Onset Exercises for Singers

This video will help you train your onset in singing. Onset is vitally important to master because it sets up your voice for the rest of the phrase. Starting out on the right foot in singing can be difficult to master, yet it pays big dividends for your singing. Offset or release in singing is also discussed.

[@Cidafulnus]

You deserve way more views! Great material

[@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it! More videos to come!!!

[@innermostbeing]

Hi Joshua, At the outset,, I would like to thank you for this online lesson. It's a new learning to me. Although I enjoyed the content, a small suggestion is to break this into smaller pieces and also repeat each of them thrice so we could practice along with you. In the first two instances, you want to play and the third time you play the notes on the instrument then allow us to sign.

[@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022]

Great suggestion! Thanks for your input!

[@gabrielthesingingpilot]

Subscribed :) always looking for great singing tutorials like this. Thank you and looking forward to seeing more

[@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022]

You're welcome! Thanks for the encouragement!

[@sina.faramarz]

❣️👏❣️👏❣️

[@TotalVoiceStudio]

Onsets are not necessarily correct or incorrect unless you’re talking Western classical music. In CCM singing, aspirated and glottal onsets have value depending on the emotional intent. Nice to see Richard Millers exercises being used. I remember him fondly and attended Oberlin summer school a couple of times. Your rhythms were incorrect- triplet you were articulating as short short long instead of three even durations. Similarly for the other rhythms

[@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022]

Yes, I guess everything can be subjective. The onsets that I demonstrate are indeed from western classical singing.

[@muleface1066]

@@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022 Every sound can be useful in various kinds of singing, but glottal and breathy onsets cause more vocal strain than a coordinated onset. I think they may be useful for emphasis, but should be used sparingly.

[@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022]

Very true. For teaching purposes, I sometimes have people do a glottal onset when they have a very breathy sound and vice versa: a breathy onset for those who have a really tight sound. These are just temporary corrective measures.

[@ГлазаГолубойСобаки]

Thank you very much❤!!!

[@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022]

You're welcome 😊

[@coslawstudio3001]

Great now I can laugh with beat

[@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022]

Ha!

[@PushpHans745]

Hi sir pls make vocal warmup for bass voices 🤌

[@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022]

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll get on that!

[@tomasskoglund401]

If the air comes first why not call it aspirate onset? If the vocalfolds are closed before the air is added why not call it a glottal onset (which does'nt have to be hard)? If the air and vocalfolds starts at the same time why not call it a simultaneous onset? All of these onsets is coordinated since the two parts in an onset/offset is the vocalfolds and the air.

[@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022]

This is not my terminology. This is Richard Miller‘s terminology, who is a renowned vocal pedagogue in classical singing. He calls it a coordinated or balanced onset.

[@tomasskoglund401]

@@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022 Thank you for answering. So maybe the video should be called onset exercises for classical singers.

[@joshualindsayvoicestudio6022]

Good suggestion! I'll keep that in mind! Keep on singing, @tomasskoglund401 !