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21/10/2019

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16/10/2019

VOICE TRAINING TECHNIQUES

Voice is the sounds produced through the mouth by speaking or singing. The voice is an instrument like a trumpet or a violin. It possesses an extra ability because it can frame words and pronounce them simultaneously with the tones.

​PITCH LEVEL.​

Conventionally, there are four (4) Categories of Voices. They are as follows:

1). Soprano: The highest female voice. The normal range of the soprano is about two octaves with its lowest note at middle C.

2). Contralto: The lowest female voice. Its lowest note is from F below middle C.

3). Tenor: The highest natural adult male voice starting usually at C below middle C

4). Bass: The deepest or lowest male singing voice. The range is about two octaves with the lowest note usually an octave and a 6th below middle C.

Other Sub – division are:

Mezzo Soprano : The term mezzo soprano is used for a female voice that has a range between the Soparano and Contralto.

CASTRATO : In olden days male sopranos who were castrated as boys in order to keep their soprano voices were known as CASTRATI.

FALSETTO : This is the voice normally cultivated by male. Light voice above the normal tenor range. Their normal pitch sounds like an unbroken voice. Tenor with a very high range. Also known as counter tenor or male alto.

BARITONE: This lies in between TENOR & BASS.

*Question of note:* Is it right for a lady to say her voice is tenor or bass? Or for a man to claim that his voice is Soprano?

*​VOICE QUALITY.*

When you combine your PITCH LEVEL (PL) and your VOICE QUALITY (VQ), you arrived at your VOICE TEXTURE & RANGE.(PL +VQ =VT &VR). As a singer, knowing your voice Texture (VT) and Vocal Range (VR) is of paramount importance because it becomes easy for you to know the song you will be able to deliver excellently and you will stop trying to be like every other singer you listen to or otherwise. Know that it is not every song you hear that you will be able to deliver excellently or exactly.

15/10/2019

Guitar #

The guitar is a string instrument which is played by plucking the strings. The main parts of a guitar are the body, the fretboard, the headstock and the strings. Guitars are usually made from wood or plastic. Their strings are made of steel or nylon.

The guitar strings are plucked with the fingers and fingernails of the right hand (or left hand, for left handed players), or a small pick made of thin plastic. This type of pick is called a " plectrum" or guitar pick. The left hand holds the neck of the guitar while the fingers pluck the strings. Different finger positions on the fretboard make different notes.

The name "guitar" comes from the ancient Sanskrit word for "string" -
"tar" . (This is the language from which the languages of central Asia and northern India developed.) Many stringed folk instruments exist in Central Asia to this day which have been used in almost unchanged form for several thousand years, as shown by archeological finds in the area. Many have names that end in "tar", with a prefix indicating the number of strings.

13/10/2019

The saxophone is used in classical music (such as concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, and occasionally, orchestras), military bands, marching bands, jazz (such as big bands and jazz combos), and contemporary music. The saxophone is also used as a solo and melody instrument or as a member of ahorn section in some styles of rock and roll and popular music. Saxophone players are called saxophonists.

Since the first saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument makerAdolphe Sax in the early 1840s, saxophones have been produced in a variety of series distinguished by transpositions within instrument sets and tuning standard. Sax patented the saxophone on 28 June 1846, in two groups of seven instruments each. Each series consisted of instruments ranked by pitch, in alternating transposition.

The series pitched in B♭ and E♭ soon became dominant and most saxophones encountered today are from this series. Instruments from the series pitched in C and F never gained a foothold and constituted only a small percentage of instruments made by Sax.