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It might be an idea to read the article ‘the jaw’ before this one, since reaching the high notes and a relaxed jaw go hand in hand.
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Tags: high notes, relaxing the jaw, the larynx, vowel shapes
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A good manager can take you far, and a bad manager can destroy your career and much else besides, so here’s a few pointers.
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Tags: business_manager, contracts, creative_manager, entertainment_lawyer, finding_a_gig, finding_a_manager, making_a_demo, producers, promotion_package, solicitor
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First of all, it helps to have a basic knowledge of music and rhythm to ad-lib, and/or improvise. Ad-libbing is, basically, ‘playing around with the tune’, using licks, riffs and scales (and/or whatever comes to mind) usually in a dramatic or emotional part of a song.
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Tags: 7ths, accents, ad-libbing, aeolian-mode, amazing-grace-country-version, amazing-grace-folk-version, amazing-grace-jazz-version, amazing-grace-soul-version, arpeggios, bars, bass-clef, blues-licks, blues-progression, chord-inversions, chords, clapping, crotchet, diaphragm, dot, feeling rhythm, guitar-tablature, harmony, II-V-I-progression, improvising, keys, larynx, legato-feel, licks, major-octave, melody-lines, mixolydian-mode, modes, music-notation, musical-arrangements, pickups, rehearsal, rhythm, rhythmic-ideas, riffs, root-position, scales, semitone, Sheet Music, slurs, song-keys, staccato-feel, syncopation, time-signature, transposing-a-song, treble-clef, triad, triplet, upper-part-of-the-chord
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Feeling Rhythm is imperative for any singer
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Tags: ad-lib, ad-libbing, amazing-grace, amazing-grace-soul-version, breve, clap-rhythms, clapping-rhythms, core-energy, crotchet, demisemiquaver, dots, ella-fitzgerald, ending-a-song, expressing-a-song, feel, how-to-feel-rhythm, improvising, instinct, learning-to-ad-lib, learning-to-improvise, minim, musical-feel, phrasing, pitch, practicing-with-a-band, quaver, reading-music, rests, rhythm, rhythm-improvisation, rhythm-notation, rhythmic-ad-libs, semibreve, semiquaver, swing, swinging, syncopation, ties, tight-rhythm-section, triplets, whole-note
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First of all, if you’re completely in the dark about music theory, it might be an idea to check out the article ‘How Music Is Constructed: Some Basic Music Theory’ before reading this one.
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This is a brief introduction to help you understand the basics of music theory and how that relates to singing and performing a song.
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Tags: 12-bar-blues-sequence, 7th-chord-progressions, 7th-chords, aeolian-mode, arpeggio, black-note-keys, chords, dorian-mode, half-tone, how music is constructed, II-V-I-progression, II-V-I-progression-in-all-keys, Jazz, locrian-mode, lydian-mode, major-arpeggio, major-scale, minor-arpeggio, minor-scale, mixolydian-mode, modal-music, modes, NO Music Theory, phrygian-mode, relative major, relative-minor-keys, resolving-chords, rhythm, semitone, suspended-4th-chord, the-blues, the-cycle-of-5ths, white-note-keys
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Every singer has a range that is comfortable to them.
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Tags: alto, baritone, bass, counter_tenor, falsetto, female_ranges, male_ranges, mezzo, mezzo_soprano, second_tenor, soprano, tenor, vocal exercises, vocal ranges
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