Rick Detroit
05-28-2003, 06:31 PM
I was in my car singing along with the radio (and probably drumming or guitaring, too) and I thought back to a book I purchased a couple of years back when I was trying to improve my singing voice. It's called something along the lines of "Rock and Roll Singer" and it goes quite in depth to the technical aspects of your throat and layrnx and all that funny stuff I've forgotten about. Anywho.
Lately I've been trying to darken my tenor sound out with very little success and a large amount of frustration. Reeds, mouthpieces, horns, I still sound the same no matter which direction I go. My sound isn't bad and I work quite a bit but it's been feeling too thin and too bright for me recently. I'd really like to darken it out and maybe add some fatness.
In the book, it states something about singing a comfortable pitch, looking in the mirror, and "vocalizing" the vowel sounds "AY" "EE" "I" "O" and "YEW" with very minimal moving to your lips. They say it will sound like some sick kind of chant. It stresses that this will help you learn how your throat and tongue work, etc.
I remember reading somewhere here about how the horn and your setup is only half of the instrument--I'm going to go home and try the above exercise with my horn in my mouth and see if I can't find a darker sound in my somewhere. My talking voice has quite a bit of treble in it and if I vocalize with "O" sound it seems that I lose a lot of that upper harmonic and irritating "bite" to my voice.
Crazy.
-Rick, Detroit
Lately I've been trying to darken my tenor sound out with very little success and a large amount of frustration. Reeds, mouthpieces, horns, I still sound the same no matter which direction I go. My sound isn't bad and I work quite a bit but it's been feeling too thin and too bright for me recently. I'd really like to darken it out and maybe add some fatness.
In the book, it states something about singing a comfortable pitch, looking in the mirror, and "vocalizing" the vowel sounds "AY" "EE" "I" "O" and "YEW" with very minimal moving to your lips. They say it will sound like some sick kind of chant. It stresses that this will help you learn how your throat and tongue work, etc.
I remember reading somewhere here about how the horn and your setup is only half of the instrument--I'm going to go home and try the above exercise with my horn in my mouth and see if I can't find a darker sound in my somewhere. My talking voice has quite a bit of treble in it and if I vocalize with "O" sound it seems that I lose a lot of that upper harmonic and irritating "bite" to my voice.
Crazy.
-Rick, Detroit