Overview
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Learn how to sing—and sing better—with these breathing, pitch, and phrasing exercises from top vocal coach Jeannie Deva.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Are you breathing correctly?
- Improving breath management
- What about your stomach?
- Exercise: The singing breath
- Instructions: Rib cage exercise 1, part 1
- Instructions: Rib cage exercise 1, part 2
- Coaching: Rib cage exercise 1
- Rib cage exercise 1: Practice assignment and details
- Using songs as warm-ups
- Using the melody
- What's air overblow?
- Basics: Your lips
- Exercise: Liberating your lips and enhancing resonance with a song
- Exercise: Strengthening your voice in a song—lip trills & single vowels
- Exercise: Improving pitch & resonance in a song—nose buzz & scrunch
- Lip trills: Limbering your voice with a song
- Basics: Improving pitch and vocal ease with a song
- Vocal resonance & ease: Applying nose buzz to a song
- Vocal tone & ease: Applying trumpeted oow to a song
- Exercise: Smoothing out range & tone in a song—the trumpeted oow
- Pitch accuracy: Singing the vowels technique
- Singing the vowels
- Song phrasing & timing
- Song phrasing & dynamics
- Exercise: Balancing singing with vocal technique
- How long to practice and when to move on
- ArtistWorks and Next Steps
