Sorry for the last comment guys, I was just a little pissed. Of course I take the criticism with me, but some reactions just made me pissed like: The most emotionless headbanging I have ever seen.
The first two years my vocal coach began most of the lessons with training on the piano. Then he learned me breathe techniques and techniques to push my midriff down for extra power on the voice. After those technical part, I had to play a cd with a song I like to sing. That happened more in the first year than in the second year. But anyway, I sang Dream On, from Aerosmith. We did that a couple of lessons. He just listened carefully while I sang. Sometimes he paused the cd to make comments about certain points what I should do and he put onto it. In the second year, I had to do much more songs which he choose, while he played them on the piano. I had to sing love you more of Racoon. After the two years, I took a break to learn all the things further that I learned those two years.
This third year, I've had two lessons now. (actually three, but one lesson he was sick, so it was cancelled). The first lesson was just a conversation and he was testing my voice on the piano, how high I could go. I hit a G#5 in falsetto. He said, next week you bring a cd with you with the songs you play with Era IV.
So last Monday I brought the cd with me. We began with Fear Of The Dark of Iron Maiden. He said wow your voice has really improved last year! (before I couldn't even get the head voice, so I would go from my normal voice to my falsetto). After a part of Fear Of The Dark, he skipped to the next song, Symphony Of Destruction of Megadeth. He thought that was also great. He said that I have a really good lower register.
And next week we are going to practise it further.
I take lessons of 15 minutes each. (the first two years were 20 minutes each).
Then about Era IV:
First...I'm not the only singer they know.
Before I auditioned they had 5 other singers on audition, which they fired immediately in the end of the auditions. I'm now since March in the band.
Second: We were not friends before. They didn't know me, and I didn't know them.
I will post a video with a video us performing a song in the repetition room to let you see what we are capable of.