Singing for Dummies - Pamelia S Phillips

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Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 3

Icons Used in This Book 3

Beyond This Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part 1: Exploring Singing Basics 5

Chapter 1: Preparing to Sing 7

What You Want to Know Right from the Beginning 7

Determining your voice type 8

Locating the notes on the staff 8

Considering posture, breath, and tone 10

Developing Your Singing Voice 10

Working the Different Parts of Your Voice 11

Applying Your Technique 12

Having Fun 13

Chapter 2: Determining Your Voice Type 15

Sifting through the Ingredients to Figure Out Your Voice Type 16

Identifying the Fab Four 17

Highest range of the dames: Soprano 18

How low can she go: Mezzo 20

Highest range of the dudes: Tenor 21

He's so low: Bass 23

Comparing voice types 25

Chapter 3: Aligning Your Body for Great Singing 29

Evaluating Your Posture 30

Creating Ideal Posture 32

Feeling grounded on your feet 32

Engaging your legs 34

Releasing your hips 35

Lengthening your spine 36

Balancing your head and shoulders 36

Releasing Tension 37

Letting go of tension in your upper body 37

Opening space in the head 38

Walking with ease 39

Projecting confidence through posture 40

Chapter 4: Breathing for Singing 43

Tackling the Basics of Breathing 43

Inhaling to sing 44

Exhaling to sing 44

Posturing yourself for breathing 46

Practicing Inhalation 46

Opening your body 47

Breathing, slow and steady 51

Catching a quick breath 52

Practicing Exhalation 54

Blowing in the wind 54

Trilling for exhalation 55

Recognizing resistance and suspending the breath 57

Testing Your Breath Control 58

Releasing abs and then ribs 59

Singing slowly 60

Chapter 5: Toning Up the Voice 63

Defining Tone 63

Creating unique tone 64

Identifying factors that affect tone 64

Considering tone, pitches, and notes 65

Flexing Your Singing Muscles 66

Discovering your own bands 66

Making the first sound 66

Dropping the jaw 67

Matching Pitch 71

Sliding up and down on pitch 72

Developing muscle memory 73

Recording yourself and singing along 74

Releasing Tension for Better Tone 74

Checking for neck or jaw tension 75

Bouncing the tongue and jaw 75

Part 2: Improving Your Singing 79

Chapter 6: Acquiring Beautiful Tone 81

Creating Tone 81

Starting the tone 82

Creating back space 83

Coordinating air with tone 83

Sighing your way to clarity 84

Releasing Tone 85

Inhaling to release tone 85

Letting your throat go 86

Sustaining Tone 86

Connecting the dots with legato 86

Trilling the lips or tongue 87

Working your breath control 87

Finding Your Vibrato 88

Moving from straight tone to vibrato 89

Imitating another singer's vibrato 90

Chapter 7: Exploring Resonance 91

Understanding Resonance - Good Vibrations 92

Identifying resonance in different styles of music 92

Exploring your resonators 94

Ringing it out 94

Eliminating Nasality 95

Getting the feel for soft palate work 95

Coordinating your soft palate and tongue 96

Moving air through the nose 97

Debunking Common Misconceptions 98

Misconception: Tone resonates in your sinuses 98

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