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Singing Consonants: Working out with D, T, L, N, S, and Z
To shape and sing the tip consonant sounds in the table below, the tip of your tongue touches the alveolar ridge. The voiced consonants are D, L, N, and [more…]
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Determining Your Singing Level
When determining your singing level, you must consider several factors. These issues include how to battle fatigure, song speed, working effectively with your accompianist, story-telling, and working effectively [more…]
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Shaping and Singing Lip Consonants
Lip consonants require the lips to move instead of the tip of the tongue, which requires special consideration in your singing. The similarity is that you can move the tip of your tongue and your lips [more…]
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Acting Your Song: Accounting for Interludes
Your biggest job as a singer is to say something when you sing. Standing up and singing memorized words is just the beginning. Apply your acting skills to a song for a powerful performance. Give your audience [more…]
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Developing "Forward Resonance" to Help Belt out a Song
To help you feel that forward resonance needed for belting out a song, imitate a little kid who’s about to tattle on his big brother or sister. You know that taunting, singsong sound, [more…]
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Acting Your Song: Character Motivation
Before singing a song, you want to know a few things. You want to know what happened just before this song to motivate your character to sing and say the words. Why does your character sing, and how does [more…]
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Determining Your Appropriate Singing Key
The trick when picking music is to read music well enough to know whether the song’s notes are within your range. You don’t have to know everything about what’s on the page; you just need to know enough [more…]
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Improving Your Singing: Transitioning to Vibrato
When you sing, you can choose to create tone that has variation in pitch (vibrato) or not (straight tone). Absolutely nothing is wrong with straight tone singing, as long as that’s your choice. Your choir [more…]
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Creating Your Singing Arrangement: Accompanist
When you decide how you want to sing your song, mark your music with the directions so the accompanist knows how to follow you. You can highlight the tempo and dynamic markings to make sure that your accompanist [more…]
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Musical Elements in Different Styles
Music written on the page is the same for any style of music. The notation is the same, but how the music is performed isn’t the same. In opera and classical music, singers sing exactly what’s on the page [more…]
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Avoiding the Wrong Audition Song
Picking songs for your audition that highlight your talent is a fundamental task to success. It’s the wrong audition song if one of these conditions applies: [more…]
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Exploring the Front Vowels in Singing
Your tongue arches in the front of your mouth to sing front vowels. Your tongue does most of the work shaping front vowel sounds, but make sure that both your lips and tongue are released and free of tension [more…]
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Belting Out Your Song
Belting is such an exciting sound for a singer. Beltingis the high-energy sound that singers make in pop, musical theater, and rock music. It’s similar to yelling on pitch, but with more of a singing tone [more…]
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Finding Your Middle Singing Voice
Your middle singing voice is the bridge between your chest voice and head voice. For women, middle voice feels like a lighter version of chest voice and a fuller, thicker version of head voice. For men [more…]
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Voice Teacher Interview Topics: Education
When choosing a voice teacher, be sure to ask candidates where they studied or received their singing education. You want a voice teacher who’s had years of performance experience or years of lessons or [more…]
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Female Wicked High Note Singing
Have you ever heard a woman sing notes that sounded higher than any note on the piano? Those wicked high notes that females sing have several different names: flute register, bell register, flageolet, [more…]
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Improvising Your Singing for a Better Pop Sound
When you listen to pop singers on the radio, they sound like a million bucks. After all, they have all those instruments and backup singers behind them. At home, you probably don’t have a professional [more…]
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Introducing the Mix Belt in Singing
Some people use the singing terms belt and chest voice as if they’re the same. Belt and chest voice may be related, but they’re not the same. Belt uses some chest voice, but it’s not pure chest voice. [more…]
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Acting Your Song: Character Development
Answering fundamental questions about the character singing your song leads you to some specific details about how to portray that character when you’re alone onstage. [more…]
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A “Hum”able Vocal Warm-Up
Always kick off a practice session by warming up your voice for 10 to 20 minutes. Select a vocal exercise that starts in the part of your voice that’s easy to sing. Sing the warm-up exercise softly at [more…]
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Singing and Shaping Tip Consonants
Practicing consonant shapes gives you not only the precision you need to sing, but also the confidence that you’re putting your best tongue forward while articulating the tip consonants. [more…]
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Choosing Songs at Your Level of Expertise
The process of choosing a song which suits your accomplishment level can stump many singers. Once selected, starting a new song can be so much fun. Digging into the phrasing, the story, and the vocal challenges [more…]
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Defining Tone in Singing
Tone is what’s known as the color or timbre of your singing voice. Every voice has a specific color, which can be described as warm, dark, or strident. Two singers singing the same song in the same key [more…]
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Checking Out Music at Your Local Library
The library is a great place to search for singing music. It’s free, and you can check out the book to try the song at home at your own pace. If you find that it’s not in the right key, you save yourself [more…]
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Feeling Your Chest Voice in Singing
You may already know what’s supposed to be your chest singing voice, but maybe you still aren’t sure what it actually is. The best way to tell is to feel it. Try some of the following exercises so you [more…]
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