I have studied Bel Canto technique with five years of private instruction with a wonderful, professional Bel Canto spinto soprano.

I have carefully studied the written works of the most respected coaches and singers in history.

I obsessively collect quotes on Bel Canto breathing technique.

I am certain that the HypoSiren is the best training ever created to develop the Bel Canto appoggio technique of breathing for singing.

I first learned about Estill from a year spent in Tom Burke’s wonderful Broadway Voice Box group.

I’ve since read the official Estill Book as well as one other.

I love her model of how the voice works, but it doesn’t come with actual training. Further, her model excludes breathing entirely.

Torso anchoring and full thoracic breathing are part of the same system. They are re-educated, strengthened and synergized with HypoSiren training.

HypoSirens are an excellent way to develop all ” 13 Figures” and “6 Voice Qualities” of the Estill model.

My first-ever course was Singing for the Stars by Seth Riggs in the late 80’s. I trained every day to the cassette tapes.

Then, upon Seth’s referral, I studied with an SLS coach weekly for two years.

Improvement was slow and almost imperceptible, private lessons expensive. This led me to give up on vocal studies for 25 years.

I think of SLS, along with similar approaches as “finishing school“. Most of the work is on performance,- reshaping vowels and consonants.

Without first fixing the instrument itself, emphasizing development of true thoracic breathing and core phonation with straw-phonation sirens, this training will be only cosmetic.

An excellent approach would be to add HypoSirens to compliment your SLS studies.

I studied the Singing Success and Mastering Mix courses. I recognized them as what seemed like a re-branding of Speech Level Singing. The approach and exercises were mostly the same.

As I wrote in the SLS tab, I think of these approaches as “finishing school“. Most of the work is on performance,- reshaping vowels and consonants.

It has it’s place, for sure.

Without first fixing the instrument itself, emphasizing development of true thoracic breathing and core phonation with straw-phonation sirens, this training will be only cosmetic.

An excellent approach would be to add HypoSirens to compliment your SS/MM studies.

I’m enamored with the resonant voice quality known by many names,– ring, metal, squillo, twang, the singer’s formant.

CVT does an excellent job of framing this concept into an easy to understand model built around “modes” that vary in the amount of metal quality present.

The exercises prescribed in the book are good and fairly standard for the industry.

An important goal in the creation of the HypoSiren exercise and prompt-guided video workout is to maximize the development of the metallic quality of the voice.

It does this better than anything I know.

Eight years ago I was obsessed for six months with the KTVA course. I have a lot of respect for Mr. Tamplin.

The results from training were better than I had experienced with SLS or SS/MM.

As I grew in knowledge and experience I simply outgrew his approach.

His instructions on breathing and oral posture are not at all to my liking.

HypoSiren training is both an excellent replacement, or compliment, to the KTVA course.

The HypoSiren prompt-guided video workout was created to be both the perfect workout and warmup.

It’s approximately 9 minutes in length with the first minute devoted to setting your posture and breathing and getting into the zone.

This is followed by eight minutes of HypoSirens divided into four 90-second exercises with breaks in between.

The video is full of prompts to remind you of the most important technique elements to keep in mind as you train.

It’s an amazing warmup.