Vocal Lessons: 2 Singing Songs Better
2h 35mBeginner2016-08-30
Authors

Jeannie Deva
Singing Coach
Course details
Learn how to sing—and sing better. Many top performers rely on vocal coaches like Jeannie Deva to help them perfect songs and improve their range and tone. Practice the techniques professional singers use in the comfort of your own home, with this set of breathing, pitch, and phrasing exercises, designed by Jeannie especially for her clients. Learn how to breathe correctly, relax the stomach and diaphragm, and maximize inhalations and exhalations. Find out how to warm up your voice with lip trills and nose buzzes. Discover tricks for improving pitch and increasing vocal resonance and "ease." Finally, Jeannie helps you to improve your delivery of a song with phrasing and dynamics. Each technique is demonstrated on a guest singer, so you can see and hear the corrections in action.
Learning objectives
Improving breath management
Relaxing your stomach
Practicing rib cage exercises
Using songs as warm-ups
Strengthening your voice with lip trills and nose buzz
Improving pitch and resonance
Nailing song phrasing, timing, and dynamics
Moving from practice to performance
Learning objectives
Improving breath management
Relaxing your stomach
Practicing rib cage exercises
Using songs as warm-ups
Strengthening your voice with lip trills and nose buzz
Improving pitch and resonance
Nailing song phrasing, timing, and dynamics
Moving from practice to performance
Skills covered
Music LessonsAudio and MusicLimited Series
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Breathing
- 02 - Are you breathing correctly
- 03 - Improving breath management
- 04 - What about your stomach
- 05 - Exercise - The singing breath
- 06 - Instructions - Rib cage exercise 1, part 1
- 07 - Instructions - Rib cage exercise 1, part 2
- 08 - Coaching - Rib cage exercise 1
- 09 - Rib cage exercise 1 - Practice assignment and details
2. Your Lips and Air Management
- 10 - Using songs as warm-ups
- 11 - Using the melody
- 12 - What's air overblow
- 13 - Basics - Your lips
- 14 - Exercise - Liberating your lips and enhancing resonance with a song
- 15 - Exercise - Strengthening your voice in a song lip trills & single vowels
- 16 - Exercise - Improving pitch & resonance in a song nose buzz & scrunch
- 17 - Lip trills - Limbering your voice with a song
3. Pitch and Resonance
- 18 - Basics - Improving pitch and vocal ease with a song
- 19 - Vocal resonance & ease - Applying nose buzz to a song
- 20 - Vocal tone & ease - Applying trumpeted oow to a song
- 21 - Exercise - Smoothing out range & tone in a song the trumpeted oow
- 22 - Pitch accuracy - Singing the vowels technique
4. Phrasing
- 23 - Singing the vowels
- 24 - Song phrasing & timing
- 25 - Song phrasing & dynamics
- 26 - Exercise - Balancing singing with vocal technique
- 27 - How long to practice and when to move on
Conclusion
- 28 - ArtistWorks and Next Steps