My Review Of Emily Mander’s Singorama 2.0

After writing my Singing Success review, I decided I should go back and update my Singorama review to give more details. So, here it is!

If you’ve read a lot of my posts, you’ll know that I like to recommend Emily Mander’s Singorama 2.0 to beginners over Singing Success. This is because Singorama is much better suited for vocalists in training who are just starting out.

In fact, this course was my “first love” as far as online singing lessons go, and it definitely helped me out as a struggling beginner. I currently use Singing Success techniques more often than ones from Singorama, but that’s only because I feel as though my vocals have improved to a point where they need something a bit more challenging.

I always do some form of vocal exercises daily, and, when I was using Singorama, I found it very easy to integrate its techniques into my daily routines. So it’s definitely a good alternative to Singing Success, especially if you’re a “beginner” (and I can’t forget to mention that it’s cheaper, too!).

My review is based off of my own experiences that I have had with the program, and I have tried to look at the course through as many different aspects as possible (how I felt when I first started, how it is for beginners, etc). All opinions expressed here are completely my own, and I am not being paid to write a review. If I recommend something, it’s only because I truly believe it will help you.

With that said, let me tell you a little bit more about it! Here’s what’s included in Singorama 2.0:

28 Interactive Audio Lessons

Singorama’s main attraction is the 28 in-depth interactive audio lessons that it comes with. If you think that my website has lots of singing information, then you should brace yourself for this extra flood of content.

Each of the audio lessons are around 15 to 20 minutes long and are formatted in a sequential pattern, starting off easier and then gradually getting harder as they go on.

The lessons range from learning vocal warm ups (remember those amazing practice exercises that I always rave about?), to learning different styles of singing and music, to learning how to get over stage fright. I was actually quite surprised with the broad range of topics; I must admit that they have given me some ideas for this site.

Each lesson comes in .mp3 format so you can download them and put them straight onto your iPod or other mp3 playing device. This is personally what I did, so I could do my exercises while going for walks.

Overall, the lessons are quite informative and unique. You can really tell that Emily Mander and her team have spent quite a bit of time working on this program.

Below, you can click on the toggle box to open up a list of all of the audio lessons:

Click Here To See The Lessons

Audio Lesson #1: Introduction and how to understand your own voice
Audio Lesson #2: Warm ups and strengthening the voice
Audio Lesson #3: Breathing and Posture
Audio Lesson #4: Tone
Audio Lesson #5: Pitch, Staying in Tune
Audio Lesson #6: Chest voice and head voice
Audio Lesson #7: Bad Habits to AVOID
Audio Lesson #8: Extending your vocal range: Part 1
Audio Lesson #9: Time signatures, key signatures and rhythm
Audio Lesson #10: Major and minor keys; Solfege
Audio Lesson #11: Intervals and Solfege
Audio Lesson #12: Different styles of singing
Audio Lesson #13: How to Become Sensational At Singing Harmony
Audio Lesson #14: How to Sing Different Genres of Music
Audio Lesson #15: Understanding the meaning of a song – Part 1: lyrics and overall tone
Audio Lesson #16: Understanding the meaning of a song – Part 2: emotions conveyed through music and how to put your personality into a song
Audio Lesson #17: Making a song your own
Audio Lesson #18: Learning a full song – Part 1
Audio Lesson #19: Learning a full song – Part 2
Audio Lesson #20: Solutions to common problems
Audio Lesson #21: Your Future as a Singer
Audio Lesson #22: Extending your vocal range: Part 2
Audio Lesson #23: Performance tips
Audio Lesson #24: Auditions and how to Ace them!
Audio Lesson #25: Writing Your First Song
Audio Lesson #26: How to sing with a band
Audio Lesson #27: Performance Anxiety
Audio Lesson #28: Final Overview

Interactive E-Books

You receive a total of four color illustrated e-books with Singorama. The first two go hand-in-hand with the audio lessons. They offer you tips and guidelines on what you should be doing each day (much like what I’ve tried to do for you here on my site).

The third and fourth are:

The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Reading Music – This e-book helps you learn to read music, which is an essential skill if you want to become a song writer.

Advanced Learning Techniques for Singers – It offers some tips for the pros and eager learners.

The e-books come in .pdf format so you can easily read them in programs like Adobe Reader and Foxit PDF Reader (both are free to use).

Helpful Software

One of my favorite things about Singorama is the software that comes with it. Each piece of software is actually pretty cool, and I still use them even though I don’t use Singorama that much anymore. Here’s a short overview of each one below:

Singorama Mini Recording Studio – This cool program allows you to record your voice as you sing. If you get Singorama, I recommend that you use it to record yourself singing about once a week. Then, at the end of the course, you can go back and listen to your past recordings. You might be surprised to see how much of a difference the lessons made. It’s actually a pretty good motivational tool.

Perfect Your Pitch Trainer Pro – This helps you to train yours ears to stay on the right pitch. It’s actually a game and can become quite addicting if you aren’t already an expert. Over time, I found that I was able to recognize different notes pretty easily.

Jayde Musica Pro – This is another fun game. Basically, you see music notes flying across your screen and you have to identify them. If you ever want to write and/or produce your own songs or even audition for a part in a musical (High School Musical anyone?), it could be pretty important for you to know how to read music.

Singorama Metronome – This is a simple piece of software which helps with maintaining rhythm and practicing timing.

Each piece of software can be downloaded and installed directly onto your computer. A nice little bonus is that they work on both PCs (Windows 98 and above) and Macs.

Original Songs

You also receive four original songs with Singorama. They are supposed to be there to help you learn about melody and harmony. However, I didn’t find them to be anything that special.

“Bonus Exercises”

Singorama advertises that it comes with “bonus exercises,” but I’m pretty sure that you would consider them to be essential to the overall program. It must be a marketing technique, but still, they aren’t really “bonuses” if they are a core part of the content!

The “bonus exercises” are:

Vocal Warm Ups – These are essential to your vocal training (you might be getting annoyed with how much I say this, but I mean it ). Singorama offers a pretty decent variety of great vocal warm ups.

Vocal Strengthening Exercises – These are basically vocal warm ups, except they are directed towards strengthening your voice and giving you a more “full” sound.

Range Extension Exercises – Again, they are just like vocal warm ups. They are meant to be more of a challenge in order to help extend the vocal range.

Interval Training Exercises – These help with learning songs quickly and efficiently.

All of these audio files also come in .mp3 format.

Members Area

If you decide to try Singorama, you will gain access to the members area. You first have to log in with your receipt ID.

The layout is simple and it’s not very hard on the eyes, which is nice. I found it pretty easy to navigate. The members area is where you can download everything that comes with the course. Here is a snapshot of it:

Customer Support

The Singorama team offers 24/7 customer support through e-mail. They usually respond within 48 hours to all of your questions about the course or singing in general. It’s unfortunate that they don’t offer other means of communication, but they are still pretty speedy with answering support queries.

Money-Back Guarantee

If you are truly skeptical about trying Singorama (like I was when I first tried it), you can take a breather (yay). It offers an 8 week (60 day) complete money-back guarantee.

This means that if you decide that you no longer want the program, you can send the Singorama customer support an e-mail for a full refund with no questions asked. At least, this is how I’d assume the process works, as I’ve never had to do it myself.

However, if the program developers do not keep their word on a full refund upon request during the first 60 days of purchase, I wouldn’t be recommending the product at all. Because of this, I’d appreciate it if you would tell me about your customer support experiences if you ever did decide to refund the program.

What I Don’t Like About Singorama

Even though I recommend Singorama to people who don’t have a lot of singing experience, I still think it has some disadvantages. Below I will tell you about where I think Singorama went wrong:

The course is highly directed toward beginners. If you are already a pretty experienced singer who just wants to fine-tune your voice, this program probably isn’t for you (Brett Manning’s Singing Success might be a better choice). It does have some advanced techniques, but the whole course is mainly structured for people who are on the beginner level. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and I only mention it for my readers who are at a higher vocal level.

Although the customer support is 24/7, you are given no other means of communication with support besides through e-mail. If you have a question that needs to be answered immediately, you are going to have to wait up to 48 hours. However, as an alternative you can always post on the forums here for help, or send me a support request. But if you have a question directly related to Singorama, this is a definite downside.

Some things are advertised as “limited time bonuses” when they should be exactly what the singing program revolves around. I’m talking about the “bonus” vocal warm ups, strengthening lessons, etc. I do realize that this is a marketing technique but they should already be included in the program, period.

It has been almost 4.5 years since Singorama 2.0 was released back in December of 2007. It would be nice to see more additions and updates to the program as time goes on.

Overall Rating

The price of Singorama is a one-time payment of $99. When compared to face-to-face (local) singing lessons with an instructor, this price would only cover approximately 2 full hours of lessons on average. Again, I have done that and I think it’s kind of a waste of money to take singing lessons with a teacher.

This program is a great price when compared to the old-fashioned singing lessons, which is one of the main reasons why I like online singing lessons so much.

I took my handy HTML skills and reused the ranking chart that I used in my Singing Success review to give the program an overall ranking. Here it is:

Category	Rating
Suitable For All Levels Of Singers
Customer Support
Quality Of Singing Course
Variety Of Learning Techniques
Ease Of Use
Effectiveness
Price
Total

I tallied it up and Singorama gets 4 out of 5 stars. This course is full of effective vocal techniques and knowledge, and it’s rating is well deserved. As “my first love” in online singing lessons, I’ve had quite a bit of experience with this program. I’ve had a lot of time to use the course and analyze the many aspects of it, and I can honestly say that it deserves the rating.

I would only recommend Singorama if I felt as though it would help you, and I truly do believe it will help you improve your singing voice. I’d especially recommend it if you are somewhere in the beginner to intermediate level (or if you are looking for a cheaper alternative to Singing Success).

Disclosure: Please note that the links to the Singorama website in this review are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I have a large amount of experience with this course and I am recommending it only because it has been very helpful to me and comes from a company that I trust, not because of the commissions that I may earn from you using the product. Please do not spend money unless you feel it’s for something that you really need and will help you reach your goals. If you do decide to purchase something from one of these links, then thank you for supporting me and helping to keep this website running!

If you would like to give me your own review on your experiences with Emily Mander’s Singorama 2.0, please leave a comment below!