TVS Frequently Asked Questions

The Four Pillars of Singing is a lexicon of all the top ideas, inside of one program. Unlike other programs, The Four Pillars of Singing was written and produced to be inclusive of all the best ideas from Robert Lunte, with influences from other methods that get results. The TVS course and book are about getting students’ results.

No other system has more content and care into teaching students how to apply the techniques they learn to practical training routines so you can practice and experience real, noticeable and lasting results.

If you are willing to practice and do the work, this is the program that will take your voice to a new level more than any other training experience.

Robert Lunte is offering a real-time chat service on this web site.

When Robert is not teaching, he will be available in-person to help you to get organized, learn how to use the system and answer questions about your training along the way. Robert Lunte is available for his clients. Emails are also encouraged.

ABSOLUTELY! Increasing your ability to sing higher is one of the main points of vocal training and certainly is the primary objective that The Four Pillars of Singing is showing people how to improve.

Removing the feelings of constriction and pushing from singing high notes is one of the primary purposes of vocal training and no other program has dedicated its research and techniques more to a free and seamless voice than The Four Pillars of Singing.

Great freedom when singing and removing obstacles that are getting in your way, is what is going to happen when you commit to this training program and the routines found here.

It is very important to not confuse vocal technique training with stylistic coaching.

Both are equally important, but understand that they are different.

You will learn how the singing voice works from this program. Additionally, by following the integrated training routines, and the lessons in this program, your voice will grow physically stronger and will become more coordinated.

Singing is an athletic endeavor and you have to train like a vocal athlete to make progress.

Singing songs is equally important, but if you do not build strength and coordination through training, especially for beginners, you will not be able to sing songs well.

The objective is to train your voice so that you can have the freedom to sing any style you want. As for Robert Lunte and his singing or what he does on videos, that is how Robert chooses to use his voice when he sings and demonstrations. By no means does it imply that this is how you will use your voice. Everyone is different, we all have different interests in styles, passions about music and capabilities.

You will train with The Four Pillars of Singing, to explore and discover YOUR voice, not Robert Lunte’s voice, or any other teacher or artist’s voice.

Concerning yourself with “how to sing like someone else” is something that students and singers need to grow out of at some point. This is a beginner and amateurish concern. Get more realistic and focus on exploring your voice and capabilities to discover how to sing like YOU!

Absolutely, like no other program can. The Four Pillars of Singing is a lot about training, learning how to apply the techniques you learn in the lessons and books, and then committing to a practice routine.

Yes.

Each purchase comes with downloads of the most essential training files (audio & video) you will need for training.

Great for copying to your smartphone or burning CDs. Great for practicing in the car.

The book and the course work together. The course consists of over 167 lessons inside this web site that are multimedia presentations, each with a video, copy, graphics, tables, illustrations, and a quiz to measure your progress.

The book is available as an eBook (PDF). It is also available as a hard copy. The hard copy is custom designed and shipped to you. It is full color and signed by Robert Lunte personally. The hard copy book costs $99 and can be found under “Additional Options” on the product page for The Four Pillars of Singing.

The book complements the online course. They work together to make a cohesive program and because the book is over 616 pages, it is advised that you purchase the hard copy if you can, although it is not required.

Click HERE >>> to learn more about the benefits of the hard copy book and to purchase it separately.

Yes.

The idea that some people are born to sing and others are not is not entirely true. There is a margin of “gift” that should be accounted for, however, for most people, if they train hard and have a great program to work with, they do actually learn how to sing pretty well.

Most people have intuition and physiology to sing well. Your chances for success are 80% due to your ability to commit and work hard. Those that cannot learn how to sing, no matter how hard they try, is very rare! Nine out of ten people can learn to sing and get better. Usually, a lot better!

Yes, of course! Robert Lunte works with singers of every level of experience. There would be no point in developing a vocal training course and program that doesn’t address everyone’s needs, ESPECIALLY, beginners. Also, even if someone is an experienced singer and has had training before, they still are a “beginner” in learning the TVS Method of training.

EXPANDING YOUR RANGE:
(Bridging & Connecting Skills)

The TVS Method believes that all singers need and want two primary skills that can only be fully understood and mastered with vocal training. The two skills are the ability to seamlessly bridge the vocal registers (“chest voice” and “head voice” ), and then build the strength to sing with “chest” or belt sound color on high notes, or in the “head voice”. These two skills are referred to as “Bridging & Connecting”.

The TVS Method has long been recognized to be the foremost method to experience quick results with register bridging. If you want to expand your vocal range and vocal color by gaining command and control of your vocal register bridging skills, there is no other program that offers you a more clear explanation, techniques, and guidance on how to train this skill, then TVS and The Four Pillars of Singing training program.

TRAINING VOCAL ONSETS:
Beyond the “Bridging & Connecting” skills, the most important techniques that have to be understood and practiced are vocal onsets. Vocal onsets roughly are “the beginning” of a sung note. The understanding and mastery of vocal onsets will radically improve a singer’s voice and accelerate a singer’s progress!

When onsets are understood and practiced, they become intuitive and are used by TVS singers to isolate muscle strengthening and coordination. The TVS onsets build the physiology of the singing voice. The TVS onsets also are used to troubleshoot problems with your singing as well.

THE TVS ACOUSTIC MODES:
(Understanding The Acoustics of Singing)

The other element of singing that has to be practiced and understood is the acoustics of singing. Without an understanding of the acoustics of singing, students will forever remain confused as to why the voice is not responding the way they want it to.

The primary reason that most singers and students of other training programs never learn about the acoustics of singing is simply that, the research, study, training, and teaching of the acoustics of singing can be hard to understand. It has a level of basic science to it that some people find a little bit more challenging to understand. Unfortunately, that ALSO includes MOST voice teachers.

Understanding the acoustics of singing is the one skill set that the vast majority of other voice teachers simply do NOT understand because they have not bothered to do the research and study required to learn about it, which is MOST unfortunate for their confused and struggling students.

When the voice breaks, squeezes too hard, pushes, “chirps”, etc… it is usually because the acoustics and associated resonance are not correct for the frequency and language vowel in the lyrics that singers are trying to sing. In other words, physical problems when singing are usually not the source of the problem, but a symptom of bad acoustics in the singer.

In The Four Pillars of Singing, there is an original, and innovative method that teaches students how to better understand the acoustics, singing vowels, formants and resonance of singing. It is called, “The Sound Colors of Singing”.

The TVS method assigns visual colors to 10 key singing vowels (formants, resonance) and then uses these color associations with very powerful training graphics and illustrations in the course and book. This allows students to “see” the singing vowels for the first time in vocal training history! TVS has taken a complicated concept that MUST be understood for great singing and simplified it for students to grasp and understand.

TRAINING VOCAL BELTS:
(Singing High With a Chest Voice Sound).

No singer will ever experience true vocal freedom or mastery of “bridging and connecting” without training great muscular strength to build the belt voice.

To “belt” is to have the muscular strength and coordination to maintain “chest voice” sound colors and indeed, chest voice or more accurately, “modal voce” or “M1” voice, through and above the vocal break. In simpler terms, to sing with a high chest voice, without pushing and constricting.

Belting is not only important for the convincing, “chesty” sound color it gives singers as artists, but it is also very important to maintaining great vocal endurance and strength. Even if a singer is not interested in the sound color that belt voice can give them stylistically, it is still critical that singers learn how to train and sing in belt voice to be able to sing ANY style with stability and success.

TRAINING CONTENT, DEMONSTRATIONS & INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PRACTICE:
The TVS Method and philosophy on vocal training has always made a priority out of ensuring that students have the content, (mp3 files, video files, video demonstrations, audio guides, Robert Lunte demonstrating how to train, etc…), required to take the techniques and ideas they learn in the course and book and apply them to practical and effective vocal training routines and workouts!

Any vocal training program that does not offer training content AND demonstrations that teach students HOW TO TRAIN, is cheating the student of the most fundamental and practical coaching that they need. No amount of great techniques, methods and ideas will do anything for singers if they do not have the facilities and content to actually practice.

The Four Pillars of Singing will teach you how to practice and train the concepts and method, step by step.

Of course, there are other techniques and skills that are important for great singing in addition to these concepts, but these four concepts are probably the most important.

All of these concepts are covered in great detail with videos, audio training files, lessons, tables, quizzes and more in The Four Pillars of Singing.

QUESTIONS YOU MUST ASK YOURSELF:
Is the training or program you are currently involved in getting you the results you REALLY want and need?

How long have you been training with the program you have and are you getting the results you want?

Are you bridging your vocal break and expanding your range?

Is your head voice able to sound “chesty” and full, and not sound weak with falsetto?

Does your teacher or the current program you are using offer any evidence that the teacher can actually do the workouts and sing themselves? Can your current voice coach actually sing well? Have you actually seen videos or content of your teacher singing or demonstrating vocal workouts?

If you have been training for over 60 days with any teacher or training program and you are still not making any progress with bridging your vocal break or singing in your head voice, chances are, you are involved in a vocal training program that simply CAN NOT teach you how to “bridge and connect” properly.

There are many programs, some of them quite famous, that simply are not capable of teaching this skill and sadly, neither can the teachers that are teaching it. That is simply a very honest statement and the reality of the situation.

THE REASON FOR THIS IS:
The teacher and/or program has never learned about the acoustics of singing (above…) and the teacher does not TRULY understand, therefore, has never trained vocal workouts that strengthen the musculature for extending the chest voice above the bridge. Simply stated, the can’t teach it, because they have never bothered to learn how.

If the teacher or program you are working with does not discuss or offer the previously mentioned five important techniques, then you are likely not getting the most out of your training. Worst case, your wasting your time.

With The Four Pillars of Singing, students that dedicate themselves to the training on a regular schedule, experience amazing results as early as 2 to 8 weeks after beginning the program. Mostly because the course, book and are extremely clear, and provide step by step instructions on what you are supposed to do and how.

We recommend that you start with The New Student Package and immediately begin studying and training the lessons and content. For students that want to improve their chance for success, private lessons with Robert Lunte at in person and over the internet (skype) are highly recommended so you can learn how to properly use The Four Pillars of Singing training system and understand the training methodology so you won’t practice mistakes.

Lastly, for the most serious commitments, consider The TVS Training Intensive Program that offers 12, 16, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40-hour training sessions in person with Robert Lunte at TVS studios in Seattle, WA. Students that participate in the TVS Training Intensive, will train in person with Robert Lunte for 2 to 3 hours every morning for 2 – 3 weeks, depending on which package the student chooses. Training intensive clients gain the greatest insights on how their singing voices work, how to train the TVS Methodology, experience the greatest amount of progress in the shortest amount of time, work on their songs (setlists) and even produce professional recordings and videos of the songs that were worked on with Robert Lunte during the training intensive.