Sight Singing -Opera Singers,Conservetoire Students,singing teachers,piano Examiners,Help! How to sing bass?
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Sight Singing -Opera Singers,Conservetoire Students,singing teachers,piano Examiners,Help! How to sing bass?
Sight Singing – Opera Singers,Consevetoire Students,Singing teachers, Help!
How do you develop sight singing skills for bass and contrapuntal textures and Imitation?
I need to learn this for my aural component of my upcoming piano exam!
1) How do you sing the lower part of the score while being accompanied by the upper part ? I know about the solfa system but it doesnt seem to work when I’m out there trying to sightsing music thrown at you on the spot.
2) I am having problems singing contrapuntal textures.It is hard to listen to yourself sing when there are so many simultaneos layers of music(or even just 2 layers ie Bach) If it is hard to listen to yourself singing, How do you sustain your concentration ? I am always catching the melody instead of the bass and I tend to sing melody instead, when I m suppose to sing the lower part.
3) How do you warm up before singing to produce a beautiful tone? Is there some things you dont eat before practising singing?
Pls help, thanks a lot!
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Sight Singing -Opera Singers,Conservetoire Students,singing teachers,piano Examiners,Help! How to sing bass?
Sight Singing – Opera Singers,Consevetoire Students,Singing teachers, Help!
How do you develop sight singing skills for bass and contrapuntal textures and Imitation?
I need to learn this for my aural component of my upcoming piano exam!
1) How do you sing the lower part of the score while being accompanied by the upper part ? I know about the solfa system but it doesnt seem to work when I’m out there trying to sightsing music thrown at you on the spot.
2) I am having problems singing contrapuntal textures.It is hard to listen to yourself sing when there are so many simultaneos layers of music(or even just 2 layers ie Bach) If it is hard to listen to yourself singing, How do you sustain your concentration ? I am always catching the melody instead of the bass and I tend to sing melody instead, when I m suppose to sing the lower part.
3) How do you warm up before singing to produce a beautiful tone? Is there some things you dont eat before practising singing?
Pls help, thanks a lot!
How to Sight Read Music Lesson
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Well in my singing class, I sang Bass. It was only four of us so we had to use mics and such to be heard most of the time. I would suggest because you are a woman (not offending you at all) singing in the higher octaves. Those are much too low. The women in my class couldn’t sing lower than C4. If you want, focus and practice more on YOUR part of a song rather than just losing focus listening to the other parts. To warm up, do different breathing techniques like inhaling but pushing your stomach outward and vice versa, stand up straight, stretch all muscles for better vocal movement as well. Drink water to to clear up your throat. If you can sing lower, thumbs up if you can;t however, let your instructor know that you need to be able to sing in the higher octaves so you don’t cause even a little damage to your vocal cords. God bless.
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To answer both 1 and 2 – you just need to practice. Try and learn to listen to the key that the piece is in and use the 1st (or tonic) note as your base of reference. From there you can figure out what note it is you are supposed to be singing – and try and keep this one note in your head for the whole time to give reference to. (I am assuming these are in major and minor keys? And not modes?) It is good that you can hear the other parts – however you need to learn WHAT to listen to. If singing in harmony – try and use the melody as your base of reference. Do not sing the melody – but use it in your head to find the notes you are supposed to be singing. Again, it all just comes down to practice at the end of the day.
As far as warming up before you sing – it is quite important to do this. Do some excersises such as the following (I will try and make this as easy to understand as possible – the numbers will refer to the note within the scale)
- Sing ‘zoh, zah, zoh, zah, zoh’ to the notes 5, 3, 4, 2, 3, 1, 2, 7(low), 1 – You can also do this to ‘gah, geh’ instead.
- Sing ‘eh, oh, eh, oh, eh, oh, eh’ to (eh) 1, 2, 3, 4, (oh) 5, 6, 7, 8, (eh) 9, 8, 7, 6, (oh) 5, 4, 3, 2, (eh) 1.
- Sing ‘ree, rah, ree, rah, ree, rah, ree, rah’ to (ree) 8, 3 (high), 8, (rah) 7, 2 (high), 7, (ree) 6, 8, 6, (rah) 5, 7, 5, (ree, etc) 4, 6, 4, 3, 5, 3, 2, 4, 2, 1
- Chew like a cow (in a big circle but with lips closed) hum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (relaxes the jaw)
- Blow air through losely closed lips to make them wobble (kind of like a horse) – you can do this with or without humming
As far as what to eat – dairy products tend to creat a lot of mucus in the throat so it is harder to get a clear sound when you sing after having a glass of milk (for example). Also be aware that softdrinks make you burp – which you don’t want to be doing in the middle of a song!!!
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I hope this helps.
Good luck
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1. When I started sightsinging, I would practice singing hymns, and would start with the melody that I knew, then sing the tenor part (which is what I usually sang in choir), then I would sing the alto, then bass. That way, you get used to the way each part moves based on normal part-writing rules, tonal harmony, etc. Bass has a lot of skips, especially at cadences, so look around for examples of that to practice.
2. To sing contrapuntal textures, especially with imitation, I would start by finding a partner and singing back and forth to each other – one person make up a little melody and have the other sing it back. Once you get used to imitating each other, see if you can overlap (i.e. start before the other person finishes). It’s kinda hard, but good practice. You could also find slow Baroque keyboard music and just pick a part to sing (left hand, organ pedal, etc.) and just sing it in your octave. If you could find a recording, sing each part with the recording, and try to focus on your own part as best as you can. Like everyone else said, it’s just a matter of practice.
3. I always warm up by walking around and humming a few minutes before I ever open my mouth. Hum your big skips (High Sol – lower sol – Do, then up a half step, etc). to practice your bass parts. It’ll get your voice a little more flexible for when you start to do your regular warm-ups (scales, skips of 3rds, etc).
I hope that helps, even if just a little bit!