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Garforth Singing Schools

Garforth Singing Schools

Dr Anne-Marie Czajkowski

PhD, MMus, BA(Hons), ARCM(PG), MISM, AOTOS

Lessons held in Garforth, Leeds

Using “Ee” (or other vowels) vowel, use good support, listen for a bright “twang” sound.

Do a vocal slide on “ng” or “brrrr” or “bbbbb” or any vowel.

Repeat the pattern on the next note up (as shown).

Ng…..........ah...................eh..................ee...............aw..................oo........

Smoothly move from vowel to vowel keeping the same tone quality.

Ng…..........ah.....................ee..................aw..................

Smoothly move from vowel to vowel keeping the same tone quality.

Sing from third space C up to G

Ah…......eh.........ay.........ee..........ah.........o..........aw........oo..........ah

Repeat this pattern on the next note up.

Start with a “ng” if needed. Keep the tone the same throughout.

CONSONANTS

Improving your use of consonants in songs can make the words much easier to hear for your audience.

You might want to practice these when no-one is listening :D

Generally about consonants

Consonants often come in pairs using the same mouth parts but one is breathed and the other is voiced. For e.g., listen to “zzz” and “sss” which are made the same way, but one is voiced (you have to make a sound in the voice box) and the other breathed.

Consonants have different group names (plosives, fricatives, continuants etc)

Consonant exercises:

A good start is to wake up the face with the following:

Exaggeratedly going

EEEoooo, EEEooo, EEEooo

WAHooo, WAHooo, WAHooo

Plosives

Try repeating the followingconsonants and trying to sound a bit like a machine gun to get them clear. You can put vowels at the end of them for fun – e.g., PPPPPPah, BBBBBBooo

P, B

T, D

K, G

Fricatives

S, Z

Th (e.g., through), TH (e.g. these)

F, V

Continuants

Mmmm

Nnnnn

Ng

Other consonants

R – can be rolled, flicked or silent

L – can be light, as in “light”, or dark, as in “full”

Audio examples (all voices)