Week 9: musical instruments

Woodwind:  When playing a recorder, the wind you blow into the instrument and against an edge and creates the note. The note created depends on the placement of the fingers along the holes.

Brass:  In this video, he produces sound by vibration of air in a tubular resonator using the players lips to produce the vibration.

 

 

 

Strings: your fingers must pluck, strike, or rub the strings to produce sound or use a bow. In this video, that is what he is using.

 

 

Percussion: they are sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater; struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument. In this video, he uses a stick to hit against the drums produce the sound.

Micro-teach: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Here is my micro teach of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Sorry for the horrible singing! I have been meaning to do this all week but I have been very sick. Enjoy! :)

Vocal Technique Week 7

Incorrect vocal technique

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcsaM7pXHz8

 

When Avril Lavigne sings the chorus of the song, for example:

 

 "When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone
The face I came to know is missing too
When you're gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through the day
And make it OK
I miss you"

 

she goes louder in volume, but she doesn't take in big enough breaths nor a good amount of them. She's attempting to belt which requires a wide open, vertical mouth and instead her mouth is horizontal and spread.

 

 

 

 

Correct vocal technique

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24AKYyNusvs

 

 

 

Ariana Grande has great breath control and she takes the appropriate amount of breaths in. When she belts her notes, she has a vertical mouth which helps her hit the volume and pitch she's trying to reach in her chest voice. She also has the soft pallet raised, and you can tell that by her raised cheek bones.