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Chest and Head
Chest and Head
Chest and Head
Chest and Head
Chest and Head
Breakout Sessions
Chest and Head
Goals: Make sure everyone can demo chest and head with dynamic variations. In the process, this will give participants the opportunity to hear multiple variations of these sounds to expand their understanding of listening in this way. In the process, we want to redirect them from placement and imagery to function.
What to do:
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Warm them up for a few minutes
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In the lower range, sing notes in chest, breathy, pressed and balanced
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Then try moving between breathy and pressed in chest voice (messa di voce)
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If time, bring head voice down. Begin breathy and intensify into a heady mix while descending on a 5-4-3-2-1
Mix
Goals: Make sure everyone understands how to use glides and apply the >< and < > concept when helping singers learn how to mix. This will ensure they leave with at least one strong approach to apply to help their students mix.
What to do:
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Have them do a >< exercise from forte to mezzo piano and back to forte on a single pitch.
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Have them do a glide in chest on a 1 / 5 \ 1 transitioning from chest to mix and back to chest
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Take any variation of mix they can give you if this exercise is new to them
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If they can easily execute the exercise ask them to make their mix lighter or heavier and explore so participants can hear all of the different possibilities that could be categorized as “mix”
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After everyone has done that exercise, have them sing a 5-4-3-2-1 pattern and descend into the lower part of their range asking them to intensify as they descend.
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Then explore the middle with exercises of your choice
Belt
Goals: Make sure everyone understands how to use calling to help a student discover thier “belt” and how to improve coordination once the sound is established.
What to do:
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Start with calling “On no you don’t,” “Hey Taxi,” “That darn cat”
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If belting is new, take the time to find the right sound for their voice
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If it comes easy to them, explore the range and discuss
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If they already know how to belt, use slow glides or a 1-3-5-3-1 pattern to see how stable their voice is and coach accordingly
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If they’re really good, use them to demo a variation of sounds for everyone to hear and discuss
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Mimicry
Goals: Make sure participants understand how the various parts of the vocal tract move to change a singer’s timbre. Show them the value of mimicry in both investigating a student’s function and giving functional feedback to singers.
What to do:
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Begin with “Sweet Child of Mine,” the GNR version, go around the room and have people mimic the sound.
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If they can easily find the sound, ask them to describe what is happening in their vocal track in terms of vocal function, move them away from placement and imagery.
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If they cannot produce the sound, guide them to explore their vocal tract with the range of motion exercises and help them adjust as necessary to produce the sound
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Then do the same with the "Sweet Child O' Mine" - New Orleans Style Guns N' Roses Cover ft. Miche Braden
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Next play with “You’ll Never Walk Alone”
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Then play with “I will Always Love You”
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If there is time, explore the Wheel of Impressions video, what are they doing to impersonate each singer
Time Stamped Examples
Sweet Child Guns n Roses
Sweet Child Post Modern Jukebox
Hallelujah Bon Jovi
Hallelujah LeAnn Rimes
You'll Never Walk Alone Placido Domingo
You'll Never Walk Alone Judy Garland
Session 3 Examples
Stormy Monday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oCfqPFQMoQ&list=RD1oCfqPFQMoQ&start_radio=1 Bobby Blue Bland 0:06 - 0:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_C9fvuGpkw Vi Redd & Count Basie 0:16 - 0:43
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5S-J7ol0gU&t=24s Dianne Reeves & David Preston 0:11 - 0:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHmjPCY0W7A&list=RDVHmjPCY0W7A&start_radio=1 Nancy Wilson 0:14 - 0:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWAk9e7maCo&list=RDIWAk9e7maCo&start_radio=1 T-Bone Walker 0:49 - 1:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0usyG1DgPgo&list=RD0usyG1DgPgo&start_radio=1 Freddie King 0:19 - 1:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFnfkLtFgSA&list=RD9B2Fsg1-TsE&index=5 Lou Rawls 0:24 - 0:47
Angel of Montgomery
Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Takuya Kuroda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8zu1aRYA8&t=429s
These are the Vocals, Drums, Bass Cuts
Session III Sunday Supervised Teaching
GROUP 1 - ROOM 146
Amanda Ruth Cullin
Cassandra Elizabeth Sewell
Hannah Mae Sywulski
Julie Angelise Coggiola
Lindsay Spangenthal (don't have her teach)
Olivia Flanigan
Trey Shonkwiler
GROUP 2 - ROOM 147
Augusto Vinicius Juarez Vieira
Chloe Alyssa Anderson
Isabel Burns
Katrina Cole
Mackenzie Kay Romriell
Patrick Payne
Wayne Crannell
GROUP 3 - ROOM 106
Branden William Charles Olsen
Claire Elizabeth Herzog
Jennifer Ashley Matthews
Kristen Sullivan
Marie Cerven
Stacie Maureen Lillis
Youngmi Kim
GROUP 4 - ROOM 107
Brandy Bollen
David Brian Adams
Jenny Gac
Laura Mohr
Meghan Denise Causey
Stephanie Sadownik
GROUP 5 - ROOM 206
Carissa Lillian Fedoruk
Faith N Fullen
Jenny Heidtman
Laura Thomason
Melissa Richardson
Tamar Scheffer
GROUP 6 - ROOM 207
Carly Corey
Frances Pallozzi Wittmann
Jose Antonio Rodriguez
Lauren Musick Canna
Micah Rae Patt
Ted Federle