Singing Exercises For Dummies, with CD PDF
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Table of Contents Introduction About This Book Conventions Used in This Book What You’re Not to Read Foolish Assumptions How This Book Is Organized Part I: Preparing Your Body for Practicing Part II: Making Your Music Magical with Variety Part III: Working Out Your Range Part IV: Advancing Your Singing Technique Part V: The Part of Tens Icons Used in This Book Where to Go from Here Part I: Preparing Your Body for Practicing Chapter 1: Warming Up for Singing Preparing Your Instrument: Stretching Out from Head to Toe Opening and Positioning the Lower Body Connecting your feet to the floor Balancing on the ankles and knees Distributing weight in the legs and hips Positioning the Upper Body for Easy Movement Lengthening your spine Releasing the shoulders Balancing the head and neck Managing the arms and hands Putting It All Together with a Vocal Warm-Up Chapter 2: Practicing Breathing Exercises Moving the Breathing Muscles for Singing Opening the ribs Releasing the abs Moving the sides Releasing into the hips Take It In: Shaping Inhalation Controlling the movement of your ribs Adding suspension to develop coordination Opening the torso for quick inhalation Let It Out: Controlling Exhalation Developing muscle coordination Isolating muscles for extra-long phrases Singing Practice Exercises with Long and Short Phrases Practicing short phrases Practicing longer phrases Testing your breath control Songs for Extending Breath Control Chapter 3: Shaping the Tongue and Lips for Vowels Coordinating the Tongue and Lips for Back Vowels Shifting the arch around for ooh and ah Altering your lip shape for oh and ah Tackling the tricky vowels aw and OOh Singing through the five back vowels Positioning the Tongue for Front Vowels Dropping the arch between ee and ih Moving between ee and ay Distinguishing between ee and eh Comparing eh and a Singing through the five front vowels Alternating between Front and Back Vowels Presenting the Middle Vowel, Uh Singing Combination Vowels Songs for Singing Vowels Precisely Chapter 4: Articulating Consonants Accurately Touching on the Tip Consonants Exploring the voiced consonants L, N, and D Distinguishing between voiced D and unvoiced T Sounding out the voiced R Singing unvoiced S and voiced Z Moving the tip of the tongue to the teeth for TH Singing through the consonants L, N, D, T, S, Z, and TH Arching Back for Soft Palate Consonants Practicing voiced G, unvoiced K, and voiced NG Singing through the consonants K, G, and NG Working on Lip Consonants Practicing voiced consonants W and M Alternating between voiced B and unvoiced P Moving only the bottom lip for F and V Singing through W, M, P, B, F, and V Consonant Combos: Moving the Lips and Tongue Puckering for voiced J and unvoiced CH Moving air through SH and ZH Singing through the consonants J, CH, SH, and ZH Songs for Singing Various Consonants Part II: Making Your Music Magical with Variety Chapter 5: Singing Precise Intervals for Musical Accuracy Recognizing the Most Common Intervals Major intervals Minor intervals Perfect intervals Hearing the Small Intervals Minor and major seconds: m2 and M2 Minor and major thirds: m3 and M3 Seconds and thirds in action Finding Perfect Intervals Identifying perfect intervals: P4 and P5 Working in unison: P8 Singing perfect intervals Comparing the Larger Intervals Minor and major sixths: m6 and M6 Minor and major sevenths: m7 and M7 Singing sixths and sevenths Discovering Chromatics Raising the pitch with sharps Lowering the pitch with flats Canceling an accidental Working on Scales Building scales with triads Singing major scales Singing minor scales Practice Piece: “Singing All the Intervals” Songs for Practicing Large Intervals Chapter 6: You’ve Got Rhythm: Conquering Rhythmic Notation and Tempo Rhythm Basics: Notes and Rests The whole note The half note The quarter note The eighth note The sixteenth note The corresponding rests Practice piece: “The Rhythm Song” Exploring Advanced Rhythms Joining notes together with triplets Adding more notes with dotted rhythms Emphasizing the weaker beats with syncopation Practice piece: “Checking Out Rhythm” Managing Rhythm at Any Tempo Songs for Working on Rhythm Chapter 7: Adding Diversity with Dynamics, Articulation Marks, and More Singing Dynamically Reading the markings Making a smooth crescendo Gradually singing softer with a decrescendo Mastering dynamic contrast Articulating What’s Written Connecting notes Making a note short and sweet Knowing when to let go Practice Piece: “I Sing Out!” Improvising to Give Songs Your Own Unique Stamp Adding more words Changing the rhythm Altering the melody Varying the tone Songs for Improving Your Musical Diversity Part III: Working Out Your Range Chapter 8: Checking Out Chest Voice Getting Familiar with Chest Voice Exploring the sounds of chest voice Varying the heaviness in your chest voice Strengthening your chest voice Modifying vowels in chest voice Practice Piece: “Finding My Chest Voice” Songs That Work Out Your Chest Voice Chapter 9: Soaring into Head Voice and Falsetto Figuring Out Falsetto Working out your falsetto Taking falsetto down Exploring various vowels in falsetto Songs for singing in falsetto Discovering Your Head Voice Getting a feel for head voice Exploring high resonance in head voice Singing through consonants in head voice Positioning Your Larynx for Fuller Head Voice Sounds Stabilizing the larynx Monitoring your larynx while singing Managing many high phrases Developing Your Head Voice Range Creating spinning tone Sustaining notes in your head voice Songs for broadening your head voice range Practice Piece: “A Bejeweled Love Song” Chapter 10: Mixing Up Your Sound with Middle Voice Discovering Your Middle Voice Distinguishing male and female middle voice Getting to know your middle voice Strengthening your middle voice Finding clear vowels in middle voice Songs that work out the middle voice Combining Registers with Mix Knowing when to use a mix Rolling into a mix Changing around the mix Songs that require a mix Exploring Your Mix with a Few Practice Pieces For the guys For the gals Chapter 11: Coordinating Register Transitions Moving Smoothly between Registers Dropping into chest voice Changing back and forth from chest voice to middle voice Climbing from middle voice to head voice Leaping to and from Falsetto Singing from falsetto into chest voice Changing from chest voice to falsetto Rolling back and forth from chest voice to falsetto Refining Your Smooth Transitions Shifting from middle voice to chest voice Shifting from middle voice to head voice Practice Piece: “Marching Forth” Songs That Require Register Transitions Part IV: Advancing Your Singing Technique Chapter 12: Developing Your Vocal Tone Touching on Tone Basics
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