Warmup
From: Daily Intonation Practice For Low Voices : Major Scale & Interval Focusby Abram Poliakoff
Description:
Exercise: Hiss to hum (4 counts each)
Begin with a hiss to hum, to feel your abdominal muscles engage and then keep that engagement. Hiss for 4 counts, hum for 4.
Exercise: SOVT octave slide 181
Take your favorite semi-closed position, like singing through a straw, a lip trill, an NG or a hum, and slide. This is a wide interval called an octave.
Exercise: Narrow vowel (OO or EE) octave slide 181
Take that same pattern, now on a narrow vowel like OO or EE, whichever feels most comfortable for you
See you in part 1!
Begin with a hiss to hum, to feel your abdominal muscles engage and then keep that engagement. Hiss for 4 counts, hum for 4.
Exercise: SOVT octave slide 181
Take your favorite semi-closed position, like singing through a straw, a lip trill, an NG or a hum, and slide. This is a wide interval called an octave.
Exercise: Narrow vowel (OO or EE) octave slide 181
Take that same pattern, now on a narrow vowel like OO or EE, whichever feels most comfortable for you
See you in part 1!
Audio:
Lessons:
- 1: Welcome
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2:
Warmup
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3:
The Major Scale
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4:
Intervals from “1” (“Do”)
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5:
Other Patterns
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6:
Conclusion
Instructor: Abram Poliakoff
Abram Poliakoff is a singer, guitarist, pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer. He received a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Arts from USC’s Thornton School of Music and has been teaching music for 8 years. He is currently both the Associate Artistic Director and a tenor in the L.A. Choral Lab, which recently released its first studio album Sonic Visions in the fall of 2019. Abram teaches and performs a wide range of genres including Classical, Jazz, Folk and Popular music in the Los Angeles area. He has also sung with the San Francisco Opera and Pocket Opera in the Bay Area. His teaching mission is to help his students utilize vocal technique to find their authentic and healthy voice while maximizing genre flexibility and a naturalness of expression.