The Vowels You Can Always Depend On

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A big misunderstanding theater singers have is when we are told to sing theater music like we speak.
We then dive into our material, trying to sing the words the way we say them, and we run into huge problems when we are singing in a vocal mode that doesn't agree with the vowel we're trying to force out of our mouths.
In this video, I'm going to talk to you about two ways of understanding thicker fold vocal coordinations, or metallic modes. I'm also going to teach you about the very straightforward ways of understanding these modes, and the vowels you can use that always agree with them.
This understanding goes a really long way in helping you to maintain consistency in registration and to avoid vocal brakes and cracks where you don't want them.
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Very helpful details! Thank you.

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Please do you know why i often lose my voice after a major church concert where i either functioned as a lead singer or a backup singer which lasted for like 2-3 hrs and possibly how i can avoid that whilst still doing long repertoires like that

[@dancallawaystudio]

I'm so glad this was helpful to you. Re: voice loss, singing for 2-3 hours will be fatiguing for anybody. I'd have to hear what you're doing, but most of the time the culprits for that are excess of dynamic support which forces a lot of air pressure for your folds to manage. Then your folds may be working overtime and vibrating with a lot of muscular engagement and closed phase ratio (meaning they're slamming together more than they need to.) If that goes on for a prolonged amount of time your folds will get inflamed and need to recover. When that happens, you lose a lot of vibrational flexibility because the thin membrane around your folds swells and can't vibrate efficiently. Track through your songs and ask phrase by phrase -- how much breath do I need and how much support? And see how efficient you can make it. Also, it could depend on what you're hearing in monitors. If you can't hear yourself well, that's a big problem if your' shouting to compete with amplified music. Not all worship services are mixed equally :)

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[@adrianacapella8520]

I absolutely love the way you explain things, and man you can get up there! Are you a countertenor? And is Stevie Wonder in edge or in overdrive ? His older stuff sounds like overdrive and newer stuff sounds like edge.

[@dancallawaystudio]

I'm so glad this was helpful to you -- thanks for the kind comment. If I had to classify my voice, I'd be a tenor, but I've just had the chance to teach a lot of treble voices, so I've been able to figure out a lot of different sounds. Oh Stevie -- the best. Depends on the song and the part of the song. He uses all kinds of modes to my ears. The end of "Lately" would be a lot of edge. Beginning of "You Are the Sunshine" sounds like neutral (CVT's definition), and later in the song when he wails a little higher, I hear both overdrive and edge coordinations. I'd have to give a closer listen to something like "Signed Sealed Delivered" -- the vowels sound edgy, but there is a lot of openness to the sound. He's a terrific vocal model.