Description:
Welcome to Part 1: Staccato Exercises! Staccato involves singing short, detached notes, which is the opposite of smooth, connected legato singing. Correct staccato technique helps activate and condition your vocal support muscles, enhancing both accuracy and agility.
Exercises:
- Diatonic Staccato Exercise (Zayah):
- Practice the first 5 notes of the diatonic scale with added back-and-forth movement.
- Example: 1232, 1232, 123454321
- Staccato Arpeggio Exercise (Hah):
- Increase difficulty with arpeggios on a single chord, adding repetition for muscle conditioning.
- Example: 35853853
- Create Your Own:
- Invent an agility exercise using staccato principles.
- Adapt any exercise by singing short, detached notes and gradually increasing speed while maintaining accuracy and lower abdominal connection.
See you in Part 2!
Lessons:
- 1: Welcome
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2:
Staccato Exercises
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3:
Changing Direction
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4:
Riffing Exercises
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5:
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.