Okay, so these guys produced a program with American Idol called "Ultimate Voice Coach: Learn to Sing like a Star". Before I continue I just wanna say both men have impressive client lists, but I'm guessing most of these clients went to them after becoming famous. Now, I haven't bought this program (and I'm buying your book later today, Jaime ) but I went on amazon and apparently it SUCKS. I didn't read one good review and apparently Gary Catona's method is based on tightening the throat (which just goes against my every intuition...it's like a sex ed. teacher saying not to use condoms). Ron Anderson's stuff is apparently better, though lacking completeness.

To be fair it was probably sloppily and hastily put together buy Idol execs trying to milk the cash tite a bit more.

Dunno why I posted this really, just felt like gossiping I guess.

I have it. I liked Ron Anderson's warm up exercises and the booklet explanations that come with it but Gary Catona's part is crap. I'm sorry to say I really didn't get it and his students seemed extremely tensed when singing. I just can't envision how his method can help anyone sing at all. Really it was bad.

Ron's advice is good to make one understand how to use your support up to some degree and the vocal exercises are helpful when it comes to positioning the tongue properly and keeping it where it belongs.

RYV II is quite superior to this product. There is no doubt about it but watching a DVD to hear and watch what is meant is quite usefull too.

Ron's program on the DVD is great for beginners. Its fairly in depth, but its still missing a lot.

Catona's is just boring and really pointless. I think the objective is to increase the amount of overtones in your sound, but it does cause a lot of tension if your not careful since he's telling you to basically consistently hold a smile.

I think your missing the point. Gary Catona is giving you exercises to strengthen the muscles involved in singing. I don't think that he is telling you to sing in this manner. It would involve too much tension. Ron Anderson seems like a Speech Level Singing approach which is totally opposite when it comes to tension in the voice. It all depends on what your after but singing exercises and singing are two different things.

Hahaha way to go Jarges, this is a 9 year old thread. I love it when singers research that far back. Gary personally told me he hated this program, because it was slapped together and edited in such a way that his concepts didn't make much sense.