What is Vibrato? When we hear someone singing with vibrato, we hear a tone with regular fluctuation: it’s not `straight´ but slightly changes in pitch and volume. It can give the voice a warmer and more relaxed sound, and can… Read More »Singing with Vibrato
What is vocal distortion? Distortion is a ‘noise’, an effect that can contain a range of emotions from aggression to devotion. The more a sound is distorted, the more ‘noise’ and the less tone there is. But generally speaking distortion… Read More »Vocal distortion
Contemporary vocal sounds heavy modal, twang, and belting are the main sounds of today’s pop, rock, and soul music. The contemporary singing styles often have a powerful midrange.
📚TERM. Intuition Intuition is the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. 📚TERM. Rational Something based on clear thought and reason. Singing is something that can be approached in many ways. Most singers show a clear… Read More »Singing with intuition, skills, emotion, and thinking
What are the significant trademarks and differences between Pop/Jazz and Classical singing and how did teaching methods develop the styles?
Constriction is a thing almost every singer needs to deal with! It arises through the lack of breath support, and happens around the passagio/voice break.
When you want to learn a song effectively I recommend using the three phases: L-E-I of practicing. The phases consist of 1. Learning 2. Exploring 3. Interpretation of the song.
The Vocal Tract is magical. Gaining control and coordination of shaping it, gives you many sound options when you speak or sing!
Breath support is the foundation of our singing. I chose to write about it because it connects the topics of the two latest articles breathing and voice registers and will make your singing easier.
Talking about voice registers one can go crazy! The terminology often leads to confusion and misunderstanding, because different words describe the same things… With this article, I want to make clear what a voice register is, how it is determined… Read More »What are voice registers?