I'm considering making a vocal training dvd to sell on my site. I did not know if there would be much demand.
To explain everything by typing would take forever.
I will give a bit of help. (speaking of vowels) Classicly trained singers do not use sharp vowels.
The darken thier vowels in orter to keep thier timbre the same through out the scale and regardless ow what they are singing. That is the major point of that style of vocal training. You do not hear the singer sing "WE" and the E hurts your ears. His E sounds like the E in "welcome"
The way you darken your vowels is very simple, but it is ment to be used with the proper larynx position, diaphram support, and soft pallet position. Soooo don't expect to hear a magical transformation from this without all that.
Now that I am done with the disclaimer
Here it is. You curl your tounge to the roof of your mouth when singing vowels. I personally don't quite touch the roof of my mouth but am right there.
While on the subject of vowells. When singing stretched out words, you always stretch/hold on the vowel. You can't stretch a consinant, you end up breaking the word into parts. It's ok to pulse on and off on a consanant or a vowell for effect in rock music, but to truly stretch in a pretty way it's always a vowel.
Got to run. It's all I got for now.
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