Mark Baxter opens singing a rewritten Tina Turner parody and closes by arguing the one thing science can't measure is the thing your student is missing.

Mark Baxter - the coach who rebuilt voices for rock singers the vocal establishment dismissed - makes the case that love, not technique, is the common denominator behind every successful singer. You'll get his working definitions of science and love as two mindsets, his acronym for love as a Longstanding Valiant Effort, and the passion-purpose-patience loop he uses to keep singers in it. He shows how the absence of love turns into friction, fatigue and pathology, why habilitation becomes inhabitation, how inhibition gets mistaken for ignorance, and how he finds the hook - love of performing, of people, of a cause, of life - with brides, praise singers and returning rock singers.