Dynamics! Growing Louder and Softer

     Whenever I'm in choir my Instructor always tells us to grow through the long notes to sound more musical when we sing. In some notes you hit the note then back off and grow through again, this is always really fun to listen to and do when you sing. In these videos I will show you what dynamics are, and how to use them efficiently.

Pictures For Sharps/Flats

As you can probably see a few of the notes don't have half steps, instead they have whole steps and so there you can see a B-sharp doesn't go to a C-flat like it should, instead it goes directly to a C. This is the same with E and F. E-sharp is suppose to be a  F-flat but instead it's an F. 

Sharps/Flats

     Hey guys, today I'm talking about sharps and flats in a times signature. I'm fairly certain that I have already explained the notes in a scale (EFGABCDEF) and the time signatures so I hope you can gather what I'm talking about fairly easily. If you can't, however, just look at some of those things I have covered. :) Now flats make the note slightly lower, and sharps make a note slightly higher. This doesn't mean that a E becomes an F, it means it becomes a E flat or a E sharp (depending on the direction it goes) when you think about it, 

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     If this is my measure if the E went down it would be half way down and D went halfway up, they would be the same note. So you could say that E(flat)-because the pitch went slightly down= D(sharp) because the pitch went slightly up. This would be the same for anything,

G(flat)=F(sharp) 

A(sharp)=B(flat)                                  THEY'RE THE SAME NOTE!

Just take any two notes next to each other, if the one on top goes down, and the one on the bottom goes up (top is flat, bottom is sharp) them they are exactly the same note. 

I'll put up some pictures to explain a little more :-) 

Vowels

Hey guys I know I already did a video on being "Wide and Rounded" but I really wanted to stress the vowels again because I think it's really important.                                         

Simple Warm-ups

     These warm-ups are essential to better control your voice range from head voice to chest voice. They can allow you to articulate when you sing and have better sounds sing different vowels. Once you are comfortable with the warm ups them I suggest trying to grow through the notes and try different dynamic strategies. Her are some youtube videos that can also help, 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?p=WL&v=AIqUX2QbLGw&feature=plpp

http://m.youtube.com/watch?p=WL&v=RqVzi36AlNA&feature=plpp

http://m.youtube.com/watch?p=WL&feature=plpp&v=IAIrdiYxLHI

Scooping Into Notes

Funny Choir Joke

Q.  Why couldn't the singer come through the door?

A.  He couldn't find the right key, and didn't know when to come in. :)