07 Song Application
In this lesson, we’ll talk about:
- Taking this beyond exercises and applying to songs!
- The trinity of the voice: the what, why and how of using all three resonators for one purpose in the contemporary mix voice.
- The importance of using exercises to build new muscle memory into your voice.
- A step-by-step process for applying this technique to your worship songs.
Hey Charmaine,
I’ve taken my time across all the other workouts and I’m keen to move forward but I’m even more keen to develop a solid foundation. So, I’m wondering if I should continue to do the previous exercises on top of this full voice workout to continue to further develop my different resonances, or if that is unnecessary and it will be more beneficial to keep moving forward with this final exercise and onto the Master Your Voice series?
Thanks again!
Hey! I would just focus on this workout — as it covers all the different resonators we’ve worked on in the other lessons. As long as you feel you are able to access chest, head, and pharyngeal, and are at least starting to feel a mix between them (you don’t have to master it!), then after 1-2 weeks of this workout, feel free to move onto “Master Your Voice”!
Thank you!! I love the last MEH/MUM workout, I can feel how it’s all coming together on that one 🙂
🙂
Awesome! Well then you’re gonna love many of the exercises in the MYV course!
Thanks again 🙂
What are the notes in the long scale? Thank you
Hey! Search “Rossini Scale” on google and click “images” and you can see the scale written out!
Hey Charmaine, I love the exercises, I’m able to sing songs that I wasn’t capable of before.
But I have some questions.
So I am a woman, but I have a natural lower voice that the average woman. I feel more comfortable singing men’s songs than women’s songs. Also some months ago, I’ve done a test and the test said that I am a tenor (don’t know if it is really true bc it was online, but my voice can go really low).
Now, when I do the exercises, my voice kind of hurt sometimes, but I found out that if I kind of do the exercises as if I was singing Opera, my voice doesn’t hurt anymore and I do have those falsetto sounds when I sing in head voice anymore. Is that normal? Bc, I want to sing in a modern way…
Hey! Great questions! It is very rare, but in some cases, women do have more of a typical male range. In that case, I would recommend you do the set of male exercises instead of female ones. Try doing that and see how it goes!
Be very careful to not push your voice into the high range, as I don’t want you to experience vocal strain or damage! It sounds like perhaps when you go into an operatic style head voice, your voice is more free and released in the higher range — that is totally normal, and it will be very beneficial for you to build and strengthen your head voice (even if it sounds operatic at first), as having a strong foundation of chest voice AND head voice is absolutely essential in order to achieve a contemporary/modern mix voice resonance.
Alright, thank you so much for your answer. I tried to do the set of male exercises instead of the female ones, and it was much better, I will continue that way then.
Also sorry for my bad English, I’m actually a native french speaker, I learned English from scratch haha.
God bless you all the way from Switzerland!
Great! Glad to hear that’s working well for you. No worries at all! Good for you for being able to learn a new language! 🙂
Hey Charmaine, going back to this one again just because I feel I’m still not quite getting there…
One question I have is about the syllables to pick for replacing the lyrics… how do you know which ones to choose to reach the right effect?
You’ll get there — stick with it!
The main thing we’re looking for in an exercise is to “open up” the voice to a place of freedom, in a similar quality to what we want the lyric to sound like. For example – a pharyngeal exercise like NAY will help give the voice power, brightness and mix in the higher range. A head voice exercise like GOO will help give the voice freedom and grip in the higher range while we sing lightly/softly. For most people, I wouldn’t suggest they jump ahead, but I know you have been working through “Master Your Voice” as well — so check out the “Power Voice” and “Light Voice” lessons — I go into detail about how to choose a good exercise to practice a song with!