Description:
Exercise: Riff/run agility: 8-765, 5-4321 on Yah
Agility! Our next exercise takes a descending major scale and turns it into a riff. Listen to the pattern. Notice, we’re sustaining the first pitch and “running” over the next pitches that follow. As you pass each note try to gently pulse the note. Listen again.
Try once with me, listen & repeat style.
Exercise: Quick “falls”: 54, 43, 32, 21
Another way pop singers stylize is by falling or sliding from one pitch to the next. Practice this on a descending 5-tone scale. Think of the pattern like a waterfall, rather than stairsteps.
Our final exercise combines a fall with a short riff pattern. Let your voice “fall” off of the pitch, like you’re calling to someone across the street, and then we have defined pitches for the riff.
Exercise: Hey (called), hey 6-543
See you in the next video!
Lessons:
- 1: Welcome!
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2:
Warmup
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3:
Register Work
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4:
Agility
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5:
Mix Belting
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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.