Transcript get your own voice!

GET YOUR OWN
VOICE!
An Analysis of Vocal Health and
Copycat Vocalism
Copycat Vocalism
 What is it?
 Is it a bad thing?
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Factors include
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Means of Perception
Psychological Self Awareness
Knowledge of the Singing Process
Production Technique of the Duplicated Artist
Means of Perception
 Five Senses
 Which is most important while producing
sound?
 Which should be?
 When there is a disconnect, it can lead to
Vocal Identity Crisis…these are commonly
featured on American Idol.
Vocal Identity and Self Awareness
 Perceived Voice vs. Actual Voice
 Creation of Vocal Self Image
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What the individual listens to
What is perceived as good
 Factors add or detract from natural
endowment
 How do you find an appropriate self image?
Knowledge of the Singing Process
 Most people have little knowledge toward the
process of Vocal Production:
You open your mouth and push something inside you, which
lets our a nice noise, your lungs are involved as well. The
bag I think it’s called, squeezes and lets out noise. You take
a breath—your stomach goes in. Your body filters it and you
breathe out (Monks 2003).
 What is good technique?
 Basic Rules
Popular Technique
 “Pop song does not require particular vocal
gifts, whilst rock song requires a notable
extension towards high notes, and
phonetically a highly accentuated vocal
mask…practice tends towards an operatic
model.
 What are the important aspects to be taken
away from this quote?
Popular Technique
 Pop music and rock and roll are two different but
closely related genres. True pop music is derived
from the musical theater tradition and the standards
of the pre-1950s era, the music of Gershwin and
Porter and their ilk. Rock music, on the other hand is
born of the rhythm and blues tradition and is more
raw and gritty than its more cultured pop cousins.
The two styles are interrelated, however, with most of
today’s pop having a rock and roll beat, and much
current rock music having definite pop sensibilities.
Singing either type of music, of course requires
similar technique.
 What’s important here?
 What can we tie in from the last reading?
Popular Artists as Models
 Basic technique should not change much
 Alterations can include
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Diction—verbal phrasing or skill in the choice of words, but
used in context of singing to denote clear and correct
enunciation (Grove 2008).
Scooping
 Some popular singers are known for good
technique.
 However, in most cases:
Because it makes economic sense to cater to the greater
public taste, the pop vocal artist—sometimes trained, more
often not—is totally committed to doing whatever is
necessary to gain notoriety, which includes vocal misuse
and abuse (Ware 1998).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su0NJwq-2IU
Pop Artists and Technology
 Poor Technique=Vocal Editing
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Reverb
Auto-tune
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4153600
Believe Effect
10 Examples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgfNX5KLT38
http://www.hometracked.com/2008/02/05/auto-tune-abuse-in-pop-music-10-examples/
 Without Auto-tune
http://www.entertainmentwise.com/article?id=44419&view=all
Conclusion
 Individuals should:
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Focus on how singing feels and not just how it
sounds.
Discover and accept their own voice and use
it, even while singing with recordings.
Learn how their voice work.
Know that most of the voices they are
mimicking are untrained and incredibly altered.
 In other words….
Remember, many of the popular and rock
vocalists you hear on the radio are untrained.
That means they’ll often do things with their
voices that aren’t quite Hoyle (natural)—
things that can actually damage their voices
over time. If it hurts when you try to imitate a
specific singer, don’t do it! (Fulford & Miller
2003)
GET and USE
YOUR OWN VOICE!
Preventative Measures of Vocal Health
 If you smoke, quit.
 Avoid agents that dehydrate the body, such as
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alcohol and caffeine. Avoid secondhand smoke.
Drink plenty of water.
Humidify your home.
Watch your diet—avoid spicy foods.
Try not to use your voice too long or too loudly.
Seek professional voice training.
Avoid speaking or singing when your voice is injured
or hoarse
(Vocal Health Care 2007)
Basics
Pop