Description:
Exercise: Hiss to ZZZ (5 pulses each) C
Begin by pulsing your breath on a hiss and feel your abdominal muscles push down and out through the belly and back. Now try pulsing your abdomen in the same way while loosely singing a gentle siren on a ZZ. We don’t need to sing too high, it's just about coordinating the rising of your pitch with the pressure building in your lower body. The muscles push out as our pitch goes up. Let’s try all that one more time, starting with the hiss.
Exercise: SOVT octave slide 181
Let’s try some other semi-closed positions, like singing through a straw, a lip trill, an NG, or a hum, and slide from 1 to 8 Pick whichever one feels most comfortable. This is a wide interval called an octave;
Try that same pattern again, but starting with an Ah rising up to an EE. As the exercise rises, allow the sound to switch into a light head voice. Go for a soft, relaxed and breathy space.
Exercise: Ah to EE octave slide 181 C
See you in part 1!
Lessons:
- 1: Welcome!
- 2: Warmup
- 3: Register Work
- 4: Agility
- 5: Mix Belting
- 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.