Description:
Instructor Abram introduces minor scale riffs with a vocal improvisation in E minor, demonstrating how riffs add style and nuance to contemporary vocals. You’ll learn that in this series, the focus is on riffing with the full minor scale rather than the pentatonic alone.
The warmup prepares your voice for agility and riffing:
- Make More Magic – 1234531
- Nah – 123212321234, Nah 54321
- Minor Bungee Scale (cm) – 1-8-1
Higher voiced singers are encouraged to sing these exercises up the octave.
Lessons:
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.