Music has many functions. Two of music’s functions is to bring people together and to make them DANCE.
Imagine you are in Rio de Janeiro, the carnival procession is marching through town. Make a great noise and let the party know that you’re around. I need you to help me create an atmosphere for people to dance. If you learn the following, I’m sure you will get their feet tapping.
Let’s Go!
This session is useful for people who want to practice their rhythm through singing. Many people are thrown by syncopated singing so this is a great way to enjoy the bouncing quality of the song without getting tied up by the theory of the music. My suggestion would be to do the following:
In this session we are going to make the letter ‘Y’ take on different shapes. The ‘Y’ is widely known as the soft consonants, however, there is more to ‘Y’ than meets the eYe (see what I did there?)
The leter ‘Y’ reacts differently when attached to different letters in the alphabet.
‘Y’ at the end of a word – If we say the word ‘Day’, the ‘A’ in day added to ‘Y’ creates what we call a Diphthong two vowel sounds forming one syllable to form one speech sound. here are some examples
The speech sound of these diphthongs register as two vowel sounds.
‘Y’ with no other vowels in the word – Gym, sky, my, fry, cry, dry, by, ( I can go on… hmm, let’s save this exercise for Vol 3), even though all of these words have no vowels in them, to the listener they sound like they do (people, we have an imposter!!!)
‘Y’ in the middle of other letters – Synchronise, physics, lyrics, pyjamas, all influence the letter ‘Y’ to take the shape of a vowel (more on what type of vowel later).
The letter ‘Y’ is like a chameleon, always changing in its environment.
So when we sing Electric Samba use your ‘Y’ generously!
Have fun!
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We are going to take this exercise at a steady relaxed pace. The aim is to sing the word ‘Ya’ equally as we move up the keys. The ‘a’ in ‘Ya’. will use a lot of air because of the open passage between the tongue and the roof of the mouth. Try to keep the dynamics of your vocal consistent as you move up through the scales.
As you descend through the second half of the exercises you will feel your vocals progressively relax. Again, try to keep your singing dynamics in the same dynamic range as the first section of this exercise
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