78
Skill versus Talent .................................................................................................80
PART 2: MUSIC .........................................................................................................83
INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC ..........................................................................................84
Pitch In Music? .....................................................................................................84
Unpacking A Sequence.....................................................................................85
Understanding A Combination .........................................................................86
Notes in a Tune or Song....................................................................................87
The Construction Of The Series .......................................................................89
Scales ................................................................................................................91
Tone and Semitone Concepts............................................................................92
The Major Scale................................................................................................93
MusicAL Notation ............................................................................................95
The Clef ............................................................................................................96
Time In Music .......................................................................................................98
Note Durations ..................................................................................................98
The Meaning Of the Time Signature ..............................................................101
Time Signature................................................................................................102
Time Signature Maps And Grouping..............................................................104
The Need For Grouping ..................................................................................105
Rests In Various Time Signatures...................................................................105
Sub-Division Of A Beat..................................................................................107
Dotted Note Values.........................................................................................109
Simple And Compound Time Signatures .......................................................110
Sub-Division Of Time Values ........................................................................111
Key Signature......................................................................................................112
Notation of Key Signature ..............................................................................113
THEORY TO MUSIC...................................................................................................115
Technical Degrees ..............................................................................................115
Degrees ...........................................................................................................115
Generic Names are Efficient...........................................................................116
Intervals Revisited ..........................................................................................116
Compound Intervals........................................................................................118
Natural versus Chromatic Intervals ................................................................119
Examples Of Simple And Chromatic Intervals ..............................................121
Inversions Of Intervals....................................................................................121
The Use Of Foreign Languages..........................................................................122
Various Expressions........................................................................................123
Chord Notation And Construction ......................................................................123
Introduction to Chords ....................................................................................124
Inversions Of Chords ......................................................................................127
Putting it All Into A Song ....................................................................................127
A Short Summary ...........................................................................................128
An Additional Perspective...................................................................................128
The Compound Beat .......................................................................................128
Advanced Rhythm ..........................................................................................129
Developing Rhythm into a Song.....................................................................130
Melody and Phrases ........................................................................................131
Key Signatures And Scales.............................................................................132
The Harmonic Minor Scale.............................................................................134
Scale Degrees In Minor Keys .........................................................................136
The Melodic Minor Scale ...............................................................................136
Revisiting the Harmonic and Melodic Concept..............................................137
Constructing the Melodic Minor.....................................................................137
Octave Transposition ......................................................................................138
You Are Ready To Begin ...............................................................................139
PRELIMINARIES ........................................................................................................140
Personal Adjustments..........................................................................................140
A Long Hard Walk..........................................................................................140
You Need Space..............................................................................................141
You Need Time...............................................................................................141
You Need Support...........................................................................................141
Tools....................................................................................................................142
Stationery ........................................................................................................142
CD Player........................................................................................................142
Tape Recorder.................................................................................................143
Medical Considerations ......................................................................................143
Laryngeal Precautions.....................................................................................143
Speech Therapy...............................................................................................144
Other Medical Problems .................................................................................144
On A Spiritual Note.............................................................................................144
Biblical Reference...........................................................................................145
Spiritual Power................................................................................................145
Mentor.................................................................................................................145
Choose a Renowned Talented Singer .............................................................145
Identity ............................................................................................................146
PART 3: PURIFICATION.......................................................................................147
INTRODUCTION TO PURIFICATION ............................................................................148
The House and The Meat ....................................................................................148
A Parable About a House................................................................................148
A Parable about Meat......................................................................................149
Voices Need a Cleanup .......................................................................................150
Introduction to Purification ................................................................................150
Pitch And The Larynx.....................................................................................153
Time and the Larynx.......................................................................................154
Correct Pitch and Correct Time ......................................................................156
Purity in Harmony...........................................................................................156
Dissonance and Consonance...........................................................................157
Other Elements................................................................................................157
A Structured Approach to Purification ...........................................................158
Making Circles with Squares ..........................................................................159

PURIFICATION 101: HABITUATION ...........................................................................161
Habituation .........................................................................................................162
Introduction of the Envelope ..........................................................................162
Emission..........................................................................................................166
Selecting Notes ...............................................................................................167
Gearing............................................................................................................169
Resounding .....................................................................................................170
Stepping ..........................................................................................................171
The Basics of Pacing.......................................................................................171
Pace Up to Leaping.........................................................................................174
Sol-fa Chords ..................................................................................................176
Triadic and Tetradic Steps ..............................................................................177
Sequential Harmony........................................................................................178
Choreographic Steps .......................................................................................178
Acrobatic Steps ...............................................................................................181
PURIFICATION 102: OSSIFICATION ...........................................................................183
Revisiting Voice Physiology...........................................................................183
The Lungs .......................................................................................................184
The Vocal Cords .............................................................................................185
Back to Ossification........................................................................................186
Ruler Principle ................................................................................................187
Dynamics Envelope ........................................................................................192
Timbre Envelope.............................................................................................194
An Overview of Overtones .............................................................................195
PURIFICATION 103: EMANATION ..............................................................................197
Flowing is the Key ..........................................................................................197
Emanation in Speech.......................................................................................198
Translation to Communication .......................................................................198
Expressionism vs Impressionism....................................................................199
Principle of River Walking..............................................................................201
THE ART OF SONG ...................................................................................................203
Real Time Song writing.......................................................................................203
Extemporization..............................................................................................204
Types of Songs................................................................................................205
We are Vessels................................................................................................206
The Form of Music .........................................................................................207
RDVC — Motion and Structure .....................................................................208
Motion.............................................................................................................208
Structure..........................................................................................................209
The Form of MOTIFS .........................................................................................209
Motif Form (normative structure) ..................................................................209
Song Structure.................................................................................................210
The Musical Experience......................................................................................211
Sound, Movement and Arrival........................................................................211
Processes of the Elements...............................................................................213
Cadences .........................................................................................................214
Reading Sol-fa.....................................................................................................216
SONG ANALYSIS ......................................................................................................220

Studying Aural Music .....................................................................................220
Micro Analysis................................................................................................222
Middle Analysis ..............................................................................................224
Macro Analysis ...............................................................................................225
The Scholar's Habit .........................................................................................226
Putting your Knowledge to Work ...................................................................226
Transcribing SONGS ..........................................................................................227
The Extent of Music Elements in Transcription .............................................227
Transcribing One Note at a Time....................................................................228
Aural Training ....................................................................................................228
Four Types of Memories.................................................................................229
Improving Rehearsal.......................................................................................230
Motivation.......................................................................................................231
PART 4: ENUNCIATION .......................................................................................233
ENUNCIATION 201: INNER SONG ..............................................................................234
Enunciation is a Song......................................................................................234
The Foundation of Enunciation ......................................................................235
Singing is Singing ...........................................................................................236
Starting From Scratch .....................................................................................237
Tuning into the Spirit ......................................................................................237
Singing With the Spirit — Building the Inner Song.......................................240
Perceiving With the Heart...............................................................................241
Generating Melodies in the Heart ...................................................................242
Steps to Becoming a Creator...........................................................................247
ENUNCIATION 202: THE SILENT SONG .....................................................................249
The Breath and the Spirit ................................................................................250
Elements of the Silent Song............................................................................251
Engagement.....................................................................................................252
Shadowing.......................................................................................................253
Emanation .......................................................................................................253
Refining the Silent Song .................................................................................254
ENUNCIATION 203: THE AURAL SONG .....................................................................256
Note Blocks.....................................................................................................256
Dynamics ........................................................................................................258
Timbre.............................................................................................................260
Elemental Effects ............................................................................................261
Vibration .........................................................................................................262
Pulse Stepping.................................................................................................264
Vocal Harmony...............................................................................................265
Improvisation ..................................................................................................266
Falsetto............................................................................................................268
Timbre Morphing............................................................................................269
Performing in Public .......................................................................................270
THE BEGINNING OF FOREVER ..................................................................................272
The Ego Trap ..................................................................................................272
The Lucifer Complex......................................................................................273
So, You are Not a Preacher.............................................................................274

Expressionist or Impressionist? ......................................................................275
Just a Profession..............................................................................................276
The Singer's Habits .............................................................................................276
Practice Daily — Habit #1..............................................................................276
Grow Your Heart — Habit #2 ........................................................................277
Keep Your Focus on the Rules — Habit #3 ...................................................278
Style — The Unique Touch .................................................................................279
Mimicry Syndrome .........................................................................................279
Multiplicity .....................................................................................................279
Makeup and Crutches .....................................................................................279
Mirrors and Rubber Stamps ............................................................................280
Creating a Style...............................................................................................280
The Speech of Singing ....................................................................................281
Virtual Band....................................................................................................282
TOOLBOX .................................................................................................................284
Audio Trax ......................................................................................................284
Exercise Summary ..........................................................................................288
Exercise Worksheets.......................................................................................289
Meanings Of Foreign Terms...........................................................................318
Index ...............................................................................................................320
PREFACE
The ability to sing belongs to ALL of us and I guess at one time or another, you also have had
a desire to sing and especially all those times you listened to a singer whose voice you really
admired. If your dream (or wish) to sing came true, your life would become different. People
tend to believe that you can only become an excellent singer if you were born with the talent.
On the other hand, almost everybody that believes this myth also contradicts himself or herself
by encouraging would-be singers to sign up for singing instruction. Well if it is true that you
cannot become an excellent singer other than through hereditary means, what good could the
suggested training do?
Most ridiculously, the suggested training teaches little or nothing about how to become a
singer — instead, it teaches how to improve the supposedly already existent talent, i.e., not
accommodating those who CANNOT sing. APEL changes all that by offering you and me, the
untalented singers, a simple TECHNIQUE to acquire a beautiful and professional singing voice.
APEL is THE ART OF PURIFICATION1 and ENUNCIATION2 OF THE LARYNX3. It is a unique
technique developed over a period of two years4 by one Michael MICHAEL (the author).
Thereafter, it took a several years to compile an accompanying training manual, which you now
have in your hands. The training manual is accompanied by audio material containing reference
recordings5; it contains the foundation upon which you are going to build your exercises.
Your life is about to change for the better. This time around, if it does not, it probably
never will. It is up to you WHETHER you fly or not, but up to the wind HOW you fly — APEL
Truth.001 Your wind has just started blowing.
Michael MICHAEL
Johannesburg, South Africa (January 1995)
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cleaning by getting rid of impurities
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an improvement that makes something more agreeable
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a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in
speech
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and perfected over more than ten years
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the original concept was to provide an audio CD with all the exercises and demonstrations, but over the years, a this
option resulted in an increased practice of mimicry of the author by students, to a frightening precision.
PART 1:
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS APEL?
You have made the right decision. You might not realize it now, but by the end of the
APEL6 program, you will know it. Your friends will know it — it will be obvious.
Let us discuss one important matter before you start. It is very important. I want to
warn you, this is different from anything you have ever encountered before. APEL is
based on nothing you have seen or heard before unless you have been in one of my
classes before or know somebody who has. For this reason, your feathers might be ruffled
a bit as you continue with APEL studies, unless you are pre-warned.
It is not about me getting your money; in any case, the fact that you are reading this
book means that I already have your money (unless of course you obtained the book
illegally). I will not loose the money if you fail, but your failure in this matter is as much
a loss to me as it is to you because the whole idea of this process is to build you up, not to
build my bank account (which fortunately is unavoidable).
Listen to me carefully; you might not have appropriately understood what it is you are
getting into. It is good and powerful — but unless you are willing to walk the weird and
unusual road, you might as well turn around now.
If this method were ordinary7, the early music teachers would have implemented it 200
years ago. However, it is not conventional; in fact, it is crazy and unheard of. APEL was
largely developed in the bush, in the dark8 and in isolation. It defies most conventional
ideologies — APEL wages war against conservative singing principles, behaviors, and
tradition. Most importantly, APEL works!
Acceptability and norms do not hang me up — I am naturally very defiant, and you
will learn that in this book. I do not apologize for my innovation or ideas. No, I am not a
professor of music and I am not an academic — I am just a person who dares the
impossible and thrives on swimming upstream, hence this book.
I am giving to you in this book, what I learned over a period of more than 13 years9 —
I made all the mistakes you can think of, and I experienced various stages of adjustment
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the ART of PURIFICATION and ENUNCIATION of the LARYNX
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APEL was solely and independetly invented by the author and this is the first formal publication of the technique
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this is not a reference to occult darkness, but time of day
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1981 to 1994
that occur when you undergo voice training, and I am still learning, and hoping to learn a
lot from you as well.
A FRESH START
Forget everything, FORGET WHAT YOU THOUGHT SINGING WAS. I want you
to switch your logic off until you finish reading the book, then I want you to do
everything I tell you without asking questions — only then do I advise you to challenge
the APEL technique. If you can, reinvent APEL; and you will see what new ground you
will break. You are welcome to refute the teaching in this book, criticize it, challenge it
and test it against every imaginable standard — but as I entreat you, wait until after you
have read it and also applied it to the letter.
I am assuming that you would not have bought the book unless you were serious about
learning how to sing. So, let us do it.
In the book I use analogies and illustrations, and give you many facts — there will be
exercise10 pointers, but they are not as important as the UNDERSTANDING part. Your
greatest skill will be to comprehend everything I am teaching you.
Remember that practice in this method makes only 15% of the course. The other 85%
is all UNDERSTANDING11 and remembering the facts.
WISDOM OF PLANNING
You will need a plan before you proceed, the plan will revolve around time and
relationships. Embarking on APEL means that you will spend an awful lot of time alone,
and this will affect your family. You cannot study APEL in public; you require solitude
and privacy. Leaders are inspired in public, but built in private — APEL Truth.002
TWO HUNTERS
Two men went out hunting; the first (Tom) was very pompous and very energetic. He
told all his neighbors that he was going to catch a big animal. He was of strong physical
build and everybody thought he was an expert hunter because of the manner in which he
boasted about himself. The community also held him in high esteem. He went out with
his friend (James), who he laughed at and mocked quite often, because of the evident
physical disadvantages he had. Nevertheless, his friend had determined in his heart that
he also wanted to catch an animal for his family. However, he was meek and reserved. He
did not say much, but he knew that he had to have a plan that would work.
The two men went away together on a journey to go hunting. Tom was very pushy and
demanding and when the first animal walked by, he suddenly got up and started chasing
after it with an axe. He ran for hours after the animal. After hours of chasing, he lost the
animal and was tired. He returned empty handed.
James had been studying the animal's trail and behavior all along; he had discovered
where it grazed and drank water, where it slept, and all its other habits. After hours of
watching the animal from a distance, he knew when and where to set a trap in the path
where the impala would walk past. Later in the day when the animal would have to drink
water, it would walk the same trail — he went and lay under a tree at a distance, and
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exercise references will be made in footnotes like this one
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the technique is behavioural, hence the need to have a fresh and radical understanding of APEL.
when the time came, the animal walked by and was caught in the trap. He returned home
with the animal and was not tired at all. A simplistic, yet educating story. Without a
plan, life becomes a fruitless expenditure of energy — APEL Truth.003
A Meek Approach to APEL

As I will remind you later, do not flaunt your APEL studies — do not attempt to
measure yourself against people's comments. Think about it, it is harder to notice the
improvement on one's effort if you see that person daily. For example, a person might be
on a weight-loss program, but because you see them daily, you might not readily notice
that they have in fact lost weight — but it is very easy to notice the weight loss if you had
not seen them for three months — because the change amounts to a noticeable difference.
At the end of this manual, we would like you to experience the joy of saying, "Once I
could not sing, but now I CAN."
In a few weeks12, you will be saying it because you can — not because you wished
people would say so. When you say it, people will already have noticed the difference,
unless you had irresponsibly been flaunting your efforts gasping for and craving13 their
applause.
THE MOST UNIQUE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

In defining APEL, we must lay down a foundation first:
The foundation has everything to do with how your voice works.
That foundation refers to your voice box as an instrument that produces a voice.
As you might have already noticed, we will refer a lot to the voice, meaning
your voice or sound produced when air from your lungs passes through the
larynx and cause your vocal cords to vibrate — vibration occurs in the area of
your mouth (your nose too) which is the equivalent of the air chambers in
acoustic instruments.
WHAT VOICE ARE YOU?

People have a tendency, legitimately so, to categorize voices into vocal parts or roles
(more accurately referred to as vocal ranges) — and among men, those are bass,
baritone, and tenor. We will have plenty of time to define and illustrate all of these. Do
not worry about not understanding some of the concepts at this stage — the idea at hand
is to show you what a unique instrument your voice is. Like any other instrument —
YOU CAN LEARN TO PLAY IT.
This is what this book is all about, LEARNING TO PLAY YOUR VOICE BOX. If
you can just learn to see your voice as a musical instrument, you will find the whole
technique outlined in this book easy to follow. Most of the traditional inhibitions will
suddenly cease to hold water.
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it is possible to complete the APEL programme within 28 days with complete results
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pride is one of the biggest downfalls for aspiring singers
Female voices can be categorized into contralto, mezzo-soprano, and soprano. Your
voice should have an average of about two octaves14 — which will be discussed later in
the book. As you know, men's voices are lower than women's voices — by about an
octave. A man's falsetto will be in the same range as a woman's real or natural voice —
but a little higher and thus categorized as an alto. While a boy's voice will be equivalent
to the soprano voice.
You may also know, that a boy generally sings in the same range of voice as a grown
woman — that is, until the boy's voice breaks15 into a masculine tone or range.
Although there are six conventional vocal ranges — they are generally reduced from
soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, and bass — to soprano, contralto (or
alto), tenor, and bass. You may already have categorized yourself into one of these
voices. The bottom line however is that, whichever voice you might be — you are an
instrument and we must teach you how to play that instrument, and in doing so, do it such
that you excel and not only excel, but also excel beyond your wildest expectations. THAT
IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME — and is about to happen to you.
CONVENTIONAL SINGING
There are major differences between this training manual and the conventional forms
of singing — it is perhaps important that we briefly take a look at the other accepted
perception of what singing is; which has become a world standard and an academic
convention.
When you sing, you utilize your voice in the creation of song. Breathing is the primary
generator16 that causes sound to be produced through the same vibration mechanism that
occurs when acoustic instruments are played, especially wind instruments, in which
sound is produced by blowing through a pipe of some sort.
The sound becomes louder by the manner in which it resonates in the chamber — i.e.,
the cavity in your mouth and nose. Although hard to believe, all cavities above your
shoulders play a role in the production of the sound of your voice. You are an acoustic
instrument, and the bigger your chambers17, the better. Not only must the voice be
produced, it also needs to be articulated18 to create recognizable speech for
communication and expression. For animals, to which speech does not play a part in the
creation and performance of music, the songs are complete without the additional use of
the lips, teeth, tongue, and palate. Human beings are the only known species whose music
is lyrical and verbal19.
What People Think About Voice Training

Conventional20 voice trainers believe that vocal training is for the development of
better control over breathing and the regulation of relaxation degree, body tension and
resonance and articulation. I agree with that, but I also I believe that training should and
can, go back further than developing what is presumed to be an already capable singer,
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an octave is one series of notes either ascending or descending to the next similar note
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when a boy’s voice tone changes into a man’s tone
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the source of music
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people with big heads have bigger cavities, like a boom box
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bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
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relating to or having facility in the use of words
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this is no way despises the wisdom of formal education, it merely highlights the short-comings
but initiate talent in those who are not already accepted as singers. Teach the novice how
to sing, and the expert, how to grow — APEL Truth.004
Most voice teachers will not take you in if they thought you could not sing. Does this
not make you wonder — what is the use of training a person if you can only train those
already capable? The world has not yet accepted that all human beings can sing — if they
did, they would have made provisions for them; and not only for the talented. Many of
the incapable among us, may be the giants we should have been inspired by — APEL
Truth.005
Natural Singing?
Besides training, every culture21 has a natural art of singing particular to them and that
for me, is a sign that singing is a natural right. From whichever direction you approach it,
there is enough natural instinct in us to awaken the talent or the ability.
Most low-voiced males can naturally produce a falsetto22 tone by partially vibrating
their vocal cords — it is a technical and precision art, but they do it without academic
training. Who told them that by partial vibration, their tone would be higher? Nobody —
but it is naturally there to be discovered, BECAUSE SINGING IS ALREADY IN EACH
ONE OF US.
Not All Roads Lead to Rome

An acquaintance of mine, after training overseas as a singer and voice tutor, found the
APEL singing technique bothersome in that it sounded contemptuous towards all that she
had been taught to believe in. People do not take kindly to their philosophy being proved
fallacious. Although that is not what we were doing — that is how it is sometimes
perceived. If all roads lead to Rome, then the N323 route would cost you a lifetime —
APEL Truth.006
I say, "Literally, you can't get to Rome on the N3!" If you believed all your life that
was the way to Rome, it would be hard for you to hear me out, or even accept that I may
be right and you may be wrong — it would be even harder for you to see my directions
bringing results.
CULTURAL VARIATIONS
Every culture has a unique quality of tone and approach to singing. There are always
variations in tone, color, physical tension, and acoustical intensity of cultural music and
style of singing. Some cultures use extensive melodic ornamentation, some light, and
others none.
The most noticeable of these is the classically trained, resonant, well-projected tone of
opera24 singers. There are probably very few styles as popular or expressive as the
relaxed, subtly ornamented, robust singing of black folk musicians; it is often enhanced
with coarse, throaty effects. It can be tense and electronically distorted like rock — but it
is not academic, yet very effective. It was developed instinctively. These people
developed their styles not through some standing academic institution, but through inner
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think of the African harmonies which seem to be hereditary and not academic
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a tone produced by a male voice when they mimic a female voice
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freeway in South Africa from Johannebsurg to Durban
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a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
instinct, a substance we all have. Instinct is the substance at the foundation of APEL —
APEL Truth.007
This inner ability, resident and inbuilt in all of us, should not be spoiled by people like
me with thick training manuals. We should leave the true art of singing to the individual,
while attempting to enlighten the path with principles — which should more guiding than
demanding; this can be very difficult for the teacher to achieve. The line between
confidence and obstinacy is very thin — APEL Truth.008
The Serious Way of Singing

The high and clear-toned male voices were, and maybe still be favored in classical
circles — Luciano Pavarotti being the well known example. This results in a vocal
quality that is believed to help the listener hear the interwoven melodies of multipart
vocal music.
The bel canto25 style dominated Western singing between 1650 and 1850 — it is
believed that this style was developed sometime in the 16th century. Around the 18th
century, the castrato26 voice was used in opera and became very dominant in the 18th
century.
The bel canto era used breath extensively, to control the strength of sound — and is
probably responsible for most of today's academic singing's emphasis on breath control.
Other things contributing to style development were concert halls and perhaps various
artistic goals, which prompted and inspired singers to want to modify this technique.
Some examples of standards and milestones in the history of singing are perhaps the
Polish teacher (and tenor), Jean de Resize and the Spaniard Manuel García (1805-1906)
who developed new techniques to put more effect of resonance. Richard Wagner is
known for his use of vocal colors — the vocal categories such as 'dramatic soprano' and
'heroic tenor.' This was only the beginning of what is today known as 'serious' singing —
to an extent that although serious music is more popular and preferred by some cultures,
the new and independent cultures feel a certain amount of obligation to conform to this
style.
A Short History of Singing27

The 20th-century music increased in operatic singing techniques. While opera was
gaining ground, the microphone was responsible for more expression instead of power;
this innovation produced a fresh art of singing, like Bing Crosby28 and Morgana King.
The late 20's and early 30's gave birth to Afro-American vocal colors that had become
prominent through jazz and blues. White singers, however (through the 1940s and '50s)
continued to reflect European classical roots — believing this to be 'conventional.' This
trend continues today, where generally, Caucasian29 singing tends to conform more to the
bel canto tradition than does African singing, if at all.
American and British pop styles were flavored with Afro-American traits by the
1960s. Composers began experimenting with intoned30 speech and melodic contours
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meaning beautiful song
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a male singer who was castrated before puberty retaining a soprano or alto voice
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courtesy of Microsoft Encarta 97
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formerly Harry Lillis Crosby (1903-77), American singer and songwriter, born in Tacoma
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white person
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speak carefully, with rising and falling pitch
(whispers, shouts and rough sounds) and other vocal colors formerly excluded from
Western art singing. The inner instincts were taking precedence over conventionalism.
This is indicative of the variety of manipulations possible when using the voice as an
instrument. You are about to learn how to do this.
APEL — THE ART OF PLAYING THE LARYNX

Your voice is the only instrument you can learn to play without having to go out and
purchase it. If you wanted to learn to play the saxophone, you would have to fork out at
least $300 before you could start.
Of all the instruments or ways of producing music, this is the only one that God
decided to include in the creation package — how do I know that? It is a bold statement
but it is true. Is this not evident in the fact that this instrument is already built within us?
My body does not have a stringed31 instrument like a violin, or a percussion32
instrument like a tambourine — it has a built in wind33 instrument, namely, the larynx.
This is the only instrument that is manipulated remotely through the mind and instincts;
and above all, the heart.
I always said that my voice ONCE MADE PEOPLE LAUGH — and after APEL,
NOW MAKES PEOPLE CRY. I have never played my guitar in such an expressive
manner that somebody cried, but I have sung and seen people's tears. That tells me
something about the power of the voice — IT IS A LIVING INSTRUMENT; it has
spiritual dimensions that I believe extend deeper than any known acoustic or electronic
instrument. IT IS HUMAN — it has the Creator's touch. It is also, the most
misunderstood and misused instrument. It is easy, and very easy to use — but tradition
has failed it, and clouded minds from mastering it.
A LIVING INSTRUMENT
I believe that the voice is the most SPIRITUAL and most POWERFUL instrument,
made by a Superior Craftsman34. Very few solo instruments have the appeal and influence
of the voice, or the ability to SAY SOMETHING with such precision. As we indicated,
animals can sing, but they cannot say anything verbal, while human beings can both say
something verbal and above all, communicate at a spiritual level through their music.
THE CLASSICAL VOICE

In an attempt to understand the classical voice, we must look at some definitions in the
classical context.
Phonation
Classically speaking, voice, or phonation, is the sound produced by the expiration35 of
air through vibrating vocal cords. Voice is defined in terms of pitch, quality, and intensity,
or loudness.
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instruments which have strings that are plucked to produce a sound
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instruments which are struck to produce a rhythmic sound
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instruments which are blown into or through to produce a sustained sound
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the Creator being God
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the act of inhaling
Optimum Pitch — the most appropriate pitch for speaking, and varies with
each individual.
Range of Pitch — the range covered on the pitch register by the voice. Both
optimum pitch and range of pitch are fundamentally determined by the length
and mass of the vocal cords; within these limits, pitch may be varied by
changing the combination of air pressure and tension of the vocal cords. This
combination determines the frequency at which the vocal cords vibrate, the
greater the frequency of vibration, the higher the pitch.
Resonance
After voice is produced, it is resonated in the chest, throat, and cavities of the mouth.
The quality of the voice is determined by resonance and the manner in which the vocal
cords vibrate; intensity is controlled by resonance and by the strength of the vibrations of
the vocal cords.
Classical Articulation
Articulation refers to the speech sounds that are produced to form the words of
language. The articulating mechanism comprises the lips, tongue, teeth, jaw, and palate.
Interrupting or shaping both the vocalized and 'unvocalized' airstreams through
movement of the tongue, lips, lower jaw, and soft palate articulates speech. The teeth are
used to produce some specific speech sounds.
The manner, in which you speak, is the manner in which you should sing. This truth is
the greatest truth in this book. For all it is worth, the entire revelation of APEL was 100%
influenced by this. It is not until you have learned to speak through your singing, that
you will master APEL — APEL Truth.009
THE LANGUAGE OF SINGING

Language is a system of symbols agreed upon by a group of people to communicate
their thoughts and feelings. Italians share a common language because it is an agreed set
of sounds and expressions that is commonly understood to mean certain things.
Symbols may be verbal or nonverbal, that is, either spoken or written; additionally,
nonverbal symbols may be gestures and body movements. In spoken language, the skills
of articulation are used; in written language, spelling is substituted for articulation. In
singing, there is a deeper level of communication that cannot be documented, the
language of the heart that is heard and understood from heart to heart. True singing is
generated by one heart and communicated into another — APEL Truth.010
Both auditory36 and visual skills are essential to the comprehension and expression of
language. A singer can add a dimension to their singing by employing visual gestures,
whether facial or manual37, the emphasis must remain on adding.
Rate and rhythm also should be considered in the discussion about speech. Normal
speech should not be so rapid, or so slow that it interferes with comprehension. What
about singing? Rhythm is judged mostly in terms of fluency. Here is another fundamental
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of or relating to the process of hearing
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involving the hands
truth about APEL — I asked myself a question at the beginning of my search for the truth
about singing; the question was simply an attempt to understand what it is that makes
singing either good or bad. At its most fundamental, singing can be reduced to pitch
and rhythm — APEL Truth.011
Good or so-called normal speech, cannot be exactly measured or described. It can
however, be judged, essentially only as it seems to be suitable to the sex, size, age,
personality, and needs of the speaker. Good singing cannot be exactly measured or
described either, but it can be judged fundamentally only as it seems to be suitable to the
intended audience — singing is, for the same reason, a giving and a receiving language.
MEDICALLY SPEAKING
Oftentimes, potential voice students are turned away from attempting APEL because
of myths and tradition. For example, certain speech disorders such as stuttering or
stammering are perceived to be a definite hindrance to singing. That is not true. While
APEL is based on speech, it is much simpler than speech — APEL Truth.012
Singing, in fact, is easier than speaking, because in singing, most of the content is
rehearsed; while in speech, most of the content is created as one goes along while the
person is busy communicating. How often do you run through your full thirty-word
sentence before you start speaking to someone, that is, unless it is somebody who makes
you nervous? Is this not the reason why we sometimes often pause and utter an
occasional um or er?
Because speech is a learned occupation, any intrusion over one's learning ability might
be perceived as a singing impairment. While this may sometimes be true, it is rare. Some
of the common conditions capable of interfering with one's learning abilities are
neuroses38 and psychoses39, mental retardation40, and brain damage, whether congenital41
or acquired.
Vocal expression itself may be impaired by such physical disabilities as cleft palate42,
cerebral palsy43, or loss of hearing; it may likewise deteriorate because of paralysis of any
part of the articulating mechanism.
Therefore, unless you are suffering from any of these medical conditions, you have no
excuse to even think that you are entitled to an excuse.
On the other hand, if you are suffering from any of these ailments, you still stand a
more than 50% chance to become an excellent singer. It is your heart and not your head
that produces the music — APEL Truth.013 All you will really need to learn is to permit
your heart to flow through your mind and body.
DISSECTING YOUR INSTRUMENT

We already told you that the larynx is the instrument of focus here, and it is therefore
important to understand the physiological makeup of this instrument. When you take up
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a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
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any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
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lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
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present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development
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the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities
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loss of the ability to move a body part
guitar lessons, your instructor usually gives you a background of the guitar, a little
history, and detail about the instrument.
Figure 1: Larynx and Larynx Cross Section44

There are really only two important things about your instrument — the larynx itself,
and the skeletal structure thereof.
Chamber
The larynx is the hollow chamber in which the voice is produced, it is situated at the
front or upper part of the windpipe of mammals, frogs, and toads; it is also called the
voice box. In mammals, it leads from the lower portion of the pharynx45 to the trachea46
and is situated in front of or ventral47 to the esophagus, behind the skin and connective
tissue of the throat. The larynx is supported by ligaments from the hyoid bone, situated at
the base of the tongue.
Structure
The skeletal structure of the larynx is made up of three large cartilaginous structures,
the epiglottis48, thyroid49 cartilage, and cricoid cartilage, and of several pairs of small
cartilages, the most important of which are known as arytenoid cartilages.
Epiglottis — the first (the epiglottis) is a broad cartilage attached in front to the
top of the thyroid cartilage. The epiglottis is the lid or cap of the larynx; it
swings over the opening from the pharynx into the voice box. When you
swallow, the larynx is raised to press against the epiglottis and root of the
tongue, preventing food from entering the air passages. It is actually not
possible to swallow and breathe at the same time.
Thyroid Cartilage — just below the epiglottis is the second structure (the
angular thyroid cartilage), composed of two vertical plates that join in the front
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Pictures courtesy of the Voice Center at Eastern Virginia Medical School
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the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
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membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that convey inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi
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nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism
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a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing
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located near the base of the neck
of the neck. The intersection of these plates causes the projection commonly
known as the Adam's apple50.
Cricoid Cartilage — finally the third structure at the rear portions of the
thyroid cartilage grip (the circular cricoid cartilage), which keeps the laryngeal
passageway open at all times. On each side of the rear upper border of the
cricoid cartilage is a small, movable arytenoid cartilage.
Figure 2: Larynx Support Sysytem

Animals such as frogs and toads have a voice box that leads directly from the pharynx
into the lungs. Frogs have auxiliary vocal sacs that, when inflated, serve to make the
voice more resonant. The size of the chamber adds to the resonance and quality of the
tone produced. To understand this, simply compare a double bass51 and a violin — besides
the fact that the strings are of different sizes and diameter, the size of the chamber is
largely responsible for the differences in the sound produced.
Analogies of such resonating chambers are found among mammals in the hollow
hyoid bone of the howling monkey and in the sac leading from the larynx of a gorilla
virtually to its armpit. Think of this and relate it to the sound of a charging angry gorilla
and you will see a clear correlation.
In birds however, the voice is produced in an organ known as the syrinx52. Incidentally,
a syrinx is also a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound
together. Lower animals use other methods to produce sounds.
In the human larynx, there are two pairs of vocal cords. They are made of elastic
connective tissue covered by folds of mucous membrane. One pair, the false vocal cords,
extends from the epiglottis to the angle of the thyroid cartilage; these cords narrow the
glottis (the pharyngeal opening of the larynx) during swallowing. It is impossible to
utter (a sound) and swallow at the same time — APEL Truth.014 Below the false
cords are the true vocal cords, extending from the arytenoid cartilages to the angle of the
thyroid cartilage.
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so called because of the legend, referring to Genesis 3:6, of the apple that lodged in Adam's throat
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a huge bass violin
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the vocal organ of a bird
Vibration of this pair of cords by air passing out of the lungs causes the formation of
sounds that are amplified by the resonating nature of the voice box. The bigger the voice
box, the deeper the sound — APEL Truth.015 This is how your instrument works —
you blow air through this pair of cords and they vibrate and resonate in the chamber.
Pitch Manipulation
There are two main movements in your biological musical instrument that control the
nature and quality of pitch. The pitch of the sound is voluntarily controlled by muscles53
that rotate the arytenoid cartilages toward the center of the body.
Lower Tones — through the slackening and lengthening the cords one can
produce low tones
Higher Tones — toward the sides of the body, the shortening of the cords and
pulling them tight will produce high-pitched tones.
In this context therefore, if one were to show you how to manipulate your vocal cords
and the arytenoids cartilages, you would have mastered the art of playing this instrument.
Most people believe they are singers because they were born with a voice54. It is not the
type of voice you have that determines your talent, but the technique of breath and
muscle manipulation, and this, is a simple art — APEL Truth.016
If you disagree with this statement, you are in fact saying that because the flute has a
mellow and soft soothing voice; it is a better 'singer' than the tenor saxophone, which has
a blasting and coarse voice.
The extent of the angle formed by the plates of the thyroid cartilage determines the
depth of the human voice. The angle decreases in males at puberty, causing decreased
tension of the vocal cords and a consequently deeper voice, and increases in most females
at puberty, causing increased tension of the vocal cords.
On a guitar, the thicker strings produce the lower notes, and they are less tight than the
thinner strings, which produce the higher tones. In a human larynx, the thicker and less
tense cords will produce a lower tone in males while, in females, the thinner and tense
cords will produce higher tones.
The combination is that of chamber, size, and tension — you cannot use the thin string
on a bass guitar, because no matter how low the tension, they just do not have the
capability to produce a deep slow vibration loud enough to produce bass. On the other
hand, attempting to use the thicker strings on higher notes results in a muffled high tone,
which lacks the treble of a normal high note — besides, the thicker string will break if
pulled too tightly.
The chamber of your voice box is the acoustic power of your voice; manufacturers of
speakers have used this theory for hundreds of years. The chamber of your speaker has
more to do with the sound produced by your speakers, than most people are aware. Car
speakers sound better when mounted on the resonant body of a car than on thick rubber
padding. Remember then, the tension, size, and chamber characteristics of your voice.
Any technique that manipulates the tension, size and chamber characteristics of
your voice will elevate the singer to new dimensions of singing — APEL Truth.017
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remember that muscles can be exercised
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everybody, or almost everybody is born with a voice
YOUR INSTRUMENT IS FRAGILE

The most common affliction of the human larynx is inflammation, or laryngitis55,
which often accompanies colds, and usually comes with a temporary diminution or
complete loss of voice. Other diseases commonly attacking the larynx include croup56,
diphtheria57, and cancer58. Laryngeal cancer may be caused by cigarette smoking and by
the intake of large amounts of alcohol.
Alcohol and smoking are injurious to singing — APEL Truth.018 Being a non-
smoker and non-drinker I have never been able to appreciate the need to smoke and drink.
On the contrary, there are millions of good singers who smoke and drink. These habits
will not hinder you from singing, but you could do better without them.
Persons who smoke and drink excessively run an especially high risk of developing
cancer of the larynx. It can be treated by X-ray therapy, especially if diagnosed early, and
by surgery. Surgical procedures include partial or total removal of the larynx. In instances
of total removal, the patient must learn a new method of speech that involves, in part,
swallowing air and bringing it up again. Various other surgical techniques have been
developed to replace the removed tissue and restore speech of near normal quality; for
example, insertion of a prosthetic59 device through a tracheoesophageal puncture
(tracheotomy60) has shown a promising rate of success in test patients.
Methods of looking after your voice in particular (and not the instrument itself) will be
discussed later in the book.
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inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing
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a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
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marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing
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any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the
body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream
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an artificial substitute for a missing part of the body of humans or other animals is called a prosthetic device, or
prosthesis
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emergency operation in which windpipe is cut and a tube inserted to permit breathing when air passage is obstructed
APEL IS POSSIBLE
I grew up on a farm. My dad was the principal of the only high school in the area. The
area in which I grew up was very isolated — to the north, there was a range of mountains,
to the east, and south and west were rivers.
Most of the children in the area did not have the same advantages as I had. My dad
being academically inclined endeavored to expose us to as much privilege as was
practically possible then — at least that is how I saw it. We had encyclopedias and many
other reading materials, and although there was no television in South Africa back then
(in 1969 through the early 70's) we watched a movie at least once a month on average.
The point therefore is, I had nothing but the farm to occupy my entire thought life (of
course, education was part of the normal activities); and besides the fantasies about
cinematic61 unrealities which I was exposed to, the only other thing I had going for me
was my imagination. I dreamt a lot, I developed a very strong vision about my future.
A LITTLE BOY'S DREAM

That is the place where I learned to believe in the impossible. I did not know the
difference between what was possible and what was not. It should not surprise you that in
that period, I 'manufactured' cars for the local teenage community; I was in fact a toy
factory, because to me, if it could be imagined, it could be done.
My elder brother and I constructed a movie projector, or the closest we could get to a
movie projector — and composed mini cartoon62 animations and charged the local boys
one to ten cents to come and view. The cartoons were more static than animate, but we
did it.
At one time, we started on a 'helicopter project,' and then there was the karate and
boxing tournament. There were hundreds of projects, or inventions if you wish, that we
embarked on — because as far as I knew, everything was possible, ALL YOU NEEDED
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of or pertaining to or characteristic of the cinema
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a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid
sequence
WAS TO FOCUS YOUR MIND TO IT. Nothing is impossible to a believing heart —

APEL Truth.019
What I am trying to tell you is that there is no height unreachable, and no goal
unattainable — and if it were not for this attitude, I would not have discovered this
miraculous technique of training wounded voices.
A SMALL SEED OF HOPE

When I was in Standard 9, I had grown into a very sociable character, and everybody
in my high school knew me and had actually spoken to me (At least once or twice). By
then, we had moved into the urban area of the country away from the farm.
When opportunities of school activities and trips arose, I was always available to
participate; and this one time, a trip was being planned to the then capital of South Africa,
Pretoria, to visit an Afrikaans high school as part of the public relations program63.
The excitement about the trip was very tangible and in fact, intoxicating. It had then
become difficult to even pay attention in the classroom. I remember when the English
teacher came for her class once; we could not get into the spirit of the lesson. A friend of
mine, who I guess was just as crazy about the trip as I was, got up and started to sing an
old traditional Gospel song called 'Telephone to Glory'. He was the most musical of our
bunch in class.
In the excitement of the moment, I got up to join him. I started to do what I then
thought was singing a harmony part to his tune — when the class shouted me down, it
dawned on me that I was probably not singing right, to put it mildly.
At that moment, fellow students (assuming that I was mature enough to take it like a
man, and not emotionally thin-skinned), started hurling truthful but harmful accounts of
what they had just witnessed me do. One fellow, echoed by the rest of the class said,
"You are a whiz kid, you are very intelligent, but don't just assume that God has given
you the talent of singing as well!" Painfully truthful!
A TALENT DENIED
The fact that I did very well with my schoolwork, even without much studying, was
not going to be a comfort to me in and at that moment. I had just found out that I had a
horrible voice. Believe me, I had always been outstanding in most of what I did — some
kind of a child prodigy64 if you please, because I was used to being the best at everything.
Except for the fact that, the previous year was the first for me to take a mere pass
position — instead of the usual first or distinction in my class. Since primary school, I
had always been first in class. The year before this epic, I had fallen off to number eight65,
and I was beginning to think that not everything was possible.
So then, the 'truth' kept throwing itself in my face after my infamous rendition of a
capella66 harmony. In that class of about 38 students, almost 36 of them were convinced
that I was not born to sing. Not only did they believe that, but also that God probably
would be upset if I attempted to sing — they were convinced that I could not sing even if
I wanted to. That God had not seen fit to bless me with the singing talent in addition to
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in those days it was unheard of, for a black school to visit a white school
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an unusually talented or intelligent child
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on a school reporting system where students with the highest marks in class are at the top
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vocal music style unaccompanied by musical instruments
the many things I supposedly did extremely well. I heard them say it, and it tore me into
shreds in that short span of about two to five minutes.
Deep in my soul I was saying, "I shall rise again!" The big question was, "How?" In
addition, I had no answer to that question. The more they screamed out their assessments
of my horrible singing, the less I believed that I could arise out of that situation.
I was about to close the book in my pain and invisible bleeding that oozed from my
heart, rent by the 'honesty' of my classmates.
Mind you, the more they spoke out, the more I remembered how my mother and
relatives used to laugh each time I sang — needless to say I was beginning to realize that
they did not laugh and smile because I sounded good. It was becoming obvious that there
was another reason for it, and I did not care to consider it then, I wished not to. I LOVED
MUSIC, and I loved singing — but I could not sing. Your passion for music and
singing is a good sign of how great a singer you are about to become — APEL
Truth.020
Your Singing Is Wrong

It also brought to my mind how one day when I was taking a walk with a friend of
mine who was a respected young musician in the community; he had labeled my singing
as 'wrong.'
Wrong? Wrong? Did he not know he was speaking to a 'genius' that can do anything?
I had been raised to believe I was some kind of a genius you see. However, my friend had
just said I sang wrong. What did he mean wrong?
So, I asked him, "What do you mean wrong?"
He answered adamantly67, "It does not sound right, everything!"
I did not like that a bit. Wrong? On top of that, he could not point out the "... probably
one or two MINOR mistakes I had made," but he so insensitively thought that my whole
singing was wrong. That is what went through my mind to ease my pain. It hurt. I was not
accustomed to criticism then, I still do not take too kindly to criticism, but I have learned
to accept it.
Anyway, back to my story in my class, I was about to close the book on my future.
Deep down I believed I could do it — but if the whole class believed that it was God
Himself who deliberately disabled me, how could I even dream about defying his grand
plan? I wanted to defy their faith, but I feared the 'truth' that God might also have been
reluctant about my desire to sing.
PROVERBS 13:12 (UNASB)68

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Suddenly, from my left, an innocent observer69, who hardly ever spoke in class — one
of those that came to school only to study and nothing else, started to say something
about my singing. And as I was about to both close my book on the subject and recoil
further from what I feared was another utterance of criticism, she began to say, "He
sounds horrible, but his voice is beautiful, if only somebody would train him, he would
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Updated New American Standard Bible
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Irene Matamba — I don’t know what happenned to her since, but I’d sure like to thank her if I ever met her again
make it!" One TIMELY good word can change the world far more than a thousand
sermons — APEL Truth.021
O! O! O! Music to my ears — the silent woman had spoken words of wisdom, words I
was dying to hear! Sometimes, a kind word is the only hope a desperate soul in order
to pick up the pieces — APEL Truth.022
LIGHT AT THE END OF THE DARK TUNNEL

"What? If only what?"
Somebody had said the magic words. I had just been liberated — it was my license to
sing. There suddenly seemed to be a possibility that God might not be opposed to my
desire to sing. Maybe He would not mind a teacher teaching me how to sing. Maybe it
was not God that had handicapped me from singing. Maybe I could do it.
Let me pause for a second here and repeat how one good word spoken at the right time
can change the world, and how in the same context one bad word spoken arrogantly and
carelessly, can damage the whole world.
MATTHEW 12:36 (UNASB)

"But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting
for it in the day of judgment."
You should have seen how my heart leapt for joy when one innocent human being had
one small good observation about my voice. Suddenly, the noise of the 37 seemed to go
silent. I could not hear their heartless rave anymore. I could now hear only one thing in
my mind and my heart, "... he would make it!" I leapt for joy on the inside.
I thought she had set me free, but she did not give me everything I needed; she implied
that I needed a Voice Tutor.70
Wait a minute! This would have been great advice if that were possible in my area of
residence during that period.
Mind you, this was in 1981. Where on God's green beautiful planet would I have
found a voice teacher in the far north? The only teachers I knew existed were the Biology
and English teachers.
Voice Tutor! My mind was thinking, "What in heaven is that?"
I suddenly started speculating about an experience with a voice teacher, what it was he
would teach me and whether it would actually 'heal' my vocal wounds.
Knowing my expectations, I did not want to be an average singer, of course, I wanted
to excel. How was the teacher going to teach me? Would he stand in front of me and start
to beat to the metronome, or would he hold my hand and pray for the talent to fall on me
like ripe cherries? I kept wondering.
Before I knew it, my fantasies and newly found vision had kept me busy the whole of
the remaining school day. Nothing else mattered that day except the one little matter of
me and God and singing — and of course, the infamous and unknown voice teacher.
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WHO IS GOING TO TEACH ME?

That had become Mission Impossible 171, 'To Find a Voice Tutor.' Goodness, I knew I
was kidding myself. I knew I would not find a voice tutor in my area, because if there had
been one, I would have known about him, because everybody knew everybody. It was a
small area where even your flu is public knowledge.
If I could not find a tutor, what would be next? I walked home alone that afternoon,
still bothered by the question of my singing, God and a voice tutor. I quickly decided that
if I could not find a voice tutor, the least I could do was approach God, the only other
party who mattered in the case. You see, I had been taught that you could ask God for
anything, and He would grant it.
JAMES 1:5 (UNASB)

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and
without reproach, and it will be given to him.
When I got home, the first thing I did was go and lock myself up in the toilet. In there
I could not be disturbed, you see, I shared a bedroom with my brother ... and if I needed
to talk to God, I did not want anybody interrupting.
So there we were, me on the toilet seat and God, well, somewhere in the room. So I
started out, "About this matter of singing, couldn't you like … just make me a singer
somehow, and maybe then I could like … sing for you the rest of my life?"
Who was I kidding; even the toilet knew that the 'sing for you' bit was bait for God.
However, I knew He was listening, He heard me — and what I knew about Him was that
He was always ready to give good gifts.
MARK 11:24 (NASB)72

"Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that YOU HAVE
RECEIVED THEM, and they SHALL BE GRANTED YOU"
Guess what? I believed that God had answered my prayer, so I dashed out of the toilet
and went straight into the living room. We had a Blaunpukt73 vinyl record player. So I
took out one of Jim Reeves' old singles, this particular one was 'This World Is Not My
Home'. Talk about believing that you have received and acting on your faith!
TO SING OR NOT TO SING

Now, this was the great proof — to confirm whether the Lord had answered my
prayer. I guess there was one little part about faith that I had missed; just because God
had answered, my prayer did not mean that the answer had already materialized. Just
because somebody has posted a letter to you does not mean you have taken delivery of
it — APEL Truth.023 Just because a cheque has been deposited in your bank account
does not mean you can immediately draw against it. There are rules governing the
process of materialization of requests from the spiritual world to the physical world —
and it all takes great patience.
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New American Standard Bible
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a popular Hi-Fi brand in South Africa in the 70’s
The Playback Debut

So then, I went ahead and I also pulled out a tape recorder, I was now going to sing
along with Jim Reeves and hear if I sounded just as good as he did. As far as I was
concerned in those days, Jim Reeves and Elvis Presley were the best singers on earth. So,
I figured, if I could sound like one of them, I would have made it.
I played and sang along while recording my voice and his in the background. At the
end of it all, while I was rewinding the tape, I 'knew' that it had finally happened. The
singing talent had fallen on me like ... shall we say cobweb from the toilet roof.
I stopped the tape and pressed play ... and I heard it, the grim and brutal truth. Jim
Reeves was sounding good as usual and I, well — I did not like what I heard. I was the
worm on Jim Reeves'74 voice. Therefore, I was immediately discouraged. I had asked God
nicely in the toilet and look what I got — NOTHING! So I thought.
I later figured that maybe that was not how God worked. So, there had to be another
way, and the only other way left for me to explore was the Voice Tutor bit. With dread in
my mind, I slowly determined to resort to that last option.
"Where does one find a voice tutor in an area where there are no voice tutors?" I
wondered.
THE HUNT FOR A CURE

Eureka! It dawned on me that there was a public library in the area and there had to be
at least one book on singing. So, I ran to the library. I went through the music section and
what did I find? The total music selection consisted of a couple of books on how to play
the guitar and five or more tiles on classical music.
And guess what my definition of classical music was back then, "… slow and boring
music played with old musical instruments by old guys who could not speak English, who
are either already dead or about to die." Was this library going to give me the miracle I
had been waiting for? No!
So, what was next? I realized that as much as I had assumed that God was on my side,
I was the only tutor I was ever going to find. There was only one small problem with that,
I did not know what to teach myself, nor did I know anything about music.
Inventing a Teacher
"Well," I thought again, but slowly this time — "who compiled the first curriculum for
the first University degree. Certainly not a university graduate, because there were none.
How did they make the first straight ruler? They certainly did not use a ruler." The
supernatural is at the beginning of a thing and the spectacular, at the end thereof —
APEL Truth.024 So I figured, if ever there was a voice teacher, he would have to have
been taught by a 'non-voice teacher' in order for him to become the first voice teacher.
There had to have been one self-made teacher in order to produce the first student
teacher. I had just decided to become that self-made teacher. Because the answer was
clear — the first teacher must have trained himself.
Well, if he could do that, what was keeping me from training myself to become my
own teacher? So I decided, I was going to teach myself how to be a voice teacher, and
after that, I was going to teach myself how to sing! Problem solved. At least, so I thought.
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A BLIND MAN LEADING HIMSELF

My first assignment was to 'quickly' establish a curriculum. Therefore, I went to my
musician friend and asked him, "When I sing, what things do you feel need
improvement?"
The answer was, as I had been told before, "Everything!"
Therefore, my friend was not very helpful. I needed a list of twelve things or seven
things I could make a curriculum from. I went to another 'friend' and another, until I
figured that I was in it on my own. When anybody I spoke to wanted to know why I was
asking the questions, I told them about my great plan — and they were 'kind' enough to
inform me to "… drop it!"
That did not sound good to me either. They figured that I needed to hear one more
time again that "... God had not given me that talent!" Stay away from negative people
— APEL Truth.025 I DID NOT WANT to hear that I was born without the talent, or that
I could not possibly have everything, or even that I was wasting my time.
I was hurt. Therefore, I figured again, that I was all-alone in this. I made a resolution,
"I will do it quietly, and I will come back with a bang and shame them!" Well, wrong
again, that was not going to work either.
Yes, I went away for a couple of weeks; at times I spent the odd night hour in the
street, practicing, other times I went to the bush. I would break off a short stick from a
shrub or tree and hold it as a microphone and start to sing and scream and jump and
dance.
As you might have guessed, I was spotted in the bush during my famous training
sessions. Rumors went rampant — I had lost it, they said! And people now started to look
at me with that prying eye, like they were scanning me or something.
That did not stop me. I kept at it for around 14 days. At that time, I was seventeen and
was pastoring75 a local church.
Therefore, I figured, what better platform than to sing in my own congregation. I
figured, who would dare stop the pastor from singing just before the sermon. Let them try
if they dared!
So that Saturday morning76 before my sermon I thought I would just 'come back with a
bang and shock them' with a song called Precious Lord (needless to say, one of Jim
Reeves' songs).
I sang, and I sang, and I sang — they looked at me with big eyes! Moreover, in my
soul I thought, it had happened. They could not look at me like that other than from the
shock of how great a singer I had miraculously turned into, or so I thought.
Well, when I finished, they were in shock all right: not the shock of the extent of my
singing talent, but the shock of the lack of it. I did not know until after the service that I
had done something horribly wrong.
I preached that day from cloud nine, ecstatic about my newly found 'talent'. Well, the
decisive moment came soon after the service as we were walking home (I was only a
part-time pastor you see — I did not have the luxury of owning a car). I was carrying the
piano accordion that I used for musical accompaniment. Man, it was the debut
performance of my life.
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presiding head person authorized to conduct religious worship and manage a congregation
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I was a Seventh Day Adventist
One of the sisters from the church started to laugh and said, "It was so hilarious, and
you will never make it! I nearly burst out laughing in church."
Guess what, the rest of the people now joined in and echoed her 'wisdom' — I just
acted as if all was well. Nevertheless, I could not hide it any longer. In my heart I said, "I
have had it — I will just throw this accordion away and stop with the music and singing
thing!" That is how I felt. I wanted to sing so bad, that any failure I experienced hurt like
cold needles through my spine.
They must have read my mind when they responded, "No! The playing is perfect, it's
the singing that is so hilarious!"
That shut me up. The great self taught voice singer had made his debut and failed. So,
what was next? I had tried prayer and failed, or least so I thought. I had tried the library
and failed. And I had tried me as tutor, and also failed. So, what was next?
A LOT OF RESEARCH — A LOT OF PRACTICE

There was one more thing — study singing until I could tell right from wrong. If
nobody knew what I was doing wrong, I would find out myself. It was going to be
Mission Impossible 2: Judge and Jury.
So the project started: I read everything I could find on music — much to my
disappointment, the local library kept books about music, and not on music itself. This
kept me back at the start. I read everything in the newspaper, magazines; I absorbed every
bit of information from television that I could get hold of. Slowly, the mystery began to
unravel. I began to see the elements of music that required my focus — and I was then
able, or rather eventually able to structure my curriculum.
Now that this was taken care of, I began to analyze my singing and to point out my
errors, I found out that truly, it was everything about my singing that was wrong.
Fortunately, I was also able to narrow it down to a tangible list77.
In addition, this list became the focus of my research. The teacher had uncovered the
truth; it was now time to put it into focus and application. I still did not know that finding
out what I needed to train myself on was not the entire solution to my problem, but at
least I knew where I stood and I knew that what the people had said about my singing
was true — without excusing their insensitivity. I understood their opinion. Attitude is
louder than words — APEL Truth.026
The research now initiated many experiments. It was the only way I was going to find
out the right way to solve my problem. As much as I now knew where I was supposed to
be going, I did not know how to get there; I had to try out a number of paths. Many …
many paths. On a journey to success, one deceptive detour might be the end of your
dreams — APEL Truth.027
TWO YEARS TO FIND A CURE

I continued to spend time in isolation, without attempting to display my achievements,
if any. I was afraid of finding out that I could be on the wrong track and, I wished rather
to complete my journey before subjecting myself to public opinion. If the route to
success were obvious and acceptable, everybody would have taken it — APEL
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Pitch or Melody, Time or Rhythm, Texture, Dynamics, Harmony and Timbre
Truth.028 It is important to flock with the right birds when incubating success. Get away
from the ordinary man and his familiar approach, lest you sink back into the abyss
with him — APEL Truth.029
I liked the night, because when you sing in the night, in the dark, there is nothing but
your voice and the echo of nature, with the special effects of insects and other distant
sounds enhancing your projection. If ever you needed to hear yourself, the night was the
time to feel the richness of your tone. Besides, all the lazy and negative people are asleep
then.
I was beginning to believe that I was sounding better and better by the day. I began to
focus on much finer details in my research and practice — I began to feel what I was
singing, and not merely airing the sound of my voice. I knew I was stepping onto the road
of the talented ... so I needed to find out how well I was doing, I could not evaluate
myself, I just could not be sure that I was really sounding GOOD, because previous self-
assessments had revealed otherwise. I needed to be ratified.
THE DAY OF RECKONING

By then I had moved from the school where I was doing Standard 978, to another where
I was now repeating Standard 10.
When I passed Standard 9, I lost focus on education. There were two things on my
mind, and they were obsessions, first my faith and relationship with God and second, my
Voice Training mission. I did not care about education any longer.
When the time came to write exams, I did not study, I did not write any exams — I
went into all the exam sessions, I wrote my name and waited for the mandatory 30
minutes to expire so that I could leave and go home.
When the results were issued, I had not obtained any marks. This was because I did
not write any exams, I suppose. It sounds safe to assume that you have to write the exams
in order to pass, and not only to write, but to study before you write the exams.
So my father was terribly disappointed in me: the genius that I think some people had
assumed I was, had failed and shamed my father, who had become school inspector by
then. So, I was 'shipped' off to a school that I hated, but in a perfect location: in the
middle of the bush. It was so remote that you had to drive through a long stretch of the
wilderness to get to the school.
This was the perfect location for me: I could steal off to the river, sit on a rock in the
middle of the water and sing. I could sing so loud and hard that the birds would gather
around to watch. I had grown to love my moments of solitude, because in the two years
they had given me a maturity I could not explain.
THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG

I started to sing in season and out of season. I was always singing — from the moment
when I woke up to the time I went to sleep. I only let up in situations where singing was
not permissible. And one day somebody overhead me (accidentally because my voice
was still a 'secret prototype') — their remarks about my singing indicated that it was
possible that my assumptions about the improvements may have been correct.
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The person, who was a stranger to me then, said she had never heard anybody sing as I
had just done. Please understand me, for a vocally wounded 'wobbler' who had received
nothing but remarks of pity, criticism and discouragement, this was music to my ears. I
had found a pair of ears that thought I sounded as if I was talented; would the other ears
of the world share this opinion, for once in my life?
THE FIRST PERFORMANCE IN TWO YEARS

At that stage, the approval seemed more important than the purpose. Approval is
never more important than purpose — APEL Truth.030 So I thought, it was time I tried
the 'prototype' out. Take a test drive if you wish. Being a devout Jesus lover, I was part of
the Student Christian Movement. So in one of the weekly meetings, I submitted a notice
to sing. I was anxious, wondering if I was going to be faced with the same kind of
reactions as I had received in the past. My turn came and I slowly made my way to the
front.
As I stood there, it had begun to rain hard outside. We were under a tin roof, the hall
we were in was larger than the universe. I opened my mouth and started to sing my old
favorite, the Jim Reeves 'Precious Lord' standard. The key was too low, so could not hear
myself singing, and the audience could not hear me, either. I had to find a solution or my
prototype would go down the drain and this time it would have been the last. Limit the
number of opportunities for failure if you wish to persist long — APEL Truth.031
I remembered that in my training programs, wherever I was, the bush, the night or the
toilet — I rarely sang anybody else's songs. I sang my own songs, I sang whatever came
out of my heart at that moment, and I had grown very comfortable with impromptu79
performances. Therefore, finding that my song was of a low key and could not be
rescued, I immediately changed gears and switched into an impromptu with a slightly
higher and more comfortable key.
The eagle lifted off the ground, I forgot about the audience and flew off, and I closed
my eyes and was swallowed up by my song. In my mind, I was seated on a rock in the
middle of the river, and the birds were gathered around me listening to my voice, and the
trees were applauding me with their green and innocent leaves. Eventually I had to open
my eyes and round off my song, and when I did, the audience was sitting there just
looking at me. They were frozen, and bewildered. You can guess what went through my
mind, "They are doing it again, shocked at my lack of talent." At least I thought so.
However, I sensed a different spirit in the hall, that of absorption of the song rather
than that of repulsion. When your heart flows with issues of life, you will feel every sip
of the drinking audience — APEL Truth.032
Moreover, as I gazed around in that split second, I noticed that some were wiping
traces of tears from their eyes and mumbling Pentecostal whispers of worship and
adoration to God. This was the same God I had spoken to in the toile. He had just
confirmed my prayer — it took a while, but it happened, and I had just sung for Him.
He had given me the talent I WAS NOT BORN WITH. Two years previously, I had
prayed, and only now did I open the mailbox to find my letter. The atmosphere in the
room was thick with moisture of heart and awareness of God. It was not possible for me
to jump up and down and rejoice at my confirmation, nor was it possible for the audience
to applaud me for my rendition, you can understand why.
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TEACH US TO SING LIKE YOU DO

After the meeting, four people immediately came up to me and echoed a remark
similar to the one I had received from the stranger before I decided to sing to prove my
two-year talent craving.
For me, this was not the end, but the beginning of a long journey. I had found the
secret — how to become a talented singer when you do not have the talent.
What was I going to do with this truth? I wondered. Minutes after I had asked myself
the question, the four people that had approached me asked me for a favor.
"Brother Mike, do you think you could teach us how to sing like that?" Imagine rising
from a shunned singer to a desired tutor in ten minutes. When success breaks through,
it may fall in the quantities of your efforts and the sums of your consistency —
APEL Truth.033
You should have seen me; I was still wondering about the two-year curriculum full of
experiments; and, which of the hundreds of experiments had actually done the trick. I did
not waste any time deliberating about the request. My answer was immediate.
"Yes, yes of course we can do that; we must just set up the times and get on with it, I'd
be happy to do that!" That was my overjoyed heart, speaking. I did not need time to think
about it. I did not need to be paid for it. I knew that I had something that was greatly
valuable and I so much wanted to give birth to it. It was less than two years old — but it
had worked. I wanted to share it.
From being shouted down for lack of talent to being asked to teach singing — that was
somewhat highly encouraging. IT HAD HAPPENED!
A TUTOR LEARNING TO TEACH OTHERS

It was hard enough to teach myself, but now I had to figure out which of the things I
experimented with did the trick, and then teach others. I would also have to learn how to
teach, because I did not know how.
You may not be able to imagine the difficulties I had. When I was training myself, I
did not need to have a formal curriculum. There was no need for words; it went from the
heart to the mind and then to the mouth.
Now here I was, faced with four believing students who wanted to know the how. I
was the 'great teacher' — it took a couple of months to actually get my students going in
some sort of direction. I was still as confused about what to teach them as I was the day
when they asked me.
We all began to see results, and three of them were willing to stay at it, but one was
not. He left while the remaining three went further with me until we ran out of time.
It was now the middle of the year and as the holidays were coming up, I had to leave
the 'bush school' and go home for a while. Home where the whole community knew me
as an 'untalented but ambitious' joke. But I had found the truth and I was going to unleash
it.
NIGHT SCHOOL
The first thing I did was to sing for my friend who had thought I would never make it,
because I was not born with it. He was the respected musician who had originally told me
that everything I sang was wrong. Imagine, I WAS NOT BORN WITH THE TALENT,
BUT I SUDDENLY RETURNED FROM THE BUSH WITH THE TALENT. When he
heard me sing, he froze in amazement. You can imagine that I made sure that I used
every effect and trick I had acquired in singing, so it was a well-embellished
performance.
You can guess what his reaction was, "How did you do it? Can you show me how to
do it?"
Fortunately, I had had time to figure out which of the techniques I used on my own
training had done the trick. Therefore, I started to explain to him, and being new to the
idea of teaching people how to sing, I was very sure and satisfied with myself. I was just
about to learn one of the greatest lessons of my life. The lesson was that no matter how
good you are; you should not regard yourself better than your fellow man. You will
never reach the end; if you do, you have failed — APEL Truth.034
I remember very vividly when my friend and I went through this session. It was at
night, almost towards midnight, and we stood at the corner of one of the main streets in
our area. The talk was accompanied by short demonstrations and explanations. He
immediately started to try some of the things we had just discussed and I remember how
enthusiastic he was when he realized it would work for him too. Today, he is a successful
recording artist who travels all over the world singing.
Perhaps the most encouraging thing to him was that he knew me BEFORE and
AFTER. As in those 'lose weight fast' programs, you see a picture before the person lost
weight, and then another after the person lost weight. In those ads, you wonder to
yourself if the person really was that fat before, since you never got to see them for
yourself and remembering at the same time that people can exaggerate things just to make
a sale.
He was my friend and he knew how bad a singer I was before. He knew how many
times I came to him with endless questions. He knew that as far as he could remember —
there was no way I could ever be able to sing. But here I was, in front of him, singing. If
one man can, then all men can — APEL Truth.035
BEHOLD ONCE I COULD NOT

Now, almost all the people that were interested in music knew who I was — they
remembered the times when they laughed at me, and the times when I tried and tried
unsuccessfully. That had to be the most telling sales pitch.
There was a national Christian conference going on, and as is usual, those that could
sing submitted singing items. My friend belonged to a prominent local music group and I
happened to be with them one day when they were rehearsing. They thought it would be a
good idea if I joined them. I was flattered and happy.
THE PROPHET IN HIS HOME TOWN

The time came, one evening they had to sing, and I joined them. I sang along from the
beginning and they had given me a solo piece in the middle — the perfect debut
performance80. When singing along with the group the packed hall could not single my
voice out since I was singing a backup part, but when the solo came, they could hear
every breath and word.
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I almost think this was by devine appointment
I can almost imagine what went through the minds of those that knew me — knowing
I could not sing, they probably thought that it was going to be the greatest embarrassment
of the year. I remember a year later; I listened to a recording of that performance which a
friend's wife had made. She had hung onto to it with passion.
My solo turn came and I sang, and sang and SANG ... as usual, I got carried away and
I closed my eyes and started jumping up and down in my excitement. This time I did not
come to find out if my singing was right — and that would have been wrong in any case;
I came to show them that I could sing — which was even more wrong.
I finished, the crown exploded with applause — I was satisfied, and that was wrong.
They saw the miracle, "Behold, once I could not sing, but now I can!"
After the meeting, you should have seen the number of people that came to me, with
one particular question, "How did you do that, I didn't know you could sing? In fact, you
couldn't sing, so what happened?"
Now, among the people that started to tell me how talented I now was were those that
had told me before how untalented I was. Those that told me that God had not given me
the talent were now saying just how God had given me a special talent. THOSE WHO
HAD SAID THAT I WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO SING BECAUSE I WAS NOT
BORN WITH IT WERE NOW TELLING ME HOW I WAS BORN TO SING. I stopped
and thought about it when I was alone. I realized that singing had nothing to do with
talent. It had nothing to do with being born, and it had nothing to do with how many other
talents you had. It was a miracle to those who knew my former state. I was going to teach
the whole world how to sing. That is what this book is all about.
THIRTEEN YEARS TO REFINE APEL

Since then a lot has happened; I have taught and taught and taught and TAUGHT. I
saw many people it worked for; I saw many that it did not work for. I now know what
makes it work. I now know what makes it fail. I have seen all sorts of people81 and taught
them. I mean all sorts of people.
Some were only eight years old. Some were close to sixty. Some were professionals.
Some were academics. Some were students. Some were Black, some were White, some
were Indian and some were Colored. Some were male and most were female.
I have explored this technique and I have shared it with many people. During that
period, I have answered all sorts of questions. I believe in it. I believe in what I teach — I
teach this not only theoretically, but by example as well. I have a vision to teach people
this, and as long as I am alive, I will teach it. Many believe me, some do not — some
dispute my methods, others feel intimidated, some are skeptical, but those that have
followed my instructions have seen it work — and that is all I care about.
I grew through the stages, at I first I was unsure of myself, and then I was too sure of
myself at one stage, and after both stages, I grew beyond singing to impress my audience.
To defeat your purpose in life you only have to border on misplaced zeal — APEL
Truth.036 I used to sing for people, then I sang for myself — now I have grown, I sing out
of myself. I must apologize, there is no way I am going to be able to capture thirteen years
of experience into this few pages. Maturity is the ability to put others first and still be
self-centric — APEL Truth.037 I could have made the book much longer82 and I doubt if I
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the material had to be condensed to fit into fewer pages
would have served the purpose. In this attempt, I may not be able to capture the whole
essence of the story. However, I know what I will do — I will teach you the basics, and I
will trust that you, like me, have the capacity to discover the rest83 for yourself. Your
future is in your heart, you have the only key to your heart — APEL Truth.038 You
must unlock it, and only you can. If you receive instruction with meekness, you will
receive your talent. If you grow further by yourself, you will receive your miracle —
APEL Truth.039 You may be wondering about miracles, but you should not. Miracles
are not earned, they are received — APEL Truth.040
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EXCUSES AGAINST APEL
The title of this chapter is not an overstatement, I discovered that over the years in my
classes. I spent more time in 'therapy sessions'84 than in actually teaching APEL. People
have to first change the way they think, before the program can do anything for them,
because for the program to do something for you, you have to pay the price of persistence
and consistence, through discipline and focus. You cannot change your life until your
self image has matured — APEL Truth.041
Succeeding at APEL
Please take this seriously; in order to succeed at APEL, you will be required to have
the following four qualities without exception:
Persistence — simply put, this is effort over a continuous and connected
period. It means CONTINUING WITHOUT INTERRUPTIONS.
Consistency — the property of holding together and retaining shapes. It means

that you must MAINTAIN THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT; it must not be
reduced, if anything, it should rather increase, but never decrease again. The
difference between CONSISTENCE and PERSISTENCE is that the later deals
with the amount or value of the effort, while the former deals with the
continuation or connectivity of the effort.
Discipline — I feel it is necessary to explain this in detail, discipline is the ability

to train by instruction and practice. In simple terms, it means STICKING WITH
AND TO THE RULES, with no deviations and variations or shortcuts, or even
improvisation — just simple adherence to the rules.
Focus — this is my favorite; it refers to the concentration of attention or energy

on something. Once you have put your sight on a goal, nothing should detract
your attention or energy until you accomplish that goal.
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That is something you cannot do if you still have skeletons in the closet regarding your
own perception of what APEL is, or your chances of succeeding at it. Therefore, I felt it
was necessary to relate some of the excuses that have come up over the years, for you to
work through, before you even get started. I know how it must bother you — will this
work for anybody? What is required of you? Without giving away the contents of the
training program, I will endeavor to explain to you what it takes to make it, and if you
have it, then you will have your answer.
You will face many problems when embarking on this unusual study of learning how
to sing. I know there are many obstacles because I have been through them personally, or
have seen my students go through them. In the end, I have found that there are only so
many basic hindrances. I have devoted a full chapter to hindrances against learning how
to sing.
LITERACY
People have been taught to think that formal education is the only way to success. I
disagree. Formal education is a way to success, but not the only way. Formal training is
not the path to success, but knowledge is — APEL Truth.042 People were successful
before public schools were invented. In addition, because of this mentality, people that
have education have despised those who do not have it. They have regarded the
uneducated as inferior.
NOT EDUCATED?
You do not have to be highly educated to succeed with this method, all you need is to
be able to read — and even if you cannot read, somebody else can read it for you.
The teaching method here requires one simple thing: listen to what you are being told
and do it without hesitation exactly as you were instructed. People that had the ability to
trust me as their teacher, have done well in singing. And when I say well, I mean they
have crossed the seas, they have recorded albums, they have appeared on TV, they have
started their own groups, they have joined renowned choirs. They have taught others.
They have made it to the heights of their dreams.
Just the other day I went to a hotel theatre where there was a big musical show, which
was widely advertised in the national papers. While sitting there marveling at the genius
of one of the singers in particular as the performance went on, I suddenly recognized the
singer as one of my graduates from about seven years ago. He was doing exactly what I
had taught him to do almost to the letter. You can imagine the fulfillment in my heart. I
had become a paying audience to one of my own students. I remember him as a very
attentive and determined student, who argued nothing, but practiced everything. You too
can do it. There is no reward greater to a teacher than the maturity of his students
— APEL Truth.043
A MATTER OF CONFIDENCE
Then I had other students who came to me, but did not have enough confidence in me
to listen to me and do what I told them to do. Guess what? They achieved nothing. Guess
what? They went nowhere. I know why — some people have an ego the size of Mount
Everest, and what bothers me is that even after years of flaunting their empty ego, they
still do not realize that it is misleading them. In fact, they are too proud to notice how
proud they are. The worst kind of pride is the kind that blinds you from seeing your
own vanity — APEL Truth.044
Success is a choice — APEL Truth.045 If you become successful accidentally, by
winning or inheriting or through some other fortunate thing, you will soon be
unsuccessful, unless you learn to stay successful. Success is maintained by the same skill
with which you attained it — APEL Truth.046
Statistics have shown that most of the people who win huge amounts in a lottery end
up losing most, if not all the money. Why? Success is a habit — APEL Truth.047
So take my word for it: you do not need education for this method to work for you. I
had a student who took my classes who did not go far in school. He was a carpenter,
because that is the best he could do in life; he did not have a million choices to pick from.
He was very committed, attended every class, and paid his fees on time. It must have
been half his weekly wages, but I had more respect for him than the smart-mouthed
yuppie with a fancy car and a big cellphone.
Of all the students I had, the less educated had the most respect for my principles and
were very committed to their goals. You can argue that they looked up to me and did not
have much experience with which to challenge me. I can live with that, but they
succeeded and exceeded the supposedly 'educated and prone-to-success elite.' —
unfortunately it also stands that the former were less able to fund themselves through the
course — the course used to run for about six months and in those days they paid R100
— R20085 a month. Most people just do not have a spare R600 or R120086.
It always hurt me when somebody dropped out because he or she did not have money,
but when one dropped out because of laziness, I did not complain. I would rather have a
student who cannot afford to pay, but is willing to work, than one who can afford to pay,
but is lazy.
THE RIGHT VOICE

This is the most common excuse. People seem to think that you have to be born with it
in order to succeed at it. No. I was not born with it, and I succeed at it. If you were not
born with it — I can show you how to succeed. Believe me, I WAS THERE!
I learned a lot when I was teaching singing those thirteen years or so. I found out that
of my students, the ones that came to me just to put some finishing touches on their voices
where the most pitiable. They did not make it. They came to me already moulded, and
they wanted me to add another mould, which would mould their mould into perfection.
Sorry! I cannot mould — I have carved shapes with a sharp instrument. Usually the
results are a total remake of the original.
CREATING ORIGINALS OUT OF SIMPLE THINGS

You cannot mould a shape which exists and is already dry. However, you can take a
chisel and a hammer and chop it up and down until it becomes smooth. When you carve
somebody's voice, you will not produce an image similar to the rough original image. It
is impossible and it is not necessary. In the end, the sculpture is at the mercy of the
shape of the raw wood as much as it is at the mercy of the sculptor — APEL Truth.048
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I do not want you to sound like me; I do not want to sound like somebody else.
Therefore, I do not want to mould you. Molding produces identical images, carving
produces creative images — APEL Truth.049 If singers all sounded the same, you would
not need to listen to all of them, you would only need to listen to one good representation
of them all and you would be satisfied that you have heard them all. This is sometimes
how I feel when I watch TV, sometimes I cannot tell the some of the new teen singers
apart, never mind the songs — some of it all sounds the same.
Do you not wonder why people never stop going to art the galleries?87 They are going
to see the same colors — most artists use less than 256 colors on their paintings. Blue is
blue, green is green; there is no question about it. However, it is their strokes and
combination of the colors that make a creation, and no matter how well you know all the
colors, you will always want to see one more combination of those same colors.
Your bad voice is like a log of timbre found in the bush by a carpenter — he looks at
it, and sees many possibilities. If your voice is perfect, or near perfect, it cannot not be
carved into anything creative. Maybe we can try, and end up with something
monotonous. The best would be to chop it off seriously, in order to be able to create the
desired shape.
THE UGLIER THE VOICE, THE BETTER APEL WORKS

I have always preferred awful voices — they are full of possibilities. I was always
reluctant about 'good' voices. When I say good voices, I am referring to a person who
believes that they have a good voice. If you have a good voice, that is, if you believe you
do — why go for training?
Perfection does not need improvement — APEL Truth.050 I had students who came
to me thinking they were perfect, and hoping I would send them away and tell them there
was nothing to teach them. When I pointed out what they could do to improve their
singing, they were very disappointed, as they had been hoping for a little endorsement of
their supposedly infallible voices. I have been there and I have craved approval.
I could never carve anything out of them. If I believed that my singing was perfect, I
would have stopped long ago with training. But because I knew I was lacking in many
ways, I went for it. I will always be lacking something in my voice until the day I die.
This means I will never stop training. Having found the way to improve one's singing, or
create singing when there is no talent, does not mean I will be the best. There are people
that have never been trained and they sound 200% better than me, and similarly there
others whom I have taught from scratch who sound much better than somebody who
studied at university level. Art is not about better and best, but about creative potential
— APEL Truth.051
If my best is half your best, then great — I should be as happy for you as I am about
having reached my full potential. If your best is half mine, then you should be as happy
for me as you are about having reached your full potential. Being the best is competitive,
but being your best is relative — APEL Truth.052
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LACK OF EXPERIENCE
Welcome to the club. When the little boy went to swimming classes for the first time,
he said to the teacher, "Madam, I have never done this before." Well, you and I know he
was afraid of the water, but the teacher said, "Well, Johnny, that is why you are here, TO
LEARN TO DO WHAT YOU CANNOT DO!"
As we said before, never having done it, or never having done it right makes you the
best candidate. Those who know not learn a lot, and those who know a lot, learn not —
APEL Truth.053
Your capacity to learn is directly related to your admission of insufficiency of
knowledge — APEL Truth.054 I am not stupid; I will not learn to do what I think I
already know how to do. Goodness, why on God's green earth would I take a 'walking
course' — I know how to walk, I have been walking ever since I was a baby. I might
however want to learn how to bop.
Because I think I know how to walk, it would be impossible for anybody to teach me
how to walk. If I did not know that I was walking wrong, and that I must improve the way
I walk, there is no way I am going to learn or agree to be taught how to walk.
If you feel that you know how to sing, I cannot teach you anything. This may be
because you have arrived, you have made it. It may be because you are deceived, and you
think you have arrived, you think you have made it. The choice is the student's; he knows
how much he needs to learn. The greatest of all people, are those who will learn from the
most ignorant. The ability to learn from the ignorant88, is the first step towards the
impossible — APEL Truth.055
What I am saying is that you have done well by realizing that you lack experience, and
you lack knowledge — you are the ideal student, one with the most potential of all.
THE TALENT EXCUSE

This is probably the most classic. People were brought up with the belief that ability is
more a product of talent than it is of training, especially in those areas that seem to
require artistic or intellectual potential.
I find it odd though that we do not seem to think that you have to be talented to be a
student — you know, before you can go to normal academic schools.
Everybody who can afford a car seems to think you can just go and take a driver's
license without having to be talented for driving. You can also just go and get married
without having to be talented for marriage — but you have to be talented to sing.
Among these, are those who claim that it is a divine order, where if "…God has
determined your singing fate," there is nothing you can do about it. I was told the same
thing — "…God had pre-determined." Well that cannot be true because if God had
decided, I would not have made it this far. I could not have succeeded against God no
matter how crafty I was. That for me rules out the possibility that God had decided that I
was not supposed to be able to sing, which is what everybody thought.
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GOD-GIVEN TALENT?
Then there is the classic tendency where arguments are based on the Book of
Matthew89 to excuse one from having to do anything about one's singing — claiming that
it is up to God. Let us look at that passage from the Bible and see what is says:
MATTHEW 25:15 (LITV)90

And to one indeed he gave five talents, and to another, two, and to another, one, to each
ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY. And he went abroad at once.
The word talent is the real cause of the confusion. People immediately say, "There you
have it; God has to give it to you!"
Look at what the Bible says further on about the same talent. Actually, if talent is
singing, we might as well rephrase it for the sake of clarity: "And to one indeed he gave
five talents of SINGING, and to another, two, and to another, one, to each ACCORDING
TO HIS ABILITY. And he went abroad at once."
Does it make sense? The talents he gave them were numerable, per individual. You
cannot argue and say the number property is representative of quality instead of quantity,
because then the whole parable will have to be representative. That is to say, the talent
will also have to represent something other than talent, because we would be regarding
everything as a type of another.
Furthermore, if you think about it, how could he have given them the talent of singing
according to their own ability, if the talent was the ability to sing? It would mean that he
gave them according to what they already possessed — and that would take the talent
excuse away anyway; because I will suddenly think, that if you increase your ability to
sing, you will receive more talent accordingly, because it is given to you according to
YOUR OWN ABILITY.
I hear someone saying, "Michael91, you are taking it too far." However, if you read on,
you will begin to realize that the Bible is not talking about singing talents as we know
them. A talent cannot be 'taken to the bank' — which means it must have been something
monetary and not musical.
In fact, if you look at the subsequent passage, the master calls it my money. I must be
right to think that these talents were money and not divine ability to sing, as some will
have us believe.
"But Michael, this is a parable, and surely you should know that!"
Yes I do, but I also know that a parable is either fully a parable or not at all. Parables
are never part typed and part actual.
MATTHEW 25:17
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming
I should have received mine own with usury.
Remember also that the Greek word (New Testament period) for talent in this passage
actually means 'a sum of money weighing a talent and varying in different states and
according to the changes in the laws regulating currency.' We assume here that the
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talent referred to is an Attic92 talent, which was equal to 60 Attic minae or 6000
drachmae.93
Depending on the metal, a talent of silver in Israel weighed about 45 kg, while in gold
it weighed about 91 kg — the same measurement may have been the equivalent in Israel
and Greece.
GOD-GIVEN GIFTS
Does the Bible speak about special gifts that God gives to man? Yes, of course! Look
in the book of Acts.
ACTS 8:20
But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the
gift of God may be purchased with money.
Now if you check the Greek word for gift you will realize that God can give special
abilities if he chooses. The synonymous Greek word is doma and it refers to what God
confers as a possessor of all things.
"If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do
it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through
Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen" (1 Peter 4:11).
All you have to really do is look at Daniel's situation and you will understand that
about God — and in all occurrences, God's gifts are directly related to His plan.
DANIEL 1:17
As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and
wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
God's Gifts Are For All

I fully believe that. The real point I am making is that, the Bible tells us that God gives
gifts, and it never tells us that He refuses people gifts. So, if you have an argument that it
is God who gives gifts — you are right as well, but then what makes you think that He
refuses people gifts such as singing? Actually, the opposite is true.
PSALM 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good
thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Believe me, God is not against you at all. God is not against your singing at all. Some
of you who know that God is not opposed to you gaining a talent which you were not
born with might think that this section is overly extended. No — I know the frustration as
I told in my story; it can stop you from even trying.
If, as you claim, God has not given you singing talent, THEN ASK HIM FOR IT. If,
indeed, you were not born with it, then just ASK HIM FOR IT. If singing requires some
special inherent ability not present in all of us, what is keeping you from just ASKING
HIM FOR IT?
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RUNNING OUT OF BREATH

Some people have a problem with breathing94 — and for that reason, they might think
it will hinder them from singing. To an extent it might, if it so serious that you cannot
speak. Nevertheless, if you can speak without the breathing problem hindering you, then
it is not going to be a problem at all.
As much as I do not want to let the cat out of the bag yet, I want you to know that
anything that you can do with your speech, you will be able to do with your singing.
There is very little difference, if any, between singing and speaking — and when we
come to that section, I will prove it to you. As I said before, you will make it if you do as
you are told. I will be encouraging you a lot through the course — you can count on that!
THE OPINION EXCUSE

People will tell you that you cannot sing. People said that to me once. Now I can say,
"Once I couldn't sing, but NOW I CAN!" It feels great.
"Michael, you are so arrogant!"
No, I do not think I am! That is not proud, that is confident. People with a low self-
esteem fail to tell the difference between confidence and pride — they feel that proud
people and confident people intimidate them the same. When you believe in who you are,
you will not be easily intimidated.
I am relatively a strong person, but two years of battling with controversy95 and
resistance is a bit too much for any person to handle; unless you have somebody helping
you out, you can get to a place were you want to give up.
You are not learning to sing for people's sake, but people are the largest part of your
audience. Therefore, you need to learn how to handle them and the things they say. Come
to terms with criticism at the beginning of your journey so that your journey does
not end because of it — APEL Truth.056
People are not interested in how you deliver, but what you deliver — APEL
Truth.057 So be warned, and be careful — do not assume that even your closest of friends
will be supportive of you. People do not like to see, believe or even hear of a person who
is learning to sing; they hate to see your slow progress — they want to see you go out the
door and return with the goods a moment later. If they know that you are trying to
change, they will focus on your weaknesses and mistakes; once you have proved them
wrong, they will be on your side, even to the extent of telling you how supportive of you
they were when you were still battling.
It is pathetic when your attackers claim to have been your protectors because you have
become somebody. I do not understand why people are like that — but, welcome to the
club, you are about to find out for yourself.
By now you are beginning to notice that my approach to your training is going to be
made up of therapeutic lectures as much as it is of musical knowledge. You need to
understand about music — and the spiritual, psychological and practical aspects.
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COMMON PROBLEMS
Your voice is delicate, and no matter what anybody says, do not just drink or eat
anything people recommend to be good for the voice because it can lead to irreparable
damage. I remember what I used to do; each time after a good gulp of red pepper powder,
my voice would sound husky and dry, and rather jazzy, so I liked it and got into the habit
of red pepper dosages. God forbid if I ever do that again.
Here you are, learning to sing, who knows what ideas people will put into your head,
especially in that the learner has a tendency to trust any 'self-declared expert' who is
prepared to pump the desperate learner's ego sufficiently. I do want to warn you against
common practices I have seen among student singers.
A GOOD COUGH
People tend to cough excessively in an attempt to clear the throat, but I find it funny
that it is done only when we are about to go formal, be it in speech or singing. Any other
time, we do not seem to bother about clearing the voice, and yet, we do not have
problems. I hardly 'clear' my throat − and I cannot remember when I last had a 'froggy'
phrase. All that coughing on a vulnerable pair of vocal cords can have negative results, if
you do it long enough you will notice that your voice tends to become softer and itchy,
and soon it will become very painful.
For your information, the vocal cords where not created for coughing, coughing is just
a way of 'kicking out' dirt, cleaning out the passage way. The thrust of a sneeze or a
cough is very powerful and should be used sparingly if at all.
HOT WATER WITH GLYCERINE

A friend of mine had become quite keen on the habit of drinking glycerine with hot
water, because it 'changes the voice.' That is exactly where we go wrong; we tend to feel
that our voices are not good enough in their natural states and quality, and need to be
'changed' into something heavenly and exotic so that we can sing. The most beautiful
houses are built from the same dirty rocks and soil that we tread on — APEL Truth.058
The house may look shiny and lofty, but the soil it was built from was not. It is not
what voice you sing with that matters, but how you sing with it — APEL Truth.059
Glycerin, or glycerol, is actually an odorless and sweet alcohol. Just because it softens
your voice, does not mean you should use it. This leads me to my next crusade. I advise
people not to use it — but the decision is yours to make.
THE CRUTCH MENTALITY

If you use crutches for support when you walk, you will need the crutches every time
you want to walk. Is this correct? Of course! This same condition also occurs in singing.
I grew up on a farm and we used all kinds of techniques to tame animals, one that was
very common and effective in 'domesticating' animals was tying them to a post (you do
not have to call the SPCA96 on me here, we did not harm any animals).
I always noticed with interest that after being tied to a post for a while, that chicken,
dog or cow would presume it impossible to walk away from the post, because it had been
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tied to the post for so long. The funny thing is that, EVEN AFTER UNTYING IT, it
would stay tied to the post in its mind.
I have seen this in many students who have been singing with a crutch for as long as
they can remember. They need to drink something, or stand in a specific manner. They
feel a need to tilt their head a certain way, or form their mouth in a particular manner, or
have a certain instrument. The list goes on. It takes a third person to see the invisible
chains that restrict our development — APEL Truth.060
This I call the CRUTCH MENTALITY: a condition of the mind where the victim
believes he needs something to help him along. I have the deepest respect and sympathy
for physically disadvantaged people — but none or very little respect for advantaged
people who use crutches as a means to an end. Obviously I will throw in a coin or two if I
thought you were carrying those crutches legitimately, but the moment we discover that
you are a fake, we will take our money back and a little bit of your own too. Avoid any
form of dependency unless your voice is medically indisposed — APEL Truth.061
LEGITIMATE AILMENTS
The one common disease known to affect the larynx is laryngitis. Laryngitis is the
inflammation of the larynx, or the voice box, as it is commonly known. There are two
kinds of laryngitis conditions, namely acute and chronic.
ACUTE LARYNGITIS
This condition is infectious but short lived. It is normally painful or at least
uncomfortable. This condition is normally caused by a viral infection and there is very
little people can do wrong to contract it, besides exposure.
When a person has been in a hot environment and they suddenly move to a very cold
environment, it has been known to cause acute laryngitis, although this is not a confirmed
medical opinion. But to be on the safe side, I would avoid such sudden changes in
temperature without adequate protection. Similarly, I would avoid the use of hot and cold
liquids immediately following each other — this is merely my opinion.
Acute laryngitis is best treated by resting and even sleeping; incidentally, sleeping is
the best medicine for your voice. You must also get into the habit of drinking lots and lots
of healthy liquids such as water and natural fruit juice if you are going to be a serious
singer. Good singers drink lots of water and sleep many hours — APEL Truth.062
CHRONIC LARYNGITIS
Although some people are prone to contracting this kind of laryngitis, it can easily be
avoided. Chronic laryngitis is usually a result of emotional stress or strain. Improper
singing or speaking habits will cause chronic laryngitis. Sometimes exposure to smoke or
dust will also cause this condition. If you experience this condition, you can get
immediate relief by gargling with marigold97, myrrh98, raspberry leaf, sage99 or thyme100.
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aromatic resin used in perfume and incense
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aromatic fresh or dried gray-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc
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any of various mints of the genus Thymus
Garlic capsules are also very effective in preventing this condition. My favorite is
Vitamin C, found in most fruits, particularly oranges — now this is the kind of 'crutch'
you can lean on everyday. Singers should stay away from dust and smoke and noxious
fumes. In general, singers should try not to strain their voices. Most of the time we speak,
once in a while we shout and on the odd occasion we scream. So should it be when we
sing — APEL Truth.063
OTHER DISORDERS OF THE LARYNX

The following extracts are included courtesy of Richard Stasney (MD, Laryngology
Advisory Board — extracted from The Texas Voice Center).
Benign Lesions
Prenodules — prenodules are swelling on the vocal folds in the area where
nodules are formed. These are often seen before the vocal folds form calluses101
known as nodules. Speech therapy can resolve these and prevent their
progression.
Nodules102 — nodules are calluses on the vocal folds that occur with improper
voice use or over use. They are most common in children and females. They
prevent the vocal folds from meeting in the midline and thus produce an
hourglass deformity on closure resulting in a raspy, breathy voice. Most times
these will respond to appropriate speech therapy. Occasionally (about 20% of
the time), these may persist after intensive speech therapy and require
meticulous micro laryngeal surgery.
Polyps — polyps103 are benign lesions104 of the larynx, occurring mostly in adult
males, which are usually located on the phonating margin (edge) of the vocal
folds and prevent the vocal folds from meeting in the midline. Polyps can
interfere with voice production and may produce a hoarse, breathy voice that
tires easily. These may respond to conservative medical therapy and intensive
speech therapy. If the lesion fails to respond, meticulous microsurgery may be
indicated. One of the cofactors in the etiology of these lesions may be laryngeal
reflux disease.
Laryngoceles — laryngoceles are dilated areas of the larynx that result from
increased pressure over time. They may interfere with phonation or respiration.
Some may require surgical treatment.
Cysts — Cysts are lesions within the vocal folds that often impair their
vibration.
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an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot)
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small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant
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a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
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any visible abnormal structural change in a bodily part
Inflammatory Conditions
Laryngitis Sicca — laryngitis sicca is caused by inadequate hydration of the

vocal folds. Thick, sticky mucus prevents the folds from vibrating in a fluid,
uniform manner.
Vocal Cord Concavity
Presbylaryngis — presbylaryngis is a condition that is caused by thinning of

the vocal fold muscle and tissues with aging. The vocal folds have less bulk
than a normal larynx and therefore do not meet in the midline. As a result, the
patient has a hoarse, weak, or breathy voice. This condition can be corrected by
injection of fat or other material into both vocal folds to achieve better closure.
Tumours
Premalignant — leukoplakia is a white growth on the vocal folds. If not

treated, it can develop into cancer. Smoking, alcohol use, and reflux are all
believed to be factors in the development of this premalignant condition.
Cancer — a cancer type may develop, in which lesions grow on the vocal
folds. If the lesions are detected early, they can be treated with either radiation
or surgery, with a cure rate approaching 96%.
Neurological
Paralysis — vocal fold paralysis has many causes, and leaves the patient with a
very breathy voice, and sometimes with no voice. Thermoplastic is a surgery to
correct the gap and restore usable voice.
Haemorrhage
Vocal fold hemorrhage is a very rare occurrence that usually is caused by aggressive
or improper use of vocal folds (e.g. cheerleading, screaming and similar activities). It is a
result of rupture of a blood vessel on the true vocal fold, with bleeding into the tissues of
the fold.
PERSONALITY CHALLENGES
It is possible that your personality will stand in the way of, and prevent you from
attaining your goal. To deal with the personality issue, let us lay down a brief foundation.
This book is not about personalities, but having observed the effect of various
personalities on singing or studying to become a singer, it is necessary to deal with this
matter, in as brief a manner as possible.
There are various ways of understanding human personalities, the most common was
created by the ancient Greek philosophers. In particular, Hippocrates105 and his co-
workers contributed a lot to this model.
In observing patients, they found that there were certain common behavioral patterns
among people — this does not imply that any two people are identical though. They
divided personalities into four groups, viz., Sanguine106, Choleric107, Melancholic108 and
Phlegmatic109.
Personality Analysis
The reason why I chose this model is that it is based on two aspects that are integral to
singing: EMOTIONS and EXPRESSION.
Emotions — by analyzing the impact of your Emotional Quotient, one is able
to both statistically and psychological derive behavioral patterns which are
caused by this very property of our essential makeup. Most of what we do
seems to be molded by the intensity of our emotional self.
Expression — our level of exposure to various environments also determines

our behavior. You can be introverted, extroverted, or in between
The Sanguine is the popular type, the Choleric is the powerful type, the Melancholic is
the perfect type and the Phlegmatic is the peaceful type. Generally, there are four basic
types of people, the popular Sanguine (emotional, influencing, socializing and
expressive), the powerful Choleric (volitional, domineering, directing and driving), the
perfect Melancholic (rational, cautious, thinking and analytical) and finally the peaceful
Phlegmatic (personal, retrieving, relating and amiable).
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Figure 3: Temparament Summary

There is a quick way to quickly identify your general self, which we shall discuss here.
POPULAR SANGUINE
This type normally wears bright clothing and given to expressive fashion. Their
personalities are generally intriguing and very lively. When they speak they are a bit
louder than the rest and speak without inhibition, usually saying whatever comes into
their heads. You will notice that they also tend to speak a bit more rapidly than normal,
with a lot to say.
We said they are very expressive, you will notice this in their grand gestures. They
will generally not speak without using some expansive body or hand gesture. Their living
and working style is also somewhat casual, they do not seem to be uptight about
anything. For them, life is visual, and they enjoy communication.
Positive Sanguine Traits

On the positive side, Sanguines love people and make friends easily, they are exciting
and have a good sense of humor. They are very charming and have little or no problem
finding a job. They are creative and colorful; they thrive on activity, and they enjoy story
telling. Is this you? If it is, let us look at the weaknesses as well.
Sanguine Weaknesses
The Sanguine's primary weaknesses are being driven by their emotions and hatred for
schedules. They feel guilty when they say no; they get bored easily and have no sense of
time. They are easily distracted and have little or no focus.
APEL and the Sanguine

How will APEL affect you?
If this is you, you will probably want to give up the program before you complete it.
You will find it difficult to stick to the schedule.110 People's comments may distract you
from focusing on your goals and either derail or delay your progress.
The program will be very exciting to you, and this is a good thing. You will approach
it with more energy than most people will, and once you have completed it, your
expressive nature will be a great complement to your singing life111.
POWERFUL CHOLERIC
Most Cholerics work and walk fast. They are very strong even in their conversation
gestures. They tend to arrive late and leave early at social gatherings, and during the time
they are there, they are busy, even using a cell phone or some other gadget.
Cholerics tend to focus on the here and now, are very task driven and sometimes
missing the small detail. They love control; they are attracted to things they can control.
They exhibit strength and power more than anybody does.
Positive Choleric Traits

On the positive, they are fearless and can fix almost any problem. They love
challenges and they are very decisive. They are strong leaders and can organize quickly.
They thrive under pressure, are very confident and usually right.
Choleric Weaknesses
If this is you, let us check your weaknesses. You have few or no friends, you are
opinionated and over-confident. You have a problem relaxing and tend to become a
workaholic. You expect complete devotion from others. You are nervy; you usurp
authority and have difficulty showing emotions. You are arrogant and manipulative. You
have a problem apologizing. Above all, you are afraid of two things, losing control and
not being liked.
APEL and the Choleric

How will APEL affect you? You have the greater potential of succeeding at it than
others. You will need to exercise patience because you tend to expect instant results. You
may misuse your talent because of your arrogance, but with focus and persistence, you
will make a great singer. Your discomfort with emotions may hinder your live
performances; you may even avoid performing because you cannot handle compliments
and emotional reactions.
PERFECT MELANCHOLIC
These people are the embodiment of perfection; they make you feel judged when you
are in their presence. You will notice them by their conservative clothing and perfect
posture. They are not the jump-up-and-down-and-scream types.
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Their work and life are extremely well organized. They tend to be slow and are
concerned with balance even if it takes a while to obtain it.
Positive Melancholic Traits

On the positive, they work very well on their own and are good at planning. They love
numbers and facts. As we said, they are organized and given to accuracy. They analyze
things always and try their utmost to be fair. They adore beauty and quality.
Melancholic Weaknesses
If this is you, let us look at your weaknesses. You are easily depressed and lack
spontaneity. You idealism tends to be naive and you are thrifty to extremes. You cannot
handle pressure and you need too much time to get anything done. You are a difficult
person to please because of your excessive perfectionism.
APEL and the Melancholic

How will APEL affect you? It will take a while for you to get to the end of the
program. You will be very skeptical and critical of the program and you will waste time
analyzing the material. You may discourage yourself by setting too high a standard for
yourself.
On the positive, your ability to work alone will make this an ideal project. You can
organize your life to fit the program and you can appreciate the beauty of the art with
intensity.
PEACEFUL PHLEGMATIC
Phlegmatics are very peaceful and they tend to take things easy. They are the
unexcited speakers with a low monotonous tone, evenly paced and seemingly well
thought out delivery. Their work and life are also peaceful, and they can blend in to the
point of almost not being recognizable. They are usually in no hurry.
Positive Phlegmatic Traits

On the positive, they are very calm and balanced. They are witty and reliable. You can
count on them to be steady and consistent. If you need a peacemaker, you have found
your person. They are likeable and will make good administrators. Another strength of
theirs is their ability to listen and to delegate.
Phlegmatic Weaknesses
If this is you, let us look at your weaknesses. You are stubborn and aloof. You have a
problem with procrastination112. Your life and work is generally without enthusiasm. It is
difficult to get you to move along. You are careless. You need to learn to follow things
through and get used to change — which you do not like much. You avoid conflict even
when it is necessary.
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APEL and the Phlegmatic

How will APEL affect you? You are difficult to predict, your type tends to be lazy.
Nevertheless, the positive thing is that you can be steady and consistent once you are sold
to the program. You must use some of your motivational skills on yourself. Do not be too
careless with the practice. Try to be passionate about the program.
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People are generally not confined to one temperament type; it is common to be a

combination of two temperaments. A Choleric might be any of three combinations, that
is, a Choleric Melancholic, Choleric Phlegmatic or a Choleric Sanguine. Similarly, the
other temperaments will take the same flavors. A Choleric Melancholic will tend to
exhibit power and perfectionism, while a Choleric Phlegmatic will tend to be a strong
person who is extremely calm.
The reason I am telling you this is so that you must watch the weaknesses of both your
temperaments once you have identified them. You will also notice that you will rarely be
50% of each temperament, so whichever temperament is the strongest, will have to
watched more carefully. If you are 60% Choleric and 30% Sanguine, you will have to
focus on the more glaring weaknesses, which in this case will logically be Choleric
weaknesses.
As I indicated, the idea is not to discuss temperaments in full detail, but to give you an
idea of the impact your personality will have on you while you engage in APEL. If you
wish to gain a deeper understanding of temperaments, I suggest you conduct your own
research.
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF MAN 114
One of the first things in learning how to sing properly is understanding yourself at a
spiritual level — what you are and how you are designed.
If you wanted to train a dog, you would need to understand about dogs a lot more than
you already do. It is impossible to train anything to do anything without a lot more than
just an elementary understanding of that organism.
It is impossible to drive a car without knowing what the controls are and what they do.
It is impossible to plant any seed and cultivate it through to harvest without understanding
about its seasons, patterns of water intake and pattern of germination. It is impossible to
raise a baby to a full grown adult without understanding about human beings. If you think
life is elementary and requires no understanding, try keeping a goldfish, and see how
many you kill before you get the hang of it.
MAN IS A SPIRIT BEING

Most human traditions teach that man is a spirit being — all the talk about witches and
ghosts confirm this. If man is a spirit being, which part of him is spirit and which part is
not? How does each part relate to the other? By now you will have gathered that the Bible
is my final authority115 and is part and parcel of this training program — I base all my
spiritual truth on the teachings of the Bible.
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GENESIS 1:26 - 27
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created He them.
God created man in His own image, that has something to do with the way man was
composed, does it not? He was made in the image of God — man resembles116 God, that
is, in more ways than people realize. For man to be in God's image, man has to be similar
to God — do not get me wrong, not in God's fullness, but only to extent that God
measured and determined when He created man. Man is not equal to God. Perhaps we
need to understand a little about God. Is He flesh and blood? What is God?
JOHN 4:24 (NASB)

God is SPIRIT, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
Is this not wonderful? God is spirit, the Bible says. However, man is made in the
image of God. Simple logic has it that if A is like B and B is like C — then C is like A.
Man is fundamentally spirit. Man is not a ghost. He is made of spirit. He is not a spirit,
He is spirit. His body is flesh, but the living part of him is spirit.
The Bible shows in the passage above, that man is a spirit being, but if you go back to
the beginning to Genesis, you will notice something different — or rather, something that
seems different.
GENESIS 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
NOSTRILS the BREATH of life; and man became a living SOUL.
Man was formed with soil, with clay or with substance from the ground. Therefore,
man's physical part is from the ground. However, it says that for this clay product to
become alive, God breathed into it, something from inside Him — and that is what made
this soil substance come alive.
Look at it again. There was a physical body, and into the physical body went God's
breath of life and the physical body, now with the breath of life inside it — became a
living soul. I see the BODY part (the soil part of man), I see the SPIRIT part (the life
from God) and I see the living SOUL part (a bridge between the spirit and the body).
Let me run this by you again. There was a body formed from the soil, and then there
was a breath from God, which is what transformed the soil body into (man 'became') a
living soul. Let me ask you a question: Was the soul a replacement of the body, or the
breath, or was it something that was formed because of the combination?
SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY

Next, we must understand how these three elements of man function together. We
have now seen that the source of life is the spirit — the body, it seems, is just a container.
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We Are Not Containers — We Have Containers

The container came from the soil — it cannot be of as much worth as the other
elements. If you think about it, why is it then that we seem to identify more closely with
our containers (bodies) than with our real self (spirit). Are you spirit or body?
If you think that all you are is a container (the body), how can you possibly play
yourself (the larynx)? — APEL Truth.064 You are not just all body; you are a spirit
with a soul (the soul has possession of your body, including the larynx or the voice box).
In fact, the Bible says something about man's part that came from the ground. David,
the Psalmist says, "My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and
curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth" (Ps 139:15). Look at this passage
again, but this time focus on the word my. If it is his substance, then he cannot be that
substance, can he?
Listen to this one more time — 'the body is not the you.' You are far more intricate
than cells and blood. You are life, and that life part of you is designed after the nature of
God. The majority of our limitations are just perceptions — APEL Truth.065 If we
knew and were convinced that we are spirit, we would overcome most of the problems
we encounter, because suddenly we would realize that they were in fact, not even real
threats.
ECCLESIASTES 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who
gave it.
Watch how the dust (body) and the spirit are kept as two distinct elements — in fact,
they each return to where they came from. The dust part of you returns to the dust, as we
said, it is a temporary container. The spirit part, which came from God, returns to God
(unless there is a problem — Satan might have taken lordship117 of the spirit; and in that
state, it cannot go to back God, it is no longer His). The body is a house, do not forget
that — it is an asset, and this is the asset on which we find the voice, the musical
instrument you are going to learn to play. Your vocal instrument is not part of you; it
is a fixture on your container — APEL Truth.066
Opening The Container

The Bible is very clear about the role of the body, "For we know that if our earthly
house of this tabernacle118 were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens" (2 Corinthians 5:1).
The life that is in the human body comes from God. Job also said, "The Spirit of God
hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life" (Job 33:4).
1 THESSALONIANS 5:23
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole SPIRIT and
SOUL and BODY be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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We never say, "Now and now." At least we do not sanely say that. Because now and
now are the same thing. If I said, "Peter and Grace arrived," — then Grace and Peter
must be two distinct and different people. Spirit and soul and body are three different
elements — all of them are part of man, or are man.
Inside this body, we find two real resident elements, the SPIRIT and the SOUL. Let us
throw a curve ball right here, do you think that the MIND is in the SOUL? We will
answer this as we go along.
We are now very certain of how man is composed — what we still need to figure out
is what part of man does what, or is what. We have touched on it a little, but we must
look into it deeper.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOUL AND SPRIT

The Bible clearly distinguishes between the spirit and the soul of man. To see this
difference more clearly, one needs to find out which other Greek or Hebrew words
meaning the same things are translated differently. For example, the Hebrew word
ruwach, is largely translated spirit — used both to refer to God's Spirit and, the spirit of
man. The AV119 translation uses ruwach as Spirit or spirit 232 times, 92 times as wind,
and a few other smaller variations.
However, the Bible also speaks about man as having an architecture. Look at the
following passage.
LUKE 10:27
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.
At a glance, this seems to have omitted the spirit element of man. Instead, we see a
new word: heart. Could the heart be the same as the spirit?
Synonyms of the Human Elements

Luke 10:27 speaks about HEART, and SOUL and STRENGTH and MIND. Either,
these are additional components in man, or they are equivalent meanings for the elements
of man we have already established. The HEART of man is part of his spirit. The
STRENGTH of man is clearly a result of his physical element, the BODY. However, the
MIND and SOUL are represented here as two different elements of man.
We see the HEART (spirit), the STRENGTH (body) and the MIND and SOUL which
we have not yet clearly defined — or rather, seen a definition of in the Bible.
This was Luke's account of what Jesus said when a lawyer or scribe tested Him. How
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MATTHEW 22:37
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy HEART, and with all
thy SOUL, and with all thy MIND.
Matthew did not mention anything about the strength part of the subject — but that
does not mean it is not part of the account. Notice however, that he also makes it clear
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the Gospels in the New Testament have several common references to some events
that MIND and SOUL are not the same, and that HEART (or SPIRIT) and SOUL are not
the same.
The words Jesus spoke, as quoted by the disciples, are actually quotations from the
law that Moses gave his people in the Old Testament, obviously directed by God — let us
also see how the original account is presented in the Bible.
DEUTERONOMY 6:5
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine HEART, and with all thy SOUL,
and with all thy MIGHT.
Do you see that? Only the HEART, the SOUL and the MIGHT are listed. You do not
have to be an expert to know that might and strength are synonymous. The missing
development here is that of mind and soul.
Original Text Dictionary

Take note that the HEART is consistently presented, however, the body is alternatively
presented as MIGHT and STRENGTH, or as MIGHT alone. Another way to understand
this better is to analyze the meanings of the original Greek or Hebrew words. I would
love to know what the original Hebrew words for these two words are.
The Hebrew word for soul is NEPHESH and is defined as that which breathes, the
breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man — and living being or with life
in the blood; and the man himself, self, person or individual. It also describes the soul as
the seat of the appetites, emotions and passions. It is also the activity of mind.
What about the word used for mind? The New Testament account of this uses the word
mind in addition to soul as well. The Greek word for mind is DIANOIA and it means the
mind as a faculty of understanding, feeling, desiring and understanding — also means
mind, i.e. spirit, way of thinking and feeling and thoughts, either good or bad.
Can you see what this means? The mind is part of the soul. My own interpretation of
this is that the MIND is that part of the soul, which is seated in the body, i.e., the brains,
while the rest of the soul is that part of man, which resides in and is permanently joined
to the spirit — and the two create a bridge or connection with the body. If you unplug the
brain, the mind is disconnected and the soul, together with the spirit, will depart. Stay
with me on this, you need to understand this before you get into APEL.
The Relationship Between the Mind and the Soul

The mind is seated in the soul. In fact, the mind is such a major and distinct part of the
soul that it is a different sub-part of the soul. Remember that in the soul there is more
than just the mind. You saw how the emotions and desires are part of the soul. Emotions
are both spiritual and mental. Spiritual emotions come from the heart — from the spirit.
Mental emotions come from the soul — from the mind. The soul is the GATEWAY
between your body and your spirit —APEL Truth.067
If you were a spirit, you would need a soul in order to affect the physical dimension.
That is why demons need a living soul, such as a human being, or even an animal (such
as a pig) to manifest in the natural realm. Satan needs witches and mediums to operate in
the physical dimension. Therefore, he is not all that powerful, is he? He needs help in
order to be a real devil.
THE NATURE OF OUR PERSON

The spirit, as we saw, was created to have the nature of God. Nevertheless, its current
nature ensues from the spirit it belongs to. If it belongs to God, it will have the nature of
God; if it belongs to Satan, it will have his nature.
ROMANS 8:9 (UNASB)

However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in
you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, HE DOES NOT BELONG TO
HIM.
It is possible not to belong to Christ, or God. Moreover, there are only two potential
owners. Either God owns you, or Satan does. If you have been obeying God all along,
then you have made yourself God's slave121 and He owns you.
If you have been obeying Satan, then you made yourself his slave, and he owns you.
Either God or Satan owns you. You do not have to sign a paper contract, you simply have
to present yourself to either of them and say, "I am yours!" With Satan, there was no need
to make any verbal commitment because you were born into his system, or you died into
his system when you reached the age of accountability.
EPHESIANS 2:3 (KJV)

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh,
fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and WERE BY NATURE THE
CHILDREN OF WRATH, EVEN AS OTHERS.
We were born dead according to Colossians 2:13, "And you, being dead in your sins
and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having
forgiven you all trespasses." Obviously you where not accountable to God for your state
of deadness until you reached an age were you could choose or reject God for yourself.
At which time, if you did not choose God, by default, you reverted to Satan's kingdom122.
ROMANS 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye YIELD123 yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to
whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Whom do you obey? Satan or God? You are already a slave — one way or another.
We are all slaves, either to good or to evil — APEL Truth.068 There are no gray areas;
we merely need to establish whose slave we want to be. It is like being a child — each of
us has a father, but we do not all have the same father.
What Makes You Good or Evil?

Being God's slave is voluntary, but being Satan's slave is not — he is an unfair,
deceptive and domineering master with no respect for your will and decisions. Even when
he owns you, he still wants to kill you, to destroy you and to steal from you. He even
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slave in a positive way — that is voluntary submission
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the world system and any ungodly lifestyle
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give in, as to influence or pressure
wants to steal you from God if you belong to God. Forces of good and forces of evil are
undeniably part of our destiny, but the choice is here and now — APEL Truth.069
JOHN 8: 44
Ye are OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was
a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in
him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Jesus pointed out to these people that they belonged to their father, the devil — which
is why they had his (Satan's) nature. The people who are born again124, belong to God; He
is their Father and they have His nature, in their spirit. They are not perfect, but they are
still God's children and that is why they die and go to heaven — because they are his
children.
His children make mistakes, sometimes mistakes more gross than even the children of
Satan make, but they get up and wipe their backsides off, and stagger desperately into
their Father's embrace — and He forgives them. The heart of man is the source of his
behavior. Your basic nature is a direct result of who you truly are, in the heart. A good
man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth, good things: and an evil man out
of the evil treasure bringeth forth, evil things (Matthew 12:35).
Even the simple act of love is an act of the heart — loving your fellow human being is
not an emotion. The end of the commandment is charity OUT OF A PURE HEART, and
of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned (1 Timothy 1:5).
RETURNING TO GOD
I believe it would be unfair to point out to you that you may belong to a superior spirit
being you would rather not belong to and not give you direction on how to make an
correction. Would I not be a criminal to deliberately omit the mention of this wonderful
experience to you? I received it and I am enjoying it.
Who Wants to be A Christian?

The story is simple. God created man in His own image and made him whole and
without sin. God gave man dominion over everything, the whole world in fact.
GENESIS 1:28 (NASB)

And God blessed them; and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and
SUBDUE it; and RULE over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over
every living thing that moves on the earth.
So, if man had full authority over everything, how did things get so bad? Look around
you — disease, fear, death, crime, rape, murder and all sorts of sufferings! Where do they
come from? They DO NOT come from God. Because everything that God made "… WAS
VERY GOOD" (Genesis 1:31). Unless God thinks HIV-AIDS is good, something or
somebody interfered and messed up real good. Believe you me, it is not God.
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the act of first accepting that Christ died on your behalf, to prevent you from being eternally separated from God or
banished for the sinful nature you were born with; and secondly confessing verbally that He has now become your Lord (or
master and owner), and you His servant (whenever one complies with these two things, one is miraculously, but not
necessarily spectecularly, BORN AGAIN in his heart or spirit).
JOHN 3:16 (NASB)

For God so loved the world that HE GAVE His only begotten Son, that whoever believes
in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Why would God give His Son to save man? For many years, I heard this story as a
child and did not quite understand it. Why in heaven would, God have to resort to such a
complicated and 'risky' process — and who out there, can make God give in to barter?
It is simple. After God had created man and given him the will to choose right or
wrong, man was susceptible to being stolen and taken over. And in playing by the rules of
justice and fairness, Satan took lordship over man and everything man was lord over.
Man Imprisoned for Life

This happened when man chose to obey Satan instead of God. When a woman chooses
to sleep with somebody other than her husband, she is in fact denying the previous
relationship in favor of the new one.
So man committed sin and was transferred into the kingdom of Satan. The eternal
punishment for man's sin (death or separation from God) was pending and had to be
carried out in full.
Man's sentence had to be carried out in full to serve justice. How could man serve a
life sentence or be executed for his sins, and still live forever with God as was his original
purpose? Man had to face the consequences of what he had done.
ROMANS 6:23 (NASB)

For the wages of sin is DEATH, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
If the wages of man's sin were death, how could man both be dead125 or separated126 (as
sentence and for life) and still be returned to God at the same time? I do not think that
God wanted a billion dead souls joined to Him or wandering around in the throne room.
Imagine being in quarantine but not infected, yet surrounded by infected patients. There
was no solution unless someone who did not deserve it paid the penalty. It is like this:
Johnny owes De Nacho $1m, Grazer decides to pay De Nacho $1m on behalf of Johnny.
Does Johnny still owe De Nacho?
An Optional Sentence
So if you were sent to prison for a crime you committed and it was possible for a
person who did not commit the crime to be punished in your stead, then you would not
have to be punished.
If that were to happen, the proxy127 would have to return from exile128 because he would
not have been rightly disowned anyway. Nevertheless, after being punished, the
punishment would require to be allocated to one who duly deserved to be banished.
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having lost the life and nature of God in your spirit
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because in a sinful state, they cannot be one with or united to God
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acting as substitute for another
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expelled from a community or group
It is like you owing the mafia a million dollars and me paying that debt on your behalf.
The debt is settled and you do not owe the mafia any longer, but you owe me! If the
mafia kept you locked up, I would have the right to bust in and set you free you.
I think Satan thought after he got Jesus down in hell that he had Him, but the fact was
He was still God's Son and God still had the right to bust Him out, irrespective of whether
He was locked up in hell on our behalf. I am glad Jesus did it, because if He had not done
it, I would not be able to bust myself out of hell, and God would not bust me out because
I would have been locked up justly and legitimately.
God sent His Son, who had no sin; Satan detained Him for the sins of others. Satan
could not keep Him in hell, and neither can he keep in hell those whose sins Jesus took. I
think Satan saw Jesus on the cross with the whole world's sin and said, "I got Him now!"
He forgot that getting Him meant letting the others off the hook — he forgot that getting
Him did not mean keeping Him either, because He still was God's Son.
Serve your Own Term in Hell — or Accept the Term Jesus Served
Therefore, anybody can say to Jesus, "You died on my behalf, you took my sins.
Instead of making your death of no value, I would like to claim it as a substitute for my
pending eternal death sentence which I am destined for by being Satan's slave. I want to
do this so that I can become your servant instead — I want to be transferred back to your
family. Please be my new Lord forever!"
ROMANS 10:9 (KJV)

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Jesus will say something like, "You are welcome, since I died for you, you no longer
have to remain dead — I will raise you up from the kingdom of death where you are, into
my kingdom of life. I will translate you from that area of Satan's dominion bring you
over into my life — just remember that in order to stay with me, you have to allow my life
to embody you, I have to be your Lord!"
If you agree, it becomes a sealed translocation. Is that not simple? All you have to do
is to SAY IT TO HIM. You do not have to see Him; He can hear you wherever you are.
Just say, "I accept your death as mine, and your victorious arising as mine — please be
my Lord!"
The World Had a New lord

Satan, nicknamed Lucifer129 by Bible translators, came and took over and tricked man
into submitting to him instead of God.
ROMANS 5:12 (NASB)

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and
so death spread to all men because all sinned.
When man submitted to Satan, it meant that everything God had given to man now
belonged to Satan. Satan would inherit the offspring of man, at least until they reached
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it is believed by Theologians that the name Lucifer, was added by Bible translators and does not appear in the
original scripts
the age of accountability. The principles governing the earth were now under Satan's
control.
Satan being a spirit, could not have direct influence over the physical world even if he
was lord over it. He DOES NOT HAVE A PHYSICAL BODY. He therefore needs a host to
speak to the spirits of his earthly subjects and influence them, sometimes to act and
sometimes to seek an agent to unleash his (Satan's) power on the planet.
Bridge Between the Spiritual World and our World

It is not easy for a physical being to hear from a spirit being130, it takes a lot of
discipline and adjustment. One has to subdue the body to a subservient131 level, and allow
the spirit to become dominant and more active — this can be done as a lifestyle or
through a temporary period of fasting.
The connection between your soul and your spirit is permanent, the connection
between your soul and your body will last until the day you die. However, the connection
between the spiritual world and this world is weak, it needs to be cultivated and nurtured
and grown. We are forever connected to our souls; we must nurture our connection
to the spiritual world — APEL Truth.070
So, what happens after you have said these things to Christ? When you have made a
decision for translocation?
JOHN 1:12 (KJV132)

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to
them that believe on his name:
What happens afterwards is, He gives you the right to become His son or daughter. Is
that not simple? Since this book is not about how to grow up as a Christian, I will not
spend time in describing the process of how Christ manifests Himself through you after
your confession133. The transmuted owner of the larynx has internal power from his
Master — APEL Truth.071
THE HEART IS IN THE SPIRIT

The Bible talks about the heart as the spirit — not the Spirit of God, but the spirit of
man. The Bible also talks about the mind of man as the spirit occasionally, but the context
of the passages will be self-explanatory.
The spirit is the real person. You are not your MIND or SOUL, you are your heart,
your SPIRIT. A mind is something you have and utilize. It permanently belongs to you
and will always be with you. James says to us, "But we are not of them who draw back
unto perdition; but of them that BELIEVE TO THE SAVING OF THE SOUL" (Hebrews
10:39).
There would not be a need to save the soul if it was dispensable. Is that not the reason
why the body will not be saved, but be discarded and replaced with a new one? The Bible
clearly says that Christ will "... change our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the
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we believe that the spiritual world is very real, distinct and parallel to the physical world
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compliant and obedient to authority
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the verbal act of accepting Christ as Lord and personal Savior
power which enables Him even to subject all things to Himself (Philippians 3:21 — RSV).
The soul, as we said, is the seat of your natural life — I like to look at it as the bridge
between the spiritual and the natural. Remember that your will134 is in the soul, not the
spirit. If your will was in the spirit, you would not sin. The spirit would be willing, and
that would be it. However, the battle as Paul puts it, is between the two me's, the "me" of
the spirit, and the "me" of the soul.
ROMANS 7.15-25 (RSV135)

15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I DO THE
VERY THING I HATE.
16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
17 So then IT IS NO LONGER I THAT DO IT, but sin which dwells within me.
18 For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is
right, but I cannot do it.
19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.
20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within
me.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I WANT TO DO RIGHT, EVIL LIES CLOSE AT
HAND.
22 For I DELIGHT IN THE LAW OF GOD, IN MY INMOST SELF,
23 but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me
captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.
Paul is battling between the heart (verse 22) and the body (verse 23); the will is
obviously not spread between the two parts of him that are fighting. If his will was in his
innermost self, he would have done right long before the battle started. His mind battles
to choose right because it is confronted with his body. The body had controlled his mind
all the time before Jesus became his Lord.
EPHESIANS 4.22-24 (RSV)

22 Put off your OLD NATURE which belongs to your former manner of life and IS
CORRUPT THROUGH DECEITFUL LUSTS,
23 and be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
24 and put on THE NEW NATURE, CREATED AFTER THE LIKENESS OF GOD in
true righteousness and holiness.
Paul was not able to do right until two things happened. He had to RENEW HIS
MIND — retrain his mind to think different from the way it was trained by the former
lord and father who is Satan. Then, he had to PUT ON THE NEW MAN136 — accept by
faith137 and doing, the quality of the new man, think in line with the new principles of his
new Lord and Father, who is Jesus and Jehovah. All this is for him a shift from body-
mentality to heart-mentality. The greatest men on earth are those who think with their
hearts and not with their minds — APEL Truth.072
I do not want to spend too many pages on this subject because there is a whole lot
more I must cover in order for you to complete your training. The purpose of this chapter
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the seat of your being where you make decisions
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the part of you that is born again
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acting according to the reality of things not yet come
is to show you that: YOU ARE A SPIRIT, YOU HAVE A SOUL AND YOU LIVE IN A
BODY.
This truth will change your life — you will not be able to complete this course unless
you remember and understand this statement.
THE SPIRITUAL CONNECTION
"I thought this was a singing manual," somebody will say. Yes it is. If you want to
learn to drive a car properly, you will have to understand about the parts of the car that
you will be using to drive it.
A man who refuses to hear anything about the steering wheel, the clutch, the
accelerator and the gear lever — clearly has a problem. It is important to take the first
preliminary138 steps in order to successfully master anything. To jump farther you must
retreat farther — APEL Truth.073 That is, unless you want to fall into the ditch
Guest what? I am teaching you how to drive your voice and I want you to know the
controls — ALL OF THEM. I told you where all this comes from and how it was
developed. I told you why I think it will work for you. I told you what you are made of,
so that you can understand how to 'use' yourself.
And in this chapter, I want you to know the connection that will make it all
supernatural. I did not say magical — I said supernatural. Miracles are supernatural, but
not always spectacular — APEL Truth.074
The Reality of the Two Worlds

We live in two worlds, the PHYSICAL and the SPIRITUAL. The physical world is
just a mimic of the spiritual — I do not know to what extent. God made man in His own
image and gave him a little environment to live in, and He called that little home the
universe. At the end of the day, the spiritual world in which God lives is the real reality.
Man, being both spirit and matter, exists in both worlds; it is up to him which reality
he focuses on. Music is spiritual — it does not always give you goose bumps, but it exists
in the same form in both worlds. Nothing that exists in the natural is more real than the
spiritual. Your physical form might look very real to you, but it is still less real than your
spiritual person is. The spiritual realm is the source into which all life plugs and derives
substance from — APEL Truth.075
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something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
Most, if not all of what we are and hold closest to our hearts, is the image of the
spiritual. Man was made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26). Music has its source in
heaven — APEL Truth.076
JOB 38:4 (RSV)

4 "Where were you when I LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH? Tell me, if
you have understanding.
5 Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon
it?
6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
7 when the morning stars SANG together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
That was at the time of creation when the stars sang and the children of God shouted
for joy. "Oh no, brother Michael, the stars cannot sing!" Yes, they can — at least these
stars did. The Hebrew word used for star and stargazers here is kowkab, and it means: of
Messiah, brothers, youth, numerous progeny, personification and God's omniscience.
Lucifer — The Music Idol

Lucifer was a musician long before Adam was born — without glorifying Satan, I
would guess he has a little bit more experience in perverting music than I have in utilizing
it; unless I do it God's way, he may just deceive me.
Do you not wonder why there is so much corruption139 in music as a business, as
entertainment, as a cult, as a political tool, as a pornographic medium and many other
forms?
As you will see later in the book, Satan has mastered the art of perverting and utilizing
music as a means to an end — and the end is: waging war against God, His plans, His
people and His kingdom.
My point is, if you understand the spiritual connection of music, you can take music
beyond an imaginable limit. You can incorporate music into many aspects of your life
and see change. And in the context of this book, if you apply these elements when you
start singing, you will soar to new heights, you will achieve more than you thought was
possible.
THE SINGING GOD

I remember the first time I brought this to a friend's attention; he was furious, "Don't
talk about my God that way! My God does not sing!" What is so wrong with God
singing? Just because you never thought of God as a singer does not mean that He should
stop being Himself — if He sings, He sings.
We always think of God as an old man with long white hair sitting on a majestic chair
and table with a feather fountain pen in His hand and an old curled scroll on the table. If
that is God, then He is plain boring — just sitting there staring at the clouds. Not my
God!
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sex, drugs, deceit, abuse of power, etc.
ZEPHANIAH 3:17
The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over
you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you WITH LOUD
SINGING.
If the Lord will exult over you with LOUD singing, it will not be the first He does it. I
know He did not go for music lessons — because He is music. Music is a spiritual force.
God is a joyful God. "These things have I spoken unto you, that MY JOY MIGHT
REMAIN IN YOU, and that your joy might be full" (John 15:11).
If God sings, then He must be the Greatest Singer of all — He created singing, or as
some may wish, He invented it. Where do you think Lucifer got his musical skills that he
so effectively manipulates through all his servants?
EZEKIEL 28:12-15 (YLT)

12 Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, And thou hast said to him: Thus
said the Lord Jehovah: Thou art sealing up a measurement, Full of wisdom, and perfect
in beauty.
13 In Eden, the garden of God, thou hast been, Every precious stone thy covering, Ruby,
topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold,
The WORKMANSHIP OF THY TABRETS, AND OF THY PIPES, In thee in the day of
thy being produced, have been prepared.
14 Thou art an anointed cherub who is covering, And I have set thee in the holy mount,
God thou hast been, In the midst of stones of fire thou hast walked up and down.
15 Perfect art thou in thy ways, From the day of thy being produced, Till perversity hath
been found in thee.
This cherub, Lucifer, was created with pipes and tabrets. The Authorized Version
says the pipes were "... prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created."
God is a musician, God is music — God creates music, God creates a musician. Satan
is a perverted musician, he has perverted the music originally incorporated in him — he
perverts140 music. God is the musician, I am an endeavoring channel, and the purer I
am, the clearer God's music will be heard — APEL Truth.077 Actually, God is the song.
EXODUS 15:2
My strength AND SONG IS JAH, And He is become my salvation: This is my God, and I
glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him.
This is both literal and figurative. He is my song in that all my songs and singing come
from Him, through Him, or by Him. Once this concept dissolves into you, you will not
want of new songs, or music or creativity. He becomes the bottomless well from which
you draw.
THE POWER OF MUSIC

Maybe as I am talking to you, you are not really getting the picture of how powerful
music is. Look at a few examples of how music was used to unleash God's power. This is
not a handbook for Satanism141, so I do not talk about how Satan's followers use music to
unleash their master's limited power.
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the worship of devils (especially Satan)
CITY WALLS FELL DOWN FLAT

Can you imagine unarmed trumpeters overthrowing a city as big as London by simply
marching around it and blowing on their trumpets and shouting? No?
However, when one plugs into the source of the power — the whole city the size of
London can come down flat. You might think that this is far fetched, but it is not. God's
power can do more than you credit Him. "Now to Him who by the power at work within
us is ABLE TO DO FAR MORE ABUNDANTLY THAN ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK"
(Ephesians 3:20 — RSV).
JOSHUA 6:20 (RSV)

So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon AS THE PEOPLE HEARD
THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, the people raised a great shout, and the wall fell
down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and
they took the city.
There is power in God and that power can be released through music. The only way to
experience the fullness of God's power in us is to play by His rules — APEL Truth.078
If you want to soar beyond the visible heights, you have to do exactly as God says, in
your daily life and in your music. It sounds like too much of a price to pay, but why
would you want anything other than God's best. Why would you want the world's best if
it does not even compare with God's least — that is if God had weaknesses?
PRISON WALLS CAME DOWN

Think of maximum-security prisons! Think of a method if any, to break the prison
down and set every prisoner free. I cannot think of any. Not even the best escape artists
can set the prisoners free from a maximum security prison — at least we are made to
believe. God can — look how He did it!
Positive In Adversity
Two guys, without ever having taken music lessons or held music diplomas, they sang
and praised God and guess what?
ACTS 16:25-26 (RSV)

25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners
heard them.
26 And suddenly there was a great EARTHQUAKE, so that the foundations of the prison
were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were
loosed.
Imagine you are in prison — you did nothing wrong, but you were locked up for a
crime you did not commit. How natural would deciding that the best thing to do was to
sing and praise God be? The prisons in those days were most likely not equipped with
comfortable furniture. I would not be surprised if the prisons had muddy floors142 with
crawling insects. Nevertheless, these two SANG AND PRAISED GOD! We catch a cold,
and blame God for everything.
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This was also not the best time to sing, it was at midnight! But they sang so loud that
the other prisoners heard them, I bet the real criminals were not amused by it at first. The
next thing that followed was an earthquake so aggressive that the foundation of the prison
were shaken. Now this was no natural earthquake, that selectively loosened shackles.
This is the power of praise through music! You will not have God's best until He has the
rest of you — APEL Truth.079
Neighbours with God

What do you think would happen if you went to a house where God lived? Say, down
the street where you live there was a house and in there lived God Almighty with His Son
Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit!
Do you not suppose that God's power would regularly be witnessed at that house, as if
it were flowing out constantly? In fact, there is a house in your street where this can
become a reality — and that house could be you.
JOHN 14:23
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my
Father will love him, and WE WILL COME UNTO HIM, AND MAKE OUR ABODE
WITH HIM.
It says with him, meaning you will not be left out! You will not be a spectator! When
God's power starts to ooze143 out of your inner being144, you will be part of it.
ARMY AMBUSH
Sometimes you face a situation in life out of which you cannot seem to see your way.
King Jehoshaphat in Jerusalem faced such a situation. The Lord said to him to stop
worrying and sing. That is what He told him. He said to him not to worry because God
would do the rest — and He gave him instructions on how to go about letting God take
over.
Stop Worrying?
"And He said, Listen, all Judah, and you people of Jerusalem, and king Jehoshaphat!
So says the LORD to you, do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude.
For the battle is not yours, but God's. Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they
come up by the cliff of Ziz. And you shall find them at the end of the valley, before the
wilderness of Jeruel. You shall not fight in this battle. Set yourselves and stand, and see
the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not fear not be
dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, for the LORD will be with you." (2 Chronicles
20:15-17 — MKJV).
Then God told them to be still. Can you imagine fighting against a super power and
not having to lift a hand to win? Imagine Swaziland waging war against the US and
hoping to win? The two countries are not the same size and the odds would not be good
for the smaller country, would they?
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spirit
King Jehoshaphat was afraid and he went to God for help, and God came to his rescue.
God will manifest Himself when you seek His face.
2 CHRONICLES 20:22
And when THEY BEGAN TO SING AND TO PRAISE, THE LORD SET
AMBUSHMENTS AGAINST the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which
were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
I like what God does — I like the role that music plays in God's plan for mankind.
There is a connection between music and the spiritual realm that we have not plugged
into as we should have, and the sooner we do, and the sooner God's plan will be
accomplished. Music exists in both the spiritual and the natural realm — APEL
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The people that work in mental hospitals know how difficult it is to look after a person
who has lost their mind. Sometimes even trying to subdue the patient is a struggle. Music
contains such power that it is capable of passing beyond a disturbed mind and reaching
into the person's inner being. It is not an intellectual force; it is a spiritual force. "And the
Spirit of Jehovah turned aside from Saul, and a spirit of sadness from Jehovah terrified
him … " (1 Samuel 16:14). Without arguing about whether God made Saul crazy or not,
and the fact that the Authorized Version calls it "... an evil spirit from God …" I want to
make a point that when the music was played, the troubled man was stilled.
1 SAMUEL 16:23
And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an
harp, AND PLAYED WITH HIS HAND: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the
evil spirit departed from him.
I like the idea of playing with his hand, and look at what happened to Saul, he was
refreshed. The Hebrew word ravach means to be wide, be spacious, to breathe easily, and
be relieved. He was RELIEVED … all because David played music.
GOD'S GLORY MANIFESTING

In these days of the final revival146, people long for the glory of God to manifest and
sometimes do not know how to draw near to God so that He can draw near to them.
"Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and
purify your hearts, ye double minded"(James 4:8). The children of Israel saw God's glory
cloud. They were AS ONE147 when it happened.
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united and believed to be thinking and acting the same
2 CHRONICLES 5:13
It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be
heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and WHEN THEY LIFTED UP THEIR
VOICE WITH THE TRUMPETS AND CYMBALS AND INSTRUMENTS OF
MUSICK, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever:
that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
The house was filled with a cloud. What cloud? "The priests could not stand to
minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God"
(v14). That was not a light case of God's manifestation — this was a serious event. The
glory was so strong people could not stand, if they stood up, they fell.
Music, my friend, has a plug into the Great Power148. And you have started in that
direction.
God's power can be overwhelming, when I first started in the ministry I did not care
for all that goose-bump 'screaming and jumping' charisma, until one day while praying
for the sick at a meeting where I was preaching, the people suddenly started falling as I
laid hands on them — I DID NOT FEEL ANYTHING, but they fell. I was shocked. For
me it was a nice dry service, logically and intellectually rich.
Suddenly the people decided to fall? I had this tendency when I prayed for people: I
used three fingers and lightly touched their foreheads. I could not push a fly of their head
with that lightness. Frankly, I was startled when I heard a thump as the prayer seeker hit
the floor, then the next and the next. Nevertheless, hey, you would not want your
congregation to see that fright on your face, would you?
A STREAM OF SONGS
Each one of us has music in them. Paul in writing149 to the "… saints and faithful
brethren in Christ which are at Colosse," speaks about this. Remember that he was
writing to the brethren — it is not something they had which other brethren cannot have.
He says when they come together, "… THEY HAVE" a psalm.
1 COLOSSIANS 14:26
How is it then, brethren? WHEN YE COME TOGETHER, EVERY ONE OF YOU
HATH A PSALM, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an
interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
Do you see that? "Every one of you …has …" it. Is this not great? What is a psalm
anyway?
What Is a Psalm?
The Old Testament Hebrew word used for psalm is mizmowr meaning melody. I like
that! Each one of you has a melody. Every one of you has a melody! The New Testament
(Greek) word for psalm though is psalmos meaning of a striking the chords of a musical
instrument or of a pious song. Another word in the Greek is psallo probably strengthened
from psao meaning to rub or touch the surface. Psallo means to pluck off, pull out, to
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the Epistles in the Bible are letters which Paul wrote to the ancient Christian churches
cause to vibrate by touching, to twang, to touch or strike the chord. Some may ask, "Does
this take talent to do?"
From the look of things, you are expected to have this, talent or no talent. That tells me
that you CAN DO IT — otherwise somebody is lying.
Various Kinds of Melodies

IF I HAVE THIS MELODY IN ME — WHERE IS IT? It will be no use having
something and not knowing where it is, would it?
COLOSSIANS 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one
another IN PSALMS AND HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS, singing with grace in
your hearts to the Lord.
Paul goes further now, instructing the brethren to teach one another in PSALMS,
HYMNS and SONGS. What are these things — psalms, hymns and songs?
Psalm — a psalm, as we said, is PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT. Stay with me;
do not run off now. Think about playing a melody on a musical instrument,
keeping in mind that you are the musical instrument. Paul says you can strike
the chords of this instrument, and in fact, play a melody on this instrument. A
PSALM IS A SONG YOU PLAY BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD. It can be a
poetic and rhyming song, or a normal and complete song from your inner
being, by the Spirit of God.
Hymn — defined from the Greek word humnos apparently from a simpler
(obsolete) form of hudeo (to celebrate) — as a song in praise of God, and also
a sacred song. That is something initiative — in praise of God, or a song you
compose in order to praise God or declare something. A hymn is a prepared
song with a purpose. Most of our songs are hymns. We prepare them —
drawing from God's resources inside us. We have various purposes for them.
The Greek word refers to a hymn as being a sacred song.
Spiritual Song — the spiritual song is the most fascinating. It is a normal song
in every sense of the word, meaning it is an ode — but there is something
superior about its nature. The Greek word for spiritual is pneumatikos, which is
relating to the human spirit; which is AKIN TO GOD AND SERVES AS HIS
INSTRUMENT OR ORGAN. It still posses the nature of the rational soul but
it belongs to a spirit, or a being higher than natural man. It refers also to one
being filled with and governed by the Spirit of God.
The Spiritual Song

The spiritual song is a SPONTANEOUS SONG INSPIRED by the Spirit of God. The
psalm comes to us complete (but we must play it out — birth it out), the hymn comes to
us by preparation (not carnally, but by God's resources inside us), and the spiritual song
comes to us spontaneously (you just open up and let it through).
Notice that according to Paul, the Psalms are received at home, and when they come
together, they already have them ready to share with others. Have you noticed how
prophetic and directed David's psalms are?
They were given to David, for David, but they have content in them to teach others.
Some of them are so personal that you would doubt whether they should be shared with
others.
David did not make any of that stuff up — he just reached down AND PULLED IT
OUT. You can start to flow in psalms too if you practice the scriptures. Notice how Paul
says "... the word of Christ … " must "... dwell in you richly in all wisdom." That is the
first step. You will not move in psalms until you are full of God, full of His Word.
EPHESIANS 5:19
SPEAKING TO YOURSELVES in PSALMS and HYMNS and SPIRITUAL SONGS,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Notice that Paul says, "Speaking TO YOURSELVES …" meaning exactly that.
Making melody in your heart — that is very important. Remember that your heart is
the source of your music. The fact here is that melody is made in the heart.
A New Language
Melodies not made in the heart are dead. Heart music appeals to the heart,
intellectual music appeals to the intellect and physical music appeals to the body —
APEL Truth.081
Spiritual Music — there is music which when sung or performed, goes
directly from the singer or performer's heart, into your heart and does
something in there. This music affects your heart according to the source
content of the singer's heart it came from. Godly music will influence the hearer
to godliness, but perverse150 music will deposit perversion in the heart of the
hearer and the singer.
Intellectual Music — created based on academic standards which man has

created and established for himself; and what it does is intellectual. You will
not be able to appreciate it until somebody teaches how you to, or, until you
learn to enjoy it. Because it is mental — it appeals to the mind and needs some
academic basis for you to appreciate.
Physical Music — made to strong pulses. The pulses are usually so strong that
the music loses its appeal unless it is so loud you can FEEL THE BEAT.
Usually that kind of music has no melodic content; it is the heart that generates
a living melody.
Every speaker speaks in the voice and language he understands, and the language
and voice that makes the most sense to you is a reflection of your own
communication means — APEL Truth.082
Have you been around that music that makes you tap your feet even when you do not
like it? Your body runs with the music against the wish of your heart. Have you noticed
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that there is also a type of music, which has little or no meaning until somebody explains
it to you? Until the explanation, it was incomprehensible. This is mental music.
Music that Cuts Like a Knife

Spiritual music on the other hand, could be set in a style you do not even like, but it
will still penetrate into your heart like a sword. The word of God cuts like a double-edged
sword for the same reason — it is alive and spiritual.
HEBREWS 4:12 (YLT)

For THE RECKONING151 OF GOD IS LIVING, AND WORKING, AND SHARP
ABOVE EVERY TWO-EDGED SWORD, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both
of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of
the heart;
Are you with me? God's Word, God's reckoning is alive, working and sharp — it
CUTS APART152 the spirit from the mind, it even divides the body from the spirit and the
soul … it discerns thoughts. THAT IS POWERFUL. The most powerful tool ever made.
Can you imagine that? Why would one want to cut apart spirit and mind — it is simply
the best way to operate in this universe, knowing that you are spirit and knowing exactly
what is spirit and what is mind.
It is advisable to incorporate some cutting element into your music — that is, the
Word of God. The more Word there is in your music, the sharper it will be. When I say
Word, I do not mean Bible passages, I mean the meaning of the Bible passage. "God is
love" in John 3:16, could be sung as "He loves me unconditionally" or "I did not earn
your love."
MANAGING THE HEART

From the heart comes a great force. Jesus made a statement about the effect of
sourcing from the heart. When you speak from the heart, there is life. When you sing
from the heart, there is life. When you act from the heart, there are results. "The good
man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure
brings forth evil" (Matthew 12:35). If you are evil — your songs carry that evil in them.
Remember, an evil man will say a good word, but evil will still ooze out! Fire burns,
there is no coldness in its nature — APEL Truth.083
MARK 7:18-19
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive,
that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 BECAUSE IT ENTERETH NOT INTO HIS HEART, but into the belly, and goeth
out into the draught, purging all meats?
Do you see that? It defiles if it enters153 the heart! It does not defile if it does not enter
the heart. In addition, notice what the next verse says, "And He said, that which cometh
out of the man, that defileth the man" (v24 — AV). In addition, it defiles if it comes from
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the heart. That is the perversion Satan distributes through his agents — there should be
more life distributed by God's singers and musicians than through Satan's system.
Two Ways of Defilement

A heart can be defiled in two ways. Please remember this because it has a huge impact
on the power of your singing.
Inward Defilement — the first way of defiling your heart (which is in your
spirit), is perversion entering your heart. When a thought enters your heart, it is
not yet sin, but it is potential sin. You must remove it immediately, if you do
not, it ossifies into evil and starts to contaminate you heart, when that part of
you heart becomes weak from contamination, your will can no longer be
influenced by your heart.
Outward Defilement — the second way of defiling your heart is perversion

brewed out of your heart. These are things that you devise and act on willingly.
Action gives life to faith, or fear or sin. When a thought enters your heart, you
must root it out immediately. If you do not, it ferments and contaminates the
rest of your being when it becomes part of your will, then actions, and then
death. It is like cancer: one cancerous cell must be removed before it becomes
malignant154.
Remember that the more you sing an evil song, the more it defiles you, because it is
coming out of you, and it will defile whoever it goes into as well.
POURING OUT THE MUSIC

One of the concepts in the Bible I like — is the pouring out of what is in your heart.
Assuming of course that your heart is full of the Living Word, full of the life of God, and
His Spirit.
PSALMS 62:8
Trust in him at all times; ye people, POUR OUT YOUR HEART BEFORE him: God is a
refuge for us. Selah.
Refilling the Container

When you pour something out of a container, the container is usually full — you have
to be full before you can be poured out. Continued outpouring from your heart will
eventually drain you unless you refill — APEL Truth.084 You see, for a Spirit-filled
believer, there is no such thing as writer's block. There is always an abundant endless
supply of new and living songs. The Bible tells you how to be full.
EPHESIANS 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; BUT BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT;
When you drink wine, you become drunk and full of wine, and wine becomes your
controller, it determines what you do and how you do it. The same applies here, when
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you drink of the Spirit of God, you become full of Him and you become controlled by
Him. And whatever comes out of you is from Him. This is what Jesus meant when He
said, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: THE WORDS THAT I
SPEAK UNTO YOU, THEY ARE SPIRIT, AND THEY ARE LIFE" (John 6:63 — AV).
Giving Life to Your Words

Can you say that? The words that I sing to you they are spirit, THEY ARE LIFE? This
is the only way your music will give life — because only the Spirit gives life. Remember,
IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT GIVES LIFE!
Where does the music that gives life come from? Where does this river flow from?
Even in the Old Testament, Solomon understood the concept of life and from where it
flowed.
PROVERBS 4:23 (RSV)

Keep your heart with all vigilance; FOR FROM IT FLOW THE SPRINGS OF LIFE.
From your heart! The springs of life come from your heart! But you will have to keep
your heart with ALL VIGILANCE155 — guard your heart against evil. This is a really
important matter. You must guard your heart. "But that on the good ground are they,
which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit
with patience" (Luke 8:15 — AV). Notice a good and honest heart is the way to bringing
forth fruit — GOOD FRUIT!
JOHN 7:38
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of
living water.
You have to believe in Him. Out of your belly (spirit) WILL FLOW RIVERS OF
LIVING WATER. Living water gives life — that is what music is all about. Once you
have completed your training, you can always measure yourself with this yardstick, if
your singing gives life, you know you are on the right track. If it does not, your singing is
empty and needs to be filled with life. "Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any
merry? Let him SING psalms" (James 5:13 — AV). Notice it did not say "Let him go to
the doctor." While it is perfectly in order to see a doctor, the Scripture says that he must
pray, and if any is merry, he must sing psalms. In addition, notice that is says, "Is ANY …
let him SING …" Do you realize that James seems to expect every person to sing? Does it
mean he wanted to say, "Is any …. Let him sing badly … God looks at the heart and
enjoys bad singing?"
Of course God looks at your heart! Let me leave you with this thought — why do we
rehearse and practice before we sing if quality does not matter to God?
Even your sad songs are from the heart. You can sing for joy from your heart; you
can cry for sorrow from the same heart — APEL Truth.085 Whatever it is that you are
pouring out, it will affect the people who hear you. Examine the rivers that flow from
your heart — APEL Truth.086
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ISAIAH 65:14
Behold, my servants shall sing for JOY OF HEART, but ye shall cry for SORROW OF
HEART, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Notice the last phrase "... shall HOWL …" meaning that it comes from deep down in
your heart.
While this is all true, I believe it must be disgusting to God when we present inferior
speech, music or actions to Him — or something which is so fake, it has nothing to do
with our hearts. Something which we claim to be the truth, when in fact, our minds are a
million miles away from what we are presenting or performing.
MATTHEW 15:8
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips;
BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME.
The heartbeat of today's worship156 is in the Spirit. This is the key to everything. You
cannot worship any other way. You should not wish to sing any other way.
JOHN 4:23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in
spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
"God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth"
(John 4:24 — AV). There is no way to relate to God other than on a spiritual plane.
Life in the Spirit

Life in the spirit, be it singing or worship, or just living you daily life operates on three
levels, and you will see later in the context of song.
By the Spirit — when the spirit influences you to do something, and you go
out with that inspiration. Divine MOTIVATION. The motivation to do
something comes from the spirit; this is being "... led BY the Spirit …" (or
spirit). I tend to see this as your spirit under the guidance of the Spirit of God.
This takes knowledge.
With the Spirit — when the spirit inspires you and you take every step with
the spirit. Divine INSPIRATION. I tend to see this as a joint venture between
your spirit and the spirit of God. This takes wisdom.
In the Spirit — when the spirit takes over 100% of what you are doing and
you take a back seat. Divine INTERVENTION. This almost has nothing to do
with you. I tend to see this as being a channel.
SKILL VERSUS TALENT

Do not for one moment think that the spiritual connection is meant to replace skill —
skill is as much a requirement by God as it is ours; in fact more. God works with the best
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the act of acknowledging God, evidenced by actions following a feeling of profound love and admiration
— He does the best, gives the best, and expects the best. God takes the worst and
makes it the best — APEL Truth.087 If God uses the reviled, He makes it esteemed.
What about an unskilled singer in God's hands?
PSALM 3:3
3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully157 with a loud noise.
Play skillfully — do not just waltz in and strum or strike and hope the "…anointing158
will cover my shortcomings." You have to be skillful! To be skillful, you have to train or
be trained.
Voice Training in the Old Testament

Did you know that in the Old Testament the singers were trained? They were trained
and were skillful. The complement of skilled singers was not small — it was a whole 288
in one instance. Did you catch that? Close to three hundred trained and skilful singers!
Strive for excellence and you will never have to compete — APEL Truth.088
1 CHRONICLES 25:7
The number of them along with their brethren, who were TRAINED IN SINGING TO
THE LORD, ALL WHO WERE SKILFUL, was two hundred and eighty-eight.
Take note of the phrase, "… trained in singing to the Lord." Think about it, why did
they need to be trained in singing? I bet it improved their singing! If they could be
trained, so can you. In fact, so should you. I believe in excellence, I believe you must do
everything you can in order to attain it.
The interesting thing would be discovering what was in their training program. I
would love to know that, but of course the Bible does not say anything about it. I hope to
find out after I die.
2 CHRONICLES 34:12
And the men DID THE WORK FAITHFULLY159. Over them were set Jahath and
Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of
the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were SKILFUL WITH
INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC.160
The people in the Old Testament were not lazy either: they were faithful and they did
the job that they were appointed to. That means rehearsing when you are supposed to, and
arriving on time when you are expected to! Keep excelling in what you are appointed to
do. Do not stop just because the people seem to be happy with what you are doing. Do
everything as unto the Lord — not unto men (Colossians 3:23).
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training preceded by diligence
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these were trained to play musical instruments
Do not stop until you impress God — APEL Truth.089 God is the only person you
should care about impressing. If He were to say, "Buddy, you blow my mind," then you
can stop trying or working hard.
TOOLBOX
AUDIO TRAX
Major Scales433
01 C Major Scale
02 D= or C< Major Scale
03 D Major Scale
04 D< or E= Major Scale
05 E Major Scale
06 F Major Scale
07 F< or G= Major Scale
08 G Major Scale
09 G< or A= Major Scale
10 A Major Scale
11 A< or B= Major Scale
12 B Major Scale
Melodic Minor Scales434

13 C Melodic Minor Scale
14 D= or C< Melodic Minor Scale
15 D Melodic Minor Scale
16 D< or E= Melodic Minor Scale
17 E Melodic Minor Scale
18 F Melodic Minor Scale
19 F< or G= Melodic Minor Scale
20 G Melodic Minor Scale
21 G< or A= Melodic Minor Scale
22 A Melodic Minor Scale
23 A< or B= Melodic Minor Scale
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two octave from below middle c — same ascending and descending
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also two octave from below middle c — difference ascending and descending orders
24 B Melodic Minor Scale
Harmonic Minor Scales435

25 C Harmonic Minor Scale
26 C< or D= Harmonic Minor Scale
27 D Harmonic Minor Scale
28 D< or E= Harmonic Minor Scale
29 E Harmonic Minor Scale
30 F Harmonic Minor Scale
31 F< or G= Harmonic Minor Scale
32 G Harmonic Minor Scale
33 G< or A= Harmonic Minor Scale
34 A Harmonic Minor Scale
35 A< or B= Harmonic Minor Scale
36 C Harmonic Minor Scale
Chromatic Scales436
37 C Chromatic Scale
38 F Chromatic Scale
39 G< or A= Chromatic Scale
Meterless Metronome437
40 MM = 70
41 MM = 100
42 MM = 120
2 Pulse Meter Metronome438

43 Two-Two at 70 bpm

46 Three-Four at 70 bpm

49 Four-Four at 70 bpm
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60 second duration
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60 second duration
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60 second duration
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60 second duration
6/8 Meter Metronome441

55 C Major Scale Chord Sequence442

d - d6 - s - s7 - s6/9 - s - f - dsus -
d - dM7 - s6 - sM9 - s6 - s - fM9 - d6 -
d - dM9 - s7 - s6 - s - s7 - fM7 - rm6 -
d - l o7 - m o7 - s7 - tm7=5 - s - rm6 - ssus7 -
s11 - d7 - s - s7 - s6/9 - s - f - dsus -
d - d6/9 - s6 - s6/9 - rm7 - msus - fM9 - dsus -
56 C Dorian443 Scale Chord Sequence444

dm - dm7 - sm - ssus7 - sm - - - f6/9 - dm6 -
dm7 - dsus7 - ssus - sm - lm7=5 - maw - mawM9 - dm -
dm - - - sm - ta - lm7=5 - mawM9 - maw6 - rm7 -
dm - dm7 - sm - ssus - f7 - f9/6 - maw - rm7 -
dsus7 - dm - sm - - - lm7=5 - - - f - dsus -
dm - - dsus sm - maw - mawm7 - f9/6 - lm7=5 - sm -
57 Diatonic 2nd [E=]

445(start)
d—r r—m m—f f—s s—l l—t t — d(end) 446
447(end)
d—t t—l l—s s—f f—m m—r r — d(start)448
58 Dorian 2nd [A minor]

(start)
d—r r — maw maw — f f—s s—l l—t t — d(end)
(end)
d—r r— maw maw — f f—s s— law law — ta ta — d(start)
59 Diatonic 3rd [F=]

(start)
d—m r—f m—s f—l s—t l—d t — r(end)
(end)
t—r d—m r—f m—s f—l s— t l— d(start)
60 Dorian 3rd [G minor]

(start)
d — maw r—f maw — s f—l s—t l—d t — r(end)
(end)
ta — r d — maw r —f maw — s f — law s — ta law — d(start)
61 Diatonic 4th [D=]

(start)
d—f r—s m—l f—t s—d l—r t — m(end)
(end)
l—r t—m d—f r—s m—l f—t s — d(start)
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only 1 minute or 60 seconds in length on avarage
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bars separated by ":" for clarity; tempo is MM = 70; key = E=, with click track overlay
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bars separated by ":" for clarity; tempo is MM = 90; key = E=m, with click track overlay
445
start of sequence
446
end of ascedning order, and middle of entire sequence
447
end of sequence
448
start of descending order, and middle of entire sequence
62 Dorian 4th [F# minor]

(start)
d—f r—s maw — l f—t s—d l—r t — maw
(end)
law — r ta — maw d—f r—s maw — law f — ta s — d(start)
63 Diatonic 5th [E]

(start)
d—s r—l m—t f—d s—r l—m t — f(end)
(end)
s—r l—m t—f d—s r—l m—t f — d(start)
64 Dorian 5th [C minor]

(start)
d—s r—l maw — t f—d s—r l — maw t — f(end)
(end)
s—r law — maw ta — f d—s r — law maw — ta f — d(start)
Author Singing [© 1995 – M. Michael (Priesthood Music)]

65 I Will Abound
66 I Will Stay
67 Father We Adore You
68 You Have The Holy Name
69 Lord of Lords
70 Spirit We Are Friends
71 Ancient Yahweh
72 All Hail Holy King
Author Singing [© 1998 – M. Michael (Priesthood Music)]

73 North Ridge Sunset
74 Love Never Fails
75 Mountain Dance
EXERCISE SUMMARY
EXERCISE NUMBER RECURRENCE PURPOSE PAGE

1 PCUH SIMPLE BREATHING 161
2 PCUH BREATH ENDURANCE 163
3 PDUH BREATH INTENSITY 164
4 PDUH BREATH POWER 164
5 PDUH FRICATIVE HUM FORMATION 165
6 PRUH SELECTION OF NOTES 167
7 PDUH GEARING 169
8 PDUH RESOUNDING 170
9 PRUH MODAL PACING 172
10 PRUH EXTENDED LEAPING 177
11 PRUH BI-DIRECTIONAL LEAPING 179
12 PRUH POPULAR RIFFS 180
13 PCUH PITCH ENVELOPE 189
14 PCUH SYLLABICATION EXTENSION 190
15 PCUH VOLUME ENVELOPE 192
16 PFUH TONE ENVELOPE 193
17 PCWH SYLLABIC RIVER WALKING 200
18 PRFL PERCEIVING 241
19 PRFL GENERATING 244
20 PRUH AUDITIONING 245
21 PRUH BROWNING 257
22 PRUH BRIGHTENING 258
23 PRFL LUNG CAPACITY 259
24 PRUH VIBRATIONS 263
25 PRUH H-PULSE 264
26 PRUH HARMONY PARTS 265
27 PRUH CHORDAL PARTS 265
28 PCUH EXPRESSIONIST RIVER WALKING 280
29 PCUH VIRTUAL BAND 282
The purpose of the exercises is simply to correct your BREATHING, PURIFY your
elements and ENHANCE your technique. You must rehearse as long as you feel
inadequate.
In PURIFICATION, you priority focus is PITCH and TIME — and in
ENUNCIATION, your priority focus is DYNAMICS and HEART. The frequency codes
are merely a guideline, if you have no problem with breathing, there is no reason why you
should focus on the breathing exercise. Be careful, many singers fail to judge their own
weaknesses; they base their own assessments on people's opinions and therefore, fail to
progress to beyond the false-hearted comments of their loved ones.
If you want to know how perfect a singer you are, simply get an audience of strangers
to assess your Expressionist River Walking449 and Virtual Band450 techniques. If you pass
the assessment without a single error on any of the six elements, you have arrived.
449
APEL Exercise 28
450
APEL Exercise 29
EXERCISE WORKSHEETS
Exercise 1: Simple Breathing451

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results column accordingly. At two inhalations per minute, the worksheet should last you 20 minutes, make copies so that
you can do the exercise over and over, unless you choose to use pencil and erase your markings for the next exercise.
Exercise 2: Breath Endurance452

No. Walk/Run Duration Date Results
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The idea of this table is for you to indicate what you did — was it a walk or a run? When you did it, how long was the
session? The answer to this question will be in minutes and will vary according to your sessions. Try and be faithful to your
minimum duration of 30 minutes, where you have exceeded the time, record the actual minutes. Recording the date is
important in tracking your routine. In the final column, you can add a tick (U) to indicate OK and a cross (W) to indicate
failure, i.e., when you did not meet the minimum duration or did not have your session.
Exercise 3: Breath Intensity453

No. Exhalation Results Exhalation Results
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you move to the next row. Check to indicate that you have completed an EXHALATION, in the RESULTS column, indicate
whether it was successful or not by ticking off similarlly with an OK (U) or FAIL (W).
Exercise 4: Increasing Breath Power454

No. Inhalation Results Exhalation Results
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The difference between this and the previous exercise is that in this one, you must first INHALE, with specific
instructions to do this through the nose, if you fail to inhale through the nose, youmust approriately tick it off as a FAIL.
There are two tick against INHALATION, the first under the INHALATION column indicating whether you did it or not, and the
second, whether you succeeded or not. Success will be measure by your judgement of your own performance based on
steadiness and power you experienced. EXHALATION will be measured the same (was it throught the mouth) and have its
own results column.
Exercise 5: Hum Formation455

No. Fricative Results Hum Results
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Each row is one entry. There are two check points, the performanc eof the fricative is checked as having taken place,
or otherwise, and the results are judge against success of failure. When the fricative is converted to a hum, the same
process takes place, first an indication of whether it took place or not, and then the outcome of the hum — was it good or
bad? Use the ENVELOPE and RULER PRINCIPLES are the critria for evaluation of your results.
Exercise 6: Selection456
No. Note Name Results Note Name Results
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sound it internally, check the results as OK (U) or FALSE (W). Complete the row horizontally before you move to the next
row. Remember that the objective is to HEAR the note internally. You must judge yourself correctly.
Exercise 7: Gearing457
No. Note Name Results Note Name Results
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versa. When you GEAR UP, check the results as OK (U) or FALSE (W). Complete the row horizontally before you move to the
next row. Remember that the objective is to GEAR UP for the note visibly but not audibly (you still need to hear the audition
in your heart). You must judge yourself correctly.
Exercise 8: Resounding — Notes and Intervals458

No. Note or Interval Results Note or Interval Results
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OK (U) or FAIL (W) mark. Compare this with your tape recorded version afterwards and confirm whether your judgement on
this worksheet was the way you marked it, it is sometimes easier to be objective when you are not singing, hence the tape.
Exercise 9: Modal Pacing459

No. Launch Note Leap Results Launch Note Leap Results
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Exercise 10: Extended Leaping460

No. Step Pattern Leap Results Step Pattern Leap Results
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row with the appropriate results, right (U) or wrong (W).
Exercise 11: Bi-Directional Leaping461

No. Launch and Landing Leap Results Launch and Landing Leap Results
Note Note
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In past exercises, we were not interested in the name of the note you launched from, but rather, whether you
actually did launch from that note — to add variation and encourage HABITUATION SELECTION, we require that you write
the note out in solfa, together with the landing or destination note (if you insist you may use alpha, although it defeats the
aural advantage of the note). Your results must be added accrodingly. Remember that the row caters for two parts of the
exercise.
Exercise 12: Popular Riffs462

No. Popular Riff Riff Results Popular Riff Riff Results
01 sf2d463 U ldrdl W
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The popular riff must be written out in note form, the rhythm thereof will vary with your feel based on the pitch
template of the notes you have associated into a motif. The results must be added accordingly, in your discretion of how
well you think the riff was delivered.
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Exercise 13: Pitch Envelope464

No. Syllable Score For 10 Runs Syllable Score For 10 Runs
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were performed immaculately, where youhave missed even just one, or the one was not 100 correct, the results for all 10
should be a WRONG (W). DO not cheat on your own progress. The pitch envelope is very important.
Exercise 14: Syllabication Extension465

No. Syllable Set Target Melody Target Technique Set Results
01 Du, Ree, Chi, Vo, Ker Q&A (or Phrase) Pitch Envelope W
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done, you muse decide on what the form of target melody will be (where you choose, you can even include a structure such
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as ABA ) in the context of phrase or Q&A or similar. Finally, you must decide on the technique. When you carry out your
performance, evaluate the whole set in its various aspects of syllables, target melody format and technique employed.
Exercise 15: Volume & Sustain Envelope Superset 466

No. Syllable Duration Volume Results Time Results
01 Hee 15s W
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previous syllable, and to be used for all subsequent syllables you pick. Check the volume envelope — determine a duration in
seconds and see if you can complete it without fluctuation. The longer the duration, the harder the body of the envelope
becomes.
Exercise 16: Tone & Sustain Envelope Superset467

No. Syllable Duration Volume Results Time Results
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to head register of your voice), the same note used for the previous syllable, and to be used for all subsequent syllables you
pick. Check the volume envelope — determine a duration in seconds and see if you can complete it without fluctuation. The
longer the duration, the harder the body of the envelope becomes.
Exercise 17: Syllabic River Walking468

No. Session Theme Duration Results
01 Life: l d r 15s U
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This exercise is unique, the first column is extremely creative, you can write a lyrical theme together with a
sequential or modal riff. Your results will be tabled accordingly — it is important that you decide on a duration before you
proceed with the exercise. This will form part of the target for your session.
Exercise 18: Perceiving469

No. Melodic Concept470
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Exercise 19: Generating472

No. Startup Note Tempo Melodic Outcome473
01 m MM = 68 ||m.,s:-:.,f:m.r,d.r|ll:-:-
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the end product is the same as in perceiving, only the method is different
Exercise 20: Auditioning

No. Generated or Perceive Melody474 Assessment
01 ||m.,s:-:.,f:m.r,d.r|ll:-:-475 16%476
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remember it from the heart (the idea is to aurally reproduce what you hear)
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Exercise 21: Browning

No. Note477 Duration Browning Effect
01 E= (d in Key D= Major) 16%478 23%
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Exercise 22: Brightening

No. Note479 Duration Brightening Effect
01 E= (d in Key D= Major) 16%480 23%
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Exercise 23: Lung Capacity

No. Breath Hold Duration 15 Seconds 30 Seconds Longer
01 6s481 T V 37s482
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Exercise 24: Vibrations

No. Syllable Pulses Per Second Connective Quality
01 Re 3 5%483 (too disjointed)
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Exercise 25: H-Pulse

No. Scale Pulses Per Second Scale Accuracy
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Exercise 26: Harmony Parts

No. Scale Interval or Part Harmony Accuracy
01 C<m 3rd (alto) 3/7485
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Exercise 27: Chordal Parts

No. Chord Part Harmony Interval Assessment
01 Tonic M7486 5th (tenor) 3rd487 Y
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Exercise 28: Expressionist River Walking

No. Chord Part Harmony Interval Assessment
01 Tonic M7488 5th (tenor) 3rd489 Y
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Exercise 29: Virtual Band

No. Song Pitch Time Harmony Stage
01 "Forever" — Kling Rut490 5% 56%491 45% No eye contact492
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MEANINGS OF FOREIGN TERMS 493
A
a tempo — (Italian) in time, resuming normal speed after D
a variation. da capo al fine — (Italian) from the beginning to the
accelerando (accel.) — (Italian) gradually faster. word fine.
adagio — (Italian) slow, but generally not as slow as da capo (D.C.) — (Italian) from the beginning.
largo. da capo dal segno — (Italian) from the beginning
agitato — (Italian) agitated. and then from the sign.
al segno — (Italian) as far as the sign. da capo al segno — (Italian) from the beginning to
alla — (Italian) to the, in the manner of. the sign.
alla marcia — (Italian) in the style of a march. dal segno — (Italian) from the sign.
allargando — (Italian) broadening. decrescendo (decresc.) — (Italian) decreasing in
allegretto —(Italian) lively, but less so than allegro. loudness.
allegro —(Italian) quick tempo, lively. delicato — (Italian) delicate.
anacrusis — an unstressed beat (usually the last or up- diminuendo (dim.) — (Italian) decreasing in
beat). loudness.
andante —(Italian) moderate tempo, going, moving. dolce — (Italian) sweet, soft.
andantino — (Italian) faster than andante, slightly
modified andante.
animando — (Italian) becoming more lively. E
animato — (Italian) animated, lively. empfindung — (German) emotion, feeling.
attaca — (Italian) go straight on, immediate move on to energico — (Italian) energetic.
the next section. espressivo — (Italian) expressive.
ausdruck — (German) expressively.
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B fermata — (Italian) pause, literally a stop.
belebt — (German) lively, animated. fine — (Italian) the end.
ben — (Italian) well. forte (f) — (Italian) strong, loud.
bewegt — (German) with movement, agitated. forte-piano — (Italian) pianoforte, loud and then
immediately soft.
fortissimo (ff) — (Italian) very loud.
C forzando (f) — (Italian)) forcing (indicated by >
above the note/s).
cantabile — (Italian) 'singable,' in a singing fashion.
cantando — (Italian) singing. frisch — (German) vigorous.
fröhlich — (German) cheerful, joyful.
capriccioso — (Italian) in a whimsical, fanciful style.
colla destra — (Italian) with the right.
colla sinistra — (Italian) with the left. G
colla — (Italian) with the.
comodo — (Italian) convenient. grave — (Italian, French) very slow, solemn.
con brio — (Italian) with vigour. grazioso — (Italian) graceful.
con forza — (Italian) with force.
con spirito — (Italian) spirited. K
con — (Italian) with.
con espressione — (Italian) with expression. kräftig — (German) strong.
con moto — (Italian) with movement or motion.
con anima — (Italian) with soul, with feeling.
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con grazia — (Italian) with grace.
crescendo (cresc.) — (Italian) growing, increasing in langsam — (German) slow.
volume. langsamer — (German) from langsam, more so than
langsam.
larghetto — (Italian) a little largo, slow but not as
slow as largo.
largo — (Italian) playing to be slow, broad.
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Although in this book we cannot cover the complete dictionary of foreign words used in music, we have included
those that seem necessary for you to study APEL.
lebhaft — (German) lively, vivace.

legatissimo — (Italian) as smooth as possible.
legato — (Italian) bound, smooth, tied. R
rallentando (rall.) — (Italian) slowing down.
leggiero — (Italian) light
rasch — (German) quick.
lento — (Italian) slowly or lent (French).
lustig — (German) cheerful. rinforzando — (Italian) reinforcing, rinf., rfz, rf.
rinforzato — (Italian) reinforcing, rinf., rfz, rf.
ritardando (rit.) — (Italian) slowing down, holding
M back.
ritenuto (rit.) — (Italian) held back, slowing down
ma non troppo — (Italian) but not too much.
(immediate slowing).
maestos — (Italian) majestic.
ruhig — (German) peaceful.
mano sinistra — (Italian) left hand.
mano destra — (Italian) right hand.
marcato — (Italian) emphatic, accented. S
marziale — (Italian) in a military style. scherzando — (Italian) playful, joking.
mässig — (German) at a moderate speed. schnell — (German) fast.
meno — (Italian) less. seconda volta — (Italian) second time.
mesto — (Italian) sad. semplice — (Italian) simple.
mezzo — (Italian) half. sempre — (Italian) always.
mezzo forte (mf) — (Italian) half-loud, midway between senza — (Italian) without.
loud and soft. sforzando — (Italian) accented, forced, sfz, sf.
mezzo staccato — (Italian) half short or detached. sforzato piano — (Italian) forced but quite.
mezzo piano (mp) — (Italian) half-loud. sforzato — (Italian) accented, forced, sfz, sf.
misterioso — (Italian) mysterious. smorzando — (Italian) dying away in tone and
moderato — (Italian) moderate. speed, smorz.
molto — (Italian) much. staccatissimo —- (Italian) very short.
morendo — (Italian) dying away. staccato — (Italian) detached (dots above the notes
mosso — (Italian) moved, moving fast. to be detached).
stringendo — (Italian) gradually getting faster.
subito — (Italian) suddenly, sub.
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non legato — (Italian) not bound or tied.
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O tempo commodo — (Italian) at a moderate speed
opus — (Italian) work. tempo di menuetto — (Italian) at the speed of a
minute.
tempo primo — (Italian) at the original pace.
P tenuto — (Italian) held.
pesante — (Italian) heavy.
traurig — (German) sad.
pianissimo (pp) — (Italian) very soft.
piano (mp) — (Italian) soft.
piű — (Italian) more. V
poco — (Italian) little, slightly, gradually. vivace — (Italian) lively.
portato — (Italian) carrying on without breaking. volti subito — (Italian) turn (the page) at once.
posthumous — (English) published after author's death.
prestissimo — (Italian) very fast.
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presto — (Italian) faster (faster than allegro).
prima volta — (Italian) first time. zart — (German) tender, delicate.
INDEX
best, 11, 20, 24, 25, 35, 36, 37, 42, 64, 65, 74, 75, 76,
A 123, 125, 138, 145, 170, 178, 189, 235, 241, 248,
258, 260, 266
ability, 4, 10, 11, 12, 14, 32, 34, 37, 38, 39, 48, 92, Bible, 38, 39, 59, 227, 229
137, 139, 145, 150, 158, 162, 172, 210, 217, 219, Bible, 38, 39, 50, 51, 52, 53, 58, 59, 71, 74, 140,
221, 231, 234, 248, 260, 267, 310 238, 259, 260, 264
academic, 6, 9, 10, 11, 37, 69, 189, 191, 193, 202 bless, 21
account, 6, 23, 32, 53, 54, 266 blocks, 153, 155, 180, 229, 244
achieve, 62, 89, 220, 244, 266 body, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 51, 52, 53, 54, 59, 60,
acquired, 14, 30, 32, 105, 151, 195, 268 69, 70, 146, 147, 157, 158, 159, 163, 178, 181,
acute, 42 182, 197, 201, 204, 220, 226, 228, 231, 233, 245,
admission, 37 255, 258, 263, 266
adult, 50 book, 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 21, 24, 31, 32, 39, 45, 59, 62,
agent, 58, 143, 144 75, 79, 91, 134, 136, 139, 143, 205, 208, 210, 217,
always, 20, 23, 27, 30, 35, 36, 48, 59, 61, 71, 72, 77, 259
86, 88, 97, 100, 117, 119, 129, 130, 136, 137, 138, born, 4, 17, 20, 25, 30, 31, 35, 39, 55, 56, 62, 147,
139, 141, 150, 153, 157, 158, 165, 171, 176, 179, 178, 189, 207, 228, 242
192, 194, 198, 200, 201, 202, 203, 205, 223, 233, breath, 9, 11, 17, 37, 51, 52, 156, 157, 158, 159, 163,
234, 237, 239, 240, 246, 257, 261, 262, 263, 264, 165, 177, 184, 188, 203, 224, 237, 238, 239, 240,
266, 267 242, 247, 268, 310
analyze, 26, 48, 102, 120, 124, 157, 198, 210, 215 build, 4, 6, 7, 153, 154, 180, 236
answer, 21, 23, 24, 29, 34, 111, 126, 175 business, 62, 224, 310
anxious, 28
Apel, 6, 33
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APEL Truth, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, calluses, 43
36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 52, 54, 55, 59, 60, 61, 62, cancer, 18, 44
63, 64, 65, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 76, 78, 90, 92, channel, 63, 196, 233
102, 119, 128, 136, 137, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, characteristics, 18, 123, 164, 165, 179, 181, 182, 185,
145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 186, 199, 202, 212, 246, 249, 256
158, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167, 172, 174, 177, 178, Choleric, 45, 47, 49
179, 180, 182, 184, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, chords, 67, 68, 83, 119, 120, 121, 123, 132, 169, 170,
195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 201, 203, 204, 217, 220, 171, 202, 204, 206, 212, 213, 215, 218, 249, 253
221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 228, 231, 232, 233, 234, chorus, 125, 126, 201, 208
235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 244, 246, Christian, 30, 59, 140, 141, 259, 261
248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 257, 259, 260, 261, 262, chromatic, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 107, 109, 166, 170,
263, 264, 265, 266, 267 171, 182, 184, 185, 186, 199, 207, 310
applause, 8, 31 chronic, 42, 43
Approach, 8 class, 20, 21, 75, 141, 190, 220, 237
area, 8, 19, 20, 23, 24, 30, 58, 150, 168, 177, 228, classical, 11, 12, 24, 79, 210
231, 232, 237, 256, 257 climax, 201
argument, 39, 139 closure, 202, 203, 206
arrival, 202, 203, 204, 205 combine, 125, 182, 185
artistic, 11, 37, 198, 246 common, 13, 14, 35, 41, 42, 45, 49, 88, 93, 139, 150,
aspects, 41, 62, 75, 92, 123, 151, 165, 168, 172, 185, 175, 177, 189, 196, 200, 201, 202
202, 244 communication, 9, 13, 46, 69, 82, 111, 190, 194, 223,
attack, 157, 158, 159, 160, 181, 182, 185, 245 225, 242, 268
audience, 14, 28, 29, 40, 167, 191, 222, 223, 235, 241, composer, 87, 89, 91, 112, 126, 131, 201, 211, 235,
242, 248, 254, 257, 260, 266, 310 252, 253
aural, 148, 219, 221, 224, 225, 234, 239, 242, 244, 257 concept, 4, 60, 63, 71, 72, 81, 99, 102, 126, 127, 131,
aurally, 222, 242 140, 153, 155, 162, 171, 176, 179, 187, 190, 195,
authority, 47, 50, 56 202, 207, 234, 238, 240, 265
concern, 37, 233
B condition, 1, 42, 43, 44, 138, 139
conductor, 124, 240
background, 15, 24, 78, 134, 140, 141, 257 confidence, 11, 35, 40, 152, 164, 199
balance, 48, 172, 175, 236, 243 confirm, 50, 162, 238
battle, 59, 60, 65, 222, 236, 257, 263 consonance, 152, 170, 171, 212, 213, 215, 216
believe construction, 82, 83, 118, 120, 175, 249
believed, 10, 11, 21, 23, 36, 147, 238 context, 12, 17, 22, 51, 59, 62, 79, 81, 131, 140, 150,
Believe, 20, 39, 149, 235 165, 171, 176, 179, 184, 193, 210, 225, 226, 227,
benign, 43 232, 255, 267, 269, 310
cords, 4, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 41, 163, 176, 177, 178,
247, 248
count, 40, 48, 77, 84, 85, 92, 103, 124 F

counterpoint, 134, 205, 211
course, 6, 7, 19, 22, 29, 35, 37, 40, 42, 60, 71, 74, 96, fact, 6, 8, 12, 14, 16, 19, 20, 31, 35, 38, 52, 56, 65,
66, 68, 69, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 109, 139, 145, 147,
126, 156, 157, 226, 262
158, 169, 177, 178, 189, 190, 199, 203, 207, 217,
creative, 36, 46, 75, 76, 193, 196, 234, 235
culture, 10, 94, 210 219, 226, 237, 244, 250
factor, 87, 120, 206, 212, 214, 215, 216, 256
curve, 153, 204, 240, 242, 266, 310
facts, 7, 48
fake, 42
D
fall, 22, 61, 64, 109, 179, 202, 240, 255, 261
daily, 8, 47, 64, 137, 163, 194, 247, 251, 252, 263 falsetto, 9, 10, 256
dead, 24, 57, 58, 69, 177, 178, 239, 266 fear, 56, 65, 141, 174, 192, 228, 237, 240
death, 55, 56, 57, 58, 105, 117, 228, 230 filled, 67, 68, 71, 72, 227, 228, 232, 239, 265
decision, 6, 41, 59, 89, 165, 222, 237, 238, 261, 262 final, 50, 66, 85, 126, 200, 215, 242, 244, 260
decrease, 159, 181 fingers, 76, 77, 163, 178, 220, 241
defile, 70, 71, 230, 264 first, 7, 8, 15, 20, 23, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 33, 37, 50,
degree, 9, 24, 105, 106, 107, 108, 129, 130, 131, 137, 56, 61, 62, 63, 65, 69, 76, 77, 78, 79, 82, 85, 92,
219, 310 117, 124, 126, 128, 136, 143, 144, 146, 150, 151,
detail, 15, 47, 49, 79, 91, 123, 130, 155, 205, 213, 215 152, 156, 157, 158, 163, 164, 167, 170, 173, 182,
direction, 10, 29, 56, 67, 88, 131, 172, 192, 193, 229, 189, 190, 191, 200, 202, 203, 212, 213, 223, 227,
266, 267 231, 233, 235, 238, 239, 241, 245, 246, 252, 253,
discordant, 151, 152 260, 262, 264, 265, 267
discussions, 137, 204 fixation, 265, 266
dissonance, 151, 170, 171, 212, 213, 215, 216 fluctuation, 179, 181
distinct, 52, 53, 54, 125, 158, 203, 219, 226, 244, 250 focus, 15, 26, 27, 33, 40, 46, 47, 88, 140, 151, 153,
divine, 38, 232 156, 164, 165, 171, 172, 188, 203, 211, 215, 220,
dream, 4, 21, 192, 226 256, 257, 261, 265
drunk, 71, 227 focusing, 47, 81, 153, 257
dynamics, 88, 91, 123, 137, 152, 157, 158, 179, 184, folds, 16, 43, 44
185, 198, 199, 202, 216, 220, 245, 248, 249, 260, followers, 64, 227
267 footnotes, 7
force, 63, 66, 70, 114, 172, 175, 192, 201
E foreign, 112, 113, 121, 138, 171, 200
format, 138, 157
ear, 76, 84, 94, 151, 152, 159, 178, 185, 189, 194, formula, 82, 119
198, 200, 201, 206, 217, 242, 256, 310 foundation, 4, 8, 11, 45, 65, 84, 88, 123, 132, 154,
education, 9, 19, 27, 34, 35, 207 171, 173, 190, 192, 198, 207, 218, 224, 232, 249,
effect, 11, 30, 45, 70, 77, 132, 139, 161, 170, 171, 261
178, 199, 203, 205, 207, 213, 215, 223, 247, 249, frequency, 13, 149, 167, 185, 186, 187, 212, 242, 244,
254, 256 247, 250, 310
effective, 10, 42, 43, 143, 166, 196, 204, 210, 248, fricative, 159, 160, 163, 188, 224, 248
256 fundamentals, 105, 151
emission, 156, 160, 163
emotion, 56, 112, 115, 141, 145, 191, 193, 310 G
emotional, 43, 45, 47, 139, 167, 173, 192, 203, 231,
260 generate, 177, 187
emphasis, 11, 14, 92, 97, 168, 199, 254 gift
enigma, 164, 199 gifts, 23, 39, 248
ensure, 165, 166, 167, 171, 172, 173, 175, 257 glass, 233
enunciation, 164, 167, 173, 188, 191, 193, 223, 232, glycerin, 41, 266
244, 246, 266, 267, 310 goal, 20, 45, 159, 259, 266
ENUNCIATION, 4, 145, 152, 173, 188, 205, 258 God, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 37, 38, 39,
envelope, 156, 157, 158, 159, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 41, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64,
184, 185, 186, 188, 244, 245, 246, 250 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 140, 141, 179, 196,
epiglottis, 15, 16 197, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 231, 232, 234,
errors, 26, 146, 147, 167 235, 236, 238, 239, 240, 246, 260, 261
exercises, 1, 4, 137, 138, 150, 158, 159, 165, 166, godly, 69, 140
167, 168, 171, 178, 180, 182, 184, 185, 220, 247, Greek, 39, 45, 53, 54, 67, 68, 199, 225, 236, 240
310 ground, 11, 28, 51, 52, 72, 154, 174, 179, 221, 230,
existence, 79, 239, 255 238, 261, 266
experience, 22, 32, 37, 43, 62, 64, 138, 139, 140, 141, guitar, 12, 15, 17, 24, 87, 247, 258, 266
156, 166, 167, 184, 189, 192, 202, 203, 204, 234,
241, 242, 258, 259 H
extended, 39, 99, 100, 108, 158, 171, 172, 228
habits, 7, 18, 43, 172, 248, 257, 263, 265
habituation, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 164, 172, 174,
178, 190
happy, 29, 31, 37, 74, 159, 196, 237, 240, 241, 264
harmony, 20, 83, 132, 151, 168, 171, 179, 198, 199, K
204, 212, 213, 214, 215, 248, 249, 252, 253, 254,
255, 267, 310 keyboard, 87, 88, 90, 128
knowledge, 34, 37, 39, 41, 77, 88, 91, 105, 119, 130,
harmonic, 82, 83, 121, 129, 130, 132, 170, 171,
134, 138, 181, 195, 221
184, 202, 204, 205, 212, 213, 216, 249, 253, 310
head, 15, 41, 42, 155, 157, 158, 161, 162, 163, 179,
181, 189, 204, 222, 233, 241 L
hear, 10, 11, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 40, 46, 58, 59, 61, language, 13, 14, 69, 75, 104, 105, 126, 138, 139, 180,
69, 72, 138, 145, 148, 159, 162, 163, 172, 177,
190, 195, 204, 223, 225, 233, 241, 246
182, 197, 216, 217, 218, 219, 224, 225, 226, 230,
laryngitis, 18, 42, 43
233, 242, 243, 250, 253, 262 Laryngitis, 42, 43, 44
heart, 7, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 26, 28, 29, 32, 53, 54, 56,
Laryngoceles, 44
58, 59, 60, 69, 70, 71, 72, 75, 112, 145, 152, 156,
larynx, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 42, 139, 140, 145, 146,
159, 161, 162, 163, 164, 173, 176, 177, 178, 179, 147, 148, 149, 150, 176, 178, 179, 197, 233, 246,
189, 191, 193, 197, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226,
256, 266
227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 236, 239,
LARYNX, 4, 146, 149, 176
240, 241, 242, 246, 257, 258, 261, 262, 263, 264, leap, 168, 173, 174, 175, 182
266
lesions, 43, 44
Hebrew, 53, 54, 62, 66, 67
lessons, 15, 30, 63, 64
hemorrhage, 44 Leukoplakia, 44
high, 7, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 48, 89, 138, 143, 163, 177,
level, 12, 13, 14, 37, 50, 59, 89, 138, 147, 150, 153,
220, 226, 227, 236, 251, 252, 257
159, 160, 177, 178, 182, 190, 197, 202, 212, 213,
human, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22, 45, 50, 52, 54, 56, 68, 214, 215, 217, 219, 224, 226, 227, 242, 244, 255,
88, 149, 185, 196, 201, 220, 223, 234, 240, 241,
260, 265, 266
246, 265
life, 4, 10, 19, 23, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33, 35, 46, 47, 48,
HYMN, 68, 196, 232 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 70,
71, 72, 80, 91, 136, 137, 140, 153, 179, 180, 184,
I 186, 192, 195, 196, 197, 199, 204, 217, 220, 226,
228, 230, 231, 234, 236, 237, 238, 239, 241, 243,
ideas, 6, 41, 196, 198, 199, 210, 216, 229, 234
246, 249, 250, 253, 257, 261, 262, 263, 264
identify, 46, 107, 125, 145, 150, 157, 174, 202, 213,
218, 219, 253, 267, 310 listen, 25, 31, 34, 35, 36, 48, 148, 192, 193, 198, 202,
212, 213, 214, 221, 222, 229, 231, 237, 241, 250,
illness, 1
257, 266, 267, 269
imagination, 19
immoral, 262 logic, 7, 51, 126, 237
loudness, 13, 115, 185, 212
implied, 22, 123, 144, 150, 171, 211, 212, 227, 258,
love, 27, 46, 47, 48, 53, 54, 56, 63, 65, 74, 125, 180,
310
important, 6, 7, 9, 15, 28, 61, 69, 72, 76, 79, 81, 82, 190, 191, 222, 224, 226, 229, 238, 259, 261, 262,
264
84, 86, 93, 95, 96, 102, 105, 124, 126, 133, 136,
lungs, 8, 15, 16, 17, 158, 159, 176, 177, 179, 247
138, 139, 140, 143, 149, 152, 155, 163, 173, 174,
177, 179, 180, 190, 191, 192, 197, 201, 204, 211, lyrics, 198, 213, 214, 232, 264
218, 223, 233, 249, 253, 257, 261, 265
impossible, 6, 19, 36, 37, 42, 49, 50, 137, 154, 165, M
174, 178, 224, 251, 252, 266
manifest, 54, 66, 197
improvisation, 254, 255
meaning, 8, 11, 53, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 77, 79, 81, 87,
impurities, 4, 249, 250, 266 89, 145, 157, 158, 195, 204, 208, 216, 225, 239,
increase, 159, 160, 177, 178, 181, 184, 247
241, 250, 258, 262
inflections, 102, 103, 130, 133, 171, 207
measure, 8, 72, 83, 92, 93, 94, 96, 179
influenced, 13, 211, 262 measurements, 62
inhibitions, 8, 136, 155, 156, 193, 235
medical, 1, 14, 42, 139, 159, 310
instructions, 32, 65
Melancholic, 45, 48, 49, 202
instrument, 8, 9, 12, 15, 17, 18, 36, 42, 52, 68, 87, melody, 67, 68, 69, 78, 83, 91, 97, 125, 126, 131, 132,
88, 89, 91, 146, 147, 149, 162, 166, 171, 173, 174,
133, 134, 154, 166, 171, 194, 196, 197, 198, 199,
178, 218, 233, 310
200, 203, 204, 213, 214, 217, 218, 223, 224, 225,
INSTRUMENT, 12, 68 226, 231, 232, 242, 247, 249, 252, 253, 254, 255,
intensity, 10, 13, 48, 112, 158, 159, 163, 165, 185,
310
188, 310
mental, 14, 54, 66, 69, 70, 136, 138, 173, 210, 241,
intervals, 76, 77, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 247, 310
118, 119, 120, 122, 123, 131, 133, 153, 163, 164,
mentor, 141
172, 173, 213, 216, 249, 253, 310
metronome, 22, 123, 124
microphone, 11, 25
J million, 35, 57, 73, 241, 266
Jesus, 28, 39, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 65, 70, 71, 227, mimicry, 141, 265, 266, 267
mind, 12, 15, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 36, 42, 53,
229, 230, 239, 264
54, 59, 60, 66, 68, 69, 70, 82, 89, 102, 112, 138,
146, 147, 148, 149, 152, 155, 163, 165, 173, 178,
182, 192, 196, 197, 198, 201, 217, 219, 222, 223,
226, 227, 228, 229, 231, 233, 234, 240, 242, 245, 48, 51, 53, 54, 56, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 71, 72, 73,
248, 256, 260, 262, 265, 267 74, 76, 80, 106, 128, 136, 137, 139, 140, 146, 147,
miracle, 24, 31, 32, 248, 266 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 156, 158, 175, 177, 180,
model, 45, 185 189, 191, 192, 194, 196, 207, 217, 218, 221, 222,
modern, 45, 93, 101, 205, 211 223, 224, 226, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 242,
money, 6, 35, 38, 39, 80, 136, 261, 262, 263, 266 243, 256, 257, 259, 261, 262, 263, 264, 266, 267,
month, 19, 35, 144 268
morph, 200, 204, 256 perfect, 26, 27, 36, 45, 48, 63, 109, 110, 120, 136,
motion, 77, 114, 124, 164, 165, 167, 168, 173, 195, 153, 157, 162, 197, 206, 221, 227, 233, 254
199, 212, 213, 249, 253 performers, 75
motivation, 220, 222, 232 period, 4, 19, 31, 59, 136, 137, 139, 158, 203, 228
motive, 174, 195, 198, 199, 200, 202, 203, 215, 233, Phlegmatic, 45, 48, 49, 202
255 phonation, 13
mouth, 8, 9, 13, 14, 28, 29, 42, 58, 73, 76, 144, 148, PHONATION, 13
155, 156, 157, 159, 173, 193, 231, 233, 238, 239, physical, 7, 10, 14, 23, 51, 53, 54, 58, 59, 61, 69, 139,
241, 242, 246, 247, 257, 262, 263, 264 176, 234, 265
movement, 13, 76, 81, 114, 124, 150, 151, 158, 165, physically, 42, 310
173, 175, 202, 204, 205, 206, 213, 215, 258, 310 physiological, 15, 155, 156, 226, 247
multipart, 11, 205, 212, 213 piano, 26, 76, 77, 87, 88, 90, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118,
music 128, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 162, 202, 220,
musical, 8, 20, 24, 26, 28, 41, 52, 63, 68, 75, 89, 258, 262
112, 123, 134, 152, 173, 192, 195, 196, 202, picture, 26, 30, 63, 126, 155, 200, 233
203, 204, 207, 211, 217, 221, 225, 229, 232, 310 Pitch, 13, 26, 75, 148, 150, 181, 182, 198, 207, 217,
MUSIC, 21, 69, 74, 82, 123, 124, 138, 203, 221 248, 310
myths, 14 placement, 133
play, 9, 12, 24, 52, 64, 68, 74, 76, 77, 89, 90, 91, 92,
N 138, 146, 147, 148, 149, 162, 178, 186, 198, 211,
257
negative, 25, 41, 136, 260, 265 Polyps, 43
new, 7, 11, 18, 30, 59, 60, 62, 63, 71, 74, 88, 99, 100, positions, 80, 84, 88
112, 121, 130, 131, 138, 141, 155, 159, 165, 172, pour, 71, 152, 233, 240, 241
177, 178, 189, 190, 191, 195, 196, 197, 199, 212, power, 11, 12, 17, 47, 58, 59, 64, 65, 66, 140, 158,
214, 220, 240, 256, 263, 265 159, 160, 162, 194, 196, 227, 230, 239
night, 25, 27, 28, 30, 136, 137, 220, 225, 227, 235, Prenodules, 43
262 preparation, 28, 68, 145, 195, 310
nodules, 43 preparedness, 163
normal, 14, 17, 18, 19, 37, 46, 68, 78, 113, 136, 138, prescribe, 159
144, 158, 198, 231, 232, 256 pressure, 13, 47, 48, 139
notation, 75, 86, 88, 89, 91, 95, 98, 101, 110, 112, price, 33, 64, 137, 144
124, 134, 143, 206, 207, 210, 217, 219, 231, 233 pride, 40, 228, 230, 261
notes, 9, 17, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, prime, 120
88, 89, 91, 95, 99, 102, 105, 106, 107, 109, 118, principle, 86, 94, 99, 105, 156, 176, 179, 181, 182,
119, 123, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133, 145, 146, 150, 185, 189, 192, 196, 202, 245, 310
151, 152, 153, 154, 157, 162, 163, 164, 166, 168, problems, 34, 41, 189, 222, 259
170, 171, 173, 174, 183, 193, 195, 198, 202, 206, process, 14, 23, 59, 85, 139, 143, 150, 161, 172, 176,
207, 208, 213, 217, 219, 220, 224, 231, 244, 247, 190, 194, 196, 197, 203, 204, 210, 211, 217, 225,
249, 253, 256, 310 226, 227, 228, 229, 236, 249, 265, 310
procrastination, 48
O produced, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 63, 101, 153,
158, 310
octave, 9, 108, 109, 133, 134, 208, 219, 242, 256, 310 producer, 221, 242
open, 16, 28, 68, 122, 157, 159, 190, 222, 231, 233,
progression, 152, 175, 213, 218
262, 264
PSALMS
opera, 10, 11 psalms, 68, 69, 71, 197, 231
opinion, 26, 28, 42, 196, 199
public, 7, 24, 26, 34, 235, 243, 257
original, 4, 36, 54, 81, 100, 111, 118, 145, 177, 181,
pulse, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 99, 100, 123, 124, 127, 149,
182, 196, 253 150, 199, 205, 207, 212, 240, 242, 250, 260, 310
ossification, 176, 179
purchase, 12, 140
purification, 151, 152, 176, 179, 184, 191, 193, 223
P PURIFICATION, 4, 144, 145, 150
purpose, 28, 32, 68, 82, 104, 124, 136, 140, 159, 180,
passage, 15, 28, 38, 39, 41, 53, 66, 144, 197, 225,
241, 262 201, 202, 203, 204, 210, 232, 235, 261, 266
passionate, 49
patient, 18, 66, 139, 234 Q
pentatonic, 173, 207
question, 14, 21, 23, 29, 30, 31, 36, 90, 126, 131, 137,
people, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31,
146, 180, 185, 203, 237
32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47,
R 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156,

157, 158, 168, 169, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180,
radiation, 44, 310 184, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197, 208,
range, 9, 13, 86, 87, 89, 91, 160, 166, 172, 180, 185,
210, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 231,
187, 213, 242, 247, 252, 256
233, 237, 240, 241, 244, 246, 252, 253, 254,
raspy, 43 257, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267,
read, 7, 26, 34, 38, 81, 86, 89, 93, 95, 124, 133, 136,
268, 310
137, 138, 156, 208, 234, 258, 265
singer, 4, 10, 11, 14, 17, 22, 23, 25, 29, 30, 42, 45,
ready, 23, 69, 112, 136, 144, 148, 194, 196, 233, 234 47, 62, 69, 76, 112, 126, 141, 145, 146, 147, 148,
reference, 4, 6, 25, 82, 91, 103, 108, 109, 110, 138,
149, 150, 151, 152, 162, 164, 181, 189, 197, 199,
140, 149, 150, 162, 174, 180, 182, 197, 204, 219,
205, 210, 221, 222, 223, 242, 248, 252, 253, 254,
227, 247, 310 255, 256, 257, 259, 260, 263, 265, 266
rehearsal, 138, 139, 172, 190, 220, 242
skilful, 74
relationship, 27, 76, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 93, 131, 168,
sol-fa, 161, 169, 170, 171, 173, 206, 207, 208, 217,
211, 212, 213, 214, 219 219, 220, 231, 233, 242
relative, 37, 91, 101, 132, 220, 252
song writing, 194
repetition, 200, 201, 214, 232, 310
soprano, 9, 11, 252, 253, 254
research, 26, 27, 49, 248, 264 soul, 21, 25, 51, 53, 54, 59, 68, 70, 114, 173, 191, 232
resound, 164, 184, 220, 226, 248
sounds, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 22, 27, 36, 64, 75, 76, 77,
results, 8, 10, 11, 17, 27, 29, 36, 47, 70, 136, 164,
78, 82, 94, 109, 136, 137, 149, 152, 153, 164, 177,
178, 212, 221, 230, 237, 242, 265 182, 212, 220, 231, 233, 234, 242, 250, 262, 266,
rhythm, 14, 99, 124, 125, 127, 150, 198, 199, 202,
310
203, 204, 210, 213, 218, 233, 242, 248, 253, 254,
speak, 13, 24, 39, 40, 43, 46, 58, 70, 152, 157, 158,
255, 267
177, 190, 192, 193, 194, 202, 223, 224, 225, 227,
river, 27, 28, 72, 153, 192, 211, 236, 310
237, 241, 242, 247, 257, 266, 267, 268
root, 16, 120, 122, 139, 206, 230, 252
speaking, 13, 14, 21, 29, 40, 43, 80, 153, 158, 190,
rubber, 18, 266 197, 228, 233, 239, 257, 266, 267
speech, 4, 9, 12, 13, 14, 18, 40, 41, 73, 139, 140, 148,
S 153, 156, 158, 176, 177, 190, 191, 194, 223, 250,
265, 267, 268, 310
sad, 72, 116, 118, 240, 249, 264
spirit, 20, 28, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60,
Sanguine, 45, 46, 49
Satan, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 70, 229, 66, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 141, 176, 196, 224, 225,
226, 227, 228, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 239,
235
240, 241, 242
Lucifer, 58, 62, 63, 260
scope, 78, 87, 95, 104, 162, 171, 205, 227, 228 SPIRIT, 51, 53, 59, 60, 68, 71, 72, 226, 227, 235,
264
score, 88, 95, 112, 113, 162, 166, 167, 171, 208
spiritual, 12, 23, 41, 50, 54, 59, 61, 62, 63, 66, 68,
scriptures, 69, 261
70, 73, 140, 141, 143, 189, 192, 196, 197, 224,
seamless, 160, 163, 190, 191, 265
225, 227, 228, 232, 233, 235, 236, 241
selected, 87, 161, 163, 183, 245
staff, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 103, 110, 119, 120, 127,
semitone, 81, 83, 84, 110, 130, 131, 133, 149, 165,
170, 221, 310 133, 137, 184, 206, 207, 217, 219, 231, 233
step, 37, 69, 89, 134, 143, 151, 155, 165, 168, 169,
sense, 46, 68, 69, 82, 105, 138, 143, 172, 198, 203,
170, 171, 173, 174, 175, 177, 178, 232, 261, 310
206, 232, 266
sequence, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 84, 86, 128, 130, 162, story, 21, 32, 39, 46, 56, 178, 259, 260
strings, 12, 16, 17
163, 164, 165, 166, 171, 174, 198, 202, 253
structure, 4, 15, 16, 26, 77, 111, 122, 125, 126, 146,
shadow, 240, 241
sign, 10, 55, 80, 87, 91, 102, 109, 113, 114, 115, 119, 153, 157, 176, 195, 200, 202, 203, 204, 206, 214
studies, 6, 8, 82, 169, 176, 188, 210, 219, 248, 258
133, 147, 167, 191
stuttering, 14, 139
signature, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101,
102, 103, 104, 130, 133, 134, 141, 166, 172, 193, subconscious, 150, 161, 163, 175, 178
subdivision, 97, 125, 218
199, 208, 212, 218, 220, 267
subject, 1, 21, 54, 59, 60, 95, 123, 134, 139, 150, 155,
simultaneous, 77, 134, 151, 152, 212, 310
sing, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 157, 164, 173, 180, 189, 193, 204, 205, 208, 210,
219, 231, 247, 248, 267, 310
28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 37, 38, 40, 41, 43, 50, 62,
successful, 30, 34, 143, 164, 221
64, 65, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 92, 126, 139,
140, 143, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 157, suggestions, 136
supernatural, 24, 61, 235
160, 161, 162, 163, 177, 178, 179, 181, 182, 185,
surgery, 18, 226, 236
186, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 198, 217, 222, 224,
225, 226, 229, 232, 233, 234, 240, 241, 248, 252, sweet, 41, 115, 153, 180, 198, 201, 310
syllable, 125, 157, 180, 181, 183, 250
253, 257, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 267,
symbol, 91, 180
268
sang, 21, 24, 25, 28, 31, 32, 62, 64, 65, 140, 141, syndrome, 248, 265, 267
191, 234, 262
singing, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, T
24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 38, 40,
talent
41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 62, 63, 68, 69, 72, 74, 89,
talented, 10, 27, 28, 29, 31, 37, 76, 144, 145, 151,
91, 92, 114, 134, 137, 139, 140, 141, 145, 146, 153, 259, 261
taste, 126, 211 V

teacher, 11, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 34, 37, 141, 146,
153, 177, 207, 210, 217, 265 variation, 83, 86, 113, 150, 200, 201, 214, 232, 310
verbal, 9, 12, 13, 55
teachers, 6, 10, 22, 24
vibrate, 8, 13, 17, 68, 267
technique, 4, 7, 8, 11, 17, 20, 31, 146, 164, 177, 223,
251, 252, 253, 260, 310 vibration, 8, 9, 10, 13, 17, 247, 249, 250, 251, 252
Vitamin C, 43
temperament, 49
voice, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20,
tempo, 91, 113, 118, 124, 163, 166, 178, 202, 218, 255
tension, 9, 10, 13, 17, 152, 154, 163, 178, 212, 220, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 36, 41, 42, 52, 61, 69, 87,
88, 139, 140, 141, 143, 145, 147, 148, 149, 150,
247, 248
151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 163, 167, 172, 174,
terminology, 105, 204
theory, 17, 88, 126, 143, 167, 198, 211 176, 177, 178, 179, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190,
192, 194, 205, 223, 224, 233, 234, 241, 246, 247,
therapist, 139
248, 249, 250, 256, 260, 261, 262, 265, 266, 310
think, 6, 14, 20, 27, 29, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 57,
60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 73, 79, 84, 95, 139, 140, 144, vocal, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 22, 41,
88, 138, 141, 152, 158, 160, 161, 163, 164, 172,
148, 173, 177, 180, 192, 194, 195, 199, 217, 221,
176, 177, 178, 179, 187, 188, 207, 212, 246,
223, 225, 227, 233, 234, 239, 240, 241, 262, 264,
265, 266 247, 248, 252, 260
vowel, 157, 181, 183, 251
throat, 13, 15, 16, 18, 41, 148, 189, 310
thyroid, 15, 16, 17
time, 4, 6, 7, 8, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, W
31, 33, 35, 37, 41, 42, 46, 47, 48, 59, 60, 62, 65,
walk, 6, 7, 21, 37, 39, 47, 77, 136, 144, 158, 164, 178,
69, 72, 74, 76, 77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 196, 204, 236, 240, 241, 263
96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 105, 106, 112, 113,
walking, 25, 37, 177, 178, 233, 241, 310
117, 123, 124, 136, 137, 138, 139, 141, 145, 149,
wisdom, 9, 22, 26, 39, 63, 68, 69, 225, 227, 229, 231,
150, 151, 153, 160, 161, 163, 164, 166, 172, 176, 261
177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 184, 190, 193, 195, 198,
word, 14, 22, 35, 38, 39, 53, 54, 62, 66, 67, 68, 69,
199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 207, 208, 212, 218, 219,
70, 72, 112, 114, 138, 152, 155, 157, 176, 190,
220, 221, 222, 226, 228, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 198, 225, 226, 229, 230, 231, 232, 236, 237, 240,
236, 237, 238, 240, 241, 244, 246, 247, 249, 250,
264
251, 252, 253, 254, 256, 257, 259, 261, 262, 263,
words, 9, 13, 22, 26, 29, 53, 54, 65, 72, 77, 80, 87,
267 112, 113, 132, 145, 152, 157, 165, 181, 190, 191,
tone, 4, 9, 10, 16, 17, 27, 48, 83, 84, 86, 110, 112,
192, 193, 194, 201, 202, 204, 225, 229, 230, 236,
118, 123, 128, 130, 145, 148, 149, 152, 156, 157,
239, 246, 262, 264, 310
159, 163, 165, 176, 178, 179, 185, 186, 187, 192, work, 7, 20, 25, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 47, 48, 61, 64, 66,
205, 214, 215, 219, 244, 246, 248, 260, 310
112, 117, 128, 129, 136, 137, 140, 141, 155, 164,
tongues, 226, 228, 233
175, 180, 183, 184, 217, 220, 236, 238, 245, 253,
tradition, 11, 12, 14, 50, 137, 195
257, 259, 262, 265
training, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 34,
write, 27, 75, 89, 90, 99, 103, 112, 118, 119, 123, 127,
36, 37, 41, 50, 60, 72, 74, 137, 143, 145, 147, 151,
129, 130, 133, 137, 138, 184, 194, 196, 217, 234,
163, 177, 189 236
tree, 8, 224, 235
writing, 67, 86, 88, 123, 126, 133, 166, 194, 195, 208,
tutor, 137, 138, 265
231, 235, 259, 264
TV, 34, 36, 264 wrong, 10, 21, 25, 26, 31, 37, 40, 41, 51, 62, 64, 86,
140, 144, 145, 146, 149, 151, 162, 176, 193, 196,
U 242, 244, 256, 259, 260, 261, 263, 268
understand, 12, 14, 15, 16, 28, 29, 39, 40, 41, 50, 51,
52, 60, 61, 62, 76, 78, 81, 83, 86, 93, 101, 105, Y
106, 111, 121, 123, 125, 134, 139, 143, 146, 147,
years, 4, 6, 17, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 136,
149, 152, 156, 165, 180, 187, 190, 195, 196, 198,
138, 145, 156, 189, 219, 236, 242, 248, 259, 260,
202, 214, 215, 217, 237, 239, 244 265, 266
uniform, 165
unlocking, 155
UPBEAT, 124

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The Cat Out of the Bag .....................................................................................33

Therapy in the Asylum......................................................................................73

Making Circles with Squares ..........................................................................159

SONG ANALYSIS ......................................................................................................220

So, You are Not a Preacher.............................................................................274

A Meek Approach to APEL

THE MOST UNIQUE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

WHAT VOICE ARE YOU?

What People Think About Voice Training

Not All Roads Lead to Rome

The Serious Way of Singing

A Short History of Singing27

APEL — THE ART OF PLAYING THE LARYNX

THE CLASSICAL VOICE

THE LANGUAGE OF SINGING

DISSECTING YOUR INSTRUMENT

Figure 1: Larynx and Larynx Cross Section44

Figure 2: Larynx Support Sysytem

YOUR INSTRUMENT IS FRAGILE

A LITTLE BOY'S DREAM

WAS TO FOCUS YOUR MIND TO IT. Nothing is impossible to a believing heart —

A SMALL SEED OF HOPE

Your Singing Is Wrong

PROVERBS 13:12 (UNASB)68

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE DARK TUNNEL

MATTHEW 12:36 (UNASB)

WHO IS GOING TO TEACH ME?

JAMES 1:5 (UNASB)

MARK 11:24 (NASB)72

TO SING OR NOT TO SING

The Playback Debut

THE HUNT FOR A CURE

A BLIND MAN LEADING HIMSELF

A LOT OF RESEARCH — A LOT OF PRACTICE

TWO YEARS TO FIND A CURE

THE DAY OF RECKONING

THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG

THE FIRST PERFORMANCE IN TWO YEARS

TEACH US TO SING LIKE YOU DO

A TUTOR LEARNING TO TEACH OTHERS

BEHOLD ONCE I COULD NOT

THE PROPHET IN HIS HOME TOWN

THIRTEEN YEARS TO REFINE APEL

 Consistency — the property of holding together and retaining shapes. It means

 Discipline — I feel it is necessary to explain this in detail, discipline is the ability

 Focus — this is my favorite; it refers to the concentration of attention or energy

THE RIGHT VOICE

CREATING ORIGINALS OUT OF SIMPLE THINGS

THE UGLIER THE VOICE, THE BETTER APEL WORKS

THE TALENT EXCUSE

MATTHEW 25:15 (LITV)90

God's Gifts Are For All

RUNNING OUT OF BREATH

THE OPINION EXCUSE

Consistency — the property of holding together and retaining shapes. It means

Discipline — I feel it is necessary to explain this in detail, discipline is the ability

Focus — this is my favorite; it refers to the concentration of attention or energy

Laryngitis Sicca — laryngitis sicca is caused by inadequate hydration of the

Presbylaryngis — presbylaryngis is a condition that is caused by thinning of

Premalignant — leukoplakia is a white growth on the vocal folds. If not

Expression — our level of exposure to various environments also determines

Intellectual Music — created based on academic standards which man has

Outward Defilement — the second way of defiling your heart is perversion