Ian Howell teaches you to hear the voice functionally: warmth, buzz and airflow, and the physical adjustments behind each one.

Stop guessing what you're hearing. In this two-hour session drawn from his book of the same title, Ian Howell trains your ear to separate the qualitatively opposable parts of a singer's sound — pure "warmth" from high-frequency "buzziness" — and tie each to what the body is actually doing. You'll do blind listening tests on filtered vowels, pull apart recordings by Sara Bareilles, Whitney Houston and Jeff Buckley, and follow his airflow-first explanation of breathy, pressed and flow phonation, vocal fold eigenmodes, and five places to narrow the vocal tract. The payoff: design exercises that produce the coordination you want without ever saying a science word.