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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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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
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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
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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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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
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.
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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
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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.
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an octave is one series of notes either ascending or descending to the next similar note
15
when a boy’s voice tone changes into a man’s tone
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the source of music
17
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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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.
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
22
a tone produced by a male voice when they mimic a female voice
23
freeway in South Africa from Johannebsurg to Durban
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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
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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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(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.
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.
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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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
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of or relating to the process of hearing
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involving the hands
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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.
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a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
39
any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
40
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
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guitar lessons, your instructor usually gives you a background of the guitar, a little
history, and detail about the instrument.
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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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
47
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
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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an unusually talented or intelligent child
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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
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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inflexibly; unshakably
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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
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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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.
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!
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reference to a Tom Cruise movie
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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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presiding head person authorized to conduct religious worship and manage a congregation
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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.
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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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.
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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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any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange
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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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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
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)
102
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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Inflammatory Conditions
Tumours
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.
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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.
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the father of modern medicine
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confidently optimistic and cheerful
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easily moved to anger
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NATURAL BLENDS
Energized By People
Outgoing
Optimistic
Outspoken
LEAD LEAD
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COMPLEMENTATY BLENDS
COMPLEMENTATY BLENDS
POPULAR POWERFUL
Relationship Oriented
Witty SANGUINE Decisive
CHOLERIC
Task Oriented
Easy Going Organized
Not Goal Goal
Oriented PEACEFUL PERFECT Oriented
PHLEGMATIC MELANCHOLIC
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ANALYZE ANALYZE
Introverted
Pessimistic
Soft-Spoken
Drained by People
NATURAL BLENDS
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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?
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?
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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
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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accountability
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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.
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?
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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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.
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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.
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.
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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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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.
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).
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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.
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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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!"
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!"
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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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.
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
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we believe that the spiritual world is very real, distinct and parallel to the physical world
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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.
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.
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 part of you that is born again
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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.
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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
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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
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.
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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?
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.
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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?
Positive In Adversity
Two guys, without ever having taken music lessons or held music diplomas, they sang
and praised God and guess what?
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
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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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
Truth.080
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.
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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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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.
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.
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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 —
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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.
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.
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."
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.
PSALMS 62:8
Trust in him at all times; ye people, POUR OUT YOUR HEART BEFORE him: God is a
refuge for us. Selah.
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).
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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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.
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.
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— 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.
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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refers roan ability that has been acquired by training
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manifested power of the Holy Spirit
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training preceded by diligence
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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.
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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
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two octave from below middle c — same ascending and descending
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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
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two octave from below middle c — same ascending and descending
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two octave from below middle c — same ascending and descending
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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
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based on d, r, maw, fah, soh, law, taw and doh
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bars separated by ":" for clarity; tempo is MM = 90; key = E=m, with click track overlay
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start of sequence
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end of ascedning order, and middle of entire sequence
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end of sequence
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EXERCISE SUMMARY
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.
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EXERCISE WORKSHEETS
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Row one show how when you inhale, you check the INHALATION COLUMN, if you get it right, you will check the
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.
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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.
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In this exercise, the first two columns are the same as the second pair, that is, you must work across the table before
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).
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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.
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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.
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In the selection exercise, you simply need to write the name of the note, and then hear it or vice versa, when you
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.
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Just like in the selection exercise, you simply need to write the name of the note, and then GEAR FOR IT, or vice
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.
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In the first column, write the note or the interval name, and in the results column, indicate the outcome by using an
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.
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The emphasis of this exercise is the leap from one note to the next, so that you record the note from which you are
jumping and the results.
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In the Step Pattern column, simply write down the actual notes of the pattern, and accompany the first half of the
row with the appropriate results, right (U) or wrong (W).
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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.
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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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The syllable must be written out in full, the results must only be reagarded as CORRECT (U) when all 10 syllables
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.
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This exercise might be slightly more complicated, in the first column, you must decide on the syllable set, once this is
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.
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This is a superset of VOLUME and SUSTAIN. Pick a syllable and use it against ONE NOTE, 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.
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This is a superset of TONE and SUSTAIN. Pick a syllable and use it against ONE NOTE (the note should be in the middle
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.
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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.
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based on the spiritual song and psalm — comes through intervention and inspiration
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wait for the full melodic phrase before you write it down, your writing skills will have to be improved
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similar to perceiving but based on the hymn song, that is spiritual motivation
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the end product is the same as in perceiving, only the method is different
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you may rehearse the inner song, i.e., the inner melody before you resound it
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if your transcription skills are low, you might have a problem — once transcribed, do not sight read you melody,
remember it from the heart (the idea is to aurally reproduce what you hear)
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it is important to indentify the note by name, iether solfa or letter name
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it is important to indentify the note by name, iether solfa or letter name
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indicates that after inhalation, you held your breath for 6s
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37 seconds, indicating that you did not make your minute (if it is longer thatn 1 minute indicate the full duration,
e.g., 67s)
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rate in percentage and include commnets where necessary
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meaning you got 3 notes out of 7
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identify the chord
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identify the chord
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song title and artist
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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.
F
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
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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
C
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,
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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,
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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,
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