Syllabus
General Goals: Ear Training – Vocal technique – Body coordination – Repertoire
Specific goals:
- Voice and style assessment, understanding references and goals
- The body as an instrument – physical warm ups
- Sounding the vowels and tunning the body
- Tunning/ Ear Training – scales, arpegios, vocalizes
- Breath work and support
- Articulation – jaw, tongue, mouth
- Voice qualities: head, mixed, chest
- Projection: ressonance areas.
- Speech voice: text.
- Repertoire development – different styles
- References: singers and styles
- Agility – fills and runs
- Range: increasing it
- Mixed voice – developing a balanced range on the passages
- Creating your own interpretation and style
- Improvisation and scatings
- Live performance: acting and singing; expression; stage presence
- Recording
- Microphone technique for live and for recording
- Editing your voice
- Reading music – solfeggio, operas.
- Music Theory
- Discovering new artists
- Songwriting
- Preparing for auditions, shows or recording an album
Methodology:
- List of Apps and softwares
- Books for reading
- Books of repertoire, songbooks, exercise books
- Videos, films and documentaries
Vocal Characters
- The inocent – teenager, very light
- Crying voice – dramatic
- Rebel – spoken style, sometimes very light, sometimes intense
- Mature woman voice
- Modern – pop belting
- Nasal high voice – dramatic
REFERENCES
App vocalist light – practicing tuning and breathing
Modal Jazz book – for warm ups, scales, theory, improvisation
Freeing the Natural voice, by KristinLinklater. Foundation of the body technique we use.
Speech Level Singing – vocal technique
