Following INXS's shocking decision to eliminate two singers last week, the remaining Rockers were shaken like one of Nelly's tail feathers. Returning to the Mansion, they slowly walk past the pool, their heads down, looking as sad and defeated as extras from Pink Floyd's "The Wall." The sight of the post-show spread brightens their mood, although Marty can't quite believe that only 10 of them are left. "Is this everybody?" he asks, as champagne corks pop and the Rockers try to make sense of what happened.

"Did you think it was a joke," Suzie wonders, unsuccessfully fighting off tears. Ty compares INXS's decision with a "big bomb," while Brandon appears completely pole-axed by it and predicts what could happen next. "There could be three people eliminated," he says, "or maybe none." MiG is having none of that. He remains level-headed and wants to be taken as the voice of reason. His feelings following the elimination show are "bittersweet," he says. It's great to make it through another week, he explains, but it's sad to lose your friends. But he refuses to mourn for Heather and Daphna, he tells the others. They're going to have great careers.

While they're all sitting around the table, rehashing the day's events, an unfamiliar figure walks up the path to the Mansion. It's Marty's sister, Liz, making an unannounced visit from Chicago. From the reaction, you would have thought that Marty and the other Rockers have been held hostage for the past few weeks. She brings a letter from his mother, which he pores over like a POW looking for coded messages. "Is this what's gonna be?" MiG wonders. "You perform really, really well, you get to see your family." If that's the case, he says, "I'm going to really rehearse a lot this week."

Suzie, who has quickly become the Mansion's town crier, ready to open the waterworks at the slightest provocation, is in tears. Seeing Marty's sister has reminded her that she hasn't seen her family for a long time. It's been so long, a whole five weeks, that she's starting to exhibit signs that she's suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome. She offers to act as MiG's temporary sister; he takes her into his arms and she cries some more. As all good things must come to an end, it's time for Liz to leave. As he sees her off, Marty tells her, "I'll win it, and we'll get to do this all the time."

It's soon time to get back to business. The Rockers assemble for this week's clinic, meeting Dave, Kirk and Ron Anderson, a renowned vocal coach who has worked with Courtney Love, Axl Rose, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder and has even helped Dave get his vocal chops together. "I'm not here to change your voice," Ron tells the Rockers in a gentle voice, sounding a little like a doctor trying to get you to take some bad-tasting medicine.

He teaches the Rockers breathing exercises, how to switch among the three different places a singer produces the voice -- the diaphragm, chest and head. He even helps them figure out how to choose what key they should sing the songs in -- "speak the lyrics in your natural voice, and that's where you'll be comfortable."

Not everyone reacts to the training in the same way. Jessica, who says that many of the Rockers have never had formal training, is more than ready to listen to Ron's advice. "Teach me!" she enthuses. And when she sings a few bars of "Never Tear Us Apart," it's "like magic." Brandon is impressed, comparing the difference as "like night and day."

But it's not enough to make him receptive to Ron's advice. "I have a rough time with coaching," he tells Jordis, "I like where my voice is at." But the memory of his mangling of Squeeze's "Tempted" must have returned, because he decides to give Ron's coaching a try, and the results were overwhelmingly positive, enabling him to sing with more power but less exertion. Ron says Brandon has "the biggest voice" of the group, and if he takes everything he's learned, it could bring his voice to "a totally different level."

While listening to the others sing, Suzie worries about the next phase of the competition. "All the singers that are left are really good," she tells Deanna. Ty's not worried about the other singers, he's "only competing with myself," he says. "As long I get better, I'm going to win."

Deanna is having her own worries. Talking to Dave, she admits to worries about her voice. While Dave assures her that she has a great voice and can really belt it out, INXS wants to see her show more vulnerability. And Ron shows her how she can keep her vocal power without steamrolling over the notes. But the news isn't all good. Ron confides she has "more problems" than any other singer in the show and has less time to correct them. Like athletes, vocalists have to work to keep their voice in shape, and once you reach 35, he says, problems become almost impossible to fix. This bit of information sends a shudder through the mid-30-something Deanna, who's concerned that INXS might not want to pick a singer they think is "damaged goods."

Vocal clinic over, it's time to put the lessons to practical use. J.D. and Jessica discover the songs have been posted, and the Rockers assemble in the billiards room to hash out the selection. MiG sees a Queen song, and the one-time star of the West End production of "We Will Rock You" has sung the title song a thousand times and locks on to it like his namesake fighter jet. No one's going to sing that song but him, and, surprisingly, given that there's no way MiG is going to mess up that one, no one tries to stop him.

With the other nine songs still up for grabs, the horse-trading and negotiations begin. Everyone immediately notices a Beatles' song, "Get Back," on the board, but a couple of others are unfamiliar. "The Letter" and "Everlong" elicit quizzical stares while a couple of people are excited about singing hits by Creed, The Police and Tonic. J.D. decides early on that "The Letter" is his and sets about making sure he gets it.

Noticing that Suzie has her heart set on "Get Back" (a song J.D. bluffs about wanting to sing), he tells her that, to show he's a nice guy, he's going to cede The Beatles' hit to her, and he'll take "The Letter." Surprisingly, Suzie doesn't cry at the news but is taken aback by his generosity. It ends up this is part of J.D. victory machinations: "killing them with kindness," he calls it.

The rest seem almost lackadaisical about what's turned into the most important aspect of the competition. Jessica, convinced that everyone hates her anyway, isn't going to get overly exercised about it. Her previous song choices have placed her in the bottom three for two weeks in a row, so this time she'll "take whatever I could get." She ends up with Violent Femmes' new wave hit, "Blister in the Sun," a song she earlier said was not a good vocal tune.

Ty also throws caution to the wind, taking on the Foo Fighters' "Everlong," a song he'd never heard before and one he called "so not me."

At rehearsals, Ty had problems with the song's timing. Written by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, the song forces a singer to come on odd beats and, at times, sing against the rhythm. The band works on it with him, but Paul is worried that Ty won't get it.

Brandon feels the pressure with Tonic's "If You Could Only See." It only takes "one missed word, one missed note, and you're gone," he says. Jordis is happy with her choice of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" but worries the song might be too personal. A friend of hers has recently passed away, and the song reminds her of him. She doesn't know if she'll get through the song without crying.

Will song choice again play a part in who is in the bottom three? Can Ty and Brandon learn their songs in time? Will the vocal clinic help the Rockers get in tune with the music? Check out tomorrow's show at 10 pm ET/PT to find out. And be sure to point your browser back here to vote.