Vocal Exercise to Sing Riffs and Songs

[@JuanJimenez-mv8nf]

Many thanks from Colombia you´re such a great master. thanks for the lesson your clases are the best on the internet.

Without any further ado at 3:29 😉 Thanks Jeff! 🐯 (EE sound)

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[@judithbarringer]

What a great lesson. When you know how well you sing, you can sing most any thing. ❤🎶❤️

[@germantolopka9884]

Riffs and runs! Thanks! 🙏💜

[@JeffRolka]

Very welcome! Enjoy!

[@jerseylovesteph]

Thank you Jeff!

[@JeffRolka]

Thank you so much for that Jersey Love Steph! I appreciate it!

[@jerseylovesteph]

Hi Jeff! Great exercise. Love basics because it’s building blocks for bigger stuff and obstacles.

[@JeffRolka]

Exactly right! Thank you, as always, Jersey Love Steph!

[@TalkShowKelly]

Very much enjoyed the chord practice. Thanks for everything that you do for us.

[@jerseylovesteph]

When I’m listening to this it doesn’t seem that basic because it’s hard putting the right key where it needs to go but I’m gonna keep at it. I need to support through patreon. What is intonation? I should look it up but the way you explain singing techniques is very enlightening.

[@JeffRolka]

Keep me up to date on how it goes for you. If I can help, let me know! Intonation is singing in, or out of tune. If we have 'good' intonation, we would say that we're singing in tune. If we have 'bad' intonation, then we're singing out of tune. Frequently, for vocalists, poor intonation is a symptom of something else - ear training, range technique, or familiarity with the song can all contribute to it.

[@clarissatalaga]

LOVE THIS!

[@akustickesrdce4690]

Great lesson really enjoyed vocalizing & IT works ❤👌

[@ryanthornton3996]

This is great

[@MrRicardobotti]

Grazie.

[@JeffRolka]

Thank you so much for the Super Thanks! I really appreciate it!

[@MrRicardobotti]

@@JeffRolka thanks for the great job you do!

[@Choral-Tenor]

2:06 Whoa! Magic glasses! 😎 Another splendid foundation stone 🙏 I think it might help the ear if you point out the minor intervals, or maybe just the minor third from ^7 to ^2? It’s a bit early for Christmas but this inspired a whole harmonic sketch in my mind entitled “Puer nobis mash-it-up” where I give this line to the altos (“Unto us is born a Son…”) because I love to hear them singing the tune. Must be something in the air: just saw Rick Beato “fixing” a popular Drake song by changing a chord (and then a few other things). Stay cool, Jeff!

[@JeffRolka]

Right on Choral Tenor!!!! It's never too early for Christmas music in my book! Thank you as always!

[@donovanackleyiii]

Thank you for this timely and very helpful practice: Two concerns next weekend with SDGMC's BritPop show - tech week and dress rehearsals this week! Lots of vocalizing :)

[@JeffRolka]

Break a leg!!!! Thanks for your kind words!

[@akustickesrdce4690]

Thanks for posting the video Jeff, got me motivated. Could this be used as a warm Up? All the best Peter 👍

[@JeffRolka]

You're welcome! Yes, you could use it for a warm up, but you'd want to choose the spots in the video carefully to stay in a comfortable range. As you get warmed up, you can expand outwards from there! Great question!

[@akustickesrdce4690]

@@JeffRolka Thanks Jeff, all the best, Peter 👌😀

[@davidwalsh944]

Is it known how lip trills work? Not clear to me what the difference is between setting appoggio and sending the breath thru the larynx in singing or doing the trills. Seems the pitch is set in the larynx and once past the cords you either set lips, and tongue (maybe throat and jaw) to get words or just buzz the lips on that pitch. But the trills allow easier scales and high notes. How do they allow easier shifts from thyroarytenoid to cricothyroid dominance? Not complaining, you understand. Oh, and I was going to suggest another video devoted to lip trills but then I realized any video can be done with trills instead of one or more vocalizations, so... Sometimes I sort of overthink things.

[@JeffRolka]

Great question, David! They fall into the category of 'semi-occluded' vocal exercises. I'll talk about it more in Questions from Comments 46, but in short, the lips create a pressure barrier that takes a bit of the weight of the air column off of the vocal folds, allowing them to change configuration a little more easily. That helps, when you're learning to allow for vocal fold elongation, as is necessary for high note technique!

[@MrRicardobotti]

Hi jeff. This should be done after warming up right?

[@JeffRolka]

Yes, good call!