Vocal music

voice isn’t warmed up. Spend ten to twenty minutes warming up before you sing so your vocal cords will be ready to produce the best tone possible. Practice breathing. If your shoulders and chest move when you breathe, it will be impossible for you to have a nice tone. Practice keeping your chest and shoulders still and moving your stomach when you inhale and…

that cloud nine might not be where my voice belongs is when Mr. Woodin had me as a “middle voice” for Jazz Choir every year. I think it’s slightly very unfair that he did that to me, I was no good at sight reading, and now I had to do it with Jazz Music. Regardless, I give Jazz my all, and I try everything. I take most of the scat solos, and Spencer takes the rest. Sometimes it feels like we’re the only ones who care about the Jazz Choir, because we’re the only ones who try anything and the…

finished. We sat at lunch together and we would call each other almost every night. But one day we were sitting at lunch and we were talking and I noticed that she had a packet of sheet music and I was confused because I knew she wasn’t in marching band. I then proceeded to ask her why she possessed the sheet music and she explained that she was trying out for the show choir at the high school. And that was that. Later on in the week we were in recess and she was talking to her group of friends…

any place, that is, if lifestyle behaviors have not deformed the vocal instrument (i.e., excessive spicy foods, alcohol, smoking, screaming, et cetera). Singing begins with an exhalation of human vocal sounds (phonation) (NIDCD, 2015). At the point of phonation, two smooth adjacent muscle tissues in the thorax come into contact and vibrate to create resonating sound waves from the throat, mouth, and nose (NIDCD, 2015). As any vocal performer will confirm, singing is athletic, and to sing…

such a voice might be, and whether proper training or certain techniques prevent vocal cords deteriorating with age, and if surgery or some sort of special gel could correct such problems Voice experts believe that one should think of singers as athletes, using muscles in what is, after all a very physical activity. Professional singer, as well as acting as voice instructor at the Minneapolis MacPhail Centre for Music, Andrea Leap tells that all depends on the amount of use. Like anything else,…

Music is claimed to be subjective, meaning that everyone has his or her own personal style and taste. Musical subjectivity claims that everyone’s’ favorite singer is the best to them, and that another persons preference has no relevance to another. That statement denies that there could objectively be a best singer of all time. Which can be a very dangerous slope to go down, for if one claims that no one could ever be the best, they are denying the fact that Freddie Mercury is indeed that…

We filed onto the risers, our stage, and my choir director started talking to the choir, and then the other soloist in the choir and I sang for the night. As I and the other soloist made sure to frantically flip through the solos to attempt to make sure we remembered the lines, the red looming curtains opened. The distant stage lights were shining down upon me and the rest of my group of singers with hundreds of judging eyes of parents, friends, teachers, and other important people. The pressure…

I have loved music and singing in front of people my whole life. I took voice lessons and sang in recitals since I was in grade school. I tried out for every solo opportunity in music class. In 8th grade I decided I wanted to try singing in front of a larger crowd of people so I signed up for the school talent show. The day of the talent show I was a complete mess of emotions. I was so excited and looking forward to performing. As the day progressed, nervousness overtook the excitement. I…

I never sang in a church choir when I was younger. Never did I stand amidst a group of children and sing fearlessly, knowing that any slight mistake of mine might be masked by a chorus of melodies surrounding me; instead, as is done in my religion, I sang alone. We call them shabads- hymns, sung of the verses written by our gurus many centuries ago. I was classically trained from the age of 5, and by 10 I was the child star of our church. Though I was somewhat introverted, my confidence shined…

When I was about 12 years old i was in the middle school choir. We had our first concert in December, it was a christmas themed concert i was really excited because i had a solo in one of our songs. It made me so happy to have a solo in one of our concerts because it was a very big honor if you had a solo in our songs if the teacher picked you to do the solo. It was concert day we all wore christmas hats and i was right in the front of the choir.I was front and center for my solo. My solo was…