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Popular Singing Styles - Developing Your Sound

This document outlines a 12-lesson syllabus for developing singing skills and personal style in contemporary music. The lessons cover listening skills, ear training, vocal techniques, registers, rhythms, improvisation, and working with a band. Students analyze songs, practice matching pitch, learn breath control, dynamics, and powerful or "belting" styles. Assignments include analyzing songs, matching pitch with changing accompaniment, identifying tones, grooves and registers, performing covers, and creating a three-song demo. The goal is for students to refine their skills and identify their musical genre and personal singing style.

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Popular Singing Styles - Developing Your Sound

This document outlines a 12-lesson syllabus for developing singing skills and personal style in contemporary music. The lessons cover listening skills, ear training, vocal techniques, registers, rhythms, improvisation, and working with a band. Students analyze songs, practice matching pitch, learn breath control, dynamics, and powerful or "belting" styles. Assignments include analyzing songs, matching pitch with changing accompaniment, identifying tones, grooves and registers, performing covers, and creating a three-song demo. The goal is for students to refine their skills and identify their musical genre and personal singing style.

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Popular Singing Styles: Developing

Your Sound

Syllabus

Lesson 1: Essential Listening Skills for Learning Contemporary

Songs

•How to Listen to a New Song That You Want to Learn

•Listening More Closely to the Song’s Arrangement, Beneath the Vocal

•Vocal Types

•What is Real, What is Fake

•Assignment 1: Song Analysis

Lesson 2: Training Your Ear

•Ear Training is Essential for Developing Your Sound

•How Vowel Shapes Affect Pitch and Musical Style

•Matching Pitch

•Observing Your own Singing for Accuracy and Style

•Assignment 2: Singing with a Changing Accompaniment

Lesson 3: Vocal Styles and Tone Quality, Part 1

•How Vowel Shapes Affect Tone Quality in Contemporary Styles

•Breathing Techniques

•Using Consonants and Percussive Singing for Effect

•Using Legato and Staccato, and Vibrato or Straight Tone for Effect

•Assignment 3: Singing Your Style Preference


Lesson 4: Vocal Styles and Tone Quality, Part 2

•Clean and Breathy Tones

•How Microphones Affect the Quality of the Voice

•Using Dynamics for Style

•Beginning to Identify Your Style

•Assignment 4: Clear and Breathy Tones Performance

Lesson 5: Mix Voice: A Key Ingredient for Mastering Contemporary Singing

•What is Mix Voice

•Practicing Singing with Mix Voice

•Learning When to Best use Mix Voice

•Continuing to Identify Your Style

•Assignment 5: Mixed Voice Performance

Lesson 6: Singing Powerful Styles Healthfully, Part 1

•What is Powerful Singing (Belting)

•The Vocal Anatomy of Belting

•Understanding Vocal Registers

•Agility and Flexibility

•Assignment 6: Using Powerful Singing in Your Own Style

Lesson 7: Singing Powerful Styles Healthfully, Part 2

•Approaching the Passaggio or “Break”

•Learning How Best to Practice Powerful Singing

•Artist Examples of Healthy Powerful Singing

•Implementing Powerful Singing into Your Style

•Assignment 7: Powerful Singing Performance

Lesson 8: Training Your Ear: Styles and Rhythms

•Five Most Common Rhythmic Subdivisions

•Synchronized Grooves: Singing “In the Pocket”

•Grooves

•Counting off Tunes for the Band

•Assignment 8: Identifying Four Grooves, and Counting Them Off


Lesson 9: Understanding the Function of the Band or Rhythm Section

•Roles and Sounds of the Instruments

•Recognizing Essential Elements of an Arrangement

•Learn Band Speak: Effective Communication

•Leadership

•Assignment 9: Performance Set List and Production Storyboard

Lesson 10: Building Your Style Toolkit

•Finding Your Best Key for a Song

•Lyrical Interpretation

•Including Improvisation and Riffing, Part 1

•Using Movement to Accentuate Singing

•Assignment 10: Film Yourself Singing a Song of Your Choice

Lesson 11: Developing Your Sound: Style Awareness and Integration

•Selecting a Musical Genre for Your Stylistic Focus

•Improvisation and Riffing, Part 2

•Putting a Twist on a Cover Song

•Refining the Set List

•Assignment 11: Cover Song Performance

Lesson 12: Launching Your Sound

•Honoring Your Inspiration, Your Voice, Your Musicianship

•Three Song Demo, Song 1

•Three Song Demo, Song 2

•Three Song Demo, Song 3

•Assignment 12: Final Project - Three Song Demo

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