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Popular Singing Styles: Developing

Your Sound

Syllabus

Lesson 1: Essential Listening Skills for Learning Contemporary

Songs

•How to Listen to a New Song That You Want to Learn

•Listening More Closely to the Song’s Arrangement, Beneath the Vocal

•Vocal Types

•What is Real, What is Fake

•Assignment 1: Song Analysis

Lesson 2: Training Your Ear

•Ear Training is Essential for Developing Your Sound

•How Vowel Shapes Affect Pitch and Musical Style

•Matching Pitch

•Observing Your own Singing for Accuracy and Style

•Assignment 2: Singing with a Changing Accompaniment

Lesson 3: Vocal Styles and Tone Quality, Part 1

•How Vowel Shapes Affect Tone Quality in Contemporary Styles

•Breathing Techniques

•Using Consonants and Percussive Singing for Effect

•Using Legato and Staccato, and Vibrato or Straight Tone for Effect

•Assignment 3: Singing Your Style Preference


Lesson 4: Vocal Styles and Tone Quality, Part 2

•Clean and Breathy Tones

•How Microphones Affect the Quality of the Voice

•Using Dynamics for Style

•Beginning to Identify Your Style

•Assignment 4: Clear and Breathy Tones Performance

Lesson 5: Mix Voice: A Key Ingredient for Mastering Contemporary Singing

•What is Mix Voice

•Practicing Singing with Mix Voice

•Learning When to Best use Mix Voice

•Continuing to Identify Your Style

•Assignment 5: Mixed Voice Performance

Lesson 6: Singing Powerful Styles Healthfully, Part 1

•What is Powerful Singing (Belting)

•The Vocal Anatomy of Belting

•Understanding Vocal Registers

•Agility and Flexibility

•Assignment 6: Using Powerful Singing in Your Own Style

Lesson 7: Singing Powerful Styles Healthfully, Part 2

•Approaching the Passaggio or “Break”

•Learning How Best to Practice Powerful Singing

•Artist Examples of Healthy Powerful Singing

•Implementing Powerful Singing into Your Style

•Assignment 7: Powerful Singing Performance

Lesson 8: Training Your Ear: Styles and Rhythms

•Five Most Common Rhythmic Subdivisions

•Synchronized Grooves: Singing “In the Pocket”

•Grooves

•Counting off Tunes for the Band

•Assignment 8: Identifying Four Grooves, and Counting Them Off


Lesson 9: Understanding the Function of the Band or Rhythm Section

•Roles and Sounds of the Instruments

•Recognizing Essential Elements of an Arrangement

•Learn Band Speak: Effective Communication

•Leadership

•Assignment 9: Performance Set List and Production Storyboard

Lesson 10: Building Your Style Toolkit

•Finding Your Best Key for a Song

•Lyrical Interpretation

•Including Improvisation and Riffing, Part 1

•Using Movement to Accentuate Singing

•Assignment 10: Film Yourself Singing a Song of Your Choice

Lesson 11: Developing Your Sound: Style Awareness and Integration

•Selecting a Musical Genre for Your Stylistic Focus

•Improvisation and Riffing, Part 2

•Putting a Twist on a Cover Song

•Refining the Set List

•Assignment 11: Cover Song Performance

Lesson 12: Launching Your Sound

•Honoring Your Inspiration, Your Voice, Your Musicianship

•Three Song Demo, Song 1

•Three Song Demo, Song 2

•Three Song Demo, Song 3

•Assignment 12: Final Project - Three Song Demo

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